{"id":193,"date":"2008-06-15T22:31:07","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T05:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=193"},"modified":"2025-05-23T16:23:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T20:23:43","slug":"monterey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/06\/monterey\/","title":{"rendered":"Please don’t flash the octopus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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<\/a>Today, I went to Monterey with Koklynn, Robin, Tilek, and Reinoud. After driving 17-Mile Drive<\/a>, we had lunch at Marlyn’s American Grill<\/a>. Everyone else ordered burgers, but I was in the mood for chicken tenders. There were supposed to be five chicken strips on the plate and it came with fries, so I figured it would be a pretty solid lunch. They brought out the burgers, and as you can see they were of a good “American grill” size:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Tilek<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Reinoud<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then, the chicken tenders were placed in front of me. This is an actual photograph of my plate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Very<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I really didn’t know what to think. I thought back to the menu, and the item was listed right there with the burgers, not in an “appetizer” or “children’s menu” section. Then I even thought it might be a joke. But that’s what it was. Maybe the staff saw my reaction, or that I was taking pictures, because later into the meal a second plate showed up unannounced:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Oh well, at least the fries were good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After lunch, we went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium<\/a>. Thanks to Nelson<\/a> for hooking a couple of us up with free passes. No more words. Pictures here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, I went to Monterey with Koklynn, Robin, Tilek, and Reinoud. After driving 17-Mile Drive, we had lunch at Marlyn’s American Grill. Everyone else ordered burgers, but I was in the mood for chicken tenders. There were supposed to be five chicken strips on the plate and it came with fries, so I figured it … Continue reading Please don’t flash the octopus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3291,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/3291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}