Culinary adventure

[blue_roses_lib]

I work at a university. I managed to forget lots of crap as I was on my way to work this morning, including my lunch. So, I went over to the student union and hit the chinese food place. I ordered fried rice (in hindsight not so smart - i have a sore throat and rice never feels good on that, but what the hell, I was doped on meds). I should say I usually don't get food from this place because they're fond of colossal chunks of onion in EVERYTHING, but I wanted something warm on my stomach. So my fried rice consisted of:

undercooked dry rice, raw and crunchy tasting
next to no egg... I saw no egg at all but there was a gist of egg flavor
some chopped scallions - good
cooked mixed veggies from the frozen foods aisle. I'm sorry but who the FUCK puts LIMA BEANS in fried rice? Nasty.
Colossal chunks of sauteed red and green peppers, say 1 1/2 inch pieces. They weren't even what I would call tender crisp. Hot and crunchy/raw covered in peanut oil.
And....wait for it.... crumbled bacon as the protein. I like the flavor of bacon, but in fried rice? With Lima Beans and raw green pepper and crunchy raw rice?

:wtf: :puke: Never tasted anything quite like it. Choked down three bites and chucked it. Waste of $4.95.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Sounds awful. I hate when restaurants don't know how to prepare food.

Makes you wonder, "Why the hell are you a restaurant if you don't fucking care? Go do something you love."

[unpossibles]

2. I once ate at a Mexican place outside of Chicago

which served the worst food ever. Worse than Taco Hell. The salsa was warm and bland tomato soup. My friend got a "cheese enchilada" which was a raw tortilla with some raw onions in it and covered with one square slice of half-melted American "cheese." My burrito was not as bad, but it hurt my stomach later.

Their sign and menu proudly proclaimed being open for 40 years, so I assume they are a mob front, gave us awful food because we're blanco, or some combination of the two.

[MissMillie]

3. I am very fortunate to work at a school where

the cafeteria is quite good.

[astral]

4. I am so lucky to live in a town where the best Mexican Restaurant

was Taco Bell. Any NUMBER of restaurants here have cooks in them that do not know how to prepare the simplest edible meal.

My latest culinary adventure is costco tortilla chips topped with costco parmesan cheese heated nice and kinda crunchy in the oven.

Just add salt and eat 'em slow.

Call me pathetic.

(I'd almost probably like that fried rice dish if the rice wasn't crunchy, tho'~!)

Never mind, can't get anything THAT good here . . . . . and sure as heck not for only $4.95. I paid over $8.00 for a subway last week, and now I remember why I never go to subway. . .

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EDIT: I added that Taco Bell went out of business -- how did that get erased b/4 I posted?