Some friends and I went to Disney World in Florida a few years ago. We
expected crowds but it was just us and 6 other people, no lines...
It was wonderful.
Paul Sorenson wrote:
>Marnie -
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>Iceberg is best handled when grabbed with both hands and torn apart!
>Maybe it was supposed to be an insect head with antennae and shrimp for
>eyes. ;>) *Presentation* is nice, but that one sounds ludicrous.
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>I know what you mean about crowds. I'd probably be willing to go to
>Disneyland if it were just me and 6 other people. Otherwise I feel like
>I'm part of a buffalo herd.
>
>-P
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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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