Tonight we finished off the Christmas box of petits fours and asked our four year old (aka “The Candy Ninja”) to throw the box away. As soon as we did I knew what would happen next. He quickly grabbed the box, looked over his should back at us, then opened the box to make sure mommy & daddy weren’t having him throw away perfectly good candy. Too funny.
Apparently screws are a meat additive now?
Last night I went with my family to Cheeseburger in Paradise on Southport Road (4670 Southport Crossings Drive, Indianapolis IN 46237, Phone: 317-883-4386, Fax: 317-883-4086) because my 3 year old really liked it the first time we went with my parents a month or two ago. Last time they served up the best Mushroom & Swiss burger that I’ve ever had (and I’ve had a lot) so of course there was no argument from me.
So we got our food, ate our diner and everything was great. I wasn’t terribly hungry so I cut my sandwich in half (left side above) and boxed the rest up to have for lunch on Saturday (today).
So around lunch time today (Saturday) I headed to the refrigerator to heat up my leftover sandwich, my 4 year old’s left over mini-burger (right side above) and my fries. As I took a bite of my sandwich I immediately felt something hard in my mouth and thought that it might be gristle. As I cleaned off the meat around it I suddenly realized that it was not gristle, but instead something metal. I spit it out of my mouth immediately and was floored to see that it was some sort of small screw (next to the mushroom above).
Then I called the restaurant to talk to a manager who took my information and was going to get in touch with his supervisor and get back with me. This is where we are now.
As I’ve thought about this more and more over the past hour I am getting more and more angry about this. While I didn’t get hurt (hopefully there’s nothing on the screw or it was sterilized by the heat) what if this had been in one of my children’s sandwiches? While my 3 and 4 year old would hopefully spit it out, I’m not sure that my 1 year old would. And it’s just redicilious to have to worry about this when going out to eat. I know that accidents happen, but this is downright insane. Am I wrong?
Anyway, we’ll see what response I get back from Cheeseburger in Paradise. In the meantime I’d suggest taking a metal detector with you when you go out to eat.
We went to Fazoli’s for dinner last week and apparently it had been a while since we last went there. There were signs up that said something like “your bread sticks are back” (isn’t that like McDonald’s saying that Cheeseburgers are back?), but now there was no bread stick person walking around giving you heaps of bread sticks every few minutes and you had to go to the counter to get them.
But the strangest thing that I saw was related to the menu. They now offer combos that come with a salad or a slice of pizza. A decent sized salad or a normal slice of pizza. Pizza just doesn’t seem like a good option to go along with my Fettucini Alfredo and stack of bread sticks for more than one reason so I opted for the salad. Maybe we’re a test market (which we often are), in which case I doubt that will be an option the next time I go there. But that struck me as odd and I made a note to myself to blog about that and see what everyone else thought.
I watched the 134th Kentucky Derby this evening as is my usual tradition to officially start thinking about the three weeks of Indy Car racing that we’re gearing up for this coming week. It was a good race in which Big Brown won, but after the race, runner-up Eight Belles collapsed and was euthanized (a.k.a. “put to sleep”) on the track. Man, I’m glad that my kids weren’t in the living room when that happened and I probably would have changed the channel the moment they showed the horse lying on the track (anyone who knows even a little bit about horses knows that’s not a good thing). I know that it happens, but that is still truly sad to see. (And I’m just waiting to see what PETA has to say.)
Anyway, I’m getting excited about the track opening up and am looking forward to the Indy 500 and festivities. The month of May is quite exciting around here. And I’m praying that we avoid any tragedy ourselves here…that’s been plenty of that through the years.
Last week the Holiday season bug bit me hard, as I’m craving all of my favorite holiday foods (Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Years). Thank goodness tomorrow is Thanksgiving.
Salivate with me if you will…
