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A slug in your dinner

Pondered by Nat last year, at the end of August

I recently went out to dinner with my parents to a restaurant that we quite like. Unfortunately, just as we polished off the last bit, I found a slug in my dinner.

Luckily it was a whole slug. In fact it was a happy slug. Quite cute too, had it not been in my dinner.

I got that weird, squirmy feeling about what exactly I had just eaten. Then the waiter came past and was shown the slug. He said ‘oh dear… Umm, would you like me to take it away?’ and kind of wiped it off my plate with a towel.

I think we looked a little shocked because he then offered a free dessert. Funnily enough, I wasn’t too interested, so got my dinner for free.

I’d give him about a B- for his dealings with me.

When we went to pay, the owner/manager happened to be standing there. He wondered why we were getting a free meal. When he was told, his face went a little pale and he ordered everyone into the kitchen to look at the salad. He wasn’t thinking ‘oh dear a slug’ he was thinking ‘potentially these people could do significant damage to my restaurant’. I mean, imagine if I’d been a restaurant reviewer?

It made me think… Shouldn’t every one working in a restaurant be equally concerned about slugs?


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5 Responses to “A slug in your dinner”

  1. Buzzoodle Ron Says:
    August 21st, 2007 at 10:01 pm

    Mmmm, Yummy.

    Is that a special in NZ? Have fun in the US. We don’t have slugs unless they are imported.

  2. Nat Says:
    August 21st, 2007 at 10:37 pm

    Ha ha. I suppose it is. They are very lucky it was ME! I’m not one to be too afraid of ‘things’… Imagine if it was someone picky! Still, I will go back there :)

    You’re gonna have to take Tim out for a slug free dinner while he is over there ;)

  3. Claire Says:
    August 22nd, 2007 at 8:59 am

    Oh goodness. This reminds me of an ill-fated lunch at a lakeside Thai restaurant in Taupo. While slug-free, still a waitstaff that didn’t quite “get” the severity of our displeasure. ‘member, Nat?

  4. Nat Says:
    August 22nd, 2007 at 4:21 pm

    Ha ha. Yes I remember the ‘oh, this isn’t what I ordered’ line. And the reaction.

    I always wonder why people put the least motivated, lowest paid members of their staff as the first point of call to customers?

  5. toolman Says:
    August 23rd, 2007 at 12:12 pm

    Mmmmm slug!

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