The fastest food in town

February 5th, 2010

The continuous cacophony of cash register bells

A major mistake cost me money this morning. Luckily I had some cash in my pocket. I walked across town to attend to some chores and on the way back I took a short cut that delayed me for a long time.

A wedding hall

I passed a wedding hall, one of those fancy places where wedding receptions are held. I saw people streaming in one door and others streaming out another, carrying different size bags.

I had to investigate

My natural curiosity was piqued and I joined the ‘in’ line. Inside the air was nice and cool after the blistering 30 degrees on the sidewalk. Food! I have never seen so much food! The food was all in huge bowls and pans laid out on tables, each container priced by weight. The first table was laden with pots of different types of chicken. Chicken in sesame seed, fried chicken, chicken in apricots, Hawaiian chicken, curried chicken. I filled a container with curried chicken and guessed its weight and then multiplied by the price. Wow – expensive! Expensive it may be but the bells from the 4 or 5 cash registers were ringing constantly as shoppers checked out.

The shoppers

Clearly this pace is operated by the wedding hall caterers who are cooking anyway. I saw people filling supermarket trolleys with ready cooked meals. I was stunned. This food must be costing 3 and 4 times the cost of uncooked food! I watched some of the shoppers go through the check-out and I stopped breathing at the amounts they were spending.

Vegetables

Everything you could think of. I took a container of yellow rice to go with the curry, another of green beans and fell for the sautéed potatoes which don’t go with anything but look great. But this is a one-time experiment, right? I fell for a fancy bread, dropped a few breakfast biscuits in a bag, walked past the soups and then collided with the desserts. Help!

Desserts

Desserts are basically unfair. They are not there for eating, they are a straight money- making device, designed to prize the last cent out of your pocket. I started by wavering between a blue/purple ice-cream, a basked Alaska and a Cream Caramel. Unable to decide, I took all. I added a few slabs of what looked like a solid chocolate cake, dropped a few dollops of cream on it, closed my eyes as I passed the price tags and ran for the checkout.

Back home

The food was great. It turns out that while I spent about $200 on the Friday night dinner, we will be eating it for most of the week. My wife is delighted at the cooking holiday it bought her and I finally got to eat curried chicken which I love. I will not discuss those decadent desserts here. The experiment was great and the food was outstanding but I’m not going in there again.

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