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Soup. And Garlic Bread.

Recently, we had a family dinenr at Jack's Place. This was a celebration for my upcoming trip to Canada via Exercise Maple Flag as well as my recent acquisition of being a marksman.( means got extra $200 that is only a one time offer). Now due to consistent proding, cajoling and a bit of threatening, this was gonna be my treat. Thanks mom. She was apparently overjoyed that i submitted to her nagging and she went to tell all my immediate relatives about it. Hence, 8 of us were sitted in the cool parlour of Jack's Place.

The usual appetiser of crisp garlic bread and mushroom soup was rather mundane. I guess its one of their specialities. When one thinks of Jack's Place, garlic bread and canned soup comes to mind. Anyway, I had a Cajun spiced steak. I must admit there was nothing special about that piece of cow. And the cajun seemed pathetic. A few scraps of Salsa on top of the beef and its called Cajun. Interesting. Well, its Jack's Place after all, the home of garlic bread and soup. However, i was immensely impressed with the baked potato. Now, it wasn't exactly high-quality, grown from the finest potato plantations in all of Pakistan. It was an ordinary Russett from Cold Storage. Well, i at least hope it was from Cold Storage. Anyway, there was no butter. Yet, the generous dollop of sour cream and bacon bits from the enthusiastic waiter who seemed to eager to shove his platter up my epicurean nose was the killer blow. The sour cream was amazing. Added with the slightly salty and very crunchy bacon, it was a to-die-for combination. Now this is definitely better than soup and garlic bread.

Oh by the way, I went to pay for the meal and my Mom was genuinely shocked to discover my marksman bonus was only a one time bonus and it wasn't an extra $200 every month. They're good Ma, just not that good. And the meal cost $183. Time to make use of my remaining $7 to buy more soup. And garlic bread.

posted by Cave II @ 10:05 PM