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Penguin
6/24/2011, 11:06 AM
Has there ever been a case where a restaurant was about to go under and then the chef cut an onion and then saved the restaurant from going under?

49r
6/24/2011, 11:09 AM
We can't bust heads like we used to. But we have our ways. One trick is to tell stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for m'shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt. Which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Gimme five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where was I... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn't get white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
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jk the sooner fan
6/24/2011, 11:10 AM
Has there ever been a case where a restaurant was about to go under and then the chef cut an onion and then saved the restaurant from going under?

i swear its like you're in my head - i had this all written out - almost verbatim

DAMN YOU!!

OUDoc
6/24/2011, 11:11 AM
i swear its like you're in my head - i had this all written out - almost verbatim

DAMN YOU!!

So you do or don't know the answer?

cccasooner2
6/24/2011, 11:26 AM
Maybe in a movie.

Successful restaurants avoid onions like the plague.

tcrb
6/24/2011, 11:36 AM
Has there ever been a case where a restaurant was about to go under and then the chef cut an onion and then saved the restaurant from going under?

The answer is no. Chefs do not cut onions, that would be the job of the sous chef.

SpankyNek
6/24/2011, 11:39 AM
The answer is no. Chefs do not cut onions, that would be the job of the sous chef.

A chef, nonetheless.

tcrb
6/24/2011, 11:44 AM
A chef, nonetheless.

You are splitting hairs. Or maybe I am splitting hairs. :confused:

Penguin
6/24/2011, 11:47 AM
You are splitting hairs. Or maybe I am splitting hairs. :confused:


Rule #1: Keep hair out of the onions.

SpankyNek
6/24/2011, 11:58 AM
I once new a chick with a pretty hairy onion.

SoonerHoops
6/24/2011, 12:01 PM
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saucysoonergal
6/24/2011, 12:04 PM
This thread is much better than the original.

49r
6/24/2011, 12:50 PM
Bill Raftery approves of this thread

MANTA MAN!!!

49r
9/12/2011, 07:47 PM
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GDC
9/12/2011, 08:14 PM
There used to be a wrestling official named "Onions" Martin.

8timechamps
9/12/2011, 08:52 PM
Has there ever been a case where a restaurant was about to go under and then the chef cut an onion and then saved the restaurant from going under?

Only if there is a bell pepper in the equation. Otherwise, it's just an onion. y'know?

GDC
9/13/2011, 02:20 PM
Wild onions and eggs is pretty good eats.

jumperstop
9/13/2011, 02:34 PM
I started reading this thread and it felt like deja vu....Then I realized I read it a few months ago, took me until about post 6.

NormanPride
9/13/2011, 02:39 PM
wat

KantoSooner
9/13/2011, 02:46 PM
yes!

The name of the restaurant was "La Cervesa Turbinado" ("the murky beer") and it was located just off the beach in the small village of Pesta on the Bay of Campeche in Old Mexico.
As legend has it, Pepe Lopez would pass through each year prior to the holidays on his way norte to bring tequila, and thus happiness, to the gringos of EUA. Well, one year the rivers were running high and Pepe lost his trusty burro (and tequila) in the raging torrent. It was too late to turn back so he pressed on to the village of Pesta to try and trade for the horrendous tequila popular thereabouts. Not good, but something.
La Cervesa Turbinado quickly saw the magnatude of the situation and pitched in, offering free meals to those who'd bring in their private stores of rasty old tequila. Pepe had almost enough to justify his trip norte when the food ran short. Only the cook's quick thinking and creation of 'onion/habanero' soft tacos saved the day by attracting vegan campesinos in their thousands.
Pepe's journey was saved, but the restaurant, out of food and out of tequila, was doomed. Until, that is, Jane Fonda heard of the generousity and creativity of the cooks and prevailed upon Boone Pickens to give the restaurant $55,000,000.
And that''s how a cook, cutting an onion, saved a restaurant about to go under.

And next week, children, we'll have another story from the "Non-Sequitor Storybook". Goodnight and sleep well!