Friday, November 6, 2009

I have met my nemesis and it is made of bacon and potato

Walking past a typical Japanese hole-in-the-wall McDonald's (makudonarudo), I saw a picture on the menu board outside that looked like one of their apple pies. However, this one was labelled neatly, in English, "bacon potato pie". And I thought, I must have one.


I went inside and tried to order, but if I understand correctly, one is not able to buy one of these treasures on its own, only as part of some sort of meal package. I couldn't quite figure it out, but I said, basically, okay, I'll take it. Apparently this was not good enough as several other decisions were requested on my part, but it was totally unclear to me what they were. Eventually I just had to walk out, annoyed and humbled. I noted that a long queue had formed behind me.

Failure to muster sufficient resources to order an item off a McDonald's menu has got to be one of the lowest points of my adult life.

5 comments:

jk said...

will you try again?

Andrew Siegwart said...

As you said "I must have one" it sounds Like a challenge that needs to be overcome! I'm a vegetarian and I think that I'd adore one of those... Kind of like a deep fried perogie? Yum!

Tali said...

I can picture you standing tall and exiting the restaurant with complete grace. I can't imagine you low at all. I am listening to Jean Luis Murat's French version of Leonard Cohen's Avalanche. Thinking of you and 1009 Semlin Drive - I'm your fan :-)

Jeff said...

jk - possibly.

andrew - this has just inflated my response to jk to 'probably'.

tali - sweetheart, xo.

Unknown said...

Bacon and potato pie!?

You MUST, at all costs, go back and try this and report back to us.

I am tempted to hop on a plane and try it myself.