Ah yes, the ever elusive dessert cart. I’ve always felt it to be the most frustrating part of my restaurant experiences, specially as a kid growing up. My parents would occasionally take us to a restaurant, and when the meal was done with we’d hopefully eye the desserts hoping that somehow they’d decide to finish everything with some nice cheesecake, pie, ice cream, mousse, pudding or even flan. But it never happened, and the dessert cart always remained a far away thing.
As I grew older I came to understand that when you have a family with three kids, after you paid for all the “serious” food desserts seem like financial excess. And even out dining on my own I’d find that most times dessert was a luxury I just couldn’t afford.
It’s not the same for everybody, though. Others might find that their dietary guilt catches up with them by the time they’ve finished all the main courses. But no matter what the reason, dessert carts always seem to pass untouched in most restaurants, always catching people’s attention but rarely being set on the table.
This, of course, has led me to doubt the actual freshness of those desserts, since I honestly doubt any given restaurant will produce more than one of each thing on any given day. My belief has been proven true during those rare occasions when I have actually dared to order dessert and they didn’t have what I was asking for. The waiter would always say that it had “run out”, and not even once have I come across a waiter that said the chef was already whipping up some more cheesecake in the kitchen, and that all I had to do was wait a little while.
No, it seems the dessert tray is just there to make us feel bad. Bad for wanting it, and bad for not having it. I do salute those of you – brave souls as you are – that plunge into the sweet culinary delights, throwing away all care for diet, wallet or freshness. You, my friends, are truly the toughest and most adventurous of the restaurant folk.
I hope to grow up and be like you, some day. But until then, I will admit in shame: I am a dessert coward.
Good hunting;
O
Desserts in restaurant tend to be a bit too pricy compared to their size. Same aplies to some main courses. I personally prefer cooking on my own or if I want to spend exta I go for burger, so I avoid restaurants when I can.
This page seems to be missing your trademark ninjas.
Restaurant desserts sure are expensive, and they are usually far more fancy looking than actually tasty…but I must admit, the best strawberry cheesecake I ever tried was in one of those carts. Or maybe it was just my cheap-economy minded brain making up for the cost in flavor.
And indeed, the ninja seems absent….but then again, O is a ninja, so technically there is still a ninja in the strip.
I sometimes forget the ninja, I must admit. It’s a fairly recent trend in the comic, and one I plan to keep. But it takes getting used to.
Now O knows the dark secret, their relationship is sky rocketing!
On next strip ypu should make Raven stomak bigger, because she eat so much.
O, you’re fantastic thus i had been in tens of restaurants i have never seen dessert cart.
You have to get used to draw ninjas.
Well.. There IS one ninja.. So O is freed from guilt.. Cant forget that O is the grey butterknife ninja!
This is why our favorite restaurant is our favorite restaurant, dessert comes with the meal and they do their own baking on the premises.
It’s my happy place.
I usually ask for one of the desserts, whenever -and wherever- I go to a restaurant, since, after all, I came for the whole deal!
That reminds me that I must consider it in the budget for any (pffft) future romantic dates of dinner-and-movie that I should (pffft) have.
you know, i never want dessert at restaurants here in the U.S. because it seems they give me largest portion for the main meal, and then by the time im done, im super full, they always ask if i want dessert, but i am never hungry enough to fit dessert
dessert carts have always grossed me out, even as a kid. dessert just sitting around all day, people sneezing, dust, hair… mm yum, yes i’ll take one of those. no, wait, give me the fake plastic one
Yesterday I ate at a supermarket cafeteria, ate some pasta, a soda, that was 2,5 dollars, pretty good food for that price and because I was eating cheap, I bought a coconut flan, it was 2 dollars, almost the same as my main food, yet IT WAS SOOOO GOOD I ate that thing like it was the last flan on earth, damn it was such a good flan it was totally worth it… those coconuts pieces were sooo good, o that flan I am so gonna get another one the next time, maybe 2 coconut flans, would be better.
Funny thing… I’ve never seen a desert cart in my life. Seems over here in Germany, that thing is nonexistant. Dessert is always ordered à la carte and served directly from the kitchen. The only thing you find on carts in fancy restaurants over here is cheese – but cheese carts… oh my. I simply can not resist those, there is just too much incredibly good stuff on them.
In most middle-low end restaurants the desserts are usually bought from a supplier then marked up which is why they cost ridiculous amounts. Like at the banquet hall I work in, there is a giant walk-in freezer full of mini-pastries, cookies, cakes etc. just baked off, marked up, carried out.
Where I live dessert carts carry fake desserts, and when you order, they either bring it from the kitchen or make it “on demand”.
Well, I have to say, that is one of the reality of life. Most of the time, when I order those, they look good but taste really bad. Oh, but when I take the same thing at a lower price in a little restaurant on the corner of the street, it look awful but taste like heaven.
Okay I forgot hes a ninja but I’ve been wondering… O has locker full of sharp melee weapons he even knows how to use kungfu with broadsword(though he wanted to change it to Gunblade) so why he choose the butterknives?
I’m with hadgi, I usually can’t finish the meal, there is no way I am going to cram in dessert.