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I can't even count the
number of times I've stood before a glass case at one of these lunch
places looking at the same damned sandwiches, paninis and various
wraps and whatnot. They all have the same names, the same ingredients
and the same general feeling of blah in your mouth. So there I stood
at Printon 56 with the same ho-hum sense of being a lunchtime hamster
on a wheel. And then I spied the Spicy Thai Chicken Quesadilla--an
ethnic mashup to be sure. While I'm sure, based on the other crap
in the case, that this is something I've seen before, it somehow struck
me as unique at the time. The issue? The thing was neither spicy nor
Thai. Since when is green pepper Thai? Green pepper is what people
throw into food as filler. It's a cheap way to gain "taste"
when there is none in the base food product. The issue? Green pepper,
in almost all cases, is totally gross. So, by the transitive property
of food service, the base food product had no taste, but was pretty
much rendered gross by the addition of non-Thai grossness. Shame,
as the Printon folks clearly paid up to get a professional looking
sign on their store. Maybe they should have paid up for a chef that
wasn't basing his recipes on the hamburger helper cookbook.
[MF]
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