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What's In a Name? - Part Two

I'm always amused whenever things end up with amusing names or labels. In fact, that was precisely what I wrote about the last time this came up. In short, some of the labels on medicine and vitamin containers made me chuckle, and I also learned the difference between a teaspoon and a tablespoon in the process.

This time around, the setting was much different. Instead of scrutinizing product labels, I was having lunch with a coworker. This particular coworker was actually new to the area, so he wanted to go somewhere off-campus in order to explore some of the food options. I don't consider myself super cultured when it comes to the happening restaurants, but I can usually come up with a suggestion or two. In the worst case, my friends Yelp and Google tend to do a decent job of pointing me towards good food.

Still, the parameters were a little too broad, so I asked my coworker if there was anything in particular that he wanted. I mean, I wasn't going to take him to a sushi joint if he was craving burgers, you know? Interestingly, the response back was, roughly, "anything with flavor." Well, okay then, that I could do.

Ultimately, I settled on a Thai restaurant, since some of that food tends to have some good flavor to it. I figured that some of the curries and peanut sauces would definitely fit the bill as far as flavor went. It certainly didn't hurt that that restaurant did a good job without being ridiculously overpriced or super packed all the time. It was a nice, leisurely meal with some decent food to boot.

I didn't know it at the time, but my coworker had never actually consumed Thai food. He was still very game for trying the food, but that made the whole experience a little bit more fun. As you can imagine, I basically ordered for the both of us. Ultimately, I settled on chicken satay, pad thai, a vegetable curry, and a Thai iced tea to drink (he went with the iced coffee). I figured that the satay was a fairly safe choice to start a meal, the pad thai was a bit of a staple, and the curry was a dish that I liked. I threw in the drinks so that he could see that they had some decent beverage options, as well.

Fortunately for me, my coworker liked the food. In fact, he really liked a couple of those dishes. Ultimately, that's also where I started chuckling about the names. You see, he really liked the chicken satay, and he said that he would bring his wife to the restaurant so that she could try "those chicken things."

Technically, he wasn't wrong, but the description cracked me up. Chicken things, indeed.

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