Personal Narrative: A Butchered Sandwich Better Than Most

A Butchered Sandwich Better Than Most

The exterior of the Lake Pointe Grille may initially turn off potential customers. The box-shaped, strip-mall style building doesn’t necessarily scream quality at first glance. Not too many people dined that hour at Lake Pointe Grille when my friend and I arrived, likely contributing to how quick our service was. After receiving the choice to dine either outside or inside the restaurant, we felt compelled to sit outside and the hostess led us to our table. The atmosphere outside barely had anything going for it, unless a few roads, trees, cornfields and a single store nearby qualify as breathtaking scenery to some people. Maybe John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads” would be fitting here. The waitress treated us politely and we

Was it poorly prepared by any means? I couldn’t recall the last time I had an Applejack salad, if at all, so I decided to give it a try considering how I’m also trying the Horseshoe for the first time here. The salad consisted of sliced apples, bleu cheese, bacon crumbles and candied walnuts. Maybe I had hoped that the walnuts would be the main selling point of the salad, because the unorthodox idea of a walnut salad immediately grabbed my curiosity. The walnuts sent strange reactions throughout my taste buds. When it comes to food, mixed reactions usually end up becoming negative reactions rather than positive ones. Had the salad been exactly the same, just without the candied walnuts, I would probably enjoy having it again. They were too hard and rough, not fitting with the rest of the salad, even more so than croutons, and the sugary, candied taste stood out undesirably amongst the rest of the salad components. Everything else in the salad had various different flavors, yet each flavor still enhanced the other. Bleu Cheese, apples and bacon go better than one might expect, but candied walnuts have the potential to spoil