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We Have NO BANANAS Today

[info]cottontimer
10/30/05 11:50 am
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Before moving to Bird Flu Central aka Vietnam, we often enjoyed a breakfast of french toast on Sunday mornings. Not wishing to break with tradition, but also not having any eggs to break at home (har har), we've been ordering french toast from various local restaurants and having them delivered.

Today, we tried a relatively new cafe which has cinnamon french toast with sauteed bananas. After paying and tipping the delivery guy, I started arranging the food on the dining table - one banana smoothie, one chocolate milkshake, french toast with spilt syrup on top of the box, eggs sunny side up, and sausages, mushrooms, and bacon. NO BANANAS.

I had paid extra to have the sauteed bananas which are Marv's favorite, but we had NO BANANAS. Calling the restaurant back, I tried to explain the situation to the staff.

Me: We just received our order but we have NO BANANAS.
Staff: The delivery man is coming.
Me: No. I received the food already but we have NO BANANAS. I paid for the french toast with bananas but there are NO BANANAS.
Staff: The delivery is coming. The french toast with bananas is 45,000 Dong.
Me: I know. I paid and there are NO BANANAS.
Staff: You pay 30,000 Dong, ok? Let me talk to the delivery man.
Me: The delivery man is gone bye-bye already. Good-bye. He go back to your restaurant.
Staff: Next time you order, we give you discount.
Me (with no intention of ever ordering from them again): No, I want him to come back RIGHT NOW with my money or with bananas.

When the delivery guy came back, we were handed a small plastic bag. There were two smallish, unpeeled bananas; not sauteed like they should have been had they accompanied the french toast.* These bananas cost more than 10 times what I'd have paid at the market.

Marv and I couldn't stop laughing.

*Yes, I know how to sautee bananas but it's the principle of it.

ETA: Here's the 1923 song - Yes, We Have No Bananas!


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  • [info]smittenbyu
    10/30/05 05:37 am (UTC)
    Well, if YOU had to sautee them, you might as well prepared the breakfast at home! :P

    But it is funny! :D

    • [info]cottontimer
      10/30/05 06:26 am (UTC)
      I would have preferred to make breakfast at home but since we're not bringing raw poultry or poultry products into the house, we have to order out whenever we want chicken or eggs. :(

  • [info]abigailvr
    10/30/05 05:50 am (UTC)
    Are restaurant eggs safer? Or is it just because they are already cooked when you get them?

    Now I want pancakes with sauteed bananas tomorrow. Mmmmm.

    • [info]cottontimer
      10/30/05 06:27 am (UTC)
      Unlike some people who won't eat any chicken/duck/eggs, we still eat them if they've already been fully cooked. So we're not totally poultry deprived. Still, there's nothing like freshly cooked eggs straight from skillet to mouth.

  • [info]smallbully
    10/30/05 06:18 am (UTC)
    haha! it's really quite funny but i think i would have been more angry!!

    • [info]cottontimer
      10/30/05 06:27 am (UTC)
      I was pretty ticked off when I was on the phone. Then the whole situation became so ludicrous that we couldn't help but laugh.

  • [info]chained2u2
    10/30/05 07:02 am (UTC)
    Oh, funny story.
    dj

  • [info]kachunknorge
    10/30/05 07:08 am (UTC)
    Talk about getting nowhere! haha!! but the unpeeled un-sauteed bananas had to take the cake!

  • [info]tinymich
    10/30/05 09:01 am (UTC)
    Wait, I don't get it -- why is it okay to eat fully-cooked eggs in your house, but not to fully cook your own eggs? *confused* How does one prevent avian flu more than the other? *doesn't get it*

    • [info]cottontimer
      10/30/05 09:03 am (UTC)
      Bringing raw eggs into the house is more risky because of the possibility of the eggs being contaminated by bird feces. Fully cooking poultry kills the H5N1 virus.

  • [info]calypso72
    10/30/05 12:46 pm (UTC)
    You are one tough customer!

  • [info]superwonder
    10/30/05 01:47 pm (UTC)
    this is so hilarious! the dialogue is screenplay worthy!

  • [info]qadira
    10/30/05 03:20 pm (UTC)
    I read your post title, and was reminded of Audrey Hepburn. I forget if it was Breakfast at Tiffany's or Sabrina in which she sings 'Yes, We Have No Bananas!' :) And then I got to the end of your entry, and you'd added the song! hehehe.

    There is a Chinese restaurant here that delivers, but I can seldom understand the person taking orders on the phone. Luckily, there is a courier food delivery service that has this restaurant on their list, and I can order through them, by menu number. On the web even! Otherwise it becomes an amusing attempt at determining what meals are wanted, and what sort of rice one wants with each meal, etc. Your bananas tops anything I've ever had happen though. Definitely one of those tidbits that belongs in a scrapbook or journal or memoirs. ;)

  • [info]baggyk
    10/30/05 06:09 pm (UTC)
    Hsein, you do know that living in London might force you to...cook.

    I just don't want it to come as a shock. Portions are small, prices are high, service is better than in Viet Nam, but it's not California sunshine-ish.

    Still, I suppose you could just get frozen stuff from Tesco and St. Ives stuff from Marks & Sparks like all the English people.

    • [info]cottontimer
      10/31/05 12:40 am (UTC)
      I'd love to be able to cook, Kate. Can't make french toast, though, without eggs (no raw poultry products in house b/c of bird flu).

      One thing I know, we aren't going to starve to death. I thought I'd lose weight in Vietnam but the opposite has been true. LOL

  • [info]mamemo
    10/31/05 07:26 am (UTC)
    hahaha... I almost laughed off my chair. Going bananas?

  • [info]jopeck
    11/5/05 07:18 am (UTC)
    this is soooo funny! glad to see u saw the humour in the situation tho'. Next time you come to S'pore, I'll buy you a bunch of bananas ok?

    • [info]cottontimer
      11/5/05 12:47 pm (UTC)
      Hi Jo! How are you?

      I think we were mostly laughing in disbelief. But I'll take you up on the bananas offer sometime. ;)
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