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Subject: Re: Menu roulette
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On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:52:14 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:

> On 2024-10-22 9:34 p.m., Ed P wrote:
>
>> Get home, grabbed something to drink and opened the bag.  Took out the
>> fries and sandwich.  Well, it was a sandwich, just not the one I
>> ordered.  Turkey, bacon, cheese.  I was not about to go back so I did
>> eat it, it does reach new heights of mediocrity.
>>
>> Should I ever go again, I'll just hand them $11 and say "give me a
>> sandwich" and see what I get.  Could be fun!
>
>
> You may as well do that at Arby's. The one and only time I got an Arby's
> sandwich I asked for roast beef.  I took it back to the office to have
> for lunch and I made the mistake of looking at the meat. I had to ask
> myself what the hell it really was. I had never before seen beef or any
> other meat with that weird, bubbly sort of texture. It was beef coloured
> and tasted like beef, but it looked more like something that had been
> grown in a lab.

I was delighted to find an Arby's in California back in the late 70's.
Indeed, it was not really roast beef but something else. I took the
sandwich apart and checked it out. It was chunks of beef embedded in a
matrix of meat paste. It was quite an impressive achievement in food
technology. There was an Arby's in the mall down the street but it
closed down. Boy, that was a depressing place. I thought the food was
alright but you could tell that the staff hated working there. That sort
of spoils all the fun.