They had a "pastel of egg" on the breakfast menu. This was new to me. Even though I don't eat eggs for breakfast I still wanted to know what a "pastel of egg" is. The waitress told me it is just eggs and sausage or bacon. What's "pastel" about that?
Feeling that there must be a bit more to it, I Googled it. Pastel of egg. Turns out that in this usage "pastel" refers to a pastry and the plural is pasteles. Hmm, I think I have heard of those. But it certainly isn't the first thing that comes to mind when I hear the word pastel. So why didn't the waitress tell me that it was eggs and sausage or bacon in a pastry? I think it was because the menu was a bit pretentious. As in "let's serve relatively ordinary food and give it a pretentious description". I mean, who hears "pastel" and doesn't think of pale pinks, blues, greens and yellows?
But this particular menu also had "cinnamon-scented oatmeal". Indeed. How do they get it to smell like cinnamon unless they've put cinnamon in it? See what I mean about pretentious?
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