Friday OT #2 - Strange Fruit

I didn’t get to a Friday OT last week because I was on a girls’ trip to Omaha. We got there around lunchtime and our only rule for the weekend was that we wouldn’t eat at chains. We yelped best lunches in Omaha, and it pointed us to a place called Orsi’s Italian Pizza and Bakery - so we headed there.

We arrive, and first notice there are just pews around the front of the storefront, no tables. Sort of a butcher shop, cheese in a case, Italian goods in bulk on the other wall. We looked at the menu, and it was everything from 8” pizzas to “60 pieces of garlic toast uncooked for $30.”

I ordered last, and wanted to embrace all adventures. Cream cheese was a pizza topping, so I asked the cordially-curt attendant what would pair with it. “I don’t know. Bacon, chicken.” I ordered cream cheese and bacon, and he asked “can I have a short name to call?” Sure.

Another fellow came up and asked us if we wanted a table. Sure! He went over and got out a white folding table and sat us at an open pew next to the bread crumbs for sale, and one-gallon cans of olive oil. We asked him if there was possibly a bathroom - he directed us directly through the kitchen.

We ended up receiving the wrong pizzas, but they were fantastic. It was a worthwhile adventure, and there was more to it that didn’t relay to paper well - but it was one of the stranger dining experiences I have had here in the US. Not anything truly bizarre or outlandish, just everything slightly off-center.

Where are your strange hidden gem restaurants? Can you describe them?

Friday OT #1 - Onomatopoeia

When I am procrastinating from doing a task, I create playlists with themes while I think over the task at hand. Yesterday, I was churning something over, and so I created a playlist of songs with onomatopoeia in the title.

In case anyone wasn’t an English major, onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like the noise it makes. Boom, crash, slap, stomp, knock - all words that sound at least somewhat like their corresponding noises.

I got about 103 songs before I stopped. How many can CF get?
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