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Cedar City Dinner Dare
Okay here's the story (Jackie doesn't even know yet). I was in Cedar City for work last week, and a couple of people that we have hired and start next year from SUU live there, so we thought it would be a fun time to go out to dinner with them. We had a great recommendation to go to a nice restaurant (stays unnamed as you will find out later). With reservations made and a group of eight we thought that dinner would go smooth. Boy were we wrong, it all started out when our waiter took 15 minutes to bring out our drinks, then another 10 to bring appetizer's. After we got finished with those we waited for 7 minutes (we started to time) for salad's and low and behold our dinner (all at the same time). As we still hadn't gotten refills by this time we thought that someone was running down the street to Maverick to get more soda. One of the highlights of the night was when the waiter educated us on the difference between table pepper and crushed pepper (after we pointed out where he put down the shaker) then he proceeded to add pepper to not only our salads, but to our laps as well. This was right after he dumped french onion soup on the lap of one of the new hires and the funny thing was the waiter didn't even notice, so we didn't tell him, but he probably was wondering what was so funny when we were all laughing. Now that we are about 1 hour into our dinner we finally have our food. Okay I know that I'm from Vernal, but whenever I've eaten Prime Rib I've had horseradish. Apparently the rules are different in Cedar, Prime Rib only comes with vegetables. After we asked for horseradish and waited for 5 minutes, the waiter brought it out the caveat was that it was "Raw Horseradish" This was the most potent horseradish I've tasted. Which brings me to the highlight of the night. We all decided that it would be funny to see Mike eat an entire spoonful of Raw Horseradish. Well I got it down, holding back laughter and tears (and snot). For desert we were asked "What kinda' group do we have here?" "A thirsty one" was the only response. At which time we finally were able to get our first of what turned out to be two refills. It was a fun filled dinner that lasted 4 hours - On the bright side, my sinuses were all clear and we didn't have to use the restroom very much.