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| - "So here's how it works," our waiter exclaimed.
"You pick one item from each column, we combine them, and provide you with an amazing, self-designed smoothie."
"How fabulous!" I thought. "I love smoothies. At home we blend just about EVERYTHING! OK, I'll give this a try."
Hmm.. Did I want cow's milk or soy? Balkan style or low fat vanilla yogurt? Orange juice or apple? Blueberry, strawberry, banana or mango?
I settled on regular milk, vanilla yogurt, orange juice (as I was told the smoothie would need a base) and blueberry.
Perhaps it was my selection of ingredients (though my brunch companions fared no better), but my smoothie was AWFUL. Oh dear god it tasted like blueberry flavored milk... which, I realized, it pretty much was!
At home, we've been blending EVERYTHING so when the option of a smoothie presents itself, well..... it's pretty hard to resist, and actually pretty hard to ruin, but Littlefish managed to mess up three. The soy milk-balkan yogurt-banana smoothie was even worse. Perhaps milk and yogurt just don't go.
The food wasn't great either. Huevos rancheros tasted artificial and though spicy beans were a focal point of the menu description, they only slightly glazed the inside of the wrap. A tiny piece of canteloupe lay alongside.
I left feeling hungry.
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