Today Dave popped into my office and asked if I wanted some Egyptian cuisine for lunch. I’m always up for an adventure, so I said “Sure!” He told me there was an Egyptian restaurant on Pleasant Street named Gamil’s.
Ah! Gamil’s! A few years ago there was an Egyptian restaurant on Main Street called Gamil’s. Also, there was a Gamil’s in the Gateway Center, which is the same building as our dentist. Dave had never heard of either of those, but I had eaten at both. But the one at the Gateway Center had closed a while back, and I didn’t know when the one on Main Street had closed. When we got there, we asked.
They did indeed used to operate the place on Main, but only for three months. It was just not a good building for a restaurant – no exhaust ventilation, and no seating. They moved out of the Gateway Center and into the place on Pleasant Street. It was a nice looking restaurant too, better than either of the previous locations.
I grabbed a menu. There was a huge selection of Vegan options, and since I am a part-time vegetarian, I was attracted to that. About the fifth item in that section was called Foul Mudammas. I thought, “Man, that must be good, or they could never get away with putting ‘foul’ in the name.” So I ordered one. It was pretty OK! I will go back again, but I really want to try everything else they have in the Vegan section, so it’ll be a while before I have that again.
When I finished eating it, I noticed that the restauranteur had labelled my sack with a ball point pen: Foul Mud. Luckily, it didn’t live up to its unfortunate abbreviation.
