What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

21 Replies to “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?”

1. I’ve had red lobster twice in my life. Both times were not very good. Less than fresh.
   Like olive garden. Frozen food they cook halfway and divide into portions that are warmed up when ordered. Heavy on the stomach.

   Living a thousand miles from the ocean doesn’t help.

   1. We live in the prairies. We go to a steak house. Wife orders sea food. Bitches it’s not fresh. WTF I am to do? I don’t slap women.

      1. PG way out there it will almost always be frozen at some point in it’s travels.

   2. We have a Red Lobster in our town, the food is very good and it is no longer cheap.

      1. My husband and I have gone to Red Lobster periodically. Food was always good at the one area location. But the other local outlet ( there were 2 within about 20 miles of each other) had BAD service and less great food — and this was in a major tourist town which attracts both Americans and Canadians. The RL there shut down, not surprisingly to us.

2. I don’t know what geniuses they hired, but I’ve stopped in for their “Shrimp Fests” several years ago when it was all you can eat shrimp for… $20. What, 10 years later and it’s still the same price?!? Are they nuts, stupid, or victims of diversity hiring?

   Given food inflation, I can’t believe they didn’t make the promo all you can eat shrimp for $27.99 or whatever. And given restaurant prices nowadays, that would still be a great deal for patrons.

   They have the historical data of shrimp consumed during past Shrimp Fest promotions. Is it too much to ask one of their bean counters how much they should be charging for that promotion given today’s labor and food costs?

   Sheesh!

   1. “We use cut-rate refridgerators, and pass the savings on to you!”

      Well, hopefully not.

3. I get all you can eat prawns all year round on the island for the cost of bait. One of the last things the feds haven’t shut down. Well ok you are limited to 125 per day per person.

   1. Which Island?

      1. The island with jail bait?

      2. Toronto Islands, Hanlan’s Point. Plenty of shrimp on account of the cold water.

4. Shrimp, I won’t eat that shit.

   1. I have a friend who was a navy diver who once had to recover bodies from a major air disaster. You might not eat shrimp but I’m told they’re quite happily eat you.

      1. Your dog will eat you under the right circumstance

         1. Indeed. There’s a song about it:

            https://youtu.be/GS5nd9YOv3Q?si=uAgj8WXaOU81p92E

5. Jesus, if the shrimp isn’t wild you’re eating Asian sea bugs farmed in fetid pools of chemicals and shit and I’d bet 20 bucks that’s where Dead Lobster gets them.
   There is nothing wrong or unfresh about flash frozen wild seafood.

   1. They are definitely not out of the sea. Raised on land in pools of shit in China. We drive our food industry out of business with necessary cleanliness requirements yet import endless uninspected food from the shithole world. I have wondered why no-one has selected Canadian fresh-water shrimp for size. They thrive in northern Alberta as do the introduced crayfish.

6. Considering some sandwiches at the local Subway are 16 CDN yen, unlimited shrimp for $20 sounds pretty good. I think I paid that much for unlimited shrimp there 15 years ago.

7. Great marketing decision. What’s next…”Puffer Fish Fridays”?
   You’d think someone on the decision tree would’ve said “Wait a minute…let’s think this through”

   1. Sorry, the MBA type who proposed this doesn’t think stuff through

8. Considering that the shrimp is cheap farm grown shrimp and restaurants generally make their money on the booze and pop, how did they mess up??????

   Ponderosa YEARS ago had all you can eat shrimp when they first started getting the farmed stuff in.