I've blogged before about some of the craziness at the food service kiosk in my office building. If you haven't read about it before, please start there.
Anyway, today I decided to stop down there to see if they had anything non-disgusting and was fairly unimpressed until I saw the soup.
Me: What kind of soup is that?
Food Service Lady (FSL): Um. (puzzled look on face) Let me think...Creamy tomato. With tocatta.
Me: (mentally trying to process the word "tocatta") Um...
FSL: Would you like to taste some?
Me: Why, yes, I would!
It was good. It tasted somewhat like the creamy tomato basil soup that I sometimes make. I purchased some. Then I came upstairs to my desk and promptly opened up dictionary.com to try to ascertain the definion of "tocatta". Nothing.
Then I was talking to Hayden and asking her if she had ever heard of tocatta.
Her: No.
Me: Oh, the lady at the kiosk said this soup has tocatta in it and I don't know what that means.
Her: They put some pretty interesting things in their soup. Last week they had a soup with fish in it.
Me: OH GOOD LORD! YOU DON'T THINK TOCATTA IS FISH, DO YOU?
Anyway, eventually I ran across some RICOTTA cheese in the soup and had a breakthrough. The FSL meant Ricotta, not tocatta.
I'm so relieved. I hate fish.
5 comments:
Now working within a school again I am findig all kinds of things that I have to question. They tend to try some creative things and end up with some not so good "food".
By the way not such a healthy option as school food is supposed to be these days. Oh well.
wait a minute...
wait
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you hate fish?
then why, oh why, dudette, do you go fishing???
:)
I don't eat the fish that I catch, silly. I put them back in the water and apologize for the inconvenience.
BTW, Tocatta is a piece of music, usually on played on organ, you've probably heard it many times without ever knowing it
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