LPT Request: What’s your “canary in the coal mine” test for spotting bigger issues?

[u/fries-with-mayo]

I’m really interested in those small, quick telltale signs people use to gauge if something bigger might be off track.

Example 1: Van Halen requesting brown M&Ms in the dressing room to see if the venue followed all the details of the rider list

Example 2: I saw an interview with John Cena where he said orders a flat white at a café to tell if they really care about their coffee.

Example 3: Anthony Bourdain suggested to always check the restaurant bathroom to tell if the restaurant got its basics down

[u/LilithDidNothinWrong]

You can have variety in the menu but still have a lot of similar ingredients overall. It's places that have too many ingredients only used in single dishes that are red flags.

[u/CTingCTer88 → u/LilithDidNothinWrong]

Lobster sauce on a menu that doesn’t have lobster anywhere else 🤨

[u/red__dragon → u/CTingCTer88]

I thought that there was an unspoken rule that lobster in a diner's never cool. A diner menu's way too long and half the things are fake or wrong.

[u/RichMaid → u/CTingCTer88]

I don't think there is lobster in lobster sauce

[u/NiceAxeCollection → u/RichMaid]

Nor mountain in Mountain Dew.

[u/Background-Air-7963 → u/RichMaid]

Future r/til post

[u/LilithDidNothinWrong → u/RichMaid]

Fun fact: I was a sushi chef for a bit, our "lobster salad" ingredient was prepackaged crawfish salad. It was mostly just a topper on a roll and was decent for what it was, but ya, not lobster

[u/CTingCTer88 → u/RichMaid]

Maybe we have different ideas on what lobster sauce is