Picture the Rat Pack - Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, and Sammy Davis Jr.
Okay, now swap out every member of the Rat Pack with a distant cousin of the original.
Switch:
Frank SInatra with Bing Crosby
Dean Martin with Foster Brooks.
Peter Lawford with Peter Sellers
Sammy Davis Jr. with Harry Bellafonte
So, you now have big Vegas parties with Bing, Foster, Peter and Harry. Is that a fun group? No! That group sucks! They'd be spitting on each other in an hour.
This is all to say: I did not enjoy the Eggs Benedict from the Ruby Tuesdays brunch menu.
For the English muffin, they swapped out a mini-burger bun, lettuce and tomato.
For the Canadian bacon, they substituted a tasty hunk of steak.
For the poached eggs, there were cheesy dry scrambled eggs instead.
And they did keep a teaspoon of tasteless watery Hollandaise on top.
It tasted like ... a steak slider they put eggs on. Gary's spinach artichoke omelet was plainly the artichoke dip minus the tortilla chips, plus a floury omelet, and we both had "brunch potatoes," or steak fries chopped up.
I know it's Ruby Tuesday, it's a chain, I shouldn't expect much, but you couldn't ship in an english muffin? And how does adding lettuce and tomato to Eggs Benedict make it better?
To be fair: when the waitress asked how it was, I said it was "interesting." She popped a 25% off coupon for the next visit in with our check. I might go and eat all of their pumpernickel croutons.
Eww. They shouldn't have just given it to you for free, they should have called the paramedics to pump your stomach and give you good drugs so you wouldn't remember it.
Posted by: Becs | August 08, 2011 at 04:55 AM
After getting eggs benedict with separated sauce at two different restaurants here; I've sworn off of that meal. It makes me a little sad, now that I think about missing it - however steak? burger bun? WTF?
Posted by: Amy in StL | August 08, 2011 at 01:36 PM
Gross.
Now I want Eggs Benedict. But not from there.
Posted by: slouchy | August 08, 2011 at 09:13 PM
Becs-It was really sad. And now Gary is calling the birthday month "The month we eat bad food and watch bad movies."
Amy in StL - And LETTUCE? With scrambed eggs? An abomination.
Slouchy - I can only find it in its original form at hotels and cruise ships.
Posted by: TheQueen | August 08, 2011 at 10:31 PM
Tell Gary: "New birthday rule: No backsass from the help during birthday month."
Posted by: Becs | August 09, 2011 at 05:07 AM
Becs - I'm making him eat peking duck and possibly dim sum tomorrow. That'll teach him.
Posted by: TheQueen | August 09, 2011 at 11:16 PM
I went to Ruby Tuesday's for brunch. I like their regular menu just fine, but their brunch was an insult to breakfast foods. Only Le Peep or local diners for me, from now on. Well, maybe an iHop excursion on rare occasions.
Posted by: Tami | August 14, 2011 at 07:10 PM
Tami -We don't have Le Peep. Is that a chain? Our chains are Bob Evans and the hated Cracker Barrell. I was an IHOP waitress. I will never go there again.
Posted by: TheQueen | August 14, 2011 at 11:38 PM
Le Peep is a chain, but I don't know where all of them are. I know that I was surprised to see one in Indianapolis, but maybe they're only east of the Mississippi.
I can understand not eating somewhere that you worked. Totally.
Posted by: Tami | August 15, 2011 at 10:41 AM