Lunch with Father

My first restaurant post, one of many to follow, will appraise the $5.99 lunch at Sal's Pizzeria.

Sal's Pizzeria, or Restaurant, depending on who you ask (they do publish a menu), is a local chain in South Florida. Whether there is stiff competition for your pizza dollar is simple to determine: how many pizzerias are there in the shopping center near Publix? One? It is probably Sal's.

Sal's delights the wallet with its twopizzaandacoke lunch for a fiver, and for slightly more dosh one gets a lunch with some variety, even a little potential for greens: a salad or soup, slice of pizza and half a sandwich, which at Sal's means something warm and substantial. But how was the food?

Dad: "It's excellent! Whadda deal!"

Me: "It's fine, but why does my eggplant parmigiana taste like Chinese food? Was it cooked in peanut oil?"

I will continue to ponder this matter.