Moussaka!

Last week Marcy and I had moussaka for dinner. I have to admit that I was a bit hesitant eating it at first because of a variety of reasons. For one, it was a frozen moussaka. I’ve had bad experiences with frozen meals like this in the past. They’ve been anywhere from very bland to completely inedible. The second reason is from my first week in residence at university.

The guys on my floor ate together all year but this tradition was forged in the first week. We were naive in that we had no idea what kind of quality of food to expect at the cafeteria. We learned quickly however as we were offered a choice of moussaka one day. Now I didn’t partake in this event but three guys – Ernie (a.k.a Bernest Ghan), Andrew and Lonnie all had a moussaka eating “contest”. I say “contest” because there really wasn’t much competition. Ernie blew everyone else away though Andrew certainly did give it a good “go”. Lonnie was left in the dust. All of them said that it was one of the most disgusting meals that they’ve ever had (little did they know however that we’d have a full year of this food). So that experience with moussaka, even though I didn’t eat it, kind of made me hesitant about eating it ever.

I was brave and bold though last week and boy am I glad I tried it because that was one awesome meal. It was vegetarian moussaka (meaning it had no lamb) and we had a fantastic greek salad to go along with it. I’ll definitely have moussaka again, so long as it isn’t from the cafeteria on campus.

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