![]() ![]() Any idea why it tastes like some combination of radiator fluid and formaldehyde?” “Hey, did you try that blue drink, the one that glows like nuclear waste?. “When you cruise around the country for your show ‘Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,’ rasping out slangy odes to the unfancy places where Americans like to get down and greasy, do you really mean it?” It was less a review than a series of mean, pointed questions directed to the man himself: This review raised valid concerns about the restaurant’s poor quality and overambitious size, but what stuck with me was the sneer of it. ![]() I had no room for anything else.Ģ012 was also the year that Pete Wells’ famous New York Times review of Guy Fieri’s Times Square restaurant, Guy’s American, was published. He’d reduced the dimensions of my world to his height and weight. But at the time, as I squirmed and sobbed and begged him to please-please-please drop it, as I tried to walk away only to have my exit blocked at every turn, he was all I could see. How dull, to be mistreated in so predictable a way how dull I must have been to fall for it. His movie-villain behavior embarrasses me now. Not pulling it, just reminding me with his grip that it was his to pull if he needed to. He extracted from me the promise that I’d never ruin a meal like that again and, unsatisfied by my delivery, extracted it several more times, once while holding a fistful of my hair. I’d already missed it four times that month and was in danger of being kicked out of school, which would have forced us into a move we couldn’t afford. įinally, I had to beg him to let me attend my class. He simply preferred everything, including food, to be done correctly. But he resisted my claims that this made him a snob. He preferred rare steak, caviar could never resist a menu item whose cost was “Market Price.” In bars, he ordered top-shelf liquors, neat. ![]() My husband, a finicky eater, may not have liked frozen Texas Toast no matter what I’d done. I was still in college and had an evening class I needed to catch, but now I had a crime to answer for. Why must all my cooking be so sloppy? Did I intend to poison him? No? Then why did I insist on disappointing him? Instead, he said, “Your carelessness is unfortunate.” He then interrogated me for three hours about why I’d prepared these Toasts the way I had, the mistakes I had made. It was rarely my husband’s style to hit or scream. Inadequately, as it happens the edges of these Toasts were crisp and hot, but the middles were still damp the frost on them had melted and left them chilly. At the heart of this meal was a pair of frozen Texas Toasts, which I’d heated in the oven. May vary by product see product specifications for detailed information.One night in 2012, two years before I dared to leave, I made a meal for my husband and me. There are no returns due to color variances. By ordering from our site you are agreeing that you have read, understand and agree to these terms. Please order samples of all products you wish to consider purchasing to avoid any confusion and color mistakes. Please do not order using color names as your guide, always request a sample. Example, just because a color may have the name Pecan, does not mean it will necessarily look like what most people would consider to be a Pecan color. Also don’t mistake the color name to be what you may think that color should be. Note: Just because products have the same color name that does not mean they are the same exact color. We do our very best to make sure our products are as close to the photos of products on our site as much as possible. Since it is not possible to guarantee our online colors will look the same on all computers, we do not guarantee that what you see accurately portrays the color of the actual garment or designs. ![]() Computer monitors are not all calibrated equally and color reproduction on the Internet is not precise. Due to the many variations in monitors and browsers, color samples may appear different on different monitors. ![]()
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