08.23.06

Watermelon Wednesdays

Posted in The Story at 11:34 pm by Chef Matt

I’ll start off with what I am sure is the question that is at the forefront of your minds given my last post: “Have I been fired?” The answer is: “Not yet.” I am making huge progress on the line, but the little mistakes plague me here and there. But they are becoming fewer and are occurring less regularly. While the progress is in the right direction, I live in the constant fear of having my skills “top out” at a place that is not good enough. I just hope that my boss will keep backing me through this tough time. So far, so good.

But now for the fun of today. For today’s fun, we have to go back in time one week. Last Wednesday night was apparently very very busy. Epically busy. The kind of busy you write epic poems about. I mentioned something about it in my post of my first double shift. In fact, I started doing double shifts last Thursday as a response to how busy last Wednesday was. Every time it has gotten busy since then, I would say something along the lines of “Wow, it’s getting busy…”, the response would invariably come back “This is nothing compared to last Wednesday…”. It has achieved mythical proportions.

Watermelon at work. It’s not just for elementary school teachers anymore.

But something else started last Wednesday. The new owner brings in watermelon on Wednesdays for all the staff at night. Last Wednesday was the first instance of this (and given how busy it was, it apparently was quite the affair in and of itself…). But this was my first Wednesday night working myself, and I can safely say the following about eating watermelon in the kitchen:

• Wash your hands before eating watermelon - especially if you have been peeling raw sausages beforehand.
  
• Wash your hands after eating watermelon - it is a wet, messy, sticky food. This is all well and good when you are eight years old, but not when you are trying to cook for the masses.
  
• There is a lot of water in watermelon - this is helpful considering that I spend all my spare moments in the kitchen drinking water anyway.
  
• Having a seed spitting fight in the kitchen is a bad idea. (Just kidding!) (Umm, about my actually having a seed fight that is… having the fight is indeed a bad idea…)
  

Have you ever noticed how watermelon flavored candies don’t taste like watermelon, but they all taste like each other?…

So now I have one more thing to look forward to each week. Sure, there is the weekend and payday and all things like that, but come on - watermelon? It’s awesome.

(Of course ask me how I feel about it in 3 months when I have been eating them for 12 weeks and they are out of season…)

Matt

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