Food ‘n Drink

If my food heaven is Ice Cream, then my food hell has to be Parsley. Well okay there are others too, but the one that annoys me so much is Parsley. Why? First off I can’t stand the taste. Usually I would avoid foods I don’t like, or they’re usually big enough to take out of my food, eg. Mushrooms. However recently, when we’ve been eating out in restaurants, I’m seeing more and more parsley being chopped up and thrown over food, regardless of what it is. This makes life a lot harder to take it out of my food as it’s chopped small and there’s too much of it. However, despite it being so small it still manages to over power the food and sometimes ruin the taste.

Why oh why do chefs feel the need to put it on everything? A sprig of parsley is fine, I can pick that off in one go, but it seems like flat leaf parsley is the fashion and it needs to be chopped and added to every meal. I’m quite suprised they don’t put it on your dessert too.

Why not ask for it to not be added? Because I feel stupid saying ‘oh and if you put parsley on your meals could you not on mine please’. It doesn’t state that parsley is added to the dinner, so I often don’t even think about it and to be honest it sounds a bit arrogant to say that without the knowledge of whether it’ll be on the food. Then of course, by the time you get your meal the last thing you want to do is send it back and ask for another minus the parsley. It’s about as bad as the other week when I ordered a Steak and Ale Pie and found carrot and mushrooms in it too. Steak and Ale pie doesn’t have veg in, especially veg I can’t stand (cannot stand over done carrots whatsoever).

Chefs listen up, get all ingredients on your menus, put parsley in a jar as a seasoning for people to add similar to salt and pepper. Don’t assume everyone likes it cos it’s just ruining your food!