Sylvia and I started the New Year off with a coffee semi-filled January 1 breakfast. Knowing our usual haunt was closed, we drove about 25 miles north, to the edge of dfw civilization. We stepped into a cafe entering the Twilight Zone. The place briefly went quiet as everyone turned to gaze. I felt like Chevy Chase in the Three Amigos movie entering the Mexican bar wearing the fancy Hollywood vaquero outfit with sombrero. We should have shown up in boots, or maybe it was my red shirt.
We waited a few for a waitress to bring a menu. "You from Dallas..." Yeah... sure.
In the background a lady droned on talking about how she was just going through the door...pronounced in two syllables -Door-er...when she heard the siren...pronounced Si-reeeene. No place but Texas. We were about to eat country.
Looking over the menu, I got excited seeing dollar coffee and chicken-fried steak breakfast...but then caught the spinach omelette. The last one I had was filled with shrimp, cream cheese and fresh leafy spinach -covered in hollandaise. Yum. I didn't realize that when these fine folks sat around and decided on the menu for the cafe, a spinach omelette simply sounded like the right thing to do.
My breakfast eggs came with spinach -from the can. Yep, Popeye and Olive Oil spinach. Tasted like it too. I was expecting spinach like in a spinach salad. And the mushrooms...from the can. I'm the master chef at my house. I love to cook. I know mushrooms from the can... Oh well, at $6.50 it was the most expensive breakfast there. I should have figured the relative "high" price was to discourage anyone from ordering it. It was just for show. If any cowboys or cowgirls were to order it...they have to reach for that can opener.
After finishing (yeah, I ate it...it tasted like eating dinner somehow), waiting for a coffee refill, the waitress asked if I'd like a to-go cup. I said "Yes," feeling very much like we were gently being reassured that stranger in these parts don't stick around long.
That was breakfast in the Twilight Zone. Greeting the new year...
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