Cabbage. Beef. Red peppers. Maybe a hint of onions or garlic? What is that pungent after-taste?
Even as I write this, a full hour after I ate the Beef Thai
Wrap from Pollock, I can’t get that taste out of my mouth. In the past hour,
I’ve brushed my teeth twice, yet
still it lingers. I tried to wash it away with a cookie (because as we all
know, cookies can solve any problem), but surprisingly, it seems to have made
it worse! I must say, this is the first time a cookie has ever failed me.
The Beef Thai Wrap looked pretty appetizing to me as pursued
my quest in the dining hall to find something to new to eat. It was just a
regular wrap with shredded beef, cooked red peppers, and cabbage. So all in
all, not too scary, especially considering the sushi I’ve tried the past two
weeks.
First bite – success. It was a bit crunchy from the cabbage
and peppers, but nothing unusual or unexpected. It just tasted like a normal
wrap, and frankly, I wouldn’t have realized it was Thai food if the index card
above it hadn’t labeled it as a Beef Thai Wrap.
I polished off my tasty wrap pretty quickly; satisfied and
pretty full…although that may have been from the huge salad I ate right before
it.
However, my mistake in eating this wrap was unavoidable. I
finished it. As soon as I stopped eating, the after-taste overwhelmed me. I
tried to wash it down with water, and as I stated earlier, a cookie, but
nothing seemed to help. There must have been some hidden onions or garlic or something in there, because I haven’t
experienced that bad of a taste in a long time.
Unfortunately, the after-taste ruined the wrap for me. I’m feeling a
little bitter towards the Beef Thai Wrap now. It quite literally “left me with a bad
taste in my mouth”.
