Today at work, we got a cool special delivery from one of the local restaurants in town. I guess they were looking to drum up business or something, because they were handing out boxes of cookies and advertising how their restaurant was the perfect place to hold business lunches and stuff like that. It's an Italian place called Buca di Beppo. I've never actually been there before, but I hear it's pretty good.
Anyway, I was excited that they gave us cookies because I never pass up something like that. A couple other people got to the cookies before I did and I asked if they were any good. This one girl told me they were alright but they had a strange flavor. That didn't deter me and I grabbed one out of the box and started eating it. She was right. It did have a weird flavor. And upon further examination (as I kept eating it, even if I didn't like it) I noticed it had some sort of green spices on it. Like oregano!
It was baked into the chocolate chips. Yuck. I picked that off, thinking it was just a fluke thing. But another bite of the cookie, and I noticed it had some sort of black specks on it too. And white stuff that I originally assumed was sugar, but it turned out to be salt! And the black stuff was pepper. The cookies were baked with salt and pepper and Italian spices.
I couldn't stop laughing when I realized this. Especially because other people ate the cookies and didn't inspect them as thoroughly as I did. And no one could figure out what the hell happened to them. Is a salty spicy oregano blend the secret ingredient to Buca di Beppo cookies?? Or was this an accident? Did Guido the cook accidentally knock over the Italian spice blend into the cookie dough, and just cook it up anyway?
I really wasn't sure. But all I can say is that it was disgusting. This was worse than my burnt cat fur cookies. Well, maybe not worse. But just as bad. Only my cookies weren't professional and passed out to businesses as advertising!
We ended up just throwing the rest of the cookies away. But then this guy walked into the break room and asked where the cookies went. We told him about the spices and the grossness and that we'd thrown them out. But he dug the box out of the trash and said he was eating one anyway.
I work with some very strange people. I couldn't tell which was worse. That he'd eat cookies out of a trash can, or that he wanted to eat these nasty ass cookies at all. It's not as if he's homeless and hasn't eaten in a year. If he really wants cookies, I'll buy him some fucking cookies. But he said they weren't that bad if you just ate them real fast and didn't notice the green flakes and pepper. That's a desperate man.
Anyway, that was the highlight of my day. Which tells you how exciting my day actually was....
evil_twin posted on May 06, 2008
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allswell said on May 06, 2008....
oh yeah that sounds pretty gross! Maybe where they are from...what france, Italy...maybe its a new thing there..who know...but either way i wouldn't want to eat one...hummm i wonder if their food is any better?
alls:)
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Mr_Box said on May 06, 2008....
That's pretty nasty. I can't imagine that the cookies were supposed to have that shit in them. But then again you never know.I've eaten at that restaurant before but we didn't eat any cookies. So I can't say if it's normal or not. But either way, no thanks!I can't believe that dude at cookies out of a trash can. That makes me think of that Seinfeld episode where George ate an eclair out of the trash! Remember that one?[chuckles] -
the_infernal_optimist said on May 06, 2008....
That's really gross! Eww! I can't believe that guy wanted to eat them anyway.
And yeah, I have to say that I don't think even cookies from an Italian place usually have pepper and oregano-type stuff in them! :-p
~Infernal
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wishyouwerehere said on May 06, 2008....
That was my first thought - George Costanza eating an eclair out of the trash!Too funny! I wonder if it was done on purpose though - have you ever seen the Italian biscuits that are like stale bread? My grandma serves them covered with tomato sauce and calamari. They can have oregano and pepper in them sometimes, but you would never mistake it for a cookie. It looks more like a giant crouton. -
queenparanoia said on May 06, 2008....
hehehehe that dude was crazy!!! he ate out of the trash can???? was he that desperate to taste them??? lol.. =) -
diabolicdame said on May 07, 2008....
Cookies with italian spices? I'm sure somebody in that restaurant thought that was very clever advertising! Poor sucker! And that guy ate cookies out of the trash can? That is desperate. Yuck. lol.. -
silverwhisper said on May 07, 2008....
all right, i too am not sure whether the cookies or the coworker are grosser and i'm a little too icked out to think about it very hard!
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evil_twin said on May 07, 2008....
alls--It was an Italian restaurant, but I've still never heard of Italian spice cookies!
Mr. Box--I do remember that Seinfeld episode! In fact, that's what were saying to him when he did it. We were calling him Costanza!
Infernal--If they did this on purpose, I don't think they'll be selling that many cookies! It was very weird tasting. And I can't believe that guy ate out of the trash either!
wish--I loved that Seinfeld! As far as I know, these were just supposed to be regular chocolate chip cookies. It had to be a mistake that there were spices in them. The biscuit things make sense. But chocolate chip cookies with oregano?!
queen--Apparently he was that desperate to taste them! Yuck!
diabolic--Maybe it was some sort of clever advertising? But it tasted yucky!
silver--I couldn't believe he ate out of the trash either. Especially when the cookies were NOT worth eating off the counter, much less the trash can!
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wishyouwerehere said on May 07, 2008....
I missed the part about the chocolate chips, E_T - definitely not! And to eat them from the trash???? Maybe he felt left out. -
CreativeWoman said on May 07, 2008....
It doesn't sound like a good combination at all. Yuck. I imagine that taste was hard to get out of your mouth for a while.
CW
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uniquely-ironic said on May 07, 2008....
Ewwww! Both sound pretty gross to me. -
pickersplock said on May 07, 2008....
Green spice? People, listen to me.......GREEN SPICE!!!!!!!!!!!Generally, they put that in brownies. -
evil_twin said on May 07, 2008....
wish--Yeah, they were chocolate chip with oregano! Weird!
CW--It was really weird and salty! That's the part I noticed the most. The salt!
uniquely--It was gross!
pickers--Unfortunately these cookies weren't 'magic' green cookies. If they were, it would make sense why he dug them out of the trash!! Maybe he had his own 'green spice' cookies earlier and that's why he was desperate to eat cookies out of the trash? He had the munchies!
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