Thursday, April 4, 2013

Who eats like this?

I must have said this 4 times over the course of 2 days. I have to travel for work pretty often. So I am generally left to the mercy of my host or the local restuarants for food. This last trip was to OK City. I have been to OKC a lot, but mostly it's for meetings where lunch is brought in. This trip I had to go to a restaurant for every meal, and it was REALLY rough.

I should have known better, but obviously I did not. My first lunch in town wasn't what I considered to be "bad"; baked potato soup and salad. But the rest of the afternoon,  I was not feeling good. Later I looked up the copy-cat recipe, and it was made with 2+ cups of heavy cream. Not what my body is used to.


Dinner that night was over cooked salmon. The place was a popular chain in Texas and OK. I knew  the food was not going to be great, but again I was at the mercy of the host. Mostly I try not to complain. The next morning,  I was good. Fortunately for me, my typical breakfast is really hard to mess up; two eggs, wheat toast, and fruit.  I can always count on breakfast being good.

The lunch before I headed out of town was the icing on the cake, though. Toby Keith's restaurant is a popular place in Bricktown. (That's the new part of downtown OKC.) I had never been there and it should have been a "treat." I spent forever scouring the menu looking for something that wasn't deep fried or covered in gravy. Down in the tiny corner of the lunch menu was a club wrap. SCORE! I found something.

Later the waitress brought my food, and I kid you not, my wrap was over a foot long! It was the biggest wrap I have ever seen. There was a pile of chips and salsa that covered half the plate. I asked my lunch party... who eats like this?? The response was "people in OK." I just have a hard time believing that.

I ate about a third of it and the waitress came by and asked if I needed to-go box. When I said No, she asked "well you only eat half all the time?" I told her "when it's this much food, yes." Her response was "well that's interesting". Almost like I was slightly abnormal for leaving food on the plate.

I'm guessing when you go to Toby Keith's you expect to get a lot of food.

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