A carrot cake without the cake may sound nonsensical, but it was a real request that left one Montana chef completely “flabbergasted.” “I think we should be allowed to fight 1 customer a day,” joked Reddit user AngstyIndie406, who shared a photo of the cake-free carrot cake on r/KitchenConfidential. Explaining the unusual creation—a wedge of lettuce topped with caramel—OP wrote, “the guest wanted our carrot cake without the cake, so they asked for a wedge salad base dressed up like a carrot cake.”
To be clear, AngstyIndie406’s threat to fight a customer was meant sarcastically; they weren’t actually upset by the bizarre request. “This was pretty simple to make and it (somehow) made the guest happy, so I wasn’t too mad about it. Just thought everyone here would get a kick out of it,” they wrote. They were right. Thousands of Redditors did, in fact, get a good laugh out of the absurd dessert: lettuce topped with dessert dressing.
Online Users Found the ‘Carrot Cake Without Cake’ Absurd
“This ticket would have had me asking the front-of-house staff a dozen questions, only to end with, ‘Please bring the guest here,’” one commenter wrote. Another joked that someone should have been sent out to “retrieve” the customer over the order. A third user speculated, “An eating disorder is the only way I can make sense of this.”
“How much are you charging for $1 worth of lettuce slapped on a plate with two tablespoons of caramel sauce?” one Redditor asked. AngstyIndie406 jokingly replied, “In this economy? Far too much.” The post quickly filled with jokes and personal anecdotes, with one user even admitting to their own “pretty confused and depraved meals.”
They admitted they enjoy “savory breadcrumbs on my ice cream, poutine with pudding instead of gravy, and Doritos microwave nachos with fried bologna.” Still, they insisted they would never ask a restaurant to accommodate those unusual cravings: “Never in my life would I ask a professional kitchen to indulge my food kinks. This is heinous.”
