Fondue is for people with excess time and money to waste. Yesterday, I went to The Melting Pot with a group of co-workers for a Going Away celebration. Our reservation was for 5:00 PM, and we didn't leave until nearly 9:00 PM. That's nearly four hours of cooking your own food.
I should say that, the food that I did have was good. The first course was a spicy cheese, which you could dip chips, veggies and apple slices into. My next course was a mango salad, with Caribbean flair. The main course was a variety of meats - shrimp, jerk chicken, filet mignon, and some squash-filled ravioli to cook in the fondue pots, with a variety of other veggies. I don't know if I was full, but I sure was tired of having to cook each bite for two minutes, transferring it off of the skewer, onto the plate, re-loading the skewer for the next bite and finding the appropriate dipping sauce.
Then there was a long pause.
Finally, the dessert (not desert) course came. Chocolate, which you can dip fruit, or rice-crispy treats in, or drizzle over cheesecake. Tasty, but again a lot of damn work. All the while, you are positioning your skewer in a community pot with other jamokes, trying to make sure your food doesn't fall off of the skewer and into the void.
Meanwhile, I'm sitting next to a colleague who was acting like a caged animal. He literally could not handle being in that yuppie-scum place one more moment.
These guys also have issues with fondue, for completely different reasons.
Nice call out with "desert."
Posted by: Wifey | June 20, 2008 at 03:17 PM