Friday, February 22, 2008

Feb 21st Experience

I have been asked to post my comments section of the spreadsheet as a blog so here it is:


Today was an interesting day in the cafeteria. Warning, this is a long and boring entry and for this I apologize. I will start by saying that the Deli used to have an excellent sandwhich which consisted of roast beef, lettuce, onion, and the real clincher, horseradish mayonaise. It was a specialty sandwhich and cost a whopping $5.50, I used to get it about once a week. One day I realized though, that I could instead create a "custom" sandwhich. In this scenario I would simply ask for all the same ingredients that were in the specialty sandwhich and it would only cost $3.79. Anyway apparently I was the only customer for the specialty Roast Beef and Cheddar Baguette (as they called it) because once I figured out my trick and stopped buying them at the exorbetant price, they were discontinued from the menu. The real tragedy though, was that they also stopped making the horseradish mayonaise!!! Terrible. Anyway all was not lost, I soon discovered they now had a new type of mayonaise that is refered to as "pepper mayonaise" because it has chopped up chilli peppers in it causing it to turn orange and have red chunks in it. Its pretty good. The way I discovered this was by ordering Horseradish Mayonaise (before I found out that they discontinued it) and per their nominal tactic, the cafeteria workers tried to trick me to make me go away by just slabbing the pepper mayonaise all over my sandwhich and hoping I wouldn't find out the truth until I got all the way back to my office and ate the sandwhich. Well their trick worked and I was duped, but alas, the joke was on them because I ended up enjoying this newfound fruit of egg, butter, and preservative mix. All of this is besides the point of course. The point is, when I was ordering my custom roast beef sandwhich today, I asked for some simple ingrediants: 1. Wheat Bread 2. Roast Beef 3. Pepper Mayonaise (also called Chilli Mayonaise by this particular worker) 4. Lettuce 5. Cheddar Cheese and 6. Raw Onions. You see, there are two onion options available at the Deli, chopped up red onions, and grilled white onions. When I asked for the raw onions the worker immediatly got a grin on her face, grabbed a heaping handful of the grilled, slimy, flacid, white onions and placed them in the middle of my sandwhich and then stared at me as if looking for approval. I was not amused. I said "no. Raw Onions", at which point she snickered at me as if I had caught her commiting a crime, and she proceeded to then remove the grilled onions and then place the red onions on the sandwhich. Surely they must know the difference between raw and grilled, right? Anyway the sandwhich was spared and I ended up being mostly satisfied. Of course the standard pickle spear that is provided with any sandwhich (custom or specialty) was out of stock. Mind you I arrived at precisely 11am when the cafeteria opened, like I do on most days, and yet the cafeteria management was unable to procure a days worth of pickle spears. Instead I recieved about 6 butter pickle chips, which are significantly inferior to the more vingear based pickle spears. Also, the croutons for my caesar salad were to large and dry which detracted from the taste because I was to busy crunching the massive croutons while they dried up my tongue rather than enjoying their flavor. That is all for today.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Pickle chips are no substitute for a spear. awful