Piggysnoot

Those of you that don’t know me…I live in Northern Ohio…there are few fish that can be eaten that are truly a “fresh catch”…and they’re fish you wouldn’t necessarily want to eat…now for the story…Larry and I went to Outback for dinner last night. We had some remaining dollars on a gift card we got for Christmas, so dinner was only $15 with the tip. Not bad! As we were seated the host instructed us that the menus were at the back of the table, blah blah blah. The exchange went like this:

Host: Your menus are at the back of the table and our fresh catch fish of the day is Mahi Mahi.

Larry: Where’d you catch that? (Quite sarcastically and extra skeptically)

Host: (Smirking) Can’t tell…it’s a secret.

Larry: Okay ’cause I didn’t think you were out catchin’ Mahi in the lake.

The host walked away chuckling to himself. This was funny to me for a few different reasons. First of all, I was impressed that the host thought that quickly on his feet. The way Larry skeptically asked him where exactly he had caught this “fresh catch of the day” was hilarious! He later told me that all he could think of was the host out in a fishing boat in a yellow rain slicker like the Gorton’s Fisherman catching Mahi on Lake Erie…a silly picture indeed. The other reason this struck us as being funny is that my Aunt Carole (who lives in San Francisco) always jokes that she can’t believe anyone would eat sushi in Ohio because there’s no way it’s fresh enough because the ocean is too far away. We thought perhaps she’d appreciate that the host was trying to sell us the “fresh catch of the day” of Mahi Mahi…when we know full well that there was no one from Outback out catching Mahi Mahi fresh that morning on Lake Erie. Maybe they should call it the “fresh catch quite a few weeks ago and then frozen until we decided to offer it today as the fresh catch of the day”. Just doesn’t have the same ring to it I guess.