the hangers, and the coats were still warm! As we virtually sprinted down the
hotel steps I felt remarkably un-embarrassed because some things are just
not worth sitting still and paying for. We went straight to Shelly’s, a restaurant
we had spotted on our walk earlier and had a nice cooked breakfast with a
cocktail, not the huge ‘eat all you want’ buffet that we had imagined, but not
breaking the bank either.
Hideous though this episode was, at least our server was well informed
enough to know that the menu was a special format. Perhaps this is not
worthy of mention, knowing the ins and outs of the food where you work is a
basic characteristic among restaurant staff after all. Well, actually not
necessarily. In a small eatery in Lafayette we had the following conversation
with a waitress.
Emma: 'I see that the crab cakes come with taso sauce, can you tell me what
that is please?'
Waitress: 'well, it is a sauce that the chef puts on the crab cakes.'
Pure genius, why didn’t we think of that? The reason Emma asked is because
she cannot eat spicy food, in spite of growing up in the Midlands. However
spicy food is a difficult thing to avoid in the Cajun country around Lafayette.
The waitress, on hearing this, brought some sauce out for Emma to try.
Luckily it was not spicy, so crab cakes were ordered. Unluckily, the cakes
themselves were very spicy! Well, at least there was a baked potato with the
meal, just with butter according to our waitress - but actually with bacon, sour
cream, chives...and chilli. Yum! The only non-spicy thing on her plate was a
bread roll – it was just a pity this was deep fried (honestly) and thus more like