I just got back from a little trip to Baltimore, MD. The city is beautiful. Just marvelous. I took in the inner harbor, enjoyed the sea breezes, caught an Orioles game and even enjoyed a meal at The Cheesecake Factory with some of my friends.

That, however, is where it got super interesting. Have you ever ordered something off a menu, then once you took a bite, gone, "hmmm, that tastes different than I thought it would"? Just such a phrase came out of my mouth after I ordered and received my plate of Orange Chicken that I requested from the 74 page Cheesecake Factory menu.

The first two Chinese food-style nuggets were tasty and "zingy" as I anticipated from the paragraph long description that I read when we all sat down at the table together and perused the dining options. The third bite, however, was very much unanticipated.

I bit into the nugget with fervor, longing to fill my tummy with the delicious chicken, and experienced the flavor of the sea...and not the good "lobster flavor" kind of taste.

All I could think of was "Orange Fish Oil". I kept repeating that phrase in my mind until it inevitably escaped my mouth along with the partially chewed remains of the third nugget.

I immediately informed my waitress, who kept saying, "wow, that's weird" and she hooked me up with a free piece of chocolate mousse cheesecake. That, as an aside, did not taste like orange fish oil, but like pure wonderfulness.

My assessment: worth it. I'll bite into an orange fish nugget any day if my happy ending is a dessert so delicious that even now as I think about it, saliva is beginning to form and pool at the base of my tongue.

Hooray for Baltimore.