USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen.
I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify.
In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather.
"Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully.
"Honey, that's what it looks like."
The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it."
I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it.
I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South.
It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent.
"Well?" the waitress asked.
"I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed."
"Everybody does, hon."
Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it.
Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating.
I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden.
It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.
@Allesandra_St@gdisselkoen En dan niet je APK doen , dus per definitie niet meer verzekerd, maar wel de verzekering betalen 😂
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@DalesGeert63675 Staartje omhoog, 3x checken of je wel de juiste kan op loopt.
De extra miauw bij de deur en dan koppie/lichaam uitgebreidt tegen je been als je op de juiste verdieping bent.
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Toen 'Blokkeerfries' Jenny Douwes opriep tot een snelwegblokkade werd ze strafrechtelijk vervolgd en veroordeeld, terwijl de oproep al tijdig was verwijderd. Maar XR-extremisten kunnen straffeloos hun gang gaan en de boel opruien. Hoe lang nog duurt dit onderscheid voort?
@Ozzie070 En als je een weekje van te voren de trein had geboekt was het €14 pp, ivm de prijstijd deal. (~45% korting)
En waar parkeer je 2 uur voor €7,80 als het minimaal €5,94 per uur is?
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@StevesThrillers If you are sweeping the floor, you cannot send videos of Skippy. Pretty sure that I speak for others, you have made the correct choice ☺️