First story has to do with an awesome dinner I attended with a few people. It was the second night I think and I tagged along with Revsand, Baddog, AaronM, Dom, dormbucks Brett +1, PimpProfits Quinn and maybe one or two more... my apologies if I don't remembering.
Anyway, we walk a block to this awesome place, I forget the name... Aaron knew it to be good. I always roll with Aaron to some awesome dinner place. If there is anyone that knows a good place to eat, It's been Aaron so far.
So we get a table after a small wait. Were sitting there and I'm noticing it's a pretty nice place. Extremely professional. I wouldn't say 5 star, but possibly 4.
Anyway we sit there for a few chatting and our server comes over and introduces himself. Gets us liquid refreshments. All was normal.
But then... he said... "I'm going to tell you about our specials."
12-15 minutes later he is finished telling us the specials and how special they are. It was only 4, maybe 5 specials and I don't remember the first 3 or 4, but the last one stood out vividly to me. Along with everyone else.
It was a game hen plate. He was so in depth with every story to every special. But this one, was amazing...
He starts off the special like so.. "now this special is truly amazing, it will melt in your mouth. This is a wonderful game hen main course accompanied by a generous portion of forbidden black (forgot the word) rice. Now these are not just any game gen. These are local from a mountain not too far from here where a nice old lady hand feeds these chickens organic milk from the cow in the barn next to their coop. Feeding them milk for their whole lives makes the meat so tender and even milky. It sooooo good! Now the rice is a rare forbidden black rice. It's very rare and its hard to find. We just barely got a shipment from a local merchant and it's a treat just to offer it to you folks today."
There was a bit more but that's the jist of the dish. So, after he leaves to get our orders in we start to discuss amongst ourselves the odd, long special description. So all of us are totally boggled by the description, but most of us focused on the poor game hens. We thought about it and, here, you think about it now too. Chickens don't naturally drink milk. They don't drink a hell of a lot of water so it's not that natural for a chicken to be hand fed any liquid, let alone milk for their whole lives.
So were all sitting there picturing an old lady gagging chickens with eye droppers full of milk. We all actually heard lil chickens screaming and gargling in our minds. I went off on a small tangent about the forbidden rice and where the fuck did they get it. Should I eat it? It's forbidden!! Am I going to get an affliction from it? Will a long lost soul follow me around for indulging in the forbidden black rice?
So we all laughed but were slightly serious. When he came back to our table to check in on us we dropped on onslaught of tomfoolery on him. Things like...
"We need to get the number to animal services and I think you need to show us where this little shady hillside full of gagging and drowning chickens." ... "we don't condone the gagging and torture of harmless animals and quite frankly were appauled. We're worried about those chickens, however were loving everything else."
I mentioned something about the black rice. black market and such.
So that's the highlight of that dinner. It was very good. The guy was absolutely amazing at what he does. He can SELL! Although we were having none of it, we recognized his skill.
Someone should go there and hire him.