What Am I Eating?

Last night my sister and I went to get haircuts. When we finished we decided to stop for a bite to eat at the nearby Carl's Jr. I don't eat at Carl's Jr. that often. The reason for this has always been because I can't stand their commercials. I mean who actually tries to sell food by making it look completely unappetizing? Oh, that's right. Carl's Jr.

Before last night, I could count the number of times I've eaten at Carl's Jr. on two fingers. Though perhaps slightly overpriced, I didn't feel either experience was horrible. But it's just not a place where I think to myself "I really want to eat there. I am craving Carl's Jr."

Nonetheless, my sister and I were hungry last night. It was 9:30pm and I didn't want a big greasy hamburger sitting in my stomach all night clogging my arteries. The closest place that had chicken strips (which I thought would be a little healthier) was Carl's Jr. So that's where we went.

In a word: disgusting.

That might will be the last time I ever eat chicken strips at Carl's Jr. I'm not even sure what I ate were chicken strips. I knew from the first bite that they were disgusting but not wanting to waste the food, I kept eating bite after bite. Something about them didn't taste right. While eating the first strip I chalked it up to the chicken being processed instead of real. But while eating the second one I was beginning to realize that it didn't really taste like chicken.

I turned to my sister and said "These don't really taste like chicken. They taste like...fish?" (note I said it like a question rather than a statement)

"Like fish?"

"I think so. I can't really tell but it tastes fishy to me."

I then stuck the last one up in her face and said, "Take a bite and tell me what you think"

She gave me a disgusted look and said, "Uh, I don't really want to."

"Just a tiny bite..."

So she took a tiny bite and chewed. As she did her face became slightly distorted.

"Does it taste like fish?" I asked.

"I can't really tell" she said. "But it's disgusting!"

I still have no idea what I ate for dinner last night but quite honestly, I'm not sure I want to know. My sister wondered if they fried the chicken strips in the same grease they used to make fish tacos. I honestly don't know.

But what I do know is that I now have a more valid reason as to why I don't want to eat at Carl's Jr.