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| - As an indecisive woman who happened not to be hungry on this busy Friday night, i spent a long time wandering in front of the menu sign written in chalk by the counter trying to figure out what I wanted to eat.
Alas, when everyone has made the order and i am the only one left by the counter, the dude at the counter said to me, "try the vegan burger."
I looked at him incredulously, flabbergasted and, frankly, a bit appalled: "you are asking me to eat the VEGAN burger at a joint called "Hey MEATball?"
He shrugged, "I'm telling you it's good...come on, YOLO!!!"
"Did you just say YOLO to me???" my asian eyes wider than it has ever been.
"YEAH! You only live once, try it!"
"Ummm......are you VEGAN?" You can clearly see I'm letting go a little
"Naw..and I think it's really good!"
And I'm not sure if it was the irony of him suggesting i eat a vegan burger at a place that sells ground up meat, or the fact that he claimed he's not vegan and liked it, or simply that a dude with weird hair, plaid shirt, and giant black frame glasses thought it appropriate to use the word YOLO to an old crusty asian girl, but somewhere along this journey, he managed to sell it to me. I caved and ordered the $5 vegan burger - why not? I wasn't hungry, my five friends are all ordering meat dishes, and, well, you only live once, so i'm gonna have to try my first vegan dish.
He was right, the vegan burger was actually quite good. Quite small, but very tasty. If you're actually hungry, you will need at least two of them to fill you up. One of my friends had the regular burger and he went to get up to get seconds. The YOLO man told my friend there's already another guy waiting with the same name, so he asked my friend if he can use the name "Lynn" instead. So when the order came, he loudly called out "LYNN!!!!" a million times. I think he was punishing me for my indecisiveness...
I couldn't tell what was in the messy mush I was eating, but it was delicious. I had a bite of the meatball mac n cheese, and the meatball polenta (some type of cornmeal), and they were all good - but i didn't regret my vegan burger.
Thanks YOLO dude, at least one Lynn will be back.
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