As you’ll have noticed if you drop by with any regularity, posts have dropped off a bit over the last week or two. This is as you also know, because my folks are here for Xmas and taking up loads of time.
Well of course we don’t sit indoors doing nothing all day or I’d have more chance of writing… so out we go.
If we get out before lunch we need to recharge the batteries so often drop in on small cafe’s to get a quick snack. The ‘in’ chain at the moment seems to be called ‘The Coffee Club’ and the menus are adequate if never exactly spectacular.
So why write about them? Well we dropped into the one at Westpoint in Blacktown the other day. We all ordered… and the wife asked for Eggs Benedict. No worries… you’d think. But then the waitress arrived to declare the kitchen “had run out of poached eggs“. The wife could have eggs fried, scrambled or boiled… but not poached… they’d run out.
She sheer idiocy of this statement took us *totally* by surprise and we sat there incredulous as the wife ordered “Scrambled Eggs Benedict”. In fact I was so totally gobsmacked I was completely unable to ask *how* they could run out of poached eggs… and that isn’t me at all!!
It’s entirely possible of course I’ve missed something that explains this (to me) totally surreal exchange… but I fail to see just what. If anyone has an acceptable explanation… please pass it on!!! š
By the way – it hasn’t stopped us patronising the chain when we need a quick meal , we dropped into the Coffee Club at Chatswood Mall this lunchtime… had a very nice (if basic) Greek Salad thank you very much, and the oldies finally got a decent Eggs Benedict with properly poached eggs. š
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