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When we order Chipotle, we rarely spend time looking at the food. We’re too busy stuffing it down our throats. But as much as you would hate to bite into a delicious meal and find something unexpected, quite a few Chipotle lovers have been surprised with the same ingredient they just couldn’t identify.
Sending its pictures to the restaurant chain via Twitter, some were wondering if the green was lettuce or a simple leaf the chefs found outside, others thought they were simply poking fun at their vegan clients. One girl even swore she wouldn’t eat Chipotle again. Scroll down to check out what shocked these hungry folks!
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Quite a few Chipotle lovers were shocked to find a strange ingredient in their food
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Sending its pictures to the restaurant chain, they tried to identify the mysterious leaf
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What do you think ?
adoracat 6 years ago
People who want to be foodies but don't recognize the common bay leaf...or as we used to say "you got the bay leaf! You get to wash dishes!"
Lomion 6 years ago
I wonder what they would say if find kaffir-lime and lemongrass in Thai food...
Shruti Naik 6 years ago
I wonder what they'd say if they ever ate indian food? Herbes and leaves almost everywhere!
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mhubert10 6 years ago
It's a bay leaf, one of the most common seasonings in dishes served across America. Really Peeps?
Konstantin Nikolov 6 years ago
Human stupidity is just like the universe- vast and full of surprises....
Jef Bateman 6 years ago
It's funny that a vegan is mad about a leaf in their food. I could imagine ONE person getting bent out of shape because of never seeing a bay leaf before, but this is a whole phenomenon. (PS - I try to take the bay leafs out before I serve food because people can choke on the petiole, which remains pretty sharp even after hours of being cooked.)
Jace 6 years ago
As a vegan myself, it had me wondering what kind of food that person was raised on before becoming vegan. I know I shouldn't use myself as a baseline for measuring other vegans, but still...
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Thomas Helms 6 years ago
.... This is what happens when people spend more time eating at restaurants than cooking. Next they'll be yelling about fleas when it's just pepper.
A S Koziol 6 years ago
And how sad that they don't know the joy of cooking, it's a whole adventure, and what you cook at home is usually better for you as well!
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Kimberly Robinson 6 years ago
Am I missing something? Those are BAY LEAVES. You use them in cooking, especially cuisines like Mexican. Granted, you are supposed to take bay leaves out of the pot before you serve the food, but they have a large kitchen there and some probably slipped through the cracks. They are certainly not leaves from trees outside!
Painting Puddles 6 years ago
"It's a REAL leaf in my food!" Um...do you not realize lettuce is a LEAF vegetable?? The ignorance is painful
Christian dLaura 6 years ago
My point of view when everytime a "north-american" person (because I am originally from south and I do consider myself an american person) make believed that US people are really ignorant about lot of topics. I have so many creative and smart friends doing great things for humanity in the states at the moment. So don't feel down about this group of humans that couldn't reach furder just by paying more attention in life. Btw sorry for my English... Long time ago since I write something in this language.
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Marta Williamson 6 years ago
I don't get it. Why would you be outraged by a leaf? Even if you didn't know what leaf it was? I mean, we eat spinach, lettuce, rocket, chives, kale... These are all leaves as far as I know. And fresh leaves of many trees are not only edible but delicious. Even pine needles are OK. So what's the problem?
Nate Wahl 6 years ago
But it's completely inedible so they thought it was bad food.
Load More Replies... SweetMamaP 6 years ago
@Wings, I had same thought, in the same tone, as I scrolled through the photos. Now I can't stop laughing.
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Alycia Whaley 6 years ago
LOL! When I was little, we were waiting to see seated at a seafood restaurant. I was looking at the tank at the front and exclaimed, "Wow, look at those BIG BUGS!" A lady at the front jumped, expecting maybe a roach. She sees what I'm looking at, and then reprimanded me, "Those aren't bugs, they're lobsters!" My Dad: "Well, actually..."
Alycia Whaley 6 years ago
Anywho, people can be completely unaware of the world around them. What did Cypher say... "Ignorance is bliss" Unless you make an a*s of yourself and broadcast it on social media.
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Elgato09 XD 6 years ago
In spain we called it "laurel". We use it to cook because of it's flavor.
Milan Balbický 6 years ago
Slovak-Hungarian call it “granny leaf”. Very often is used in dark soups, or goulash etc.
Kristin Connon 6 years ago
I feel so much smarter for looking at this. Thank you, Bored Panda.
Jace 6 years ago
I just feel sadder and more alone amongst my own species... :-D
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Bea Albe 6 years ago
I don't know what chipotle is, but those leaves are laurel leaves, a very rich seasoning. In Argentina and i think in all SouthAmérica is common.
DancingToMyself 6 years ago
So as in Europe. In Italy, it goes in every kind of pasta. And it grows in bushes (ah, the smell! Oh la la!). :)
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Eric Mac Fadden 6 years ago
Here in Brazil we ever care about it, it's everywhere! Try it on salsa! You'll won't regret...
DancingToMyself 6 years ago
It goes to a massive number of different types of dishes, I can't believe how come so many people had no idea what are they eating! :/ just wow
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Beeps 6 years ago
Another really sad thing is that I’ve been struggling lately to get plantains from our local supermarket. When I asked the store why, thy said they don’t stock them anymore, as too many people had complained and returned them as inedible bananas. Why not try and educate people instead?
Kimberly Ramsay 6 years ago
The stupidity abounds, I couldn't even look at all the posts, after the "vegan" post I went to the comments section, my faith in humanity has been partially restored, thanks everyone
Šimon Špaček 6 years ago
Normal bay leaf. In ancient Rome it was sign of victory. Put it on your head and walk proud.
John Holden 6 years ago
It's times like this I believe we should rename my country Ignoramica. Best is that one complete moron who thought it was an OAK leaf! Because that's the only kind of leaves there are, right?
Carolina M. Ribeiro 6 years ago
Laurus nobilis is an aromatic evergreen tree or large shrub with green, glabrous leaves, in the flowering plant family Lauraceae. It is native to the Mediterranean region and is used as bay leaf for seasoning in cooking.
Crystalyn Snyder 6 years ago
Please be gentle as these are people who wouldn't know what spices are.
Jace 6 years ago
But they should learn to cook. It's a very useful skill. It isn't magic or difficult as people seem to think.
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Kristen Atchison 6 years ago
Really, bay leaves are not mysterious or rare. Cook once in awhile!
Andrew Keane 6 years ago
I feel dumber for having seen this article. Not only did it bother me that people didn't know what it was but the writer of the article didn't say what it was and showed a lot of different pictures, more than necessary. As if people looking at the article needed multiple angles of a bay leaf to know what it is.
ANKAN BANERJEE 6 years ago
I just laughed so hard. I am an Indian, and my 100% pure Indian mother uses bay leaf for any curry dish. Last tweet is awesome. XD
Bobbi Newell 6 years ago
I knew they were bay leaves from the very 1st pic. Maybe if people spent more time in the kitchen and on recipe sites and less time tweeting their takeout...
Philippe Guibert 6 years ago
From a french point of view, bay leaves are used as spices, but they are not meant to be served in a plate, they give a good seasoning but are awful to eat. If i ever find one in my plate, i would feel as if no care was given to my dish.
Giovanni 6 years ago
In Italy we leave them on the plate as ornament some times.
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Magdalina777 6 years ago
...one of these guys called it an oak leaf. OAK. You know that one tree with super distinct and very hard to confuse leaves which look nothing like bay leaves? Just...how do these people live? It must be so boring inside those empty heads...
Cherie Stepp 6 years ago
Do all these people really not know what a bay leaf is? I feel sad for humanity. People are so stupid.
Pragya Fating 6 years ago
O m god. Are these people for real. I learnt my spices long ago. We also use a similar leaf which is good for digestion. I bet they would not have had even heard about it. That's what happens when u don't eat home cooked meals nd no one is there to teach you what is what. I really pity them I would prefer to eat a home cooked meal from my mum then any pizza or outside food, like ever. Dear ignorant people, if u are a food lover, u are really missing on the real tasty food.
Eframit Orozco 6 years ago
I couldn't understand what was the problem. I'm Spanish and we use a lot the bay leaf in our recipes. Is it really so unusual in the US? 0_o Maybe they should consider start selling more bay leaf and less guns, it will make them live longer, healthier and safer! ;)
Black Dahlia 6 years ago
What is so mysterious about finding a bay leaf in your food? It's like finding a piece of pork in your beans. I'd be more up in arms about finding cilantro in my food. YECCH!
Ryan Bryan 6 years ago
in Italy laurel is used frequently, perhaps not so often in the United States
Sean Stephens 6 years ago
In my house, the person who got the bay leaf washed the dishes that night. We always thought we could hide it when we found it, but that never worked.
Lara L. 6 years ago
English is not my first languege and this post showed me one word i didn't know yet :) thanks for that. (Altough i recognized the "leaf" at once) And dear people, just saying, the most common prejudice about the USA is, that americans don't have any common sense or general knowledge- i know it is not true, but posts like this don't really help either ;)
Stanley Judd 6 years ago
it's amazing how many millennials don't cook and have no clue what goes into their food.
Lizzy Busch 6 years ago
It's not just millennials. Everyone does this. Anyone can be ignorant, anyone could be the next Albert Einstein.
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Leah Forgy 6 years ago
A bay leaf?!? Really?!? I had glass in a salad once, crunched right down on it. Not at a Chipolte.
Travis Sivart 6 years ago
People are so, so dumb. That's not even rare or difficult to know. Amazing.
Shana 6 years ago
Ok, you're not supposed to leave them in the food (unless it's for decoration, doesn't really work for a burrito though? :P ) but do people seriously not know what a bayleaf looks like? 'leaf from outside" "tree leaf" "is it lettuce?" (really?) Now I'm wondering if they even know where all the powdered-spices&herbs come from... (but seeing as they don't even know what a bayleaf is... I doubt they cook that often.)
Magpie 6 years ago
Apparently it is a fast food cafe. ( I have not seen them in my part of Australia yet. ) I am kind of impressed that they actually cooked with a real herb. In my family we were taught to put the bay leaf on the side of the plate and praise the cook.
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Ellis 6 years ago
Well at least a bay leaf organic and not something scary like dihydrogen monoxide!
Lenninn Gifiki 6 years ago
This is a very appreciated delicacy in Brazil. We call it "laurel leaf". One of the indispensable ingredients in a good 'feijoada'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NviOS0kki-w (Hugs from Brazil)
Lenninn Gifiki 6 years ago
This is a very appreciated delicacy in Brazil. We call it "laurel leaf". One of the indispensable ingredients in a good 'feijoada'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NviOS0kki-w (Hugs from Brazil)
Peta Hurley-Hill 6 years ago
How sheltered have their lives been and how limited their food choices ,if they react with such surprise over a bloody Bay leaf ?!
DAMIEN GARZA 6 years ago
White people complain about everything, and that’s coming from a Mexican right there which is me
Anthony Talak 6 years ago
It's a bay leaf. Buuuut for being vegan, you do deserve a leaf off a tree in your food anyway.
Cristina Sacchi 6 years ago
face palm... if people would educate themselves and cook more!!! It's a freaking bay leaf!!!!!
Madison Taylor 6 years ago
Yes, it's a bay leaf and not a leaf they found outside, but the leaves are supposed to be taken out of the food before its served. You should not be finding bay leaves in your food..
Melissa Hardy 6 years ago
I would love to say people aren't that stupid, but clearly they are. Seriously though, what self respecting Vegan has no idea what a bay leaf is?
Elaine Cummings 6 years ago
So sad that the majority of these people don't seem to know how to cook or have ever cooked. It's a bay leaf. It's used to flavor the food. Nothing weird or strange.
Tom Scioscia 6 years ago
Don't ever eat tomato sauce made by a real Italian. OMG!!! BAY LEAVES!!!
Babernethy Brad 6 years ago
Yup, not too bright! I spotted the bay leaf in the first picture. Use it all the time. I have a buddy who found a live praying mantis chopped in half in his salad. I wonder if they'd find that offensive?
Cheryl Benson 6 years ago
LOL This too funny. People should learn how to cook if they don't know how to identify a bay leaf. LOL
Cheryl Benson 6 years ago
LOL OMG You can tell the people that can't cook. Can't even identify a simple bay leaf. LOL
Orlando Suarez 6 years ago
Every single person who put this post up is a moron that's a bay leaf it's a seasoning its a*s it's used to seasoning it's for seasoning food it's not a Ali from a regular tree it's a bay leaf I can't believe this man
Elatia Grimshaw 6 years ago
I think we need to bring back home ec so people can learn to recognize a bay leaf.
Patricia Posito 6 years ago
Sad. I don’t claim to be much of a cook, and even I knew what that was.
Shelley Waring 6 years ago
Well, I'm glad I wasn't the only person who thought "WTH, its a bay leaflet" before I even opened the article. Can't believe the person who called it "an oak leaf" -- really? SMH.
Karen Cromarty 6 years ago
The fact that a vegan didn't know what a bay leaf is kind of shocks me
Joannie Goulet 6 years ago
That's what happen when you never cook your own food: you have no idea what a bay leaf, a super common seasoning, looks like.
Nya Crea Singer 6 years ago
Guys that's a bay leaf hahaha it surprises me how apparently so many people can't cook since they don't even kno what a bay Leaf Is ahah
Monika Soffronow 6 years ago
Yes, spices come from trees, bushes and grasses. Milk comes out of cows´ nipples and liver is a body part that cleanses the blood of an animal. Even eggs come out of the a**e of a fowl Holy s**t! You can´t eat anything these days, can you? Well, maybe quorn, but then again, that is made from a fungus found in soil ...
Donna Gettings Apperson 6 years ago
I use these in spaghetti and when I was growing up, my mom did too. She told us whoever got the bay leaf/leaves was going to have good luck.
Tere Rañada 6 years ago
Good for you that you've found a bay leaf. It means your food has been cooked thoroughly, expertly, and not using those instant things.
Gerda Hickerson 6 years ago
Obviously not too many cook with herbs or spices if they had they would recognize a bay leaf when the saw one added to food fo flavor
Lulu Machete 6 years ago
I use bay leaves in everything. Have a MASSIVE tree in my yard. You gotta fish them out before you eat tho. Not terribly pleasant themselves.
Víctor Alfonso García Olmo 6 years ago
In spanish: laurel. So used in cooking for flavor. In spanish we said: La ignorancia es atrevida, maybe Ignorance is bold.
Shane Allon 6 years ago
Wow have people never heard of bay leaves? I mean some of these people are vegans. #WTactualF
Luca Gotta 6 years ago
I seriously thought this was a big joke I'm Italian and we practically put bay leaves, rosemary, parsley or sage in every friggin dish we cook (well not me.. I usually cook my special "whatever-you-have-in-your-fridge" one pot for two)
Sandie McLaren 6 years ago
It's a bay leaf, used in many dishes. It adds flavor to the dish. You just take it out and continue eating, that's all. :)
Amanda Harker 6 years ago
How in the hell does a vegan not know what a bay leaf is?! I grew up with those in my food...maybe it's because I'm Aussie and our food is influenced by so many different cultures?
phil blanque 6 years ago
I guess few people prepare tasty food themselves...yeah it is a bay leaf...an important ingredient in soups and sauces. People should be much more frightened abut the ingredients that they cannot see in their food.
Crystalyn Snyder 6 years ago
Problem is that home ec is not being taught, parents don't cook, and we depend on fast and convience foods.
Eleanor Baker 6 years ago
*facepalms* there are too many people who have never done any cooking before if they can't recognise a common bay leaf.
Britt Bernatchez 6 years ago
I couldn't read this. It was too torturous! I scrolled down in hopes to find hope for humanity
Elaine Ducros 6 years ago
Wouldnt these feel foolish if they kbew how many of the spices they use are actually ground bark...leaves....roots....seeds. Bay just happens to be one that adds flavor when added whole but if ground up becomes tiny bits of unpleasent texture.
Claire Yance 6 years ago
simply amazing so many supposedly "educated" people have no clue what a bay leaf is..... SMH.
Louise Brigance 6 years ago
Most cooks recognize a bay leaf almost immediately...maybe Chipotle should just put a note on the menu that should you find a "leaf" don't panic. It's seasoning! People would still complain...can almost guarantee it!
soulbossanova9 6 years ago
Shoot, i'd be happy that they knew enough to throw a bay leaf in, at a Chipotle no less!
Flavia Slag 6 years ago
Please get your noses out of your phones.... buy a cookbook....go to the kitchen....and learn to cook. The leaves are called bay leaves. They are used for flavor.
Holly Hobby 6 years ago
Its a bay leaf 😂😂😂 I keep a jar in my spice cabinet. Excellent for soups and stews
Roxanne Dalpiaz 6 years ago
Obviously, these folks don't cook from scratch - or had meals cooked from scratch growing up. They don't know what cooking herbs look like. We had a game at our house when we were kids - whoever gets the bay leaf gets the biggest piece of (pie, cake, or other dessert).
Roxanne Dalpiaz 6 years ago
Obviously, these folks have never cooked a meal from scratch, using cooking herbs; they never had meals growing up made from scratch, using cooking herbs. In our house, we had a game: the person who gets the bay leaf gets the biggest piece of whatever was being served for dessert! I guess cooking from scratch, using real ingredients and real herbs is becoming a lost art. Too bad - because all the processed foods being consumed have minimal nutritional value and led to obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
Elizabeth Butler 6 years ago
Maybe there ought to be a note on the menu about bay leaves for all those who do not know about them. Not everyone cooks anymore.
Michelle Dodson 6 years ago
Do people honestly not recognize a bay leaf when they see one? Then again, the majority of the idiots posting appear to be 20 something's who've probably never cooked their own meals before - straight from Mommy's kitchen to Chipotle!
Jovy Jergens 6 years ago
Good grief, lighten up. Leaves are used in all kinds of authentic cuisine including American. Bay leaves and curry leaves spring immediately to mind. They are served in the dish and removed to the side of the plate when eating. Did you guys just fall off the turnip truck?
Kalikiano Kalei 6 years ago
Well, more evidence of how this nation is progressively getting dumbed-down. Not so many years ago just about everyone was familiar with how well Bay leaves flavor certain dishes. Now it's "...this unidentifiable friggin LEAF?!" I for one am aghast at BOTH the ignorance and the tone. A nation of rocket scientists, we are! As Bill the Cat famously put it, ACKKKKKKK! Thought_po...5f32cf.jpg 
Farnaz Khoshbakht 6 years ago
So, you mean these people never seen or used a bay leaf..!? seriously? how people cook in in here?!
Kwihui Halliday 6 years ago
"Bay leaf" the Rogue said below...I think he maybe correct. Thanks Rogue.
Kwihui Halliday 6 years ago
It looks like the Oregano leaf. It's a seasoning used in whole lot of Italian foods. Spice! Nothing nefarious!
Carmen Elena 6 years ago
My gosh! it´s bay leaf! U hoja de laurel, es deliciosa, en aroma y sabor!
Kat Olmstead 6 years ago
The stupidity is strong with these morons. They're probably the same people who go to Starbucks, find a coffee ground, and think it's dirt.
Laura Martin 6 years ago
Wow, just wow. Hey, why ask when you can boast/complain and have something to post on social media?
Jessie Smith 6 years ago
It's a bay leaf, but you aren't supposed to eat them, they should have been removed.
Stephanie Hanson Fisher 6 years ago
I think these people are morons. Especially the one who claimed it was an oak leaf. It's a Bay leaf, for seasoning. you find them in better Italian food too.
Just Carmen 6 years ago
Obviously, these stupid F-ing people have never cooked ANYTHING or know what spices are. These people really are pathetic. I've got a whole jar of bay leaves in my pantry right now, just waiting for me to spice something up!
Victor Smith 6 years ago
Freaking stupid people.,. never seen a Bay Leaf, oh but they be serious foodies.
Jarett Wilson 6 years ago
The average person is really, really stupid and uneducated. Wow. I'm so sorry.
Jarett Wilson 6 years ago
When people in other countries say our average person is a dillweed and an uneducated dope, I'm going to have to now apologize for these morons and tell them I'm sorry. Man...We have some really stupid, stupid people in the U.S.
Jarett Wilson 6 years ago
I knew it was a bay leaf BEFORE I clicked on this article.
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These are Bay leaves that should be removed before serving as they cannot be digested. Doesn't anybody cook any more??
Henry Harmison 6 years ago
Bay laurel. They grow wild in the swamp and make a helluva good seasoning for just about any sauce, gravy or soup! Where have these people been?
Collin Lyle 6 years ago
Obviously we need to do a better job of teaching home ec to people in school. We need to do a better job educating people. Period.
Clara The Idiot 6 years ago
I cringed throughout this whole thing, honestly it's a bloody bay leaf!!
Christian Belanger 6 years ago
So the difference between a foodie and a dumpster truck is that the dumpster truck eats at Chipotle
Curtis DeMartini 6 years ago
IDIOTS! Bay Leaves ...used in cooking since the beginning of cooking ...of course, it doesn't help ...Chipoltes food still has zero flavor
Adriana TobyNina 6 years ago
Stupid people! This leaf is nothing else than a eatable leaf. This leaf is from Laurel tree. As seen in laurel crowns, as the Ancient Greek used in their heads...
Ana Rita Carvalho 6 years ago
It's a bay leaf, usually used as spice. I'm from Portugal and here we used it in almost every dish
Ana Rita Carvalho 6 years ago
It's a bay leaf, usually used as spice. I'm from Portugal and here we used it in almost every dish and it's delicious :)
Tammie Fuller 6 years ago
They don't know what it is because Tide pods don't have bayleaves in them.
Mariam Gigani 6 years ago
I can't process this..... How on earth a bay leaf in a dish is surprising??? It is one of the most common ingredients in so many dishes across the world. C'mon people!!!! I pity the restaurant which got complaints about this :/
Karin Morris 6 years ago
Yea I think I understand why all these people eat at Chipotles so much....Cause they don't know spices from Oak leaves. Sheesh
Skylar Rowe 6 years ago
I'm so frustrated at all of these unnecessary tweets. It's a freakin bay leaf!!!
qwerty koala 6 years ago
I could tell when I saw the first picture that it was 'just a bay leaf.'
Paul Osborne 6 years ago
I'm sure this wouldn't have happened in other parts of the world where they actually know what goes into their food
Magpie 6 years ago
We can not know everything,. but we can ask. What upsets me is that people did not even think to ask the cook / waitperson what the leaf was. But jump up on some outrage and ride it to internet shame. I am a lousy cook, but politely asked the waiter what the twig in my beautiful soup was, it was fresh thyme.
Magpie 6 years ago
I learn so much by being scared of looking stupid, But asking anyway.
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Origami Chik3n 6 years ago
I am c**p at making any dish apart from sandwich. And even i know it's a bay leaf. This post actually made me feel so much better about my common sense.
Esca Sav 6 years ago
I understand if some people actually never saw or heard of a bay leaf. I've eaten it before cause my mom uses it, but I didn't know it was called that. Some of the tones these individuals used was a little drastic, BUT the last comment about "white people don't know what a bay leaf is," just made it worse. Do we ALWAYS have to bring race into things? Does it have to be mentioned? Personal opinion, it's getting a little tiring...
Janina Prado 6 years ago
"did chipotle put this leaf in my food to make fun of me for being vegan?" why yes, because they know who you are . they will also mock the way you dress, and ridicule you for how you tie your shoes.
Brenda Malli 6 years ago
Wow, just goes to show how genuinely ignorant some people are. It's a Bay Leaf. I use them all the time for seasoning. I tease people that if they find a leaf in their food, they have won the opportunity to do the dishes. Maybe Chipotle should put up a sign to that effect, then those too stupid to realize it is what makes their food taste so good, won't have a leg to stand on if they choose to get sue happy.
Gerry Higgins 6 years ago
Why did she make this a race thing by blaming white people for eradicating populations? Stupid cow.
Mark Erwin 6 years ago
They should have used the Internet to search what that leaf is instead of letting everybody know how stupid they actually are.
Phill Besio 6 years ago
Finding a bay leaf in your food at Chipotle is the least of your problems.
Allen Bouchard 6 years ago
"When we order Chipotle, we rarely spend time looking at the food. We’re too busy stuffing it down our throats." Do you want food poisoning? Because that's how you get food poisoning.
Alex Newell 6 years ago
I knew what it was after the first picture, but still... aren't you supposed to take it out after?
Ann Jeppesen 6 years ago
The amount of complaints without even trying to find out if it's actually a thing that's supposed to be there is amazing. Why would anyone put an oak leaf in their food? So this is ignorance and unwillingness to try to find out more. No we just complain
Brontosonto 6 years ago
Such an inculture! The bay leaf is used all around Europe (I don't know the brits) and North Africa to cook. The Roman did it when they take the leafs from the crown of the winning athlets, beeing the incarnation of Daphne, the love of Apollo.
Szama Bensmail 6 years ago
Can't believe that people don't know this leaf used to spice the food. Omg xD
RaroaRaroa 6 years ago
Bay leaf was my first thought too, though I don't know what sort of food Chipotle do, so wasn't sure. How someone could think it was lettuce or basil though I don't know. Neither is stiff like a bay leaf.
Jace 6 years ago
Like most everyone here, I recognized it instantly. Not only have none of these tweeters ever learned about bay leaves, the same was true about the people they ate with...? Learn some cooking, leaf tweeters. It's not hard. It's a useful skill. It'll also reduce your fear of food ingredients...
Blue Cicada 6 years ago
Hey! There's leaves in my salad! And it tastes funny, like plants you grow in the dirt or something!
Izkalli Hernandez 6 years ago
Those are jut Laurel leaves, used in mexican cooking for their flavor
Jace 6 years ago
Well, when education and critical thinking is such a low priority compared to war, Wall Street, and religion, no surprise.
Load More Replies... Yvonne Kiersley 6 years ago
"Util one person solved the mystery" - with a comment steeped in racism, yeah. Yes, congratulations, it is a bay leaf. But here is the thing, why is the bay leaf still in the food? Bay leaves are meant to be removed from the food before serving.
Jace 6 years ago
It's no harm done to leave it there. Why expend the added effort to fish it out? As for your comment about racism... what racism? Did you look at the tweets? Have you not read about historic spice trade?
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Ana T. 6 years ago
for all the "vegan" millennial that have not idea what a bay leaf looks like and what is used for. bay leaf come from a tree and is used to cook mexican food usually you take out the leaf when the dish is done but i guess cooks in restaurants are so busy they dont have time to fish out the one or two bay leafs they put on the dish.
Bored Fangirl 6 years ago
My family once had an experience in a restaurant where a paper towel was found in our salad…an actual paper towel, like from the restroom…that's when you freak out. Not over a bay leaf. Plus, leaves are EDIBLE. These people would probably be freaking out over peppercorn.
Marius Jan 6 years ago
Geez, some people are plain stupid. They should take some cooking classes. Maybe then they would be able to recognize one of the most widely used spices in the whole world.
Janine B. 6 years ago
I once had a really big black and sadly dead bug in my salad at McDonald's. So what. Even if they had found a "real" leaf in their food there's no need to act like that. I mean it's no like they found a shard or something. Life was so boring before we could complain about every little fart on social media. First world problems.
Annette Laney 6 years ago
OMG maybe these people should go on Worst Cooks how do you not know what a bay leaf is.. just how ?
lunanoir69 6 years ago
Yup, a bay leaf. They are supposed to be removed after cooking and you don't eat them, but they add great flavour to soups, etc.
Horst Schäfer 6 years ago
Just Juniper leafes, don't care!!! They are used for a lot of meals.
Karolína T. 6 years ago
Bay leaf? Whats wrong with it? I used often by cooking, whole leaf what is removed when the food is ready to eat. I do not know what is chipotle but probably the bay leaf is a part of spice?
Angela Turrall 6 years ago
I love how one just has to embellish it even further by adding “last time my sister found a tree branch”... So, she found (probably) cinnamon and then a leaf (clearly bay). Dear God, I found seasoning my food. Honestly, where is the common sense these days?
Giovanni 6 years ago
It was probably rosemary, cinnamon is almost exclusively used to make sweets.
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floof lover 6 years ago
Hey! I'm white as f**k and I know what bay leaves are. They're wonderful in slow-cooked foods
Jace 6 years ago
No. These are just the ones who happen to be ignorant. And reactionary.
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Breislitt4 6 years ago
HOW DID NO ONE REALIZE IT WAS A BAY LEAF?! people have been cookin with those for forever!
Carlos Superhuerta 6 years ago
Don´t argue with stupid people, they will lead you into their turf of stupid arguments an win.
Jace 6 years ago
The only way they can "win" is by driving away the person trying to inform them. And that's not really winning.
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Pi... 6 years ago
IDK, they look like bay leaves, curry leaves, mint leaves and other edible leaves. They should be glad that chipotle didn't over process their food! Where do they think their food comes from anyway? Fell from the sky?! Jeez.
Jace 6 years ago
People are, on average, very removed from their food ingredients. Tell some people what they're actually eating and they'll get angry at you. For some reason, people hate to be told information, especially about things they are eating. People are especially pissed when you talk about animal sources of the food they're consuming, but I've seen it with some people when it's a chemical or even plant-based ingredient. Some people are freakishly squeamish about what they eat and are more comfortable in ignorance. I'm the opposite, so I don't get it.
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Isla Reyne 6 years ago
it's because they don't cook that they don't know what it is. Friggin' useless people.
Pink Hedgehog 6 years ago
This is hysterical! Even my husband would know it's a bay leaf and he doesn't go near the kitchen.
Margaret Shannon 6 years ago
To be fair, the spines of bay leaves are very stiff, even after cooking, so it really is best to remove it before serving the food. It's not good to bite down on it. I always remove it before serving the dish.
Rodrigo Viriato 6 years ago
In Portugal is quite common, we use the bay leaf in many of our dishes and its one of the best things we can add to give that extra flavor.
Oscar Paolantoni 6 years ago
It's just a laurel leaf, commonly used in cooking. Not so astonishing.
Leo Domitrix 6 years ago
I died laughing. They freaked over a bay leaf. A bay leaf... I'm sorry, I can't stop snickering. The one where she said it was an oak leaf?! WTH? Heaven help them if they eat *real* Indian and find a cardamom pod...
Kathy Baylis 6 years ago
You're right, you don't eat it, you just pick it out of your food
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David Redstone 6 years ago
Wow...what a *ucking waste of my team reading that stupid article was. Had to put up every idiot twitter post didn't you? Two freaking pages of idiots who don't know what a bay leaf is, and that's the entire story. You paid someone to put this together? They didn't even do a good job of jamming together idiot twitter posts....for *ucks sake, DOES ANYONE THERE KNOW HOW TO WRITE IN ENGLISH??? The funniest thing about this article isn't the morons who don't know what they're eating, it's that someone got paid to write this and it's poor even by ninth grade multi-media class standards.
adoracat 6 years ago
People who want to be foodies but don't recognize the common bay leaf...or as we used to say "you got the bay leaf! You get to wash dishes!"
Lomion 6 years ago
I wonder what they would say if find kaffir-lime and lemongrass in Thai food...
Shruti Naik 6 years ago
I wonder what they'd say if they ever ate indian food? Herbes and leaves almost everywhere!
Load More Replies... mhubert10 6 years ago
It's a bay leaf, one of the most common seasonings in dishes served across America. Really Peeps?
Konstantin Nikolov 6 years ago
Human stupidity is just like the universe- vast and full of surprises....
Jef Bateman 6 years ago
It's funny that a vegan is mad about a leaf in their food. I could imagine ONE person getting bent out of shape because of never seeing a bay leaf before, but this is a whole phenomenon. (PS - I try to take the bay leafs out before I serve food because people can choke on the petiole, which remains pretty sharp even after hours of being cooked.)
Jace 6 years ago
As a vegan myself, it had me wondering what kind of food that person was raised on before becoming vegan. I know I shouldn't use myself as a baseline for measuring other vegans, but still...
Load More Replies... Thomas Helms 6 years ago
.... This is what happens when people spend more time eating at restaurants than cooking. Next they'll be yelling about fleas when it's just pepper.
A S Koziol 6 years ago
And how sad that they don't know the joy of cooking, it's a whole adventure, and what you cook at home is usually better for you as well!
Load More Replies... Kimberly Robinson 6 years ago
Am I missing something? Those are BAY LEAVES. You use them in cooking, especially cuisines like Mexican. Granted, you are supposed to take bay leaves out of the pot before you serve the food, but they have a large kitchen there and some probably slipped through the cracks. They are certainly not leaves from trees outside!
Painting Puddles 6 years ago
"It's a REAL leaf in my food!" Um...do you not realize lettuce is a LEAF vegetable?? The ignorance is painful
Christian dLaura 6 years ago
My point of view when everytime a "north-american" person (because I am originally from south and I do consider myself an american person) make believed that US people are really ignorant about lot of topics. I have so many creative and smart friends doing great things for humanity in the states at the moment. So don't feel down about this group of humans that couldn't reach furder just by paying more attention in life. Btw sorry for my English... Long time ago since I write something in this language.
Load More Replies... Marta Williamson 6 years ago
I don't get it. Why would you be outraged by a leaf? Even if you didn't know what leaf it was? I mean, we eat spinach, lettuce, rocket, chives, kale... These are all leaves as far as I know. And fresh leaves of many trees are not only edible but delicious. Even pine needles are OK. So what's the problem?
Nate Wahl 6 years ago
But it's completely inedible so they thought it was bad food.
Load More Replies... SweetMamaP 6 years ago
@Wings, I had same thought, in the same tone, as I scrolled through the photos. Now I can't stop laughing.
Load More Replies... Alycia Whaley 6 years ago
LOL! When I was little, we were waiting to see seated at a seafood restaurant. I was looking at the tank at the front and exclaimed, "Wow, look at those BIG BUGS!" A lady at the front jumped, expecting maybe a roach. She sees what I'm looking at, and then reprimanded me, "Those aren't bugs, they're lobsters!" My Dad: "Well, actually..."
Alycia Whaley 6 years ago
Anywho, people can be completely unaware of the world around them. What did Cypher say... "Ignorance is bliss" Unless you make an a*s of yourself and broadcast it on social media.
Load More Replies... Elgato09 XD 6 years ago
In spain we called it "laurel". We use it to cook because of it's flavor.
Milan Balbický 6 years ago
Slovak-Hungarian call it “granny leaf”. Very often is used in dark soups, or goulash etc.
Kristin Connon 6 years ago
I feel so much smarter for looking at this. Thank you, Bored Panda.
Jace 6 years ago
I just feel sadder and more alone amongst my own species... :-D
Load More Replies... Bea Albe 6 years ago
I don't know what chipotle is, but those leaves are laurel leaves, a very rich seasoning. In Argentina and i think in all SouthAmérica is common.
DancingToMyself 6 years ago
So as in Europe. In Italy, it goes in every kind of pasta. And it grows in bushes (ah, the smell! Oh la la!). :)
Load More Replies... Eric Mac Fadden 6 years ago
Here in Brazil we ever care about it, it's everywhere! Try it on salsa! You'll won't regret...
DancingToMyself 6 years ago
It goes to a massive number of different types of dishes, I can't believe how come so many people had no idea what are they eating! :/ just wow
Load More Replies... Beeps 6 years ago
Another really sad thing is that I’ve been struggling lately to get plantains from our local supermarket. When I asked the store why, thy said they don’t stock them anymore, as too many people had complained and returned them as inedible bananas. Why not try and educate people instead?
Kimberly Ramsay 6 years ago
The stupidity abounds, I couldn't even look at all the posts, after the "vegan" post I went to the comments section, my faith in humanity has been partially restored, thanks everyone
Šimon Špaček 6 years ago
Normal bay leaf. In ancient Rome it was sign of victory. Put it on your head and walk proud.
John Holden 6 years ago
It's times like this I believe we should rename my country Ignoramica. Best is that one complete moron who thought it was an OAK leaf! Because that's the only kind of leaves there are, right?
Carolina M. Ribeiro 6 years ago
Laurus nobilis is an aromatic evergreen tree or large shrub with green, glabrous leaves, in the flowering plant family Lauraceae. It is native to the Mediterranean region and is used as bay leaf for seasoning in cooking.
Crystalyn Snyder 6 years ago
Please be gentle as these are people who wouldn't know what spices are.
Jace 6 years ago
But they should learn to cook. It's a very useful skill. It isn't magic or difficult as people seem to think.
Load More Replies... Kristen Atchison 6 years ago
Really, bay leaves are not mysterious or rare. Cook once in awhile!
Andrew Keane 6 years ago
I feel dumber for having seen this article. Not only did it bother me that people didn't know what it was but the writer of the article didn't say what it was and showed a lot of different pictures, more than necessary. As if people looking at the article needed multiple angles of a bay leaf to know what it is.
ANKAN BANERJEE 6 years ago
I just laughed so hard. I am an Indian, and my 100% pure Indian mother uses bay leaf for any curry dish. Last tweet is awesome. XD
Bobbi Newell 6 years ago
I knew they were bay leaves from the very 1st pic. Maybe if people spent more time in the kitchen and on recipe sites and less time tweeting their takeout...
Philippe Guibert 6 years ago
From a french point of view, bay leaves are used as spices, but they are not meant to be served in a plate, they give a good seasoning but are awful to eat. If i ever find one in my plate, i would feel as if no care was given to my dish.
Giovanni 6 years ago
In Italy we leave them on the plate as ornament some times.
Load More Replies... Magdalina777 6 years ago
...one of these guys called it an oak leaf. OAK. You know that one tree with super distinct and very hard to confuse leaves which look nothing like bay leaves? Just...how do these people live? It must be so boring inside those empty heads...
Cherie Stepp 6 years ago
Do all these people really not know what a bay leaf is? I feel sad for humanity. People are so stupid.
Pragya Fating 6 years ago
O m god. Are these people for real. I learnt my spices long ago. We also use a similar leaf which is good for digestion. I bet they would not have had even heard about it. That's what happens when u don't eat home cooked meals nd no one is there to teach you what is what. I really pity them I would prefer to eat a home cooked meal from my mum then any pizza or outside food, like ever. Dear ignorant people, if u are a food lover, u are really missing on the real tasty food.
Eframit Orozco 6 years ago
I couldn't understand what was the problem. I'm Spanish and we use a lot the bay leaf in our recipes. Is it really so unusual in the US? 0_o Maybe they should consider start selling more bay leaf and less guns, it will make them live longer, healthier and safer! ;)
Black Dahlia 6 years ago
What is so mysterious about finding a bay leaf in your food? It's like finding a piece of pork in your beans. I'd be more up in arms about finding cilantro in my food. YECCH!
Ryan Bryan 6 years ago
in Italy laurel is used frequently, perhaps not so often in the United States
Sean Stephens 6 years ago
In my house, the person who got the bay leaf washed the dishes that night. We always thought we could hide it when we found it, but that never worked.
Lara L. 6 years ago
English is not my first languege and this post showed me one word i didn't know yet :) thanks for that. (Altough i recognized the "leaf" at once) And dear people, just saying, the most common prejudice about the USA is, that americans don't have any common sense or general knowledge- i know it is not true, but posts like this don't really help either ;)
Stanley Judd 6 years ago
it's amazing how many millennials don't cook and have no clue what goes into their food.
Lizzy Busch 6 years ago
It's not just millennials. Everyone does this. Anyone can be ignorant, anyone could be the next Albert Einstein.
Load More Replies... Leah Forgy 6 years ago
A bay leaf?!? Really?!? I had glass in a salad once, crunched right down on it. Not at a Chipolte.
Travis Sivart 6 years ago
People are so, so dumb. That's not even rare or difficult to know. Amazing.
Shana 6 years ago
Ok, you're not supposed to leave them in the food (unless it's for decoration, doesn't really work for a burrito though? :P ) but do people seriously not know what a bayleaf looks like? 'leaf from outside" "tree leaf" "is it lettuce?" (really?) Now I'm wondering if they even know where all the powdered-spices&herbs come from... (but seeing as they don't even know what a bayleaf is... I doubt they cook that often.)
Magpie 6 years ago
Apparently it is a fast food cafe. ( I have not seen them in my part of Australia yet. ) I am kind of impressed that they actually cooked with a real herb. In my family we were taught to put the bay leaf on the side of the plate and praise the cook.
Load More Replies... Ellis 6 years ago
Well at least a bay leaf organic and not something scary like dihydrogen monoxide!
Lenninn Gifiki 6 years ago
This is a very appreciated delicacy in Brazil. We call it "laurel leaf". One of the indispensable ingredients in a good 'feijoada'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NviOS0kki-w (Hugs from Brazil)
Lenninn Gifiki 6 years ago
This is a very appreciated delicacy in Brazil. We call it "laurel leaf". One of the indispensable ingredients in a good 'feijoada'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NviOS0kki-w (Hugs from Brazil)
Peta Hurley-Hill 6 years ago
How sheltered have their lives been and how limited their food choices ,if they react with such surprise over a bloody Bay leaf ?!
DAMIEN GARZA 6 years ago
White people complain about everything, and that’s coming from a Mexican right there which is me
Anthony Talak 6 years ago
It's a bay leaf. Buuuut for being vegan, you do deserve a leaf off a tree in your food anyway.
Cristina Sacchi 6 years ago
face palm... if people would educate themselves and cook more!!! It's a freaking bay leaf!!!!!
Madison Taylor 6 years ago
Yes, it's a bay leaf and not a leaf they found outside, but the leaves are supposed to be taken out of the food before its served. You should not be finding bay leaves in your food..
Melissa Hardy 6 years ago
I would love to say people aren't that stupid, but clearly they are. Seriously though, what self respecting Vegan has no idea what a bay leaf is?
Elaine Cummings 6 years ago
So sad that the majority of these people don't seem to know how to cook or have ever cooked. It's a bay leaf. It's used to flavor the food. Nothing weird or strange.
Tom Scioscia 6 years ago
Don't ever eat tomato sauce made by a real Italian. OMG!!! BAY LEAVES!!!
Babernethy Brad 6 years ago
Yup, not too bright! I spotted the bay leaf in the first picture. Use it all the time. I have a buddy who found a live praying mantis chopped in half in his salad. I wonder if they'd find that offensive?
Cheryl Benson 6 years ago
LOL This too funny. People should learn how to cook if they don't know how to identify a bay leaf. LOL
Cheryl Benson 6 years ago
LOL OMG You can tell the people that can't cook. Can't even identify a simple bay leaf. LOL
Orlando Suarez 6 years ago
Every single person who put this post up is a moron that's a bay leaf it's a seasoning its a*s it's used to seasoning it's for seasoning food it's not a Ali from a regular tree it's a bay leaf I can't believe this man
Elatia Grimshaw 6 years ago
I think we need to bring back home ec so people can learn to recognize a bay leaf.
Patricia Posito 6 years ago
Sad. I don’t claim to be much of a cook, and even I knew what that was.
Shelley Waring 6 years ago
Well, I'm glad I wasn't the only person who thought "WTH, its a bay leaflet" before I even opened the article. Can't believe the person who called it "an oak leaf" -- really? SMH.
Karen Cromarty 6 years ago
The fact that a vegan didn't know what a bay leaf is kind of shocks me
Joannie Goulet 6 years ago
That's what happen when you never cook your own food: you have no idea what a bay leaf, a super common seasoning, looks like.
Nya Crea Singer 6 years ago
Guys that's a bay leaf hahaha it surprises me how apparently so many people can't cook since they don't even kno what a bay Leaf Is ahah
Monika Soffronow 6 years ago
Yes, spices come from trees, bushes and grasses. Milk comes out of cows´ nipples and liver is a body part that cleanses the blood of an animal. Even eggs come out of the a**e of a fowl Holy s**t! You can´t eat anything these days, can you? Well, maybe quorn, but then again, that is made from a fungus found in soil ...
Donna Gettings Apperson 6 years ago
I use these in spaghetti and when I was growing up, my mom did too. She told us whoever got the bay leaf/leaves was going to have good luck.
Tere Rañada 6 years ago
Good for you that you've found a bay leaf. It means your food has been cooked thoroughly, expertly, and not using those instant things.
Gerda Hickerson 6 years ago
Obviously not too many cook with herbs or spices if they had they would recognize a bay leaf when the saw one added to food fo flavor
Lulu Machete 6 years ago
I use bay leaves in everything. Have a MASSIVE tree in my yard. You gotta fish them out before you eat tho. Not terribly pleasant themselves.
Víctor Alfonso García Olmo 6 years ago
In spanish: laurel. So used in cooking for flavor. In spanish we said: La ignorancia es atrevida, maybe Ignorance is bold.
Shane Allon 6 years ago
Wow have people never heard of bay leaves? I mean some of these people are vegans. #WTactualF
Luca Gotta 6 years ago
I seriously thought this was a big joke I'm Italian and we practically put bay leaves, rosemary, parsley or sage in every friggin dish we cook (well not me.. I usually cook my special "whatever-you-have-in-your-fridge" one pot for two)
Sandie McLaren 6 years ago
It's a bay leaf, used in many dishes. It adds flavor to the dish. You just take it out and continue eating, that's all. :)
Amanda Harker 6 years ago
How in the hell does a vegan not know what a bay leaf is?! I grew up with those in my food...maybe it's because I'm Aussie and our food is influenced by so many different cultures?
phil blanque 6 years ago
I guess few people prepare tasty food themselves...yeah it is a bay leaf...an important ingredient in soups and sauces. People should be much more frightened abut the ingredients that they cannot see in their food.
Crystalyn Snyder 6 years ago
Problem is that home ec is not being taught, parents don't cook, and we depend on fast and convience foods.
Eleanor Baker 6 years ago
*facepalms* there are too many people who have never done any cooking before if they can't recognise a common bay leaf.
Britt Bernatchez 6 years ago
I couldn't read this. It was too torturous! I scrolled down in hopes to find hope for humanity
Elaine Ducros 6 years ago
Wouldnt these feel foolish if they kbew how many of the spices they use are actually ground bark...leaves....roots....seeds. Bay just happens to be one that adds flavor when added whole but if ground up becomes tiny bits of unpleasent texture.
Claire Yance 6 years ago
simply amazing so many supposedly "educated" people have no clue what a bay leaf is..... SMH.
Louise Brigance 6 years ago
Most cooks recognize a bay leaf almost immediately...maybe Chipotle should just put a note on the menu that should you find a "leaf" don't panic. It's seasoning! People would still complain...can almost guarantee it!
soulbossanova9 6 years ago
Shoot, i'd be happy that they knew enough to throw a bay leaf in, at a Chipotle no less!
Flavia Slag 6 years ago
Please get your noses out of your phones.... buy a cookbook....go to the kitchen....and learn to cook. The leaves are called bay leaves. They are used for flavor.
Holly Hobby 6 years ago
Its a bay leaf 😂😂😂 I keep a jar in my spice cabinet. Excellent for soups and stews
Roxanne Dalpiaz 6 years ago
Obviously, these folks don't cook from scratch - or had meals cooked from scratch growing up. They don't know what cooking herbs look like. We had a game at our house when we were kids - whoever gets the bay leaf gets the biggest piece of (pie, cake, or other dessert).
Roxanne Dalpiaz 6 years ago
Obviously, these folks have never cooked a meal from scratch, using cooking herbs; they never had meals growing up made from scratch, using cooking herbs. In our house, we had a game: the person who gets the bay leaf gets the biggest piece of whatever was being served for dessert! I guess cooking from scratch, using real ingredients and real herbs is becoming a lost art. Too bad - because all the processed foods being consumed have minimal nutritional value and led to obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
Elizabeth Butler 6 years ago
Maybe there ought to be a note on the menu about bay leaves for all those who do not know about them. Not everyone cooks anymore.
Michelle Dodson 6 years ago
Do people honestly not recognize a bay leaf when they see one? Then again, the majority of the idiots posting appear to be 20 something's who've probably never cooked their own meals before - straight from Mommy's kitchen to Chipotle!
Jovy Jergens 6 years ago
Good grief, lighten up. Leaves are used in all kinds of authentic cuisine including American. Bay leaves and curry leaves spring immediately to mind. They are served in the dish and removed to the side of the plate when eating. Did you guys just fall off the turnip truck?
Kalikiano Kalei 6 years ago
Well, more evidence of how this nation is progressively getting dumbed-down. Not so many years ago just about everyone was familiar with how well Bay leaves flavor certain dishes. Now it's "...this unidentifiable friggin LEAF?!" I for one am aghast at BOTH the ignorance and the tone. A nation of rocket scientists, we are! As Bill the Cat famously put it, ACKKKKKKK! Thought_po...5f32cf.jpg
Farnaz Khoshbakht 6 years ago
So, you mean these people never seen or used a bay leaf..!? seriously? how people cook in in here?!
Kwihui Halliday 6 years ago
"Bay leaf" the Rogue said below...I think he maybe correct. Thanks Rogue.
Kwihui Halliday 6 years ago
It looks like the Oregano leaf. It's a seasoning used in whole lot of Italian foods. Spice! Nothing nefarious!
Carmen Elena 6 years ago
My gosh! it´s bay leaf! U hoja de laurel, es deliciosa, en aroma y sabor!
Kat Olmstead 6 years ago
The stupidity is strong with these morons. They're probably the same people who go to Starbucks, find a coffee ground, and think it's dirt.
Laura Martin 6 years ago
Wow, just wow. Hey, why ask when you can boast/complain and have something to post on social media?
Jessie Smith 6 years ago
It's a bay leaf, but you aren't supposed to eat them, they should have been removed.
Stephanie Hanson Fisher 6 years ago
I think these people are morons. Especially the one who claimed it was an oak leaf. It's a Bay leaf, for seasoning. you find them in better Italian food too.
Just Carmen 6 years ago
Obviously, these stupid F-ing people have never cooked ANYTHING or know what spices are. These people really are pathetic. I've got a whole jar of bay leaves in my pantry right now, just waiting for me to spice something up!
Victor Smith 6 years ago
Freaking stupid people.,. never seen a Bay Leaf, oh but they be serious foodies.
Jarett Wilson 6 years ago
The average person is really, really stupid and uneducated. Wow. I'm so sorry.
Jarett Wilson 6 years ago
When people in other countries say our average person is a dillweed and an uneducated dope, I'm going to have to now apologize for these morons and tell them I'm sorry. Man...We have some really stupid, stupid people in the U.S.
Jarett Wilson 6 years ago
I knew it was a bay leaf BEFORE I clicked on this article.
Load More Replies... A Delano 6 years ago
These are Bay leaves that should be removed before serving as they cannot be digested. Doesn't anybody cook any more??
Henry Harmison 6 years ago
Bay laurel. They grow wild in the swamp and make a helluva good seasoning for just about any sauce, gravy or soup! Where have these people been?
Collin Lyle 6 years ago
Obviously we need to do a better job of teaching home ec to people in school. We need to do a better job educating people. Period.
Clara The Idiot 6 years ago
I cringed throughout this whole thing, honestly it's a bloody bay leaf!!
Christian Belanger 6 years ago
So the difference between a foodie and a dumpster truck is that the dumpster truck eats at Chipotle
Curtis DeMartini 6 years ago
IDIOTS! Bay Leaves ...used in cooking since the beginning of cooking ...of course, it doesn't help ...Chipoltes food still has zero flavor
Adriana TobyNina 6 years ago
Stupid people! This leaf is nothing else than a eatable leaf. This leaf is from Laurel tree. As seen in laurel crowns, as the Ancient Greek used in their heads...
Ana Rita Carvalho 6 years ago
It's a bay leaf, usually used as spice. I'm from Portugal and here we used it in almost every dish
Ana Rita Carvalho 6 years ago
It's a bay leaf, usually used as spice. I'm from Portugal and here we used it in almost every dish and it's delicious :)
Tammie Fuller 6 years ago
They don't know what it is because Tide pods don't have bayleaves in them.
Mariam Gigani 6 years ago
I can't process this..... How on earth a bay leaf in a dish is surprising??? It is one of the most common ingredients in so many dishes across the world. C'mon people!!!! I pity the restaurant which got complaints about this :/
Karin Morris 6 years ago
Yea I think I understand why all these people eat at Chipotles so much....Cause they don't know spices from Oak leaves. Sheesh
Skylar Rowe 6 years ago
I'm so frustrated at all of these unnecessary tweets. It's a freakin bay leaf!!!
qwerty koala 6 years ago
I could tell when I saw the first picture that it was 'just a bay leaf.'
Paul Osborne 6 years ago
I'm sure this wouldn't have happened in other parts of the world where they actually know what goes into their food
Magpie 6 years ago
We can not know everything,. but we can ask. What upsets me is that people did not even think to ask the cook / waitperson what the leaf was. But jump up on some outrage and ride it to internet shame. I am a lousy cook, but politely asked the waiter what the twig in my beautiful soup was, it was fresh thyme.
Magpie 6 years ago
I learn so much by being scared of looking stupid, But asking anyway.
Load More Replies... Origami Chik3n 6 years ago
I am c**p at making any dish apart from sandwich. And even i know it's a bay leaf. This post actually made me feel so much better about my common sense.
Esca Sav 6 years ago
I understand if some people actually never saw or heard of a bay leaf. I've eaten it before cause my mom uses it, but I didn't know it was called that. Some of the tones these individuals used was a little drastic, BUT the last comment about "white people don't know what a bay leaf is," just made it worse. Do we ALWAYS have to bring race into things? Does it have to be mentioned? Personal opinion, it's getting a little tiring...
Janina Prado 6 years ago
"did chipotle put this leaf in my food to make fun of me for being vegan?" why yes, because they know who you are . they will also mock the way you dress, and ridicule you for how you tie your shoes.
Brenda Malli 6 years ago
Wow, just goes to show how genuinely ignorant some people are. It's a Bay Leaf. I use them all the time for seasoning. I tease people that if they find a leaf in their food, they have won the opportunity to do the dishes. Maybe Chipotle should put up a sign to that effect, then those too stupid to realize it is what makes their food taste so good, won't have a leg to stand on if they choose to get sue happy.
Gerry Higgins 6 years ago
Why did she make this a race thing by blaming white people for eradicating populations? Stupid cow.
Mark Erwin 6 years ago
They should have used the Internet to search what that leaf is instead of letting everybody know how stupid they actually are.
Phill Besio 6 years ago
Finding a bay leaf in your food at Chipotle is the least of your problems.
Allen Bouchard 6 years ago
"When we order Chipotle, we rarely spend time looking at the food. We’re too busy stuffing it down our throats." Do you want food poisoning? Because that's how you get food poisoning.
Alex Newell 6 years ago
I knew what it was after the first picture, but still... aren't you supposed to take it out after?
Ann Jeppesen 6 years ago
The amount of complaints without even trying to find out if it's actually a thing that's supposed to be there is amazing. Why would anyone put an oak leaf in their food? So this is ignorance and unwillingness to try to find out more. No we just complain
Brontosonto 6 years ago
Such an inculture! The bay leaf is used all around Europe (I don't know the brits) and North Africa to cook. The Roman did it when they take the leafs from the crown of the winning athlets, beeing the incarnation of Daphne, the love of Apollo.
Szama Bensmail 6 years ago
Can't believe that people don't know this leaf used to spice the food. Omg xD
RaroaRaroa 6 years ago
Bay leaf was my first thought too, though I don't know what sort of food Chipotle do, so wasn't sure. How someone could think it was lettuce or basil though I don't know. Neither is stiff like a bay leaf.
Jace 6 years ago
Like most everyone here, I recognized it instantly. Not only have none of these tweeters ever learned about bay leaves, the same was true about the people they ate with...? Learn some cooking, leaf tweeters. It's not hard. It's a useful skill. It'll also reduce your fear of food ingredients...
Blue Cicada 6 years ago
Hey! There's leaves in my salad! And it tastes funny, like plants you grow in the dirt or something!
Izkalli Hernandez 6 years ago
Those are jut Laurel leaves, used in mexican cooking for their flavor
Jace 6 years ago
Well, when education and critical thinking is such a low priority compared to war, Wall Street, and religion, no surprise.
Load More Replies... Yvonne Kiersley 6 years ago
"Util one person solved the mystery" - with a comment steeped in racism, yeah. Yes, congratulations, it is a bay leaf. But here is the thing, why is the bay leaf still in the food? Bay leaves are meant to be removed from the food before serving.
Jace 6 years ago
It's no harm done to leave it there. Why expend the added effort to fish it out? As for your comment about racism... what racism? Did you look at the tweets? Have you not read about historic spice trade?
Load More Replies... Ana T. 6 years ago
for all the "vegan" millennial that have not idea what a bay leaf looks like and what is used for. bay leaf come from a tree and is used to cook mexican food usually you take out the leaf when the dish is done but i guess cooks in restaurants are so busy they dont have time to fish out the one or two bay leafs they put on the dish.
Bored Fangirl 6 years ago
My family once had an experience in a restaurant where a paper towel was found in our salad…an actual paper towel, like from the restroom…that's when you freak out. Not over a bay leaf. Plus, leaves are EDIBLE. These people would probably be freaking out over peppercorn.
Marius Jan 6 years ago
Geez, some people are plain stupid. They should take some cooking classes. Maybe then they would be able to recognize one of the most widely used spices in the whole world.
Janine B. 6 years ago
I once had a really big black and sadly dead bug in my salad at McDonald's. So what. Even if they had found a "real" leaf in their food there's no need to act like that. I mean it's no like they found a shard or something. Life was so boring before we could complain about every little fart on social media. First world problems.
Annette Laney 6 years ago
OMG maybe these people should go on Worst Cooks how do you not know what a bay leaf is.. just how ?
lunanoir69 6 years ago
Yup, a bay leaf. They are supposed to be removed after cooking and you don't eat them, but they add great flavour to soups, etc.
Horst Schäfer 6 years ago
Just Juniper leafes, don't care!!! They are used for a lot of meals.
Karolína T. 6 years ago
Bay leaf? Whats wrong with it? I used often by cooking, whole leaf what is removed when the food is ready to eat. I do not know what is chipotle but probably the bay leaf is a part of spice?
Angela Turrall 6 years ago
I love how one just has to embellish it even further by adding “last time my sister found a tree branch”... So, she found (probably) cinnamon and then a leaf (clearly bay). Dear God, I found seasoning my food. Honestly, where is the common sense these days?
Giovanni 6 years ago
It was probably rosemary, cinnamon is almost exclusively used to make sweets.
Load More Replies... floof lover 6 years ago
Hey! I'm white as f**k and I know what bay leaves are. They're wonderful in slow-cooked foods
Jace 6 years ago
No. These are just the ones who happen to be ignorant. And reactionary.
Load More Replies... Breislitt4 6 years ago
HOW DID NO ONE REALIZE IT WAS A BAY LEAF?! people have been cookin with those for forever!
Carlos Superhuerta 6 years ago
Don´t argue with stupid people, they will lead you into their turf of stupid arguments an win.
Jace 6 years ago
The only way they can "win" is by driving away the person trying to inform them. And that's not really winning.
Load More Replies... Pi... 6 years ago
IDK, they look like bay leaves, curry leaves, mint leaves and other edible leaves. They should be glad that chipotle didn't over process their food! Where do they think their food comes from anyway? Fell from the sky?! Jeez.
Jace 6 years ago
People are, on average, very removed from their food ingredients. Tell some people what they're actually eating and they'll get angry at you. For some reason, people hate to be told information, especially about things they are eating. People are especially pissed when you talk about animal sources of the food they're consuming, but I've seen it with some people when it's a chemical or even plant-based ingredient. Some people are freakishly squeamish about what they eat and are more comfortable in ignorance. I'm the opposite, so I don't get it.
Load More Replies... Isla Reyne 6 years ago
it's because they don't cook that they don't know what it is. Friggin' useless people.
Pink Hedgehog 6 years ago
This is hysterical! Even my husband would know it's a bay leaf and he doesn't go near the kitchen.
Margaret Shannon 6 years ago
To be fair, the spines of bay leaves are very stiff, even after cooking, so it really is best to remove it before serving the food. It's not good to bite down on it. I always remove it before serving the dish.
Rodrigo Viriato 6 years ago
In Portugal is quite common, we use the bay leaf in many of our dishes and its one of the best things we can add to give that extra flavor.
Oscar Paolantoni 6 years ago
It's just a laurel leaf, commonly used in cooking. Not so astonishing.
Leo Domitrix 6 years ago
I died laughing. They freaked over a bay leaf. A bay leaf... I'm sorry, I can't stop snickering. The one where she said it was an oak leaf?! WTH? Heaven help them if they eat *real* Indian and find a cardamom pod...
Kathy Baylis 6 years ago
You're right, you don't eat it, you just pick it out of your food
Load More Replies... David Redstone 6 years ago
Wow...what a *ucking waste of my team reading that stupid article was. Had to put up every idiot twitter post didn't you? Two freaking pages of idiots who don't know what a bay leaf is, and that's the entire story. You paid someone to put this together? They didn't even do a good job of jamming together idiot twitter posts....for *ucks sake, DOES ANYONE THERE KNOW HOW TO WRITE IN ENGLISH??? The funniest thing about this article isn't the morons who don't know what they're eating, it's that someone got paid to write this and it's poor even by ninth grade multi-media class standards.
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