Last Friday night, Ethel and I went to Affinito's Bistro in Anthem for dinner.

Good groceries - we give it two thumbs up. Reasonable prices, too - we'll be going back.

When they brought out our bread, they also brought us the obligatory dish of olive oil and (what I believe to be) balsamic vinegar to dip the bread in (this is a precaution, just in case the customer isn't fat enough already). When they brought it to our table, I was taken aback - the dish had about a half-inch of olive oil, and the vinegar had been sprayed out in a lovely pattern:


                             

The flash sort of wipes out the image - but, as you can see, it was quite artistic. You pay extra for that, you know.

To me, it looked like the uppercase 'B' in the menus from the Buffy and the Vampire Slayer DVDs. When I mentioned this to Silas, he allowed as to how I must be "obsessed", since it didn't look anything like that to him - he thought that it looked like a treble cleft (but he didn't say "treble cleft" - he said "that music thing at the beginning of the notes". Thus we find out that all of those piano lessons were wasted money and time and effort. Alas).

Well, it didn't look like a treble cleft to me - it still looked like the Buffy B. So I did a quick Google -

                                 
Yep. That's close enough for me - pretty darn derivative, to my way of thinking.

The next time we eat there, if I see the same pattern, I'm gonna ask the server who it is, exactly, who prepares the olive oil and vinegar; I'll bet that, whoever he is, he knows all about the Scooby Gang and the Watcher's Council.