Reuben Was Here!

Hick did indeed bring home a Reuben sandwich for us on Tuesday. Of course I was giddy with anticipation. As giddy with an-ti-ci-paaaa-tion as a 1970s Heinz Ketchup commercial! I was really looking forward to the menu:

Broccoli Cheddar Soup

Reuben Sandwich

Slaw

Cookies OR Fruit

Hick brought them home around noon, to stash in FRIG II, then watch an episode of Gunsmoke before leaving to go play at his SUS2.5 (Storage Unit Store 2.5). He unpacked the bag at the cutting block.

"Did you only get one dessert?"

"There's four cookies in it."

"Is there slaw?"

"No. No slaw this time."

"But the menu says SLAW!!!"

"They had beets."

"You brought BEETS?"

"Nah. I said we didn't want the beets."

That's good. Because we don't eat the beets, and all they do is leak their beety fluids onto the REUBEN. Here's what we got:

Soup and a sandwich. Which is fine. Better than no Reuben. I warmed Hick's Reuben in the oven later, to get the bread all nice and crispy. The Reubens were better than usual. Had plenty of sauerkraut, and just enough of the Russian/French dressing, whichever they use at the Senior Center. 

Hick didn't want his soup, so gave it to me. I saved it for the next day, with the other half of my Reuben. It might look like a lot of soup, but the bottom of that container is not flush with the table. It's got about an inch of rim under there, with the bottom of the inner part built up. So about a half-cup of soup. It was pretty good. I would have liked more, seeing as how I didn't get my SLAW. There was actually a little piece of broccoli in my soup, and a piece of cauliflower. Hick's had two little pieces of broccoli.

The cookies were chocolate chip. I gave mine to Hick. They looked pretty good. He ate all four that evening.

Now I have to start nagging Hick to bring home the March menu. I don't want to take a chance on missing the next Reuben.