Friday, December 19, 2008

One Extra For Dinner

The other night I had a client dinner at Carmine's Restaurant in New York City.

We were a loud, boisterous crowd of 24.

We were sharing our family-style appetizers, when a fellow employee went to stab a forkful of salad, and saw THIS on his plat
e:



















Yes, it was alive.

(No, I'm NOT kidding.)

6 comments:

the mom said...

OMG. I think I would totally lose my shit on that one. Did the meal get comped?

Anonymous said...

never seen a peapod with legs before!

kk said...

the manager totally freaked, but then came back and told us he'd take $50 off our bill. considering we were dropping about $2500 for dinner, it wasn't a very impressive offer.

Lori Whitwam said...

Maybe you guys are all just totally uncool, not realizing that this is a rare and expensive delicacy? And you want to be on the Food Network? ;-)

xxxx said...

Dinner should have been FREE!!!

Sarah Elizabeth said...

OMG OMG OMFG. I would have spewed everywhere. That is disgusting. How is he still sitting there!? I would have been so far away from that thing...UGH! Please please please tell me you all got your dinner free!