My wife and I just got back from a wonderful trip to Pearl, other than a knee problem during sand volleyball (thanks to EVERYBODY that helped - she is off to an orthopedist in just a few minutes to see what damage has been done) and a very strange interaction at Aphrodite...
We had a very nice dinner, but all those courses, even if generally small, add up. As a result, when dessert rolled around we were stuffed and asked if we could have our churros wrapped so we could take them to our room and have them later with our nightcap. The waiter got a little "weird" with the request (like "uh-oh, this again") and said that he couldn't do that. We offered to just wander off with them and he assured us that the Maître d’ would stop up and then said we needed to speak to the manager. Well, the manager walks up and we make the request and he says that we couldn't because of the raw eggs?! I assured him that if their churros indeed had eggs they wouldn't be raw because they are deep fried. He said it again and we kinda just stared at him and then he indicated that if we wanted them we should call room service. I asked if they were available on room service, to which he replied that he didn't think so.
Wondering what twilight zone we had stepped into, we had them bring the churros, which sadly weren't very good. Tiny, cold, no whipped cream or powdered sugar, and barely a touch of cinnamon. We've had better at football stadiums (Disney's are really good - they released the recipe a bit ago and we tried to make them, but I think they left out an ingredient ...).
I *know* we had a dessert (maybe cheesecake) packaged up a couple of years ago and people take all manner of breakfast and lunch food out every day. Assuming we could even get the churros through room service, did he think the $10 fee worth pissing off a customer with a full belly? Did we really eat raw eggs in the churros? Thankfully we only took a couple of bites and hopefully they use less dangerous raw eggs in the huevos rancheros I ordered for breakfast. Do they lock up all the plastic plates at night so there was a danger of glass by the pool (never mind that they gave me glass sniffers for my "to go" brandy on several nights)? Maybe they were afraid we would do spectrum analysis on the churros and reverse-engineer the recipe? Or, did we just expect too much?