"Goomba38" > wrote

> I went to this (lousy, but who knew?) at the time casual "Italian"
> restaurant recently and for the salads they had only two choices of
> dressing- ranch and "Italian with blue cheese"
> Huh?! First off, what the hell kind of choice is that for an Italian
> themed restaurant? Two gaggy dressings and neither particularly Italian at
> that! And secondly, when I asked if I could just get the Italian dressing
> without the blue cheese the poor young waitress said "no, because it is
> already mixed in." Gads. How could they pass off some crummy
> institutional packaged dressing like that? I managed to get her to bring
> me olive oil and vinegar but geeez..... Obviously I'll NEVER go back
> there. I didn't want to go this night either but I was the guest.
> Sooooooooo sad.

One time we all (my inlaws etc) went to some storefront Italian
restaurant. The people barely spoke English, they really were from
Italy. The food wasn't authentic at all, just the usual red sauce type
of pasta. My bil asked if they had balsamic for his salad. I don't know
why he was disappointed to find out it was some jarred balsamic
vinaigrette type stuff.

Hope springs eternal, I guess.

nancy