Place: Arby's
Lunch: King's Hawaiian Brown Sugar Bacon & Roast Beef (no lettuce, no tomato), potato cakes, orange cream shake
Me: "Maple bacon roast beef, no lettuce, no tomato, small potato cakes, orange cream shake."
Smiling Counter Guy: "I NEED TWO POTATO CAKES AND AN ORANGE CREAM!"
Smiling Counter Guy: "So that's a Market Fresh and..."
Me: "No, the maple bacon roast beef."
Smiling Counter Guy: "YEAH! Bacon!" Nine ninety five!"
I pay him and wander off to the side. If I'm reading the abbreviations on the receipt correctly, I should be getting what I actually wanted.
Smiling Counter Guy, staring at a sandwich box, shouts to the back "WHAT IS THIS?"
Back: "BACON ROAST BEEF NO LETTUCE NO TOMATO!"
Smiling Counter Guy: "DID YOU HEAR ME CALL OUT POTATO CAKES?"
Back: "They're right here."
A shake magically appears, and I'm all set.
Smiling Counter Guy staring at something else: "WHAT IS THIS?"
Who cares. No longer my problem.
ARBY'S HAS THE MEATS. And a new variation of one of those meats...the bacon, specifically. The new Brown Sugar Bacon is a sweet, perhaps candied, bacon. And it works perfectly here with the King's Hawaiian bun and the roast beef. And the Swiss and the creamy dijon. The whole thing tastes sweet, but perfectly so. It's just great.
There's also a smoked ham version and a BLT version, where they pair three strips of brown sugar bacon with three strips of Arby's pepper bacon. Which technically makes it a BBLT, or you would think. I'll probably have to try that one eventually.
Nothing much going on. Summer is flying by. TV sports guys are already talking football.
Seems to go faster as we get older.
