The Organic Duck

Last night I went out for dinner with my friend to this tiny, trendy place on Whyte and had "The Organic Duck, with saskatoon berry glaze and a vegetable medley." The waiter kept referring to it as "The Organic Duck" as if "The Organic Duck" was its Proper Name.

Now in my memory I've never had duck before but I'm sure that a duck has the same bone structure and consistency of any other bird. I know it's quite a fatty bird, and has dark meat. I imagine it to be like the dark meat of a turkey. In any case, I am 99% sure that though it was tasty and delicious, it was not an Organic duck, nor any bird of any kind. I think it might have been lamb, but didn't taste as gamey as the lamb my Grams makes. It was medium rare, tough as a steak, and kind of light-pink. Super odd.

The waiter kept coming back to our table and asking "Ladies... and how is The Organic Duck?" And we were both like "Yum! Great!" too embarrassed to say "what are we really eating??"

It might have been a kitchen joke.

The Chef says to the waiter "Another organic duck? But we've only got one left! You'll have to tell the girls at table eight that we ran out of the special tonight."

"But that's so embarrassing! It's a Monday night, there's barely a handful of people in here... I know! Just prepare the lamb and I'll keep refering to it as The Organic Duck and they'll never tell the difference!" the waiter replies.

It really was good, whatever it was.