Next stop, slop

I hate to make a big deal of the tragic state of the culinary landscape our town because I believe constraints make for opportunity. Really, the fact that one small town has a Cozy Diner, Kalico Kitchen, AND Comeback Café is no reason to get discouraged and eat hash browns that are delivered frozen by Cisco.

And we can finally chalk one up for the culturally adventurous and celebrate the new Thai restaurant. Our contractor loves the place--and had never eaten thai food before, ever! Criminal....

Last time we were there, an old couple was loudly complaining that they didn't have fried rice just like one of the 10 Chinese restaurants down the street and proclaimed that it was horribly neglectful of the staff to leave the soy sauce off the table. We immediately creeped out the waiter by being overcompensatingly nice, as if our smiles could drown out the grouchy croaking at the next table: "They must miss you over at (unnamed greasy Chinese restaurant). We'll go there next time."

W. and I started to bet on whether they would ask for chopsticks, but quickly remembered the only chopsticks in town are at our house. They certainly don't come to your table with your sweet and sour chicken at the local favorite Chinese joint.

Gotta love it ... the only alternative is a perpetual state of despair.