Put me on the “I’ve never seen this before” list…
Tee, Hee
I remeber I was in Boston once. They were opening up a restraunt called Chilli’s. It’s a local chain around here in Texas.
Anyway, there was a guy on the radio doing a 'live read" commercial for the place. The only thing is, he kept calling Fajitas: “Fa-gee-ta’s”
I called the radio station to try to tell him the error of his ways, but he wasn’t have’n any of it. He kept telling me “Hey, look man, it’s written right here in front of me in black in white-- f-a-j-i-t-a-s”
I was like “Yeah, but the J is… Oh, never mind!” click
This kind of reminds me of that game I used to play in kindergarden. The one where the teacher would have everybody sit in a circle. She would then tell the person to the right of her a “secret” then the kid would have to pass that same secret on to the person to his or her right. Untill eveentually the secret made it’s way back to the teacher only except the original secret had gotten so messed up along the way that it was hardly recognizable to the original.
So somewhere between the line of Mexico and Alaska shit got REALLY f’d up.
I mean hell, even us Texans don’t serve Fajitas like they’re supposed to be served. I like Tex-Mex version better though.
I’ve lived in Southern California all my life and have been to Mexican restaurants
countless times and they’ve always put a candle under the Fajita plate.
How do you put a candle under a plate?
I’m having trouble picturing this, but i’m positive it’s a novelty thing. We serve pupu platters with fire and it’s certainly not like the food is undercooked or anything. Some people like to “roast” their beef-on-a-stick on the fire, but mostly it’s just there so people go, “ooh, look at that!!”
It’s a wimpy fire, though. I think I’ll apply at the greek restaurant for my next job so that I can do the WHOOSH- OPAA!!! thing with the giant fire that makes everybody turn around and look.
I foresee being taken out for fajitas tonight.
That means I can have fajitas for dinner and faigeleh for dessert! 
The cast iron fajita plate rests on some sort of metal contraption that lifts
it about 8 inches off the table, and the candle goes under that.
I’ll just add that serving a candle with fajitas is a good way to get shot here in Texas. What kind of dumbass yankee thought up that bullshit?
I’m gonna assume it’s something like this, no? And frankly, I’ve never seen it done either. The candle thing. Under the fajita plate. I usually just end up with a really really hot skillet contraption on a wooden platter that usually burns me because I forget I was warned that it’s really, REALLY hot.
Which is ridiculous, when you think about it. Simply putting the damn cast iron fajita plate on a cork board on the friggin’ table would cause it to maintain it’s heat better than sitting up there with cold air wooshing all around it and a teeny-tiny candle flame beating off the hoards of coolth.
Uh…
I think I’ve had enough coffee this morning…
Zombie Fajitas!!! 
Ewwww. Marinated braaaaaains on a hot skillet.
In Eve manner, I always get gentiles and genitals mixed up, leading to no end of rubbing people the wrong way.
How bad does it suck to have the wonderful smell of hot fajitas overwritten by the stank of a blown out candle?
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I’m having trouble picturing this, but i’m positive it’s a novelty thing. We serve pupu platters with fire and it’s certainly not like the food is undercooked or anything. Some people like to “roast” their beef-on-a-stick on the fire, but mostly it’s just there so people go, “ooh, look at that!!”/QUOTE]
You serve poopoo to people. Yeah, I’d quit that restaurant too.
And how does that Greek fire go again?
No one is really knows
Okay, Let’s try that again, so I don’t sound like a parody of an Indian shopkeeper.
No one really knows
Yeah, there’s definitely a coding error in this thread, isn’t there.
Lived in New Mexico for several years. No candle. Never saw it anywhere else, either.
Servers seem to be more enthusiastic about the “MNGWTFBBQ!!! LOOK OUT!!! IT’S TEH HOTT0RZ!!!1!!!1one!!!” routine the further removed one gets from the Mexican border. The fajita silllet could be glowing red in Las Cruces, and the waitress will hand it to you witrh a sigh. In Denver, the warnings weren’t too common. Around here, servers all do urgent “LOOK OUT!” warnings. I would imagine that in Alaska, the server would make you sign a waiver, witnessed by an attorney, before they set the plate down.
No, no, no. Faigelehs like to warm up a nice tube steak.
And that’s what they’ve always done in restaurants where I’ve gotten fajitas. I’ve never seen a candle under the skillet.