Well fed

[den]

Tonight we had a meal on the company credit card.

Mum & Dad, me, Steve the engineer from the UK, and our welder and Mrs Welder went to the Hereford (used to be The Crow's Nest) above the Pastoral Hotel. I ordered a Surf & Turf: scotch fillet covered in prawns and garlic sauce. I asked for medium instead of my usual medium-rare. Just as well, really. The welder ordered his steak rare and I've seen cows recover from worse injuries.

I ended up with this pile of prawns, half a ship-load I think, and under that was a soft brown slab that turned out to be the steak. It was all covered in a nice creamy garlic sauce. I went to work. The prawns went down well, then I started on the steak. After 10 minutes of stuffing meat into my face I realized the steak was on a layer of potoato wedges, and there was salad. The chips were a nice surprise, but I wasn't interested in the plants. I firmly believe that animals is how we kept food fresh before refrigerators were invented. Salad isn't really food.

So after half an hour of hacking and stuffing, I realised that if I ate all the meat I'd have no room for the chips. I actually left some meat behind! But the chips were very yummy; great big chunks of deep-fried potato. mmmm. I washed it all down with middies (1/2 pints) of Tooheys Old.

I wasn't going to have dessert, but how can you say no to a pear poach in red wine syrup? One pear poached in red wine syrup later I felt ready to explode.

Right now I feel bloated and have the hiccups, but bloody hell it was worth it.

Comments

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Speaking of stuffing faces *grins* - we're gonna have to do that chinese food in a bucket thing this time *snicker*

I know it doesn't compare - but it does sound like a fun way to eat :)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

We have 2 Golden Troughs here. One you buy what you can stuff in a bucket, and the other where you pay for the plate and keep what you can stuff into your face.

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Either way sounds good - guess it's a matter of whether we wanna sit down or take it with us when the time comes

[jamesb]

Company credit cards are good ... although sometimes it does result in the pigs being able to stick their snouts into an even deeper trough.

In 1989, when I was doing my RADAR training in France with about a dozen other technicians, we soon realized that as more and more equipment failed to function properly and the training turned to crap, the meals the company took us to got fancier.

By the end of the course, the final meal at a highly regarded seafood place on the Brittany coast, resulted in a bill that put a 5 figure (FFranc not Dollar) charge on the company's credit card. A couple of US based trainers that were going to be involved with contract training in Australia, really demontrated a mastery of pigging out on someone else's credit card by each ordering an entree (foi gras) plus two main courses (filet mignon AND lobster) as well as attacking with gusto the three multi-level seafood platters (each one metre in diameter) that our French hosts had ordered for our long table.

[sjwt.livejournal.com]

where is this, i must go there!

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

In Dubbo, of course!

[makovette.livejournal.com]

My tummy izza grumbling for chips right now, and a Beer! OMG wha tI wouldn't give for a couple of those right now too, yum! :-)

CYa!
Mako

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Now that you're in the upper-wage bracket you can afford a trip here 8)

[sjwt.livejournal.com]

of course!