Is dessert a food?

A little rant ...

A couple of weekends ago I met two of my girlfriends for a late lunch/afternoon snack downtown. We met at a nice restaurant in a swanky area of town at around 2:30pm. When I arrived they had both ordered a lunch entree and were sipping on some drinks. I had already eaten lunch at 12 noon and decided that I would just order dessert.

When I asked the waiter for the dessert menu, his response was "So you are not going to have any food?".

Me: "I'm sorry. Yes, I would like to have some food ... dessert is food isn't it?"

Waiter: "Well not really"

Me: "Well I think it is ... and I will have the sorbet"

I immediately knew he was implying that I was not going to have an entree, but I did not agree with his wording so I decided to clarify. In my mind, dessert IS food!

In fact, I surveyed about 10 people after the incident, and 7/10 agreed with me that dessert qualifies as food.

Anyhow, the waiter was not so eager to serve us after that little conversation. To make matters worse, when leaving one of my girlfriends tried to shimmy out from between tables and knocked a side plate on the ground, breaking it.

Yup, we were definitely in the bad books after that and needless to say we will not be visiting that restaurant again.