Jeff and I went out to eat at Red Lobster tonight. We had two gift cards, so it was a special treat. :)
I ordered tilapia... it was one of the cheapest things on the menu... $12.99 for a half portion.
The food came out, and I looked at my plate. Hmmm... it didn't really look like what I though tilapia would look like. I took my fork and peeled back a section of it. "Honey, what is this?" I asked Jeff. "That's your tilapia." He responded. I studied it before eating it. "It kind of looks too pink to be tilapia... it looks like salmon." No comment from Jeff.
I took a bite. Mmmmm... it was so yummy. It had a different taste than I expected tilapia to have. (I cook tilapia a lot at home... maybe not as fancy schmancy as Red Lobster, but I do try.) I kept studying the fish, but just kept on eating. It was delicious.
I finished off the fish.
The check came. Out of curiosity, I asked Jeff how much my meal was... it should have been $12.99. He told me it was $15.50. "What?" He repeated it. "How did they figure that? It said in the menu that the half tilapia plate was $12.99. I took the receipt from him and it said "Half Salmon... $15.50" That explains a lot.
We didn't mention it to the waitress... it was so yummy and I was glad I ate it. But all along I knew it wasn't tilapia. And my sea food loving husband was sure that it was. LOL. Oh well.
i'm impressed that you can cook fish! we inherited some salmon from the freezer of someone who is moving and i had to wait until my mom-in-law came so she could teach me how to cook it!
ReplyDeletejust caught up on your blog. **love!**
ok, i'm back. i got up to go iron and was thinking of your blog and started to say a little prayer in my head, and then what pops into my head but "every morning i wake up/before i put on my make-up/i say a little prayer for you..." and now i'm bopping around, iron in hand.
ReplyDeleteso i just have one question: do you think, if i practice really hard, that i might get as good as the lady in the goodwill line?
maybe we could make a movie. ;)