Some places shouldn't attempt "Haut Cuisine".
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>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.
>
>
>
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