Dog day afternoon...where in the world is Gordon Ramsey...

It was suppose to be a fun day with lunch at a local culinary school with bloggers Sue at Rue-mouffetard and Rose from Santamakersjourney. Please see Sue's post HERE as no one can tell a story like Sue. She will make you laugh for sure.

It quickly turned into a dog day afternoon starting with Sue innocently taking a photo and being reprimanded by the manager of the dining room in the cooking school.

A picture is worth 1,000 words or in this case 1,000 dog howls!
This was my lunch.

I know what you are thinking. Pretty unappetizing presentation to say the least. Turning over just one of the burnt carrots and doing a minuscule sprinkling of garnish could not disguise this so called STEW. A complete and utter disaster. I bet Julia Child would turn over in her grave if she saw this atrocity. After being brave enough to consume a few bites of old shoe leather I had a strange sensation that I was growing a tale and had acquired a few fleas on my back. When I awoke this morning I had an obsession to to run after cars and drive with my head out of the car window.

Sue and Rose convinced me to call over the manager and send it back. The manager just asked if I would like something else and never said this should not have come to the table. How are students to learn if there is no communication? I watched as the plate was returned to the kitchen and the chef did not bat an eye. His lips never moved. No constructive criticism to the students. This does not surprise me as he had to have approved the presentation of the dish before it left the kitchen. Such a waste of the students time and money. How will they ever learn in such an environment?

After we leave Sue and Rose make a trip to the ladies room and I take out my little camera and start taking photos of empty classroom kitchens. I figure this is OK since the manager told Sue all one had to do is take photos without students or when students are present to ask their permission. Sounds fair to me. I snap away and am very impressed how spotless the entire facility is.


Sue is asking others for permission to take more photos and we are headed back to the elevator to leave and then it happens...

Sandra Lee and Betty Crocker and Rose are questioned by the Food Police!

We are confronted by not one security person but by two security officers.

The big guy asks Rose:

"What is the nature of your business here?"

Sweet quiet Rose offers no information. He says something about photos and I ask him if he thinks I am from a magazine with my little pocket camera. How ridiculous! I wonder if he thinks I am from the Board of Health? Sue comes around the corner and says we are just 3 crazy housewives having lunch. We have a sneaky suspicion that the totally unprofessional restaurant manager, who completely ignored us after the so called stew was politely returned, called in the Food Police. Luckily, the elevator doors opened and away we went NEVER to return to this gastronomical nightmare again.

MY THEORY:

I think the reason why they have such a large amount of security in the building is that they are holding Gordon Ramsey (my hero) hostage. He probably was also served the Beef Stew. They realize once he is let out and he talks about how dreadful his experience was the entire school will be TOAST!