Why Must You Do That???

 I have to get this off my chest. There are a handful of people who love to either drown their food with various sauces or add a load of salt before even trying their food. So I am going to share with you my experiences and how I think this can be solved.


I find that there are certain people who like to smother their food in sauce and it really disgusts me. For example, I used to work at McDonald's and there would be guys who would ask for 8 sweet and sour sauces for their chicken nuggets. This was for a 10 piece meal. LOL So you are telling me you need almost 1 packet of sauce per nugget? LOL Are you even wanting to taste the chicken nugget? It kinda makes me want to ask, you want some food with that sauce?? Or, why so many sauces? We had to charge them for so many sauces and they would put up a fight over it. lol we were only allowed to give 2 sauce packets for a 10 pc. which I think is plenty but after that, you are making our business lose money. Those sauces add up, trust me. Another example would be people who drown a perfectly grilled and seasoned steak in A1 sauce. A1 sauce is so concentrated in flavor as it is, why would you ruin a steak with a pool of sauce? The cook took their time to ensure that your steak was cooked to your liking and seasoned it perfectly, why would you butcher that steak with a lake of sauce? I guarantee you if that cook saw you using so much sauce they would slap you with a frying pan, it's insulting really. Or better yet, cook a few steaks yourself, and watch one of your friends eat their steak with a bowl full of sauce. See how that makes you feel. After you took your precious time to cook that steak to perfection then have it ruined in a bath of sauce. 


Next, I really hate it when people put a ton of salt on their food before even eating it. You know, I worked at a restaurant that didn't place salt and pepper shakers on the table because the cooks made sure every food item was seasoned perfectly. If someone really wanted salt they could have it, but it was pretty rare that they asked. The lack of them not having the shakers on the tables, it really says a lot. Most people don't even notice they are missing but not having to reach for them sure is nice.(It gives you that much more room on the table too.) I admit I used to do the same thing, and my mom would yell at me for it but I dare not do it now. I am actually adapting a taste for less salt in my food and it is doing my body good. I am more sensitive to salt in my foods and I am very careful about foods with a lot of salt. I buy low sodium food items or fresh food items over canned if I can help it. Often times when I eat out now, I feel like the foods are over seasoned, but that's just my tongue trying to adapt. 


So next time you cook a meal, see what happens if no salt, pepper or sauce are placed on the table. Will those who would butcher their food actually get up from the table to go get their seasoning? If it's not too much trouble, ask people to give an honest opinion about their meal and see what they say. Take into consideration that if you know their eating habits, don't take offense if they say something was bland. Everyone knows when something is seasoned just right or over seasoned. Well, smokers and old people might not. Their taste buds aren't as sharp as the rest of us. 

You Want Me To Eat WHAT??

Something that really ticks me off is when people say that they think something looks gross to eat, and they haven’t even tasted it!! That to me says that they are very ignorant and have no sense of adventure or willingness to try anything new. I just have to ask, well how is it that you came to like things you enjoy now? Oh yeah, you had to EAT THEM! I think the subject matter I would really like to present is, how Americans are afraid of their food when it comes to them in a more… whole state. That by which I mean, a fish with the head and tail still attached, or a whole roasted pig. All over the world, fresh seafood is coveted and the heads, tails, eyeballs are all attached. The cheek meat in fish is a delicacy and so are the eyes of the fish. Don’t diss something until you have tried it.

          I noticed that here in America, is it very rare to find a restaurant that will serve a whole fish. People don’t want to know that a fish fillet came from an actual fish. They don’t want to look into the eyes of their dinner, which to me is just pathetic because wouldn’t you want to know that your fish wasn’t flash frozen, or precooked and reheated? It’s reality people, this shit is real. There are people out there who make a living butchering animals and they can tell you how they would prefer to eat their meats and fishes. Often times, when a restaurant receives a whole fish, or whole pig, the restaurant pays a lot less for those products because they aren’t cut or portioned out. The more broken down an animal is, the more is costs the restaurant to purchase, which in turn, makes the meal more expensive. If a restaurant butchers in house you will pay a little bit to cover the wages of the butcher, but you can rest assure, someone with great skill has cut your meat perfectly for you.

 In Hawaii they roast pigs whole on a spit, or underground and proudly display it for large groups of people to eat. Everyone from tiny kids to the elderly would be in attendance and marvel at the wonderful roast pig! The keep the head and feet on and you wouldn’t believe the flavor those animals take on when you leave them whole! It’s insane what a lot of people are missing out on. I feel like a lot of seafood places here in the U.S are really skimping on their customers because they don’t serve them whole. The little pieces of meat that just don’t make it to the plate are being wasted and could fill up the customer that much more! I dare anyone who is afraid of food like that, to travel to another country and see how fast it takes you to get your ass whooped. People take pride in preparing their food all over the world and take great offense if you refuse food just because it has a head on it. Hell that wonderful place that you call France, serves fish whole. In any fine dining restaurant to a mom and pop place, they serve fish a certain way and I feel that it’s the best way to serve it. You can get your fish cooked, broken down into fillets and served tableside if you want…and let me tell you that it is worth giving it a try. If none of this changes your mind, watch Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern and see if my blog isn’t a little less scary to handle.