While in Canton, Mom and I made our reservation to go to the fanciest Steakhouse in the surrounding area. We put on our very best jeans and sweatpants, (I'm serious, but I had on a really nice jacket and my best jewelry and Mom was working the dressy sweatpant/sweater combo) I wouldn't go so far as to say we were elegant, but I can say we were more dressed up than 90% of the clientele.
So we're escorted to our table, watered and menued. We ordered our steak and Caesar salads with asparagus and au gratin potatoes, The waitress brings out the salads, we get a little freshly ground pepper and we dig in for our first bite. I look at Mom, she looks at me, we take another bite. She looks at me, I look at her ... okay, who's gonna say it. Finally she says, "Does your salad taste fishy?" "Yes!" So we have a whole discussion of what in the world it could be, dirty bowl? greens in the fridge with unwrapped fish? We take another couple of bites of the salad and she says "Can you say something? Because whenever I say anything, it comes out bitchy." "Yeah, I think I can say something." I am after all, the queen of diplomacy.
The waitress comes by and says "Everything okay here ladies?"
"Well as a matter of fact, the salad tastes a little fishy." I whisper.
"Oh, well Caesar dressing has anchovies in it."
"REALLY?" we both gape.
"Oh yeah! Didn't you know that?"
(Oh sure I knew that. I just like to look like an idiot in front of people on my day off.)
The next day as we were laughing at ourselves and wondering how many people were having a knee slapper in the kitchen, I said, "My steak was really not as pink as it was supposed to be, but it was good." "Well why didn't you SEND IT BACK!"
I was too scared! I was afraid it might come back tasting like fish. And to tell you the truth, after ten or fifteen years of really enjoying Caesar salads, I think I'm all done. And YES, I know what Blue Cheese is and I'm not eating any of THAT either!
10 comments:
if it makes you feel better, I have eaten at alot of nice restaurants. and had more than a few Ceaser salads and NEVER encountered an anchovy. or any fishy taste. is it a Texas thing.
I don't know, but she managed to make me feel like a dummy! I've never tasted anything like it and I have eaten there before! and had the ceasar salad!
I tried to finish eating it, but I couldn't, ack! If it tastes like fish, it better be covered in batter or cornmeal and fried. :)
Fish salad? Yuk!
I'm weird. I adore anchovies. But, I KNOW I'm in the minority!!
Yes, you're weird. You love sushi. While I was trying to eat that salad, I kept telling myself, "It's just like sushi, it's just sushi." And then I almost gagged.
Is this Cesear's revenge? I love a good salda, but I will admit sometimes Cesear salads make me queasy. Smelly fishy nastiness (that soemtimes tastes good)
UGh. That sounds dreadful. I don't like blue cheese or Ceasar Salad either one. The waitress should have offered to bring you different salads with different dressing on them. My guess would be the new salad would have tasted fishy too! YUCK.
A caesar should not taste fishy... Certainly anchovies(One for a large sald) are used...but you are NEVER supposed to guess what is in it...it should be subtle like an essence of salt...so you were right to complain...
Thanks you for making me feel less like an idiot! :)
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