I think the consensus is that it probably didn't happen.  I think generally most lies are embellished, and here there was no real need to explain the unfolding of the napkin for instance. If the side dish was everything that wasn't liked, it wouldn't need to put it out of the plate/bowl and into a napkin anyway. Just push the plate away. If the substance literally makes it gag, would it really be able to decant it? No, then the fruit doesn't make it gag. If the wrong dish come to your table, you generally don't accept it in the first place. Have I ever seen a waitress scowl at someone? Can't say I have. Like you said, a wrong order or the only possible thing I can think of is that it's a language issue, that this happened abroad. In a shitlording country, which I now want to move to.  But, no, I really do get the sense that this is entirely fabricated.