Re: Speaking of dealers....

According to <bennunn@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>I started with a Caesar Salad. The leaves were tired, the anchovies too few,
>the dressing like something from a supermarket, and way too much olive oil.

See, salad is always a bad way to go.

>Girl-I-like had the garlicy-doughy things. Also very oily.

The doughballs are good, cos then you can decide how much oil
(well, butter) you want on them. The garlic bread things can
be rather oily. But it's Italian food, it's meant to be!

>Oh yeah, before that we had some olives too. Which were oily.

See previous sentence.

>We had a surprising Prosecco, which was crisp and had just the right amount
>of sparkle, and good to cut through the shitloads of oil. Strangely, the
>order prompted the waitress to enquire whether it was a special occasion!?!
>Obviously we looked like a convincing couple.

Obviously.

>Main course, I had a Buffalita, which is some wierd pizza thing with leaves
>and chunks of (uncooked) buffalo mozzarella on top (actually better than my
>starter salad). Pizzary bit was really really dense and crunchy. Not sure if
>that was by design, or just overcooked.

I think you made a bad choice. Iirc, the buffalita (there is
an online menu you can check on, but I can't be arsed) is one
of the weird "pre-cooked, then we add the cheese'n'***" ones,
so yes, it was meant to be kind of uncooked, and the base would
be cooked with nothing on, so would be really crunchy.

>Girl-I-like had a reasonable but flavour-by-numbers lasagne.

I suppose there are few places to go with lasagne. "It's pasta
with tomato-ey mince and cheese stuff". Mind you, I guess the
same can be said about most things (replace ingredients as you
see fit)

>Waitress forgot completely to bring the Valpolicella. She apologised later.
>I'm sure it would've been rather indifferent anyway, and not a particularly
>good accompaniment to my pizza. I chose the wine largely with girl-I-like's
>menu choices in mind. She deserves things to be as special and just-right as
>I can possibly make them, and gives the impression that she shares some of
>my aestheticism, and love of things being 'just right'. Although possibly

Aww, bless.

>not my readiness to complain when they are not.

There is (imho) something intensely annoying about people who
whinge about things just cos they're not exactly right. I may
be a slightly odd case, though, as my main gripe is that if I
feel they aren't happy about stuff (which obviously they aren't
cos they are complaining!) then I feel guilty about it (regardless
of whether it's my fault or not), and I end up feeling ***. I
don't take other people's disappointment well. I suspect most
people would just pat you on the head and tell you to stop
whining, but (imho) if you're trying to get it on with the
person you're eating with, you may want to chill out a bit and
just enjoy the damn meal, you whiney sod.

>I'm sure I could lose loads of weight (or at least consume far less food)
>simply by taking dates to restaurants for every meal.

You could be onto a new style psycho-diet fad there

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