🚀 go-pugleaf

Well, I got my problem fixed here.. I wasn't able to send or reply to
newsgroup messages. Called tech support.. finally was able to understand the
fella, and screwed up and sent a message that was old.
Oh well.. at least it's fixed, and now I'm back :)

"lucy" <seacoast65@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:DPM0c.6944$NK.1094@newssvr23.news.prodigy.com...
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> "lucy" <snoopy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:KHCZb.1192$QU4.342202555@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com...
> > Hubby and I ate there this evening, and neither of us had tried it
before.
> > I wish now I'd asked the kind folks here at dfw.eats for opinions before
> we
> > went.
> >
> > There was no flavor to the food whatsoever, both of us noticed it.
> >
> > We are not sick, have no medical conditions, are in good health.
> >
> > I ordered the gumbo (more on that horrible concoction later) to start,
and
> > the trout amandine (which they spelled almondine)
> > DH ordered a salad to start, and he ordered the Mariners Platter.
> >
> > The seafood gumbo was, I kid you NOT, roast beef bits in brown very
salty
> > broth, with two shrimp and a crab claw.
> > It had no seafood flavor at all.. it tasted like roast beef, and like
> canned
> > beef broth. Very gross, esp when your tastebuds are expecting gumbo, and
I
> > admit I have become accustomed to gumbo as good as Copeland's on
Beltline.
> > The trout had no flavor at all. I asked hubby to taste it for his
opinion.
> > It didn't taste like trout, it didn't taste like lemon, butter, or even
> the
> > paprika sprinkled liberally on top. The almonds didn't even have almond
> > flavor! It was comical almost.
> >
> > Hubby's salad was okay, he said. His seafood had no flavor either. He
> asked
> > me to taste his crab cake. It had stringy bits inside that looked like
> crab,
> > bits of celery, etc.. no flavoring. It tasted like .. greasy
breadcrumbs,
> as
> > did the rest of the seafood on his platter. He didn't even have seafood
> > breath afterward.
> >
> > We also observed that we were the youngest couple in the restaurant.
> > Everyone else there, and this is no exaggeration either.. looked minimum
> 60
> > years old.
> > We joked this is where blue hair meets blue gills. We also joked that
> > perhaps this was the restaurant for people who were heavy drug users in
> the
> > 60s and burned off their tastebuds.. or that patrons sat at the bar so
> long
> > waiting for a table that they were too drunk to notice by the time they
> were
> > seated and ate..  or perhaps being elderly, they do not like strong
> flavors,
> > so they must have soaked the seafood in milk or some such, to weaken the
> > flavor.
> >
> > We didn't stay for dessert, and won't be returning.
> > I'd be interested to hear from others if they had a similar or different
> > experience there.
> > lucy
> >
> >
> >
>
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