Bon ba cette fois ce sera en anglais. Pour les faineants, ça parle juste de mes déboires avec le bar à salade d'à coté.
Twice a week (or more), I go to a salad bar to get a meal. Mostly coming home from swimming practice or from the gym. In those moments, I feel lazy, hungry and I want to eat something healthy. As there is a salad bar on my home, I always stop there. For 35 pesos, I get a "small" take-away, salad which definitely looks big enough to me. It consists of salad, 1 kind of meat, 3 kinds of vegetables and some dressing.
This place is always open, and the waiter is nice, so it's always a pleasant stop. But somehow, something is always wrong with the order. The food is always fresh and I have never gotten sick with it (which in Mexico is a rather exceptionnal happening), so I still patronize the place but here is what happens regularily.
-sorry, we have only what kind of meat left (chicken of course, which suits me, but as it is just 12h and mexican are late eaters, I wonder what there was in the first place).
-sorry, we have only 3 vegetables left (same hour of course)
-sorry, we have no regular containers left, and no cutlery either (didn't really bother me, he just put my salad in another container)
-sorry, we have no lids left (that one is strange, seeing as normally you do 1 container=1lid)
-sorry, today we have no dressing (why is the place open then?)
And the best was this morning. I came in pleasantly surprised. There was an abundance of vegetables, of meats and even of dressings this morning. So I ask for my regular order, the waiter goes to get the salad and comes back with apologic smile number 423847: sorry, I to buy the salad. I just stood there, rooted to the spot. No salad in a salad bar!!! Then I fought very hard from bursting out laughing, I didn't completely win but really, what would you have done.
He was so miserable, I asked him if we could change the salad for pasta (that's one of the "vegetables" you can get on top of salad normally).
He agreed and looked very relieved, so I had pasta salad with vegetables, meat and dressing at lunch today. All in all, a very nice meal. :-)
I think I'll go back tomorrow, just to see what happens. I have found, you always have a pleasant time at that place. ;-)
5 commentaires:
Thanks for the anglish. It is always a plésure to rid the langage ofeu shakespeare. Ci you soune!
DDB
DDB t'abuses lol.
Oh, lala! A post in English, what a lovely surprise. :)
Tout ca pour dire que le salad bar avait pas de salade...
tu nous fait tout un plat pour pas grand chose (mdr). Moi j'aimerais bien qu'ils manquent les trucs gluand qu'ils mettent partout.
Keep up the good work.
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