Why is it that photographs of food in magazines, TV and on menus look so appetizing, but when you take a photograph of food, it always looks nasty? Chinese restaurants seem to be the exception to this "menu" rule - the photographs they post of their entrees seems to be done with a Polaroid camera and a low-end color printer. But I digress.The picture at left is not meant to make you salivate. It is actually a nasty breakfast.
We worked nights this week, training the team on emergency back-up systems, and at 7am every day I treated the crew to breakfast.
Thursday morning Dan ordered eggs, bacon, sausage and hash browns, and used a quarter bottle of ketchup on the unsuspecting spuds. By the time he got all that ketchup out his omelet was cold. We were so stunned at this culinary faux pas that the others egged me on to take a picture of his plate for posterity. I did so.
Now I like ketchup as much as the next guy, but I think Dan merely ordered the hash browns as a medium for eating ketchup, since ketchup by itself as a side dish is frowned upon in polite society. And Dan himself managed to confirm my suspicions a short time later: when he had eaten the top layer of hash browns, he proceeded to add another quarter bottle of Heinz to the gooey remains on his plate.
Dan and I have worked closely together for nearly to ten years. We've shared many a meal in that time, and you think you know a guy. This brash act upon a plate of defenseless hash browns with four pounds of a popular condiment has left me feeling stunned and betrayed. Sure, I may submerge a maple sausage patty beneath six ounces of yellow mustard, but I've never made a secret about it. He has known about my mustard habit for years. But this --
The most important meal of the day, they say. If Dan is counting ketchup as a serving of fruits and vegetables, then he's good to go for another week.
Or two.
4 comments:
Honestly, grits would've been much more appropriate, much more appetizing.
One cannot get grits most places out here. And when they do, imagine six ounces of ketchup poured over a serving of grits!
Wow, 2 breakfast posts in a row, without grits. That's a pretty "Impoartant" side item to overlook. What kind of breakfast blog are you running anyway?
Hash browns and ketchup go together like sausage and gravy; you can not have one without the other. I on the other hand much perfer ketchup on everything, on my scrambled eggs and on my sausage. Dan has to be a good ol' boy from the South cause he has the right idea.
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