Shiny New Dashboard

The better-half upgraded the site to MT 4.01 and the new interface is slick and cool and I’m going to have to spend time looking around for all the buttons, widgets and whatsits I normally use. But, I didn’t really sign on today to talk about MT. I came to tell you about how disappointing my lunch was today.

We went to Ukrop’s which for those of you from out of town is the mecca grocery store in the area. They “own” the grocery store market in Richmond area (with a store in Williamsburg and Fredericksburg too. In fact when a friend of mine moved to Williamsburg a few years ago she thanked the maker for the fact there was a Ukrop’s there). Anyway, they have a wonderful salad bar and lots of prepared foods.

I had to buy Tom’s of Maine toothpaste since the better-half couldn’t find it at Kroger the other day. I went over to the granola section of the store, picked up the toothpaste and when I got over to the salad bar the line was stupid long. I do not do well with lines.

I decided I could eat a sandwich but as it was already 12:30 the sandwich area was pretty picked over. I decided to get the London broil on foccacia bread. It came with a mustard sauce. The bread was good and the sauce was OK. The meat was skimpy and had zero flavor. The lettuce should have been composted and the tomato was nasty. Seriously, they couldn’t find a decent tomato to slice? There are still some growing at Dodd’s Farm just down the road from us and he’s a supplier.

There’s something about the preprepared sandwiches that just make them unappetizing. I suppose the chicken salad is OK and I had a pimento cheese sandwich the other day that was good (but it was pimento cheese–I don’t think you can mess that up) but nearly every other sandwich I’ve had has been bland, bland, bland. To top it off, the salt and vinegar chips from Route 11 were just tiny little chips like someone had stepped on the bag.