A serving of skewerings

It's a sad fact of human nature -- people love to read nasty restaurant reviews (excepting the chefs and owners, of course). Here are a few from a recent book titled Skewered! The Rudest Food Reviews, compiled by Michelle Lovric (Chicago Review, $12.95):

"Olicia may be the worst name ever invented for a restaurant. It sounds like a fat substitute or a Macedonian compact car.''

"[My wife] Susan had a 'litely dusted chicken filet,' leading her to suggest that the only dusting it received was to remove shelf dirt.''

"The coffee tastes like water that has been squeezed out of a wet sleeve"

"I had chosen the cotes d'agneau ... They had been cut from a tired Alpine billy goat and seared in machine oil, and the haricots verts with which they were served resembled decomposed whiskers from a theatrical-costome beard."

Ouch.