We live in a world with enormous choice when you are looking for a meal, simple or complicated.

Why is it then that so many places get it so wrong?  Or maybe I'm just fussy.

On this blog I am going to track the things that I have found both here and overseas and how it just doesn't seem right.

The first one is from Texas.  Having enjoyed a meal my spouse decided he wanted dessert.  His eye was taken by a chocolate concoction with an elaborate chocolate sculpture on top.  Two or three minutes after taking a bite of said chocolate he is looking at me with a look that clearly said HELP!  The chocolate was indigestible, he had a lump in his mouth that wouldn't break down (felt like plasticine to him) and was trying desperately to work out how to be polite and eject it from his mouth.  Why would you make anything out of this stuff and then put it on something that is clearly meant to be eaten?

My most recent food mishap is from a recent trip to another capital city in Australia.  On two different occasions I ordered a chicken salad sandwich for lunch.  Innocent enough, two slices of bread, chicken, lettuce, tomato, cheese and maybe mayo.   Right? Wrong!  Both times it was delivered to me toasted - I didn't want it toasted, no where on the menu did it mention toasting, so why did it get toasted??  Now that wouldn't be so bad I suppose if you take out the lettuce and mayo.  Lettuce when heated turns to slime, and mayo disintegrates into a runny oily mess.  Needless to say neither sandwich got eaten.  They weren't edible.

In the UK my challenge was to find drinkable coffee.  For a cappuccino they use the same shot of coffee as we do here in Australia, then they put it in a cup so big you would usually serve it with soup in it, and add half a bucket of hot milk.  Even a triple shot didn't solve this one.

I leave you with this rant for the day, will add more next week because I'm off interstate again and there are bound to be some more disasters.