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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I checked the 10 restaurants I have been to recently to see if they have buttered pasta on the kids menu, and if not if they serve pasta and butter, in which case I assume they'd make you buttered pasta if you asked.  I bolded the ones that list buttered pasta (2/10) and italicized the ones where I think you could get buttered pasta (3/10).  So, in my experience the statement that "most restaurants have it on a kids menu" is false, but that "most restaurants that serve pasta will allow you to order it with just butter for your kids" is probably accurate.

Planta -- no pasta, but a variety of Asian noodles.  They don't list just butter as an option, but maybe they could make it with plant butter?

Chipotle -- no noodles on menu

[i]Founding Farmers -- no kids menu, no buttered noodles on regular menu, but I'm sure they'd make it if you asked
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Neighborhood Japanese menu -- no kids menu, no buttered pasta on the regular menu.  They do serve ramen and udon and soba noodles, but not plain.  Might make it if you asked, but not sure if they have butter.

Chopt -- no noodles on either kids or regular menu

[b]Silver -- offers buttered noodles as a choice!!!! Comes with vegetables, although they allow substitutions
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Five Guys -- doesn't have a kids menu, doesn't serve noodles of any type.

[b]Pines of Rome -- No kids menu but they offer an adult sized portion of linguini with "butter sauce" and an option to sub penne.  It costs $13.95 which, assuming "butter sauce" is a euphemism for butter seems like a lot of money!
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Thai restaurant -- has noodles but not specifically pasta.  No kids menu.  My guess is they'd bring you plain noodles if you asked, but not sure if they'd offer butter

[i]Seasons 52 -- has two types of pasta on the kids menu (mac and cheese, and cavatappi with red sauce).  In my experience they'll make any change you ask for so I imagine they'd happily leave the red sauce off and add butter.  [/i]

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I’m sure you could have used your common sense to realize that places like planta, chipotle and a couple others wouldn’t fit the description of restaurants that would offer this. Don’t be an idiot. 5 guys? Come on-this is just dumb. 
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So, when you wrote that most places offer it, did you mean most American or Italian restaurants that would have a kids menu?  If so, do you realize that is a totally different statement than what you wrote? 
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I wasn’t the pp that originally wrote the comment. But it shouldn’t matter-the fact that you thought that it would apply to a place like 5 guys or chipotle tells me you don’t have any common sense.  [/quote]

+1.  I was the poster who wrote that, and I specifically said pasta isn't available at Mexican restaurants.   It didn't occur to me that anyone would look for it at a burger joint, but I guess I should have added that caveat too.  [/quote]

Even looking for it at Japanese or Thai restaurants demonstrates that poster’s idiocy. I sincerely hope she is just trolling us - it’s scary to think that people THAT stupid walk among us…[/quote]

So the person who used all caps to emphasize that it was at "EVERY" restaurant didn't remotely mean that? They meant just shitty American chain restaurants that most of the people in here claim they would never even go to?[/quote]

The person assumed a basic level of common sense, which you have sadly failed to demonstrate. That’s on you.[/quote]

No, that person doesn't know what words mean or how to communicate effectively. Common sense tells you that this crap meal is available at a few restaurants and sometimes only by request. Try that next time.[/quote]

Nope, you’re just painfully stupid and don’t understand how to “read between the lines” - the [b]obvious[/b] implication is that any restaurant *that would otherwise serve pasta* would also have buttered noodles on the kid’s menu. Now, is that an exaggeration? Sure! Nobody actually thinks that EVERY restaurant (ahem, that would otherwise serve pasta - I say this again because I assume you forgot already) offers the same buttered noodles kid’s meal option. However, the intended effect of this exaggeration is to demonstrate that this offering is, in fact, extremely common.

I hope this helps. Maybe stay off TikTok and YouTube tonight and try to read a book or something. [/quote]

Lol. So cute! But you still don’t get it. Stay mad! [/quote]

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