Stephen Lee and KFC

So it must be said…both with major regret and shame…that I had my first experience with KFC last Saturday night. So I met up with Stephen on Friday night and we brought all of his stuff back to my host family’s house. Well we were planning on going out to dinner, but we sat around talking with my parents for a while. At like 10 o’clock, we finally made it around to leaving and headed towards a restaurant Tomas has suggested—Velryba. So we got there and the waiter came up and said something about drinks. So we thought he just wanted to get our drink orders first. So when he came back we ordered our drinks and then started to order our food and he was like “No!…I told you we only serve drinks after 10.” So we stayed to finish our drinks, and then headed out to find somewhere else to eat. By this point it was already 11:30. So we went to the part of Prague that I know best—Prague 2 where I have class. There’s this restaurant that we’ll eat at a lot called Radost. I knew it was open late, so we went there. Well…we got there, and apparently it turns into a club at night, and we didn’t want to have to pay a cover charge to eat dinner. So we started walking down the street where some other little restaurants are. We walked into a couple, but all of them were closing at midnight, and they wouldn’t seat us at 11:45. We finally tried our last resort, a little café called Meduza by the hotel we stayed at the first week. We got there and peeked in the window, but no one was eating food. So we grudgingly made our way back to the only thing we knew was still open…KFC. I know, I know…we didn’t want to do it….but we were starving! I don’t even eat at KFC in America. My stomach revolted at my spicy chicken strips…and we both hung our heads in shame when we left. And thus ends my first experience with fast food in Prague…I don’t know if this is a good or bad thing to be said about globalization. We were grateful that something was open late enough for us to eat…not so stoked that it had to be KFC. But at least it makes for a good story. And I wouldn’t have eaten KFC any other way…as a desperate and last attempt to appease a ravenous stomach.

P.S. Stephen Lee is here…way exciting! :D