Friday, August 08, 2008

To celebrate the opening of the Beijing Olympics, the management decided to treat we peons to a Chinese Lunch, capital letters included.  When it comes to Chinese food, I am a food snob, and considering I grew up on Dad's cooking, I have every right to be.  As such, I didn't expect to be impressed by whatever was served up.

Even those expectations weren't met.  What was 'served' was five plastic take-out containers of gluck bought from the concourse.  You know the stuff.  Full of carrots, for some strange reason.  It arrived cold.  Unsurprisingly, very little of it has been eaten.  Management will probably mutter about how ungrateful we are.

I ate a dim sim anyway.  If I get food poisoning, I get to go home, right?

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3 comments:

chrisbarnes said...

"Gluck" is a highly apposite word for bad Chinese food. Probably for all bad food, in fact, but bad Chinese food has that starchy, gluggy, oily, *gluck* quality.

If you get food poisoning, you should certainly go home, but maybe leave management a little "gift" on the way.

~ said...

Tell managment you think you've been infected with samonella, give a stool sample and tell them to have it tested.
One cant be too careful afterall.

Tessa said...

There was, alas, no food poisoning. Only a mildly uncomfortably belly, which could well have just been cramps. Drat, as they say, foiled again.