So right after I lamented my lack of funny and/or interesting blog posts, I have a doozy. At least I do if "interesting" is a synonym for "utterly gross".
Last night Alan and I went to dinner at Olive Garden, to start Wedding Week off right. We get seated and are in the stage of menu-perusing and soda-sipping when the people at the table directly in front of us (two ladies and an infant) gather their belongings and leave. Their waitress, a different chick from our waitress thank gods, comes over to clear the table.
The waitress picks up a triangle of fried mozzarella off a discarded plate, swirls it round and round in the dipping sauce AND EATS IT.
But wait there's more.
I do so solemnly swear that I am not making this up: the triangle she devoured already HAD A BITE OUT OF IT.
On the positive side, I suppose we can relax about the cleanliness of the kitchens at the OG, and the non-likelihood of waitron-food-tampering, since the workers are willing to eat it.
Once, a long time ago, I was in a Waffle House in Jacksonville, Florida, at about 3:00 AM and I saw a waitress eating leftover bacon when she cleared a table, but I figured maybe she'd seen it on a side plate and knew it hadn't been touched or something. Icky, but possibly explainable - although still not something I'd do in a bazillion years even if I waited tables - but I mean, at least the bacon didn't have BITES out of it. AAAAAAAGH!
Last night Alan and I went to dinner at Olive Garden, to start Wedding Week off right. We get seated and are in the stage of menu-perusing and soda-sipping when the people at the table directly in front of us (two ladies and an infant) gather their belongings and leave. Their waitress, a different chick from our waitress thank gods, comes over to clear the table.
The waitress picks up a triangle of fried mozzarella off a discarded plate, swirls it round and round in the dipping sauce AND EATS IT.
But wait there's more.
I do so solemnly swear that I am not making this up: the triangle she devoured already HAD A BITE OUT OF IT.
On the positive side, I suppose we can relax about the cleanliness of the kitchens at the OG, and the non-likelihood of waitron-food-tampering, since the workers are willing to eat it.
Once, a long time ago, I was in a Waffle House in Jacksonville, Florida, at about 3:00 AM and I saw a waitress eating leftover bacon when she cleared a table, but I figured maybe she'd seen it on a side plate and knew it hadn't been touched or something. Icky, but possibly explainable - although still not something I'd do in a bazillion years even if I waited tables - but I mean, at least the bacon didn't have BITES out of it. AAAAAAAGH!
5 Comments:
Ewwwwww. EW!
By Anonymous Me, at 10:47 AM
How well I recall that Waffle House.....
mom
By Anonymous, at 11:14 AM
Blech. And from now on, I'm licking the food we leave behind. Just because I can.
By Anonymous, at 12:59 PM
Ah, Flippy. I admire you so. You are an inspiration to us all.
By Helly, at 2:00 PM
I'm thinking one of the following:
a) the two ladies were her mom and sister (or whatever), so what the hell...
or
b) waitrons at Olive Garden don't get shit for tips (I hope I'm never that hungry).
By Anonymous, at 11:52 PM
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