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  • #1

    Overheard in the Parking Lot

    So there's this pretty tasty Turkish/Persian restaurant. Shish Kabobs(Lamb, beef, chicken), hummus, fresh flat bread. It's really good. It has Shish Kabob in the name.

    As BF and I were getting into the car we overhear a little girl of about 4 cry out,"But Mommy, I'm still hungry!"
    the Mom:"We're going somewhere else. This isn't what daddy thought it was."

    We get in the car and we were all like,"WTF did he think it was?" and "So try it. You come all this way, drag your hungry kid around, only to decide you don't like it?"

    Then we start making fun of this dude, and it just went downhill from there. I'm pretty sure I can't repeat some of the jokes here.
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    Sounds good to me.
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    • #3
      I don't know how you can't know what that is. I'm guessing they went and got fast food, then. I mean, if the kid's already crying....
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      • #4
        Perhaps the kid didn't like trying stuff 'that looked funny' - if they just grew up with McDonalds as the place mommy and daddy took you to eat, a lovely plate of sashlik with pilaf would be too wierd for words. Or a dish of beige slime and round flat bread. <shrug> Many places have kiddy menus with chicken nuggets and hot dogs, and perhaps this place didn't.
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        • #5
          Quoth AccountingDrone View Post
          Perhaps the kid didn't like trying stuff 'that looked funny'
          More likely Daddy didn't like trying stuff 'that looked funny'. I bet he saw "shish kebab" and thought it was exactly like the chunks of steak and peppers he grills at home, not some "foreign crap."
          "If your day is filled with firefighting, you need to start taking the matches away from the toddlers…” - HM

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          • #6
            Sadly, I can guess what his reason for wanting to leave was...but that's probably in fratching territory. Whatever; more falafels and hummous for the rest of us.
            "She didn't observe the cardinal rule: Don't F**K with people who handle your food"
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            • #7
              Mmmm, when in Michigan for Christmas we went to LeKabob (same type restaurant) and our then 2 1/2 year old LOVED the food. It was all new to her and she gobbled it all down. We were going to order her her own plate but the owner was walking around and just threw extra on our plates for her so we didn't have to.

              Man, now I want some again.

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              • #8
                Omg I love Persian food!!!!!

                One of our engineers at work, when he was a newbie and they put him on as a peeon operator like the rest of us and I was training him, brought authentic food for one of our potlucks.

                I wish we had a Persian restaurant around here. Along with Fillipino and Hmong. One of my Fillipino coworkers always makes me and my one friend noodles that are made from bean curds.
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                • #9
                  And now I'm missing the old kebab carry-out that was walking distance from my house.
                  "If your day is filled with firefighting, you need to start taking the matches away from the toddlers…” - HM

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                  • #10
                    Dangit...im hungry now

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Crossbow View Post
                      And now I'm missing the old kebab carry-out that was walking distance from my house.
                      I live out in the ass end of nowhere, it took 20 years to get a chinese take out here ... if I want ethnic anything, I have to make it myself. [they get a kick out of me bringing in my own homemade tofu so they can make me General Tso tofu ]
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                      • #12
                        Quoth AccountingDrone View Post
                        I live out in the ass end of nowhere, it took 20 years to get a chinese take out here ... if I want ethnic anything, I have to make it myself.
                        Same here, unless it's mexican food (there are tons of those around). If we want a treat we'll drive Reno or Carson City but that's an hour+ one way. On a limited income though that's a once in a while thing unless we are going to the VA hospital anyway.

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                        • #13
                          There's a place out here called Kebab & Curry, it's more Indian, though. It has the BEST chicken mahkni ever, and a lovely tea, can't remember what it's called, but it's all creamy and lavender-colored and rich-tasting....mmmmm....I don't know if we have any places that do Persian food.

                          But how different can a shish kebab be? It's bound to be meat and veggies of some kind... I think that guy was too wussy to try it out.
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                          • #14
                            The town where I went to college had one restaurant that served Indian food. I don't think my sister will ever try Indian food again, because she hated it. She hated the spice, hated the appearance, and thought everything was "weird". We now tend to stick to burger-type places. Well, at least she tried it out before passing judgement.
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                            • #15
                              Quoth blas View Post

                              I wish we had a Persian restaurant around here. Along with Fillipino and Hmong.
                              Me too. I would soooo love to try out some of their cuisines, they sound like they're so good.

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