Back from Disneyland. I enjoyed it, but I did not enjoy the crowds. Fewer people after Labor Day, but still way too many. I waited over 1 hour for 1 ride, and never did again. Others I really wanted to catch, I did during the fireworks at night, or 1/2 hour before closing.
But I have no class. One day to give my feet a rest, I went to Cafe Orleans to have a late lunch. It was about 4pm, I hadn't had lunch yet, and they were fairly empty at that time. I ordered a shrimp salad (big shrimp, what I call prawns). Sometimes when I am unsure of a restaurant, and many in Disneyland I am unsure of, I order salad because I figure there is little they can do to mess it up. Long wait, slow service. Then a waiter approaches me with carrying something strange and says, "Shrimp salad?" I hadn't given the plate it a real look, then I did. I am afraid, "What the f__ is that?!?" just popped out of me. I simply have no class. :-( Imagine a half a head of iceberg lettuce upside down on a plate, with two toothpicks sticking out of it sort of in a V with two shrimp on each toothpick. There were a few vegetables or something around the base of the half dome, but not many and I barely noticed them. I had a hard time not laughing, but I told them I really, really, really didn't want it. (Later at that night back at the motel, I gave in and laughed for about 1/2 hour.) Blackened shrimp which I was not expecting. Anyway, warm. Not much of a salad. And, for pete's sake, I would have had to cut up my own iceberg lettuce, on a plate. I had visions of it shooting across the restaurant. Iceberg isn't that easy to cut up, and it wasn't a bowl. My reaction was so strong, the manager came out and asked me what was wrong. He what did I not like about their PRESENTATION? Sigh. Food with a presentation. I have no class. He was very serious and they seemed proud of their presentations. I am simply not an haute cuisine type of person. :-( So I ordered a seafood crepe I had noticed earlier, he told me it came with asparagus and potatoes too -- stacked. I had visions of a log cabin or something showing up. So I asked him very seriously not to stack ANY of my food, just bring it to me as food. It wasn't bad. Later I had the chocolate crepe for desert. Squiggles of chocolate sauce on plate, whipped creme on side. Presentation again, but not a strange one and quite good. Really, that half dome of iceberg lettuce with shrimp sticking out of it on toothpicks was one of the funniest things I have ever seen, and sure didn't look like a salad. It was only after I started writing this I realized -- was it supposed to be a Mickey Mouse hat? Marnie Hehehe. Or Mickey Mouse's head? LOL. Presentation! LOL. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
