I'm not sure what I'm eating but it's pretty good!

Saturday evening finds me in Mechelen, Belgium. Why you ask? TDF. But that's another post.

I walked around for an hour or so and managed to work up a pretty good appetite. I had a sandwich on the Eurostar while I was under the English Channel going 183 miles per hour, for future reference understand that chicken salad is not what we think it is, it's chicken with tomatoes and lettuce (the salad) but that was many hours and miles ago.

As I walked around I read the signs in front of the restaurants and realized that I was I big trouble as my French is not particularly strong (that would translate into non-existent) and there was no way I was going to successfully navigate ordering.

Since the TDF is coming through town there is a carnival in the town square. I studied the menu of the "snack bar", and found something that looked a lot like round funnel cakes with a liberal sprinkling of powdered sugar on top. I'm in. The nice carnival guy spoke English, French, German, and something else that I didn't catch, I ordered 7 of the hopefully tasty things, only 4 Euros. Then as I was headed back to the hotel I found a "My Kabob", how hard can that be?

It only took a few tries to order a "mixed kabob", the sticking point was whether I wanted it with bread or not. We got that figured out, added fries and a Diet Coke, good to go!

So, I just finished the sandwich, it was great, I'm still not sure what it is other than darn tasty. I just tried the things with powered sugar, mmm..., imagine funnel cake puffs drowning in powered sugar. Life is good.

Sure, I could've just gone to the Pizza Hut (they are EVERYWHERE), but I'm trying to live local. Bottom line, great meal.

Tomorrow, I see Stage 1 of the TDF, LIVE!