Dining room devolution

[bcarney]

This photo was posted in the Royal Caribbean Dining Facebook group by Joel Alderman today from Independence of the Seas.  The image pretty much sums up the devolution of dining quality in the main dining room (and it also explains why I now ask for the off-menu Indian food).

[FManke]

10 minutes ago, bcarney said:

This photo was posted in the Royal Caribbean Dining Facebook group by Joel Alderman today from Independence of the Seas.  The image pretty much sums up the devolution of dining quality in the main dining room (and it also explains why I now ask for the off-menu Indian food).

Now that is just pitiful....

[ellcee]

What's the food item to the left of the rice?

[monctonguy]

Wow...seems pretty plain and blah looking.....I didn't do MDR on my last cruise....so the last time I did MDR was Feb of 2016 and it seemed to look a lot better than that each time!

[BrianAlt]

22 minutes ago, ellcee said:

What's the food item to the left of the rice?

Chicken Cordon McNugget?

[bcarney]

22 minutes ago, ellcee said:

What's the food item to the left of the rice?

Parsnip?  Turnip?  One of those -ippy things.

[BrianAlt]

I was on Independence in July and ate in the MDR several times.  Food never looked like this.  But maybe I was more careful about what I ordered?

[BrianAlt]

24 minutes ago, ellcee said:

What's the food item to the left of the rice?

 

1 minute ago, BrianAlt said:

Chicken Cordon McNugget?

Oh, sorry, that was right.

I think that's petrified scallop.

[ellcee]

It looks like a kid's meal.

 

 

[bcarney]

Just now, ellcee said:

It looks like a kid's meal.

To me it looks like the dinner served at my high school prom in the mid 1980s.

[BrianAlt]

Just now, ellcee said:

It looks like a kid's meal.

Maybe the peas are stuffed into the rice to make it more attractive to kids?  

[coneyraven]

Well, at least it looks like it's served on Fiesta ware

[DDemuth]

3 minutes ago, BrianAlt said:

I think that's petrified scallop.

 

Petrified of what?

I agree, that's pretty pitiful.  Hopefully just an off night.

[bcarney]

1 minute ago, DDemuth said:

Petrified of what?

What's on the other side of the plate.

[BrianAlt]

1 minute ago, DDemuth said:

Petrified of what?

Definition #2.

 

Quote

 

pet·ri·fied

ˈpetrəˌfīd/

adjective

 

1. 1.

   so frightened that one is unable to move; terrified.

   "the petrified child clung to her mother"
2. 2.

   (of organic matter) changed into a stony substance; ossified.

   "petrified wood"

 

1.  

[DDemuth]

1 minute ago, bcarney said:

What's on the other side of the plate.

 

..., or of what's hiding in the rice.

 

[Matt]

To be fair, we don't know what dish it is, if it is a kids dish, or if they asked for it to be served like that. 

[jce2]

4 minutes ago, Matt said:

To be fair, we don't know what dish it is, if it is a kids dish, or if they asked for it to be served like that. 

My thoughts exactly Matt!  The picture is completely out of context.

 

[ellcee]

oh, I don't think this is a regular meal. I just really want to know what's to the left of the rice.

[bcarney]

17 minutes ago, jce2 said:

My thoughts exactly Matt!  The picture is completely out of context.

 

I just sent a message to the original poster for more information.  You can follow along here (I hope this permalink works) https://www.facebook.com/groups/royalcaribbeandining/?multi_permalinks=1917153368548214&comment_id=1917462488517302&notif_t=like&notif_id=1502888835128152

 

[jticarruthers]

27 minutes ago, jce2 said:

My thoughts exactly Matt!  The picture is completely out of context.

 

I think the context is the advertisement in the background behind the plate .... 20% off specialty dining ....

[jticarruthers]

Judging by the description on the original post of "chicken cordon bleu", coupled with scrolling back through the posters' other posts to find the menu for the day featuring "chicken cordon bleu" .... I would conclude this is in fact the "chicken cordon bleu" ordered off the MDR menu.

 

That would make this :

 

Ham and cheese filled breaded chicken, rice-peas pilaf, seasonal vegetables and something unreadable on my menu copy

 

Updated: Found a legible copy .. that should be lingonberry relish :)

[DAVE(Darkcabbie)]

1 hour ago, bcarney said:

This photo was posted in the Royal Caribbean Dining Facebook group by Joel Alderman today from Independence of the Seas.  The image pretty much sums up the devolution of dining quality in the main dining room (and it also explains why I now ask for the off-menu Indian food).

Wow that looks awful , we have been on the Indy 3 times and never had any food that looks as unappetizing as the above and i have to say if that was served to me it would be going straight back.

CMON RC  you are a quality cruise line not a cross channel ferry.

[Matt]

1 hour ago, bcarney said:

I just sent a message to the original poster for more information.  You can follow along here (I hope this permalink works) https://www.facebook.com/groups/royalcaribbeandining/?multi_permalinks=1917153368548214&comment_id=1917462488517302&notif_t=like&notif_id=1502888835128152

 

Thanks!

[DocLC]

While I think there should be a sauce or some type of garnish, I don't think it looks that bad. If eat it. Maybe pedestrian, but still edible. 

[Jason.H.]

I think its supposed to look like a crab? Like the chicken thing a pincher and rice the body?

[BillHoo]

On 8/17/2017 at 11:17 AM, Jason.H. said:

I think its supposed to look like a crab? Like the chicken thing a pincher and rice the body?

I kinda saw that too when I first glanced at it.  Some kind of anthropomorphized kids meal?  The skull plate!