Horrible Meal & Scraped Ick

July 18, 2008

in Food & Drink Stories

We decided to go to R.L.. Jack’s Mom loves R.L., so we called her and she was very happy to go with us. This was to be Mom’s birthday dinner that we owed her from a couple weeks before. We were surprised they were not busy when we got there. We got a table real fast. The waitress was training a new girl and asked if that would be OK with us. We said that would be just fine. Our drinks came quickly and were all great.

My husband and I decided to each have the 1/2 serving fish of the day, Mahi Mahi. My mother-in-law had one of the regular fares. Mom’s meal got there and it looked wonderful. Nice helpings, but not too much. When my husband and my meal got there, we just looked at our plates, looked up at the new help, and looked back down. We have never in our life seen such a tiny (yes tiny) helping of fish. The fillets were 1″ wide by 3″ long. I kid you not. This meal was costing us $15.99 each. The full order was to be $21.99. Now, we have gotten Mahi Mahi at other restaurants and knew what a normal size serving would be and were happy to get the 1/2 serving because we weren’t all that hungry and figured we would fill up on the double vegetable serving of broccoli that we ordered (in place of the potato dish). Well, on top of the fish being a couple of bite sizes big our broccoli was raw, old, and yellowing to boot.

To make matters worse, as we were trying to “butter” up the broccoli to make it edible, a girl shows up with a scraper and a bowl. She gets down on the floor and proceeds to scrape gum off the bottom of the table next to us. At first, I thought, “Wow, they don’t miss a trick.” But then I thought, “Wait, I really don’t want to be eating an already horrible meal with some kid scraping ICK in front of me.”

We used to go to R.L. several times a year, but after this last trip, it’s off our restaurant list permanently.

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Recon March 12, 2009 at 8:06 pm

"Now, we have gotten MahiMahi at other restaurants and knew what a normal size serving would be and were happy to get the 1/2 serving because we weren't all that hungry and figured we would fill up on the double vegetable serving of broccoli that we ordered (in place of the potato dish)."

So, you went out to a restaurant, a business where they make money by selling food and drink, because you weren't hungry ? I'm going to my barber and just sit in his chair, but I don't need a haircut, his next customer can wait.

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Ilovefyling January 7, 2016 at 7:23 am

You misread they were hungry but not TOO hungry.

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Dinner February 18, 2018 at 7:17 pm

Darn right, boy!

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