Saturday, August 16, 2008

A Day in Melbourne - The Lord of the fries

I Should say, half a day in Melbourne. Today I spent half a day, to be precise 5 hours in the city of Melbourne. My plan was to check out Victoria market, federation square and bourke street mall along with my amigo gaurav. After cajoling gaurav to leave as early as possible we did leave to Melbourne at 2 in the afternoon(so much for wanting to leave early), except for a few panning shots with my Camera in the train, the trip to Melbourne was an eventless one. After landing at Flinder's station we wanted to have lunch at subway but Gaurav's love for french fries lead us to a fast food joint called "The Lord of the fries", true to their name they sold only French Fries with some 10 different kinds of sauces and burger(yes, not burgers because they've just a veggie burger in their menu). The lord of the fries fast food was an interesting find actually for the following reasons
1) Their main business was french fries(I've never come across such a joint until today)
2) They sold French Fries with 10 kinds of sauces(I've never come across such a joint until today)
3) Unlike McDonalds or other such fast food joints, who sell burgers and also french fries, these guys sell FRENCH FRIES and a veggie burger along, so its the other way around(interesting)
4) LOTF is a 100% veggies joint
5) I found their veggie burgers better than McDonald's burgers.
5) Inspite of all the above mentioned exceptions, they were doing great business and that explains human's love for french fries.

Anyways we picked up 2 burgers and 2 fries and a coke(now this coke has become obligatory with junk food) I took the mexican salsa sauce with my fries for the sole reason that the name sounded good and later found out that the choice was a mistake, it sucked big time. Gaurav picked up african sauce( we had no idea what it was when gaurav asked for it). The burger was good and so were the fries.
Anyways, after our stint at LOTF and after I gobbled up my fries and burger and after gaurav managed to finish just the fries and stored his burger in my bag we left to Victoria Market. We hopped on a tram in swanston street which headed north.

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