{"id":838,"date":"2007-04-06T19:02:21","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T00:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=838"},"modified":"2007-04-06T19:03:19","modified_gmt":"2007-04-07T00:03:19","slug":"bad-dessert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=838","title":{"rendered":"Bad dessert"},"content":{"rendered":"

Waiter Rant had a great post on bad restaurant desserts<\/a>. And I posted a comment there that I can’t resist reposting here, because those of you who live in New Bedford may well know the restaurant I’m talking about in the second paragraph….<\/p>\n

Ah, the joys of restaurant desserts\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6. Once when my partner and I were driving across country, I tried apple pie at every restaurant we ate at. The diners with their allegedly \u00e2\u20ac\u0153home-made pie\u00e2\u20ac\u009d were the absolute worst:\u00e2\u20ac\u201c crappy pie without much in the way of apples, soggy crust, badly microwaved, tasting worse than a McD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s apple-pie-in-a-box. So much for the much-ballyhooed diner food. The absolute best apple pie I ate on that trip was at a Bob Evans \u00e2\u20ac\u201d probably my least favorite chain, but they probably turn over so much food that at least the pie was relatively fresh.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, bad desserts can be really good under the right circumstances. Here at home, the fancy restaurant in the next block over from our apartment serves really bad apple crisp. I mean really really<\/em> bad. They buy it from someone who uses those canned spiced apple slices covered with sweetened goo that isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even crispy, and then at the restaurant they barely heat it with a microwave so that some bits are cold and some bits are hot. We love it anyway \u00e2\u20ac\u201d we order it at the bar because (sick but true) it tastes really good with a martini. Yeah, OK, you have to drink half a martini before it tastes good, but whatever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I was over at the fancy restaurant down the street earlier this week, and I think they now have cut down on the microwave time for the apple crisp (maybe they’re trying to save power?), and this time only the corners were vaguely warm. I ate it anyway. Yum.<\/p>\n

So what I really want to know is this — have you<\/em> ever gotten good apple pie at a restaurant? In fact, have you ever<\/em> had a good dessert at a restaurant?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Waiter Rant had a great post on bad restaurant desserts. And I posted a comment there that I can’t resist reposting here, because those of you who live in New Bedford may well know the restaurant I’m talking about in the second paragraph…. Ah, the joys of restaurant desserts\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6. Once when my partner and I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-bedford-mass","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}