I’ve watched quite a few episodes of Kitchen Nightmares over the years, but tonight I watched an episode from 2008 or 2009 that highlighted a Mexican restaurant – Fiesta Sunrise, which is closed now.  There were cockroaches in the kitchen. Cockroaches, and they were crawling on the plates. One of the four chefs set the nachos on fire – well, I guess that is one way of dealing with the bug contamination problem. The chefs kept the refried beans in a garbage bucket. Chips sent back to the kitchen were returned to chip drawer.

I can’t get the image of those bugs on the plates out of my mind.

I guess I didn’t know how good I had it, growing up eating at Mother’s Restaurant. (That would be Sarah Shimp Grismore)