What really annoys you?
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Reservations?
Most of the restaurants my wife and I attend are first-come, first-served. Reservations only occur if you are booking the back room for a party. In the main dining area, you give your name and wait. If you have to make reservations, the will be obvious that you want to impress someone with a glitzy ambience. But that just ain't N'Awlins.
At least part of that is due to the inescapable fact that in New Orleans, it is the neighborhood Mom-and-Pop eateries, the "one-off" joints, that serve the best food. The best seafood restaurant I have even visited in the area had worn linoleum tile floors, formica-top bench tables, long-bench picnic seating, and a roll of paper towels on a spindle in the middle of the table. But it ALSO had over 60 entree items - like fish: fried, baked, broiled, and grilled; oysters: fried, Rockerfeller, barbecued, and pan-sauteed; shrimp: fried, grilled, barbecued, in an Alfredo sauce, boiled in pepper sauce, ... plus they often have alligator: fried or as alligator sauce piquant' (not to be missed). And it's a buffet! Their veggie tables include peas, lima beans, corn, potatoes three or four ways, and a random selection of other things. They have five main salad types including tossed, Caesar, Waldorf, and a couple of others. And their dessert table has parfaits that should not be missed. The peanut butter parfait and the Oreo cookie parfait are to die for.
Reservations? The restaurant is painted cinder-block outside walls with a corrugated metal roof that hasn't glistened in decades. When you see the place you might have reservations about going in, but when you come out, if you DON'T waddle a bit, you didn't eat anything. When the food is as good as it is at that place, reservations are immaterial.
Most of the restaurants my wife and I attend are first-come, first-served. Reservations only occur if you are booking the back room for a party. In the main dining area, you give your name and wait. If you have to make reservations, the will be obvious that you want to impress someone with a glitzy ambience. But that just ain't N'Awlins.
At least part of that is due to the inescapable fact that in New Orleans, it is the neighborhood Mom-and-Pop eateries, the "one-off" joints, that serve the best food. The best seafood restaurant I have even visited in the area had worn linoleum tile floors, formica-top bench tables, long-bench picnic seating, and a roll of paper towels on a spindle in the middle of the table. But it ALSO had over 60 entree items - like fish: fried, baked, broiled, and grilled; oysters: fried, Rockerfeller, barbecued, and pan-sauteed; shrimp: fried, grilled, barbecued, in an Alfredo sauce, boiled in pepper sauce, ... plus they often have alligator: fried or as alligator sauce piquant' (not to be missed). And it's a buffet! Their veggie tables include peas, lima beans, corn, potatoes three or four ways, and a random selection of other things. They have five main salad types including tossed, Caesar, Waldorf, and a couple of others. And their dessert table has parfaits that should not be missed. The peanut butter parfait and the Oreo cookie parfait are to die for.
Reservations? The restaurant is painted cinder-block outside walls with a corrugated metal roof that hasn't glistened in decades. When you see the place you might have reservations about going in, but when you come out, if you DON'T waddle a bit, you didn't eat anything. When the food is as good as it is at that place, reservations are immaterial.
To be honest, given the current trends of male/female relationships these days, the answer to the "Etc." question would probably go very far towards determining the probability of GETTING a W.I.F.E.
However, given the casual-wear trends and the predominance of Perma-Prest(TM) clothing, "Iron" is wrong. Probably "Interact."
However, given the casual-wear trends and the predominance of Perma-Prest(TM) clothing, "Iron" is wrong. Probably "Interact."
