A couple of years ago, my friend Misty took me to the Macaroni Grill. I had never been before, and it instantly became my favorite restaurant. (Thank goodness it is over an hour away, or I would weigh 300 pounds!!)
I loved their Caesar Salad. Up till that point, I had been a Ranch only kind of girl. But Caesar was good!! Then I found out that Caesar was low carb, and that made it even better.
So I have been eating Caesar salads for a year at least, and loving them. Cheap, because you just need some kind of lettuce, and Parmesan cheese, and I usually add some chicken or turkey. Yum, yum, yum.
So another friend and I went out to eat the other day and I ordered a salad with Caesar dressing, and she gagged. "How can you eat that crap??"
"It's good!!" I argued. "Tastes about like ranch, but with less carbs."
"Yes, and with a bunch of ground up fish. Barf." she said.
"Fish?? HAHAHAHA!! Are you nuts??? It doesn't have FISH in it!!"
She proceeds to tell me that Caesar dressing is made with ground up anchovies. I did not believe her. I thought she was insane. Until I went to the dressing isle at Brookshires and checked the ingredients on every single Caesar bottle.
Uggg. It IS made with anchovies.
Now suddenly, it tastes weird to me. Marty thinks I am insane. If I liked it before, I should still like it, right?
But I find myself wondering if they left the little eyeballs in there, and bones and small intestines... I don't want to eat fish eyes, or fish poop.
(I feel even sicker after google-ing anchovy pictures...)
2 comments:
I am in denial about the fish part of Caesar salads.
I LOVE the Macaroni Grill too. I wish we weren't poor.
I LOVE caesar salads, but I can NOT think about the ingredients. When we were in Australia, I ordered a lovely caesar salad & over there it comes with the dead fishies (whole) on top. YUCKO! Needless to say no more caesar salads on that trip!
Deny, deny, deny is my motto on this subject. Just like at last night's dinner when Garrett asked what hot dogs were made of. Ewwww.....
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