What - no photos??? I, too, dislike "designer" food. Especially if it ends up tasting like...well, not tasting very good.
But I can't imagine in a million years going to Disneyland - you couldn't pay me to. I'm trying to think of a guilty pleassure of mine that would make all of you squirm... hmmmm. Watching reruns of Vegas, Charlies Angels and Buck Rogers ? (alas, I can't find those anymore on tv) eating hotdogs wrapped in two pieces of whitebread with the crusts cut off? :) ann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
