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French food requests: remove one ingredient, keep the rest
Make a precise French lunch request: remove onion, keep the other ingredients and ask for sauce separately. Practise the choices in a branching chat.
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In short
Say Sans oignon, mais avec le reste, s’il vous plaît to remove onion while keeping the other ingredients. La sauce à part asks for sauce separately; sans sauce removes it. Use these requests to state a food preference.
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The organiser offers a sandwich with chicken, lettuce, tomato and onion, plus a sauce. You want chicken, lettuce and tomato. You also want to add the sauce yourself. Select replies that preserve the rest of the sandwich and keep the sauce available in a separate container.
- Bonjour ! Le sandwich contient du poulet, de la salade, de la tomate et de l’oignon. Tu veux tout garder ?Hello! The sandwich contains chicken, lettuce, tomato and onion. Do you want to keep everything?
Remove only the onion; keep the chicken and both other vegetables.
- D’accord, je garde le poulet, la salade et la tomate. Et pour la sauce ?All right, I’ll keep the chicken, lettuce and tomato. What about the sauce?
Ask to receive sauce separately so you can add it yourself.
- Parfait : sandwich sans oignon, avec le reste, et sauce dans un petit pot séparé.Perfect: sandwich without onion, with the rest, and sauce in a separate little pot.
Confirm the complete request.
Le reste refers to what remains on the supplied list
Avec le reste is precise here because the organiser has just named the ingredients. It keeps chicken, lettuce and tomato after removing onion. If the ingredient list is unknown, ask Qu’est-ce qu’il y a dedans ? before using le reste. That question asks what is inside the dish or sandwich.
| French | Result |
|---|---|
| Sans oignon | Remove onion. |
| Sans sauce | Do not include sauce. |
| La sauce à part | Provide the sauce separately. |
| Avec le reste | Retain the other ingredients already listed. |
Je garde la salade et la tomate.
I’ll keep the lettuce and tomato.
The model uses tu because the organiser addresses the customer that way. With a server using vous, use s’il vous plaît. The ingredient words do not change: Sans oignon, avec le reste, et la sauce à part, s’il vous plaît. Confirming the organiser’s restatement lets you catch a removed ingredient that you intended to keep.