Restaurants

Howdy, J. Cooper Thurlow once again. Today I want to talk to you all about restaurants. What's with all these new restaurants these days? It's not like I'm against trying new cuisines, they just make it so hard for us older folks. A few years ago I wanted to try that Thai restaurant that used to be where that okra store used to be. I can't remember what it's called. Anyway, I went there one night with some friends here at the retirement home, and the music was so loud, and it was that electronic disco or whatever it's called, and the restaurant was so dark you could barely see the food in front of you. I don't know why you have to have music going on in the background anyway. A nice conversation should be entertainment enough. But we didn't want to be rude, so none of us asked the Oriental fellow who was playing the records to stop. I guess we figured maybe it was part of the traditional Thai dining experience, though the fellow playing records looked Chinese to me. It was dark, though, like I said, so I might be mistaken. But then we went to a Japanese restaurant a few months later to try that, and it was the same thing. Dark lights, loud throbbing music, a bad dining experience.

It's not just the Asians, though, I don't want to make it seem like I'm disparaging a whole race. American restaurants are just as crazy. I remember when a nice dinner out meant a nice steak. Now you go to some of these places and order a steak, and you get a small piece that's on top of mashed green beans and something called “saffron” and a potato chip made out of an onion. Whatever happened to those nice places where you could have a quiet meal and a nice conversation with your spouse? You can still find them, I guess, but then people accuse you of not wanting to try new things. There's nothing wrong with an old classic, I say, especially when “trying new things” means having to put up with nonsense.

Until next time,

J. Cooper Thurlow