This weekend I had the misfortune of dining at the Ruby Tuesday's in Shelby, right next to the Cleveland County Mall. Now Ruby Tuesday's has always been one of those restaurants that I look to as being the domain of the upper-middle class and, on occasion, as a treat for the rest of us. I think of Ruby Tuesday's as having superior food to the hum-drum fairly mundane fare I consume on a daily basis. But what I was served Saturday night certainly didn't satisfy this humble peasant... For the price of $25.00 I was served an absurdly bland and disgusting appetizer, consisting of dry chicken strips, weird spring rolls, disturbingly tangy wings and some fantastic mozzarella sticks (it's hard to screw up mozzarella sticks). Then, for my main course I ordered a crab cake, expecting something akin to what I once had in Baltimore, if only distantly related. To my chagrin however, I found that the meal I was presented with consisted of a rather moldy-looking crab cake that had an aftertaste that my companion and I both agreed tasted something like diesel fuel. The moral of this story is: Don't go to Ruby Tuesday's in Shelby. Ever.