Goat in a Coat

If you are ever out for dinner in India, make sure you find out if the mutton on the menu is sheep or goat. It can mean both and it depends on the restaurant. It's not that I mind the taste of goat so much, but I pass a cute goat in a coat every day and wouldn't be able to look him in the eye if I had chowed down on his cousin the night before. I finally settled on the Tandoori Chicken, but after I ordered, the waiter became a little agitated and explained to Nivita, one of our Hindi speakers, that I had ordered the whole chicken and not the half. He was afraid that it would be too much chicken for me. Too much chicken for me? "What a ridiculous thing to say," I thought. I was a little insulted, but I went with his recommendation and got the half chicken. When our food came, I realized that the full chicken would have been a walk in the park. I felt like I let my team, my country for that matter, down. But, after we all sampled each other's meals I was able to present the waiter with more than a full chicken's worth of remains on my plate at the end of the meal. USA! USA! USA!