Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Culture shock

Culture shock manifests itself in many different ways. One of those ways is absolute confusion. I experienced this last week at a popular chain restaurant in Ecuador called Tejas Pollo. For those spanish scholars following, this means Texas chicken. I am curious if this is a restaurant in Texas. I am also curious what qualifies their chicken as Texas chicken. Does it come from Texas? That seems like it would be very inefficient. I ordered my chicken meal and was astounded when I looked at my tray and found two uni-sex plastic gloves. My first understanding was that a worker obviously got confused and placed his gloves on my tray. I thought this until I saw other happy customers of The Texas Chicken contentedly gnawing away on their respective poultry whilst sporting the fashionable protective devices. Strange no?

1 comment:

  1. I know that when hot peppers are around people wear gloves...but it does not seem that there were any jalepenos.

    I will tell Grandma Bev about this place, seems up her alley with the gloves! :)

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