Bubba
Jan 30, 2007, 1:17 PM
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And it seems to me that the longer people are here, the more they forget what good Italian or Chinese or Middle Eastern food is supposed to taste like. Gringos here will rave about a new restaurant, and I am invariably disappointed. What are they thinking? What happened to the old taste buds?
Absolutely on target, MazDee:
There is this new restaurant in Ajijic that specializes in what they call crab cakes where they use surimi (processed pollock injected with artificial flavors) as a crab substitute and some locals rave about it. It´s not even remotely the same thing. Most restaurants at Lake Chapala serving food favored by the expat community bland down everything . Then, you go into a Mexican restaurant and that is often blanded down as well.
Eating out here at Lakeside reminds me of Frances McDormand playing the pregnant sheriff in FARGO stuffing herself at the Ramada Inn luncheon buffet in some Minnesota hick town with her husband and going, "Have some more of this fricassee hon, it´s all you can eat y´ know, eh?"
If it´s thursday and we´re at Lakeside it must be canned salmon croquettes with watery mashed potatoes, overcooked string beans, homemade jello mold with canned pineapple chunks and Cool Whip with the maraschino cherry on top accompanied by sweet tea 2X1, third glass $10 Pesos. Don´t forget to chew on the toothpick when exiting the restaurant and sauntering out to your car to denote your satisfaction and need for an afternoon nap.
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