My friends in the Netherlands are now on vacation! Another great trip to Euro Disney (insert French-accented laughter). They drove this time which meant they drove through Belgium’s lamest, most annoying, goody goody region, Flanders…stupid Flanders! Meanwhile, Jeremy sent a picture of this French steak joint they stopped at for a meal. Thank Sweet Zombie Jesus it wasn’t Buffalo Grill! Those attempted murderers were investigated for serving beef from the UK during the mad-cow-disease outbreak and the people in charge lied to customers by claiming the meat was from Argentina. Obviously, the executive/managerial caste tried to blame the distributor. The difference in the EU v. Amerika? In the EU and France, the people being investigated faced actual prison and charges of manslaughter unlike Amerika where rich people pay some bullshit fine and have a pice of paper saying they’re neither guilty nor innocent, oh, and they didn’t do it.
With my immediate fear relieved, I was puzzled over this place’s name. You come here because you’re as hungry as a hippo? I doubt they serve hippo. It can’t be the board game Hungry Hungry Hippos since this place was founded in 1968, the game debuted in the late Seventies. I’m going with my last guess given the French sense of humor, it’s a dig on how fat we Amerikans are due to us being the biggest beef eaters on the planet yet you can’t outrun us in a straight line when we’re pissed off. Jeremy said he gave their prime rib about three seconds of thought, a mere €70 (~$73 US) and I suspect it would be a mere six ounces, so we Yankees have it pretty good paying under $30 for a pound at Outback or Texas Roadhouse.
I asked around a bit and no one I talked to, including the waitress, connected the restaurant nor its name to anything vaguely “American.” A friend even chided me a bit, “It’s not always about you.” Someone mentioned that they used to have more cartoonish branding, complete with an obnoxious cartoon mascot. But even back then, nothing about it was “American.”
The food was ok, except the appetizer. They put bolognese as the meat sauce on the nachos!