Brisket Salad and Meat Dressing

Had a couple of amusing occurrences recently, and the first one actually occurred at dinner this past Saturday at a local barbecue place. We go out every weekend (almost) with The Engineer, and then do something afterward (which recently has been go home and play video games or watch a movie). It's fun to hang out with my brother and gives the princesses time with their uncle and vice versa. We all have a great rapport together.

Anyway, there at the barbecue joint we overhear a conversation that (let's be honest) was very amusing and very Oklahoma. I'm sure they actually have this item on the menu, but not being a salad person, I've never paid attention, and though the Queen does like salad, I guess she's never ventured to that part of their menu. At the table near ours, we heard the waitress say, "Did you want sliced or chopped brisket on your brisket salad?"

We all looked at each other, the question on our faces: did we just hear that right? Makes me wonder if they douse that brisket salad in barbecue sauce. Why not? I've heard of chicken on salad and I know a buffet we hit in Tulsa has cold steak pieces on the salad bar, so meat on the salad isn't unheard of, by any means. I'm sure the brisket salad is delicious.

It reminded me of a time when we were also talking about some down home Okies and the idea of "meat dressing" came up. What is meat dressing? Why, chili of course. Who wouldn't want their side salad (because it's healthy) covered in meat dressing? After all, you gotta have your protein with lunch. 

To round out this post about food, you know those emails and such with the goofy church bulletins posts? Things like, "At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What is  Hell?" Come early and listen to our choir practice" and "Barbara remains in the hospital and needs blood donors for more transfusions.  She is also having trouble sleeping and requests tapes of Pastor Jack's sermons." Well, you have to wonder about who proofreads these things and how it managed to slip by. It's no surprise that goofs do happen. After all, churches write their own material, and there's rarely a need to edit it or have someone else go over it. After all, it's not likely to be offensive, right?

Well, the Queen helps the church preschool with their calendars, and on one week, they had a topic of Noah's Ark. So on one day, they had "Noah and the Ark" followed by a study of the letters (I guess), and the odd topic of "Cooking: Noah & the Animals." The Queen went ahead and shot them back an email asking if they really wanted to say that. Clearly they weren't going to talk about Noah cooking the passengers of his boat, but the implication was out there.

She got back a rapid email with a rewording and a thanks for catching that. I mean, they wouldn't want to be accused of something like this: "Announcement in the church bulletin for a National Prayer & Fasting Conference: The cost for attending the Fasting & Prayer conference includes meals." Now, would they?