[Sca-cooks] Nasty Foods...

[Peters, Rise J.]

I think the nastiest food I've ever had a hand in cooking was a garlic and
cream sauce for chicken that ended up coming out greasy with serious texture
issues.  The other head cook and I looked at it, looked at each other,
smelled it, realized we had no desire to taste it, and said "this is not
leaving the kitchen."  So we dumped it in a nearby ditch  and served the
chicken roasted without sauce instead.

I think it's really important to be able to make the call to pitch out a
total failure, rather than serving it and hoping for the best.  "This is not
ideal," "this is not how I'd hoped it would turn out" are one thing ...
"this is nasty" needs to be thrown away.  One benefit of the multiple-course
approach taken to many sca meals is that there is usually enough food that
nobody will notice what's missing...