One of my most favorite foods to indulge in is the cheddar and garlic biscuit from America’s favorite seafood chain, Red Lobster. This never-ending basket of baked goodness may not be the best meal for you in terms of proper diet, but those tasty little treats just melt in your mouth and are oh so delicious.
I got a hankering for some cheddar and garlic biscuits not too long ago, and, even though I’m on a very limited budget, decided it was time to eat something besides a ten cent bag of noodles. Unfortunately, it was anything but money well spent.
I’ve eaten at this particular restaurant on several occasions, and have often excused the less-than-stellar service in lieu for the garlic and cheddar biscuits, but this time was just too horrible to ignore.
It was anything but busy at the restaurant, but for some reason a couple of two-top tables was a load that was a lot more than our waitress could handle. The cheap, eight-ounce glasses we received as drinks were only refilled once, and I had to literally wave my glass at her to get her attention, which I’ve never had to do at any restaurant before.
Sure, I was at a restaurant with poor service; it’s not the first time it has ever happened to me.
We finally get our cheddar and garlic biscuits, so I calm myself down a bit. My date and I make our orders (after waiting for ten minutes longer than a couple who had come in well after we were seated and had drinks), and partake in simple chit-chat as we wait for our food to arrive.
As we’re talking, I’m munching on the cheddar and garlic biscuit I so looked forward to, and I find my date and I staring at each other in horrified agreement: the awesome cheddar and garlic biscuits that we both had longed for tasted like baked rocks.
Then I came to realize that if the cheddar and garlic biscuits were not tasty, the food was going to be terrible. Unfortunately, I turned out to be very right.
My date ordered an appetizer sampler and I ordered a shrimp combo. My date’s appetizer came with scallops and clam fries, which were both as tasteless as paper, and my shrimp, which consisted of popcorn shrimp, coconut shrimp, and shrimp scampi, tasted like they had dipped them from out of a tank marked “Dead Shrimp” and then flash fried them. Not even the scampi, which is usually as tasty as the biscuits, was anywhere close to par with a turn and burn establishment like Red Lobster.
I couldn’t eat half my meal for fear that I would be vomiting. I felt bad for wasting money, but then the first wave of nausea hit me about the time our so-called waitress asked if I needed a to-go box so I simply laughed and said, “No thanks.”
Alas, it seems that I won’t be enjoying my cheddar and garlic biscuits anymore, at least not at the Red Lobster in Hattiesburg, MS.
