Say What?

I’d been working on a commercial shoot deep in Mexico for about a month. Now, it was finally over and the director was taking some of the crew to a celebratory dinner. The chosen restaurant was built on a pier over the ocean, the landside was jungle. This was not a tourist restaurant.

As we arrived, the place closing for the night, but the size of our American group easily changed their minds. The waiter had to hunt around for English language menus, and even when he found them, they weren’t as much help as they were humorous.

Some of the choices were “cooked meat”, “hole fish”, and my favorite, “food, with vegetables.”. There was also a listing for what appeared to be shark steak … but it was hard to be sure.

While we waited for whatever we had ordered, some of us took a walk on the pier, and found some pens containing … yep, sharks!

I still have no idea what we ate that night, but I do know I’d never eat it again.

Still, how many opportunities do you get to order “food, with vegetables?”