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My Experience with Pop-up Sel de Mer

RandyinDEN

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MisterBill99

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I would prefer grits to foie gras. At least grits are edible.
Foie gras is excellent! I actually had 3 servings of the foie appetizer when we were on Eurodam in March. I noticed it's on 2 of the 3 gala night menus on their website. Will we have all 3 menus on our 14 night Norway cruise in June? It's not B2B, one single cruise.

 

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KroozNut

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Please- grits IS edible, not grits "are" anything.

 

With grits, both 'is' and 'are' are acceptable uses according to the grammar references I can find. I'd like to see your reference saying that 'is' is the only correct use.

 

Using your logic, would it be oats are good or oats is good? :confused:

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navybankerteacher

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With grits, both 'is' and 'are' are acceptable uses according to the grammar references I can find. I'd like to see your reference saying that 'is' is the only correct use.

 

Using your logic, would it be oats are good or oats is good? :confused:

 

You are confusing format and context. To understand the proper usage of the word "grits" as a name for a dish, answer the following question: when discussing your breakfast, would you say "oatmeal ARE good" or "oatmeal IS good"?

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RocketMan275

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You are confusing format and context. To understand the proper usage of the word "grits" as a name for a dish, answer the following question: when discussing your breakfast, would you say "oatmeal ARE good" or "oatmeal IS good"?

 

Both statements are incorrect. Oatmeal is terrible.

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KroozNut

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You are confusing format and context. To understand the proper usage of the word "grits" as a name for a dish, answer the following question: when discussing your breakfast, would you say "oatmeal ARE good" or "oatmeal IS good"?

 

Still looking for the reference (other than you of course).. :rolleyes:

 

If you're eating grits, and a single little gritty morsel escapes to the floor, you could properly say "I dropped a grit - does anyone see a grit on the floor? Hey, that IS my grit, right next to your left foot - quick - don't let the hound get it! "

But if you're eating a heap of them, ideally with butter, salt, pepper, and maybe some grated cheddar in the mix, you're eating grits and you're eating all of them, because grits ARE so good! :)

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We just disembarked the Eurodam Sunday and thoroughly enjoyed Sel de Mer ...In fact it was probably the best meal we had in over 45 HAL cruises including chefs table. In fact, we already have 2 reservations at Sel de Mer next month on the Koningsdam . Be sure to order the soufflé for dessert!

 

 

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RedneckBob

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Still looking for the reference (other than you of course).. :rolleyes:

 

If you're eating grits, and a single little gritty morsel escapes to the floor, you could properly say "I dropped a grit - does anyone see a grit on the floor? Hey, that IS my grit, right next to your left foot - quick - don't let the hound get it! "

But if you're eating a heap of them, ideally with butter, salt, pepper, and maybe some grated cheddar in the mix, you're eating grits and you're eating all of them, because grits ARE so good! :)

 

This is music to my ear. Never saw so much discussion about girts in any thread

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AncientWanderer

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We were on a long Westerdam cruise in October and ate at Sel de Mer two times. I wish I could have gone three times....or four times, or.... well, you can sense my enthusiasm.

 

I had the dover sole both times because it was wonderful. I can't remember what DH had, but he was happy, too. We had a variety of sides and things. Really loved our meals. Maybe a weak point was the desserts? Don't remember. But big Sel de Mer fan here.

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When we were on the NA in November, I was sure our Sal de Mer dinner was for Thursday at 7 pm. Wednesday evening (late dinner sitting), we ordered our wine and dinner and a hostess came to our table trying to drum up customers for the Tammirind for Thursday night. I said we're going to Sal de Mer, and she got a funny look on her face and said "I think that's tonight". Oh, oh! Silly me. She went and checked and of course I was wrong, but she said if we still wanted to go, we could. Our food hadn't arrived yet, so we did go and dinner was very good. She escorted us and they were very polite over my mistake of the day. Someone had commented before we cruised that they missed their night there, and were charged. I noticed when we got the final invoice, that I had been credited back the cost (we'd booked before boarding), and then was charged again when we went. There was a card in our room upon boarding that had the proper date, but it didn't say Wednesday, just the exact date.

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RocketMan275

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Still looking for the reference (other than you of course).. :rolleyes:

 

If you're eating grits, and a single little gritty morsel escapes to the floor, you could properly say "I dropped a grit - does anyone see a grit on the floor? Hey, that IS my grit, right next to your left foot - quick - don't let the hound get it! "

But if you're eating a heap of them, ideally with butter, salt, pepper, and maybe some grated cheddar in the mix, you're eating grits and you're eating all of them, because grits ARE so good! :)

 

Food, even grits, never hits the floor in our house. Our "hounds" are that good.

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We just disembarked the Eurodam Sunday and thoroughly enjoyed Sel de Mer ...In fact it was probably the best meal we had in over 45 HAL cruises including chefs table. In fact, we already have 2 reservations at Sel de Mer next month on the Koningsdam . Be sure to order the soufflé for dessert!

 

 

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We were on a long Westerdam cruise in October and ate at Sel de Mer two times. I wish I could have gone three times....or four times, or.... well, you can sense my enthusiasm.

 

I had the dover sole both times because it was wonderful. I can't remember what DH had, but he was happy, too. We had a variety of sides and things. Really loved our meals. Maybe a weak point was the desserts? Don't remember. But big Sel de Mer fan here.

 

Great to hear! Thanks both :D

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We just disembarked the Eurodam Sunday and thoroughly enjoyed Sel de Mer ...In fact it was probably the best meal we had in over 45 HAL cruises including chefs table. In fact, we already have 2 reservations at Sel de Mer next month on the Koningsdam . Be sure to order the soufflé for dessert!

 

 

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Great to hear. We came off the Eurodam a week earlier and were very disappointed at Sel de Mer. Misses ordered Dover sole and was worst she ever had. The PM brought her lobster tails to try and make her happy. In addition I was dumbfounded that baby shrimp would be an appretizer when the PG menu offers jumbo shrimp.

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