On 2020-01-19 6:38 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
> On Sunday, January 19, 2020 at 1:16:35 PM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2020-01-19 5:51 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
>>> On Sunday, January 19, 2020 at 12:44:23 PM UTC-10, Dave Smith

>>> Boy, you sure got burned on that deal!
>>>
>>
>> Yeah. I sure thought so. I thought that $14.95 for a lunch with a
>> piece of fish that small was a rip off. That, and the rotten,
>> slimy greens was the reason I never went back.
>
> Oddly enough, Hawaiian food is probably best when eaten in a tropical
> or warm climate. Why is that? I don't know.
>
> It's tough to say if those guys were the real deal. I could tell in a
> couple of seconds but I'd have to see the food in question in person.
> Back in the 70's we spotted a Hawaiian BBQ joint in a strip mall in
> California. Well that's what it said on the window anyway. As it
> goes, it was really a Korean restaurant. Ha ha. Nobody knew what
> Korean food was back in those days - including me. My wife felt right
> at home though. That must have confused the staff to see a white girl
> ordering the food and the Asian dude acting all clueless.
>

I have learned not to make too many assumptions on ethnicity when it
comes to restaurants. The Hawaiian restaurant in our town was run by a
white guy and there were no Hawaiians involved in any way I knew of. My
son managed a brew pub that was franchise of a French chain. The
Canadian owners were Greek, and the kitchen staff we all Tamil.