Tampa is filled with food lovers - or at least with young people who like to party on Friday and Saturday night. Saturday we were so much smarter and had the concierge make us a reservation at a local restaurant. Fu Manchu joined our gang tonight, bringing our number up to six.
Here's a logic puzzle for you - if two people hate fish and one person is a vegetarian - where's the worst place to take the gang for supper?....Give up - how about a fish market restaurant?
The place was packed and as we filed past the cooler full of fish steaks and the tank of live lobsters - the fish haters among us tried to pretend it didn't smell in there. Sitting down, the fish haters eventually got smart enough to change seats until they were next to each other - that way the fish stink only assaulted them from one side each!
Let me tell you the sordid story of vegetarian abuse by carnivores. Whenever you go to a function, the vegetarians are severely limited in what they can order. Faced with a small amount of choices they usually end up with some kind of salad or maybe something that's heavily bread based. The carnivores order their great hunks of dead flesh and then have the audacity to expect some of the vegetarian's stuff too!!!
Fabbo was so prepared for this! When we ordered our spinach and artichoke dip appetizer she was proactively quite vocal that the others had better order their own damn appetizer because they were getting NONE of ours!! And it was oh so full of ooey goodness!
The flesh eaters reveled in their choices, all happy they "Found Nemo" on their plates. If you remember the movie at all, Dory was quite content to have no short term memory and didn't let her supposed mental deficits bother her. Our Dory, who shares the same short term memory deficit, happily slurped up every last bit of her dinner and then realized she was eating her underwater brothers and sisters. Apparently she forgot that, "Fish are not food!"
A pissing contest broke out between Birky and Fu Manchu when it came time to order dessert. The shark fin pie was about eight inches tall and Birky declared, "There is no way anyone can eat all of that." Fu Manchu was all trash talk and the (lead) gauntlet was thrown down.
Fabbo told them both to put up or shut up. Sadly - Fu Manchu was all talk and no action and could only manage a tiny piece of key lime pie. Birky did worse, only managing a cup of tea. Fabbo stepped up to the table as it were and promptly DOWNED an entire piece of shark fin pie...and I don't mean she ate it!
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