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capseeboy
Social climber
portland, oregon
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 21, 2019 - 09:01am PT
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Seems like people really enjoy complaining just about more than anything else in life. Edit#2 This is the thread dedicated to laughing about it. Edit#3 spelling has always been a challenge for me, oh well, dinning seems more apropos.
1. Pull into small, to go shack, and order a burrito. I hear them open a microwave and slam door. After two bites I huck it out the car window. This is the only time I have ever thrown food(?) out.Edit#4 not true.
2.Go to small PDX Asian place with small group. Everything ordered is placed on the table---it all looks and tastes the same---everyone starts laughing.
3. Go to large empty dark Mexican place mid-afternoon with girlfriend in Redmond OR. I order some meat dish. I gag on the first bite. Waitress asks if everything is OK. I tell her that I have lost my appetite. She asks me if I would like to try again. I decline.
4.Go to upscale looking brick place in downtown Redmond OR with a group of people; it's my friend's friend birthday. An hour after we order people are becoming a little anxious. My toasted cheese and fries arrive cold---I meekly complain. My friend's lobster plate arrives and he can barely cut it with a fork. He mentions it to the waitress. She replies that she can take it back to the kitchen to be cooked some more.
Edit#1. 5. Go to small cafe in NE PDX to hear my fiend's mom play in small band. The food case is covered in goo and there are greasy cobwebs hanging from the ceiling and all the hanging artifacts--scary. I stick with coffee and friend orders--- not sure what---later he complains of not feeling to well. The employees there looked hygienically challenged too.
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
Wilds of New Mexico
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Feb 21, 2019 - 09:23am PT
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I was on a long surf trip to Peru and was hanging out with a sweet doctora in a small town with a great point break (those were the days!!!). She took me to her family's place a few hours away and we went out to dinner with her parents. They insisted on taking us to a Chinese restaurant and made sure I had more than enough to eat. I don't like Chinese places in the U.S. and this one was about 10 times worse than any I had been to before or since. I went to the rest room and got a glimpse of the kitchen and knew I was going down.
Sure enough, later that night (in the doctora's parents house) I started blowing chunks like every 15 minutes all night and the next day. Luckily, her dad was a doctor too and he dosed me with an antibiotic that set me straight.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 21, 2019 - 09:24am PT
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Hands down - the chinese in the basement of the bowling alley in Tahsis, Vancouver Island.
Ho, man!
The best - being outta food at base camp and stuck for a week cause the helos couldn’t come git us. We dug through our garbage dump and re-defined “Serve by xx/xx.” Found loaves of mouldy bread which we cut the mouldiest bits off of and fried the living hell out of with our remaining cooking oil. So good!
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Feb 21, 2019 - 09:33am PT
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WTF is 'dinning'? My worst dining experience, if you can call it dinning, was on a trip years ago from Seattle to Alabama at Christmas. We had to go via Arizona to pick up my brother and his wife so the route took us through Amarillo, Texas. We came through Amarillo at about 5:30 am and desperately needed breakfast. Stopped at The LA Motel outside Amarillo. Greasy powdered eggs, some sort of mystery meat sausage, white bread with oil for toast, instant coffee, fake cream. Damn it was so bad and we needed good. Will never forget that 'meal'.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 21, 2019 - 09:36am PT
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MGuzzy, got seated at a posh outside bistro in Strasbourg a couple years ago and then pointedly ignored because we were American even though La Femme is a native speaker. Found a nice friendly little Italian joint nearby. Urban French can really test my tolerance. Love the country folk though.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 21, 2019 - 09:42am PT
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Like DMT, I would just as soon forget the worst and only recall with fond memories the ones which were pleasing.
I had a friend who just loved to pick apart the foibles and shortcomings of fancy-grade restaurants run by locals who have no clue to what fine dining REALLY SHOULD BE.
You don't cover linen table cloths with plastic.
Serve the food on china which is not cracked, chipped, or faded.
Serve the food using the same dish patterns, not a collection of stuff from a Goodwill.
Always look for spotless utensils and napkin to be set before you are seated...you should not have to have the table cleared while you are sitting there.
Look at the servers' fingernails. Are they clean? And do YOU bother to wash yur own chalky scabby gnarly hands?
What music is in the background? I appreciate all kinds, but mellow jazz is appropriate for most upscale places, unless they are REALLY classy and have a live string quartet. (Not really my kinda place at all, just sayin'. Zoe, my friend in question, had been around the Bay Area and knew the Chez Panissers well, selling them salad makin's.)
Set standards and live up to them.
Good food goes a long ways towards forgiveness, however.
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formerclimber
Boulder climber
CA
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Feb 21, 2019 - 09:48am PT
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I don't eat in restaurants, neither eat any street food. In the early 90s Russia: when you're really hungry and haven't seen anything but rice or potatoes in a very long time, no more oil, lard or butter for a long time (and none to buy in empty stores), and then, you see meat pies being sold in the street and desperately want one and spend all your remaining money to buy one, but not really sure if it's human, rat, or stray dog meat in them. "Worst pies in London"
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 21, 2019 - 09:51am PT
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What, you wouldn’t have a glass of kvas from a tank truck in Samarkand after it was wiped ‘clean’ with a nasty looking rag? 😊
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capseeboy
Social climber
portland, oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 21, 2019 - 09:53am PT
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Look at the servers' fingernails. Are they clean? And do YOU bother to wash yur own chalky scabby gnarly hands?
OMG thanks for reminding me.
So I meet this really nice guy outside this pizza place in pdx who gives me a cigg after I asked for one. We are yuking it up when I notice his disgusting filthy long finger nails.
He tells me he has to go back to work and walks into the back kitchen of the pizza joint. Edit#1to throw some dough. Ha Ha.
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capseeboy
Social climber
portland, oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 21, 2019 - 10:01am PT
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^^^^wow glad I didn't re-order. BTW my visit was many moons ago. Basically why I don't post names of place---never know if under new management.
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capseeboy
Social climber
portland, oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 21, 2019 - 10:40am PT
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I never blame the server as they have no control of what goes on in the kitchen, just saying, don't shoot the messenger.
Did a short stint as a pearl diver at a really prodigious place in Bend OR. It was owned by a private party for many years and sold to a corporation. Man was it a greasy kitchen. The walkins were less than clean and they were not on the to do list. The kitchen layout was very cramped. We were suppose to run the floor mats through the dishwasher at the end of the night. Customers usually commented on how good the food was.
Btw bacteria does not grow in fat/oil; it grows in proteins and carbs.
He owned a fleet of old bombers and would load up the bomb bays with ice and fish from the coast then fly them to inland restaurants in Denver, KC etc.
Reminds me of the book Catch 22 with the wheeler dealer guy who hustled produce and goods on the planes.
Found a nice friendly little Italian joint nearby. Urban French can really test my tolerance.
Went to a place there in Axe where my ex girlfriend's ex boyfriend was the cook. I had an intuition that this was not going to go well. Got served some really tough chicken! Ha Ha.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Feb 21, 2019 - 10:46am PT
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DMT. I enjoy Sushi near the ocean, but otherwise, experience has taught me one add-on rule to your basic rule:
DMT rule: Its a simple rule really - do not enter any sushi restaurant more than a two-hour drive from the ocean. Ever.
So no Kansas City sushi, I don't care how may stars or how many $$$$ they have in their google rating. Phoenix, Denver, Dallas, Nashville, Chicago; NO! No sushi for me!
Fritz rule: Stop at the Sushi place entrance & take a deep smell of the air wafting from inside. If it smells like rotten-fish, don't go in.
Back about 30 years, Heidi & I were in Denver & a young, but enthusiastic, sales-rep friend took us to the what he termed "the best sushi in Boulder."
The eatery was on the 2nd floor of an old house, & as we walked up the stairs, the rotten fish odor got stronger, until it was nearly gag-worthy. Heidi & I braced our friend about the odor, before we went in, & after thinking about it for a minute, he agreed that the air smelled a "little-off."
We left.
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okay, whatever
climber
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Feb 21, 2019 - 11:04am PT
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Sushi in Japan has always been excellent, in my experience, even in inexpensive venues. I've had good sushi in the US, too, but it is not always all that great, unfortunately. And I don't mean to diss the proprietors of US sushi places... sourcing great raw fish on a consistent basis is clearly not easy.
And I lived in Boulder for a significant portion of my adult life... I lived there 1978-1992, and again from 2003-2005. I'm curious what sushi venue(s) in Boulder you're referring to from those eras, Fritz.
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capseeboy
Social climber
portland, oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 21, 2019 - 11:09am PT
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Another food cart experience in pdx.
A friend, who really is a voracious and undiscriminating gourmand wanted to grab something to eat. So we stop at this Asian cart with a non-Asian worker. We both order the same meat sandwich thing. My first bite and I start gagging and spit it out while he happily woofs his down. I offer him mine and he declines, so I throw it out.
The next day he complains of having a bad night, probably that sandwich, he says.
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Feb 21, 2019 - 11:16am PT
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I can highly recommend Yamatani the Japanese restaurant in Bishop, CA. You can't get to the ocean without going "around the horn" (avoiding the Sierra Nevada). Excellent sushi! And it's a minimum of 270 miles from the ocean.
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Cragar
climber
MSLA - MT
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Feb 21, 2019 - 11:21am PT
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Speaking of sushi, anybody know what they treat the fish at those new Poke places?
Man, I tried a bowl here and it felt like I was ingesting some kind of chemical weirdness. It is in MT and to keep it affordable, I would think it must have some kind of treatment?
Everything basically looked attractive but my tongue gave me bad news.
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skywalker1
Trad climber
co
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Feb 21, 2019 - 11:24am PT
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Hmmm....I've been thinking about traveling to Kenya in August and wondering what kind of "training" I should do for my "micro biome" leading up. I just assume it's gonna suck for a day or two. Do I go veggie? Maybe just soups.
Backpacking is always a roll of the dice...
Thread drift?
Anyway.
Cheers!
S......
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Feb 21, 2019 - 11:25am PT
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Don't eat at a roadside truck stop in India or Nepal unless you like a 3 day old curried mess. Better to buy some bananas.
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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Feb 21, 2019 - 11:37am PT
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Beware of "Asian Fusion" in all its forms.
Small buffet near our office; thus, we want it to be good. No joy.
Main ingredient? Grease of unknown origin.
Noodles, dumplings, donuts, undifferentiated "seafood," etc. Tasteless and greasy mush.
One plate each, almost all of which stayed on the table as we exited.
In all my travels, that local badness still ranks worst.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Feb 21, 2019 - 12:06pm PT
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Ok Whatever! Re your question:
I'm curious what sushi venue(s) in Boulder you're referring to from those eras, Fritz.
As a sales-rep, I ate in a lot of eateries, both good & bad, but I am hard-pressed to remember names, except for a very few favorites.
This joint was in an old 2 story house or small apartment, a half/mile or so east of downtown Boulder. It was in a mixed old residential & business neighborhood.
And of course the old adage: Don't every eat at a place called Mom's, is still true. I have also added the come-ons: "all you can eat," "Family-dining," & "Kids eat free," to my list of places to never, ever, visit.
And, especially, don't ever, ever, ask a fat person about best eateries. They think in terms of volume, not taster or presentation.
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ManMountain
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Feb 21, 2019 - 12:18pm PT
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The Desert Oasis Gas Station/Restaurant alongside I40 in Fenner, Ca. First clue, gas was $7.00/gallon (2018). Ordered a burrito, $6.95 and got a soggy microwaved frozen supermarket special. They would charge me for a glass of water, so I marched out to my rig for my water bottle. Oh, and if you're not a paying customer, parking is $10 or no restroom access for you!
Here's the sign on their front door:
BTW, they're only 35 miles from Needles, not out in the middle of nowhere. And I was their only customer during my visit, wonder why?
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Lemurian
climber
Bend
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Feb 21, 2019 - 12:25pm PT
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Got the worst heartburn of my life from a jalapeno corndog at the truck stop in Snowville Utah. It looked so promising as it rotated under the heat lamp.
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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Feb 21, 2019 - 12:31pm PT
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It looked so promising as it rotated under the heat lamp.
Brilliant line! ROFL
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hellroaring
Trad climber
San Francisco
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Feb 21, 2019 - 12:41pm PT
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DMT, everyone knows you eat BBQ not sushi when in Kansas City...
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Splater
climber
Grey Matter
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Feb 21, 2019 - 12:45pm PT
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I too have eaten of the frozen (many times) burrito at the obscure quickmart.
Having already driven past any better options, call it the procrastination special.
Once you microwave it and it turns to mush, it's too late to turn back time.
It was quick, and so was the stomach-ache.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 21, 2019 - 12:48pm PT
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I think I can honestly say that I have never partaken of an offering from the rollers at a convenience store in the USA. However, Circle K’s in Norway and Sweden rock! They serve up some killer dogs and the buns aren’t also used in the marine world as caulking.
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plasticmullet
climber
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Feb 21, 2019 - 12:58pm PT
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Road side chicken from a vendor at Benque Viejo Del Carmen at the Belize/Guatemala border. Chicken was excellent until it wasn't.
Sans one person, our entire archaeological crew ate there. That next early morning was brutal as everyone got sick; 12-people in a two bathroom house. I recall having to use the female bathroom given that the male one was full. Running, I opened the door to find one woman shitting while another was puking in the sink. I apologized and jumped into the tub just in time to vent orally and anally.
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snakefoot
climber
Nor Cal
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Feb 21, 2019 - 01:10pm PT
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this thread is funny.
years back, maybe 92 in tahoe. eating at this mexican/irish combo place(odd) and after 1st bite of chips and salsa, I run to the restroom and projectile vomit all over. Afterward, I couldn't stick around.
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hellroaring
Trad climber
San Francisco
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Feb 21, 2019 - 01:22pm PT
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A good friend of mine ordered chicken tacos at a Chevys Mexican place. When the order came he started eating and realized they had brought fish tacos instead. He thought that’s fine because I like fish tacos and they are more expensive, so score. Well half way through his first taco in his own words, the fish taco turned back into a chicken taco. Needless to say he was pretty sick that night.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Feb 21, 2019 - 01:24pm PT
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What, you wouldn’t have a glass of kvas from a tank truck in Samarkand after it was wiped ‘clean’ with a nasty looking rag? 😊
Reilly, sounds like you were spoiled! They wiped the glasses for you!
My recollection of kvas is public vending machines on the street with a single glass that everyone shared, and no wiping in between. I didn't die.
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C4/1971
Trad climber
Depends on the day...
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Feb 21, 2019 - 01:35pm PT
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Having lived in San Francisco and Napa for decades I have been spoiled with very good food for decades.
Worst Food: Traveling with nineteen buddies and playing the Open courses in western Scotland we stopped in Troon at an Indian Restaurant. As I always do, I went to the bathroom before I ordered and found the absolute worst bathroom I have ever seen, and I have been in lots of third old countries. My companions were all Brits, and Brits love Indian food. I came back to the table and ordered a beer. No tap please, I wanted a bottle with a cap. My mates wanted to know why I wasn’t ordering food. I suggested they visit the bathroom, which they did after they ordered. Each of them upon returning had their beers and ordered more beers, with caps on. By the time the food was delivered we got up, paid the tab, and left. WE never even touched the food. The bathroom in question had feces on the floor and the walls, an looked like it had not been cleaned for decades.
Hint: Always visit the head before you order...
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MarkWestman
Trad climber
Talkeetna, Alaska
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Feb 21, 2019 - 01:46pm PT
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Two of my more memorable unpleasant dining experiences have happened in the past 12 months. Last January I spent 8 days in Grand Staircase, Bear's Ears and Capitol Reef, driving around van camping and hiking and having starry campfires. Then, the night before heading into Buckskin Gulch slot canyon for a long day hike, I made the mistake of going into Page, Arizona, to eat at "El Tapatio" Mexican restaurant. I normally don't eat the puddle of refried beans that comes with the combo platters, but on this night I was kinda hungry. Restaurant refrieds are the perfect sort of food that can become home for clostridium bacteria, as they sit inadequately heated in a pot all day long. I hadn't been in a public establishment in over a week and had had basically zero human contact over the same period. So I am certain that what happened next started right here. Midday the following day, in the middle of the slot canyon, I started getting the bubble guts, which by the time I returned to my van that evening (having already been forced to use both socks for toilet paper) , had progressed to the full on hershey squirts. That night and the next day I drove back to Salt Lake City and it was the most miserable drive ever. Not that I was counting, but I had 17 separate episodes of the worst diarrhea and painful stomach cramps I have ever had, including several roadside pullout incidents which were preceded by five to ten minutes of desperate screaming in pain in the front seat as I looked for a place to stop. Gawd almighty.
The other was last summer. My buddy Dave and I were working a wildland fire on a helitack crew just north of Mount Rainier. We got put into an LZ near the fire early in the morning and spent the whole day out in the field working in 90 degree weather. That evening we got picked up and then, exhausted and hungry, borrowed a USFS truck to go down to the Naches Tavern in Greenwater, hoping to get dinner. We were wearing NPS insignia t shirts along with our fire boots and nomex, but it was pretty obvious we'd been out fighting fire. The bartender handed us a menu and, along with the 15 other patrons who were obviously locals and at least one of whom had a t shirt with something virulently anti government on it, also gave us a serious stink eye. The bartender then went out to hang out with the locals near the pool table. 25 minutes later, after standing around awkwardly by the bar waiting to get served, and getting more stink eye from all of the occupants including the same bartender, we finally realized we were persona non grata and walked out quietly, heading another 40 miles down the road to Enumclaw, where we scored a low grade pizza from a much nicer server lady.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Republic, WA
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Feb 21, 2019 - 01:51pm PT
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Would have to be in Sitka, Alaska around 1993. Chinese restaurant with poor service and the food was like canned vegetables with soy sauce and some Rice-aroni. Had they no shame?
Since my wife and I have worked in the restaurant business most of our adult lives, we have a pretty good idea between the two of us what might be going on. I have entered quite a few establishments, looked around and then left. If I decide to eat it usually isn't bad. Not great but just not bad.
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capseeboy
Social climber
portland, oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 21, 2019 - 02:36pm PT
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this mexican/irish combo place(odd)
Wowzer, that's the first time I have ever heard of this combo.
#1 Check washroom first. Great tip. If they have no regard for hygiene, well, what's next?
I have always been suspicious of places 'specializing' in several different cuisines, or menu's containing hundreds of offerings.
I asked a waitress once what the house specialty is. Her face momentarily went blank, and then she said, everything we make.
Years ago I worked as a night janitor at a ski resort. The cook would smoke OTJ while getting Sunday Brunch ready. He would flick his ashes into his recipe. Bon Appetit.
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Don Paul
Social climber
Washington DC
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Feb 21, 2019 - 03:02pm PT
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Stopped at a FARC checkpoint near San Vicente del Caguan, in 2003. Had to stay and eat with them to show we were legit. A girl in a camo uniform butchered a pig on a wooden table right in front of us. At the end she chopped the backbone into segments with her butcher's axe. Nothing was left. Meanwhile, we were served cold rice, cold beans, and a piece of lightly fried pork fat. They called it a chicharron, but normally those are deep fried and this fat was barely cooked at all. They also gave us orange sodas. I was there with combat photographer Jeremy Bigwood, who told me he often used these kinds of travel opportunities to lose weight, lol. We pretended to enjoy the meal, then were on our way.
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snakefoot
climber
Nor Cal
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Feb 21, 2019 - 03:08pm PT
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capsee. its called carlos murphy's and might still be there.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Feb 21, 2019 - 03:26pm PT
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Went to a small village in Costa Rica that's only accessible by boat to see some sea turtles.
They had one small restaurant for the few tourists passing through and there was a mid-sized dog on a leash by the door that we pet on our way in.
They had steak on the menu for a super low price so that's what three out of the four of us ordered.
After taking our orders the waiter walked the dog through swinging doors into the kitchen, killed it, and then spent about an hour butchering and cooking it before he served the dog steaks to us. The same one we had all pet on the way in.
Turns out that dog is kinda tough but doesn't taste bad.
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Crazy Bat
Sport climber
Birmingham, AL & Seweanee, TN
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Feb 21, 2019 - 05:13pm PT
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At the age of four I created one. It was the days of beehive hairdos. My parents made us behave. We frequently went to a nice Italian place. My brother would order a hamburger and we would watch the waitress cross the street to get him one from Mickey D's. An older couple came in. The old lady complained because they were seated next to kids. Loudly and inappropriately because we were so well behaved. In my first mischievous act as a human I masticated a mouthful of spaghetti and while my parents were distracted I stood up and spit it into her expensively coifed hai. I got about three mouthfulls in it before my mother caught me. I am surprised her laughter did not give me away. We left with no one fessing up to my misdeads.
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jbaker
Trad climber
Redwood City, CA
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Feb 21, 2019 - 07:20pm PT
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I had a few memorable meals in Cairo.
One was mixed grill, and I couldn't identify any of the meats. Really no idea. A weasel ran under the table while I was eating, chased by a cat. It was quite a good meal.
I decided to just have a rice dish to be safe in a pretty questionable looking establishment. I made the mistake of watching while a waiter handed the food server a just-used bowl, he swirled a dirty rag in it (no soap, no water) and put my dinner in it.
I remember an amazing fish dinner in a little fishing village in El Salvador. I was there with a National Geographic photographer who had an amazing ability to connect with people in seconds. We bought some fish and lobsters from the local fisherman she befriended as they dragged their dories up on the beach, and the local restaurant cooked them up for us. Her photos were later published in a NG book about the Pan American highway. It is pretty neat to see your memories captured by a top notch photographer, just offset 3 feet to the right.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Feb 22, 2019 - 07:54am PT
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Wow- some pretty horrific stories here. I guess I haven't traveled enough 3rd world countries to have had the "pleasure".
Really-- you ate the dog?
I'm pretty sure I had cat one time in an ethnic dive Asian place in Reseda- no English on the menu. It was pretty gross.
I've gotten pretty sick from a few places over the years . The worst food poisoning I've had in a decade was actually from The Brewery here in Bishop recently BTW.
A couple bad service experiences:
I got shunned a couple times on a Utah trip., the BF was clearly a "hippy" so one place just flat out ignored us till we left. Another restaurant took one look- set up a table in the basement and kept us totally segregated from the rest of the patrons. (LOL) In their defense- the service was still good and the food was excellent.
I had a particularly weird server incident. I was dining with two good looking guy-friends. The server was gay and was going way over the top flirting with the guys... to the point it was creepy. The server put on a bizarre Jekyl and Hyde thing- being overly attentive to the men and rude and dismissive to me. Took their drink orders ( not mine) then walked away . Served the drinks then took the boys' orders then started to walk away without taking mine.- at this point- one of my friends yells at the guy- "Hey as#@&%e- the lady would like to eat too". He reluctantly takes the order.
I keep some totally worthless foreign pre-Euro bills in my wallet to tip bad servers these days.
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capseeboy
Social climber
portland, oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 22, 2019 - 08:18am PT
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capsee. its called carlos murphy's and might still be there.
Copy that Snakefoot. State side-- Papa Aldo's pizza morphed into Papa Murphy's
Dude, you petted the dog and then ate the dog? That is f*#ked up.
Well, I don't know TTR, love, and then pray over what you eat?
Let's see what kind of non traditional (per the American palate) have I eaten.
MGuzzy appears to have the most heterogeneous palate so far.
Greasy powdered eggs, some sort of mystery meat sausage, white bread with oil for toast, instant coffee, fake cream.
Nothing like a cafe home cooked meal; is there Winemaker.
Turns out that dog is kinda tough but doesn't taste bad.
Limpingcrab--good to go as long as it doesn't bite back.
We did the usual Koh Son road thing one night and as the vendor handed me my plate of food a dog walked up to his cart and sprayed diahreha all over the cart.
WTF--- Nothing like an appetizer to wet the taste buds.
The old lady complained because they were seated next to kids. Loudly and inappropriately because we were so well behaved. In my first mischievous act as a human I masticated a mouthful of spaghetti and while my parents were distracted I stood up and spit it into her expensively coifed hai. I got about three mouthfulls in it before my mother caught me
Crazy Bat--- makes a person wonder where some old people think they came from. I guess she got her 'just' deserts?
I've seen plenty of sh|tholes and dives in my time but the scene I came upon horrified me.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Feb 22, 2019 - 10:56am PT
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Damn Mark, I've eaten at the Tapitila in Page also. I guess I dodged a bullet. I ate chorizo and eggs and only had bad gas and nasty belches.
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capseeboy
Social climber
portland, oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 22, 2019 - 11:20am PT
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The bartender then went out to hang out with the locals near the pool table. 25 minutes later, after standing around awkwardly by the bar waiting to get served, and getting more stink eye from all of the occupants including the same bartender,
I had a similar experience in Rockport Wa. Guess you can't legislate hospitality.
Manmountain, that is one harsh hard times cafe sign. Sad. Makes a person wonder.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Feb 22, 2019 - 02:14pm PT
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My worst dining experience, by a number of measures, will be my last one.
Aside from that boiled monkey in the Orinoco Rainforest and jellied fish stomachs in China come to mind along with camel and crocodile tail in Kenya.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Feb 22, 2019 - 02:18pm PT
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Anybody seen the Anthony Bourdain episode with the Bushmen in Namibia eating warthog rectum that was just thrown into a fire?
How about Bear Grylls squeezing a drink out of elephant crap?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 22, 2019 - 02:34pm PT
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Top this from Tim Flannery’s Throwim Way Leg. Flannery is the pre-eminent Aussie mammologist authority on New Guinea.
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capseeboy
Social climber
portland, oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 22, 2019 - 09:23pm PT
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Sloaper, I was thinking nxt about Gordan Ramsey's fine dining series. Just proves you still don't have to leave the United States to enjoy some good eats. I love it when Ramsey asks the peeps, in the kitchen, if they would eat what they have been serving up.
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MarkWestman
Trad climber
Talkeetna, Alaska
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Feb 22, 2019 - 10:20pm PT
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Damn Mark, I've eaten at the Tapitila in Page also. I guess I dodged a bullet. I ate chorizo and eggs and only had bad gas and nasty belches.
I remember getting an uneasy cleanliness vibe while eating at El Tapatio, but then on my way out to my van, which was parked behind the restaurant, I saw that the back door into the kitchen was open and that the staff was busy mopping the kitchen floors with a soapy bleach solution that I could smell from 50’ away. I distinctly recall thinking “oh good, I got nothing to worry about”. Ho Lee Fuk, was I ever wrong.
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capseeboy
Social climber
portland, oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2019 - 07:07am PT
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edit#1 Had to delete The Conqueror Worm. It was creeping me out. D'oh.
edit#2 In HS I worked as a pearl diver at Chinese Village restaurant in Salem, OR. It had a very large and spacious kitchen area that also shared the dish washing side.
The cooks were authentic Chinese and did not eat American Chinese. One day I looked into the cooks' soup pot. In it was a whole duck with it's head still attached. I don't know if it still had all its' guts.
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