Originally posted on Monday, June 9, 2008 at 12:04am ·
Three words; Special Staff Dinner.
The 'dinner' part intrigued me, it was the 'special' part that had me
concerned.
Today the most wonderful food service staff served all of the other staff members a gourmet dinner. It began with the man at the mic saying, You can go and get salad if you'd like but we will be serving the plates as they are ready. Which led to a small confusion of, "Salad? Right now?" "Ummmm, where?" "What did he say? There's no salad?" Upon the eventual discovery of the salad cart (behind us by a far wall) a group from my table went over to stand in line.
Salad is a classic appetizer and this one consisted of mixed greens......that's it. Oh, or you could have craisins and sesame seeds as well. So, I placed some leaves on my small plate and glanced over at the dressing. It looked like an Italian dressing but, it had the texture of a gravy. Hmmmmm....I dressed my leafy greens with it and went back to my table.
When we had finally sorted out whose silverware was whose, they began to bring out main course plates. So, I tried my salad. And I was surprised that the dressing was not, in fact, a tangy Italian dressing but some kind of sesame seed dressing that tasted like butter with a sweet finish. And so, the salad was relocated.
The main course was placed in front of me and it looked very promising, of course it was when I began to eat it that the flashing red lights went off in my brain. There was a fillet cut steak (pardon my lack of knowledge of correct food terminology) sitting atop a somewhat spicy corn....mush- which I have recently been informed is called palenta-...surrounded by an army of sweet potato fries. So I tried it all, and I am glad to report that I am still alive and fully functioning.
As I was engaged in conversation, dessert arrived at our table- a platter of deliciousness. If you do not know what beniets are, I pity you greatly. They are a french dessert that is a kind of small fluffy pastry covered in powdered sugar. And there were more than two dozen of them on the platter for our table. I gasped with delight and, thanks to the laughter that followed, then realized I had actually gasped in reality and not just in my head.
After we finished that platter, we asked for another, and finished it. Then, we asked for another, and it was only a couple of minutes before all of those were gone too. Now, you have to realize I was sitting at a table of nine, but only a third of us were consuming the beniets. We had four platters of beniets and then a girl from our table went and got a mountain of them on a paper plate and most of those were eaten as well.
So I have now officially ingested my weight in powdered sugar, and it made my day. Each time more of the beniets arrived I enthusiastically said, "This is awesome!!!" and promptly grabbed another beniet, much to the amusement of the others at the table.
All I have to do now is run approximately 1500 miles to work off all that I consumed. No problem. And it's midnight and I have to leave my house at 7am to go to work. Hoorah.
Today the most wonderful food service staff served all of the other staff members a gourmet dinner. It began with the man at the mic saying, You can go and get salad if you'd like but we will be serving the plates as they are ready. Which led to a small confusion of, "Salad? Right now?" "Ummmm, where?" "What did he say? There's no salad?" Upon the eventual discovery of the salad cart (behind us by a far wall) a group from my table went over to stand in line.
Salad is a classic appetizer and this one consisted of mixed greens......that's it. Oh, or you could have craisins and sesame seeds as well. So, I placed some leaves on my small plate and glanced over at the dressing. It looked like an Italian dressing but, it had the texture of a gravy. Hmmmmm....I dressed my leafy greens with it and went back to my table.
When we had finally sorted out whose silverware was whose, they began to bring out main course plates. So, I tried my salad. And I was surprised that the dressing was not, in fact, a tangy Italian dressing but some kind of sesame seed dressing that tasted like butter with a sweet finish. And so, the salad was relocated.
The main course was placed in front of me and it looked very promising, of course it was when I began to eat it that the flashing red lights went off in my brain. There was a fillet cut steak (pardon my lack of knowledge of correct food terminology) sitting atop a somewhat spicy corn....mush- which I have recently been informed is called palenta-...surrounded by an army of sweet potato fries. So I tried it all, and I am glad to report that I am still alive and fully functioning.
As I was engaged in conversation, dessert arrived at our table- a platter of deliciousness. If you do not know what beniets are, I pity you greatly. They are a french dessert that is a kind of small fluffy pastry covered in powdered sugar. And there were more than two dozen of them on the platter for our table. I gasped with delight and, thanks to the laughter that followed, then realized I had actually gasped in reality and not just in my head.
After we finished that platter, we asked for another, and finished it. Then, we asked for another, and it was only a couple of minutes before all of those were gone too. Now, you have to realize I was sitting at a table of nine, but only a third of us were consuming the beniets. We had four platters of beniets and then a girl from our table went and got a mountain of them on a paper plate and most of those were eaten as well.
So I have now officially ingested my weight in powdered sugar, and it made my day. Each time more of the beniets arrived I enthusiastically said, "This is awesome!!!" and promptly grabbed another beniet, much to the amusement of the others at the table.
All I have to do now is run approximately 1500 miles to work off all that I consumed. No problem. And it's midnight and I have to leave my house at 7am to go to work. Hoorah.
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