So, I have been feeling a bit under the weather of late as I have been sleeping very poorly due to the heat. So yesterday I woke up all like, "India *grumble grumble*," and got it in my head that what I really needed was a bit of home, an American experience if you will. So I set out (Roxy in tow) in search of a cheeseburger.
After searching the intertubes for the location of said meaty treat we found that the closest place to get one was a TGI fridays about an hour away. And so off we went. Roxy pointed out that I must be getting really homesick after two months abroad for me to be like, "I'm going to travel an hour to a restaurant that I never go to in the US because it sucks to pay 5-10 times the price of a normal Indian meal for something to remind me of home."
Fridays was totally the same as in the US; the same stupid crap on the walls, the same stupid flair on the waiters and the same truly atrocious service. We were the ONLY ones in the joint and we still waited 20 min for our order to be taken, half-an-hour for our food, and had to ask for our bill after waiting for about 45 min and all this without ever getting a drink refill. However, the food was exactly what I wanted; it was an extremely average bacon cheeseburger with fries and American style Ketchup (the Indian Ketchup is strange, two sweet and not vinegary enough or something). It was soothing. I was soothed.
The only thing different about the burger I had here was that it was not beef. It was a lamb burger and I must say, I was impressed. We need to eat more lamb and goat meat in the states, that is certainly one thing that India does right.
All in all the day was quite good, Roxy and I got to relax and talk about subjective morality and applied Aristotelian metaphysics in an air conditioned space. Then we poked around the mall that the restaurant was in for a bit before dropping into a coffee shop and discussing religion, education, and evolutionary ethics. We wound up spending about five hours just hanging out, eating and talking. It was exactly the relaxing sort of day I needed.
The moral of the story: Meat makes everything better.
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TGIF is in India!!! ... Doug found a Costco in China that had all the same stuff as a Costco in the US.
ReplyDeleteWhat other US companies are there?
BTW - take some pictures!!!
ReplyDeleteI know you are settling into life there and things don't seem as worthy of a photo ... but besides helping us to share this experience through your eyes, those pictures will be a treasure in the years to come when your memory of the particulars grows dim.
LOL. I went to Fridays the other day and got a cheeseburger too. I don't recall crap on the walls or flair on the waiters, though I'm sure there was, and the service was pretty good. Your goal was a cheeseburger, my goal was happy hour because they have $2 Blue Moons.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I'm glad you got your "fix."
You'd think in India it would be called, "TGI Thursdays."
ReplyDeleteSo glad you ate something filling ... see previous comments about you looking gaunt and starving in all your pics. So quick! take another picture while you are still plumped out.
Glad you had such a good day. xoxo
omg meat DOES make everything better! Yeah buying a burger at TGIF is like buying... well, anything at Taco Bell. Mediocre at best. But I can imagine to you it was a feast for kings... American kings... that don't actually exist so NVM.
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