The other day, we went to TGI Fridays and Deskmerc ordered the Triple-meat Fundido while I had the Kungo-Pao chicken bites and the fried mac and cheese appetizers.
I was going to get the green beans, too, but it was all a bit much already.
Anyway, the Fundido arrives:
That's a flatiron skillet in a wooden base there, filled with onions and tomato bits and cheese and pepperoni and other meats at an intolerable temperature with lukewarm floppy breadsticks.
The task is to slide breadsticks through the messy goo and eat the stuff before the goo congeals.
The end result is slime-covered breadsticks, lots of double-dipping that would drive Jerry Seinfeld crazy, bits and pieces dropped on the table, and a sheen of oil on the remaining goo from the congealing process if you take your time with it.
As opposed to the normal pizza, where the oils soak into the crust, the cheese solidifies on top of the pizza, and the crust acts as a simple platform for the toppings without spillage or mess.
The Fundido is what the United Nations would do to the pizza if it could: make it inefficient, sloppy, more expensive, labor-intensive, and unable to satisfy the original mission.
TGI Friday's hyping of it with ethnic stereotypes, well, the UN is good with that, putting a happy black or brown face on an otherwise rotten scheme that serves nobody well but those who's pockets end up lined with the skimmings.
The mac-and-cheese was actually pretty cool, the kung pao chicken bites were about what I'd expect for boneless winglets, and I think I should have had the green beans with the wasabi sauce.
Slow as always. Go figure. Not like I'm ever in a rush to get back.
Comments (1)
Ok, now that looks - and sounds - disgusting! Thanks for the warning, LS. Not that I ever go to TGIF but at least now I'll know what NOT to order if I ever do.
Posted by b | October 1, 2006 11:41 AM
Posted on October 1, 2006 11:41