Yes, this one is about SALAD-BARS

So today,  I've had the opportunity to experience a great salad-bar sort of lunch. It may sound basic, yet i found it simply: unremarkable. Now, i could almost hear you ask- Why would a tasty salad bar could generate such a strong adjective? Well, it has to be with being next to it and managing to stay who you are , recognising the goodness of the other, yet keeping your own qualities unchanged...  (i mean, I'm obviously talking SPECIFICALLY about the vegetable, nuts, humuos, chopped-boiled egg, fresh spinach or whatever the nature of the options may be). So as i sat down, in this lovely sort of mediterranean low ceiling restaurant, with a great friend of mine, a young waiter places a menu in front of me, on the navy-blue&white checked table cloth. As the chat went on, I casually opened the menu to have a quick glance of the choices such a charming place has to offer and seconds later heard my inner bells ring, ring, ring so loudly: MEAT-MEAT-MEAT...(i'm vegetarian) So i retorically said to my friend.... this is a french restaurant, right? Keeping a smile on his face and glad to confirm my question he said: yes.

I thought... ok, here we go... let's have a look at the kinds of potatoes they serve then. Soon enough he suggested i had a look at the salad bar.... so I did. I looked: it seemed reasonably large and eclectic. I was eyed- satisfied to start with. Then, i served myself a generous portion and began to explore between what became an exciting dish. So so good! Every bit had its own taste, although they were placed so closed together...and that's my issue with the salad bar business: whatever you put on your plate ends up tasting the same as the rest. So the carrots and the potatoes and the sparragus have the same flavour....and it's usually all so boring and homogeneous... uniform: DULL.  This was NOT the case today. So it gave me hopes... i began to think that it is possible! It has much more merit when things that are closed together remain authentic to what they really are. It isn't such brave achievement to be isolated and unique... the greatness comes from the fussion of idividual ideas that stay (to a great extend) untouched by the clutterness of many. 
That's lunch for me today, discovering that if you are a potate, don't need to turn green just because you're put next to a  broccolli  all day.  (I never thought this would be the phrase i would end up this blog-entry with... but it is)

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