
Just home from the monthly FRG meeting.
FRG – Family Readiness Group: Fudge…don’t even know how I want to define this one tonight. Let’s just say it’s a mandatory meeting for soldiers & spouses…which always involves the most attrocious pot-luck dinners ever.
Since I didn’t know about this one until literally an hour & a half before it was to begin, I had nothing to bring.
So Eric & I decided to hit the AMC afterwards.
AMCÂ - Alaska Mining Company: An American chain restaurant that would go into a raging fit if the head honchos ever came over & tried the Korean-style version. The cooks are Korean; the waitresses are Korean. ‘Nuff said.
Any meal at the AMC is subject to complete & utter disappointment, but seeing as how it’s the only sit-down-style restaurant on post…you roll with the flow.
And tonight Eric was feeling “adventurous”….his word.
There was a new menu item – Sliced BBQ Brisket.
So I listened in abject horror as he ordered.
“I’ll have the BBQ brisket with a salad, kimchi & rice.”
[Sacriledge!]
Looked him dead in the eye & proclaimed he was bastardizing barbeque!
‘What are you thinking?!’
“I was thinking if it really sucks at least I know the kimchi & rice will be good”, he replied.
After one taste of the saltless, flavor-devoid, water-soaked, chunk of tough meat, I took pity on him & let him split my chicken fried steak.

[that would be the vegetable of the day...corn & lima beans]
It’s just as saltless & devoid of flavor, but if you sprinkle enough salt & pepper on it, close your eyes, hold your nose & picture yourself at a Blackeyed Pea…(do they still have those back home?)…it almost tastes passable.

We left the wasted piece of perfectly good beef on the plate in protest.
Well, it was good before they got a hold of it.