Shukudai 118, in which serious eating is accomplished--some of it by Arashi

[flange5]

Arashi often seem to have a somewhat complicated relationship to food: They clearly love to eat, yet many of their televised food encounters verge on the horrifying--attempts to present the most stinky, most spicy, most bitter, or, perhaps most frighteningly, the most ancient of foods to be eaten publicly for the entertainment/trauma of all

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[flange5]

Aiba claims not to like cheese in this episode, though in the fondue eps and some other eps with cheesy foods, he seems to like it ok, so I wonder if it's this cheese in particular, or if melted cheese is fine, but solid cheese isn't?

In his Tunnels appearance, Jun also suggests that he doesn't like gorgonzola cheese, but I'm not sure what his general cheese verdict is ^^;

Me, other than really stinky cheeses, like blue cheeses, I kind of love almost any other kind. But having it every day would get really old really fast, so I can understand that ^^;

Out of curiosity, in what other ways are you like Aiba? *is really curious*

Gal Sone is kind of amazing in her ability to eat. They discuss how she was on another show and ate 100 pieces of sushi, 20 puddings, and 50 servings of pork *__* I can't even imagine O__o Why she isn't the size of a house, I kind of don't even want to know ^^;

Hee! It does sound like your weather got a little confused ^^; Our leaves don't really get color :P they sometimes just go brown and fall, and some don't ever really fall. I remember my first year here, it was still 70 degrees (shorts and T shirt weather or t shirt and skirt weather) 3 days before Christmas :P

Last year it actually made it just below freezing for 2 nights, but since the houses weren't made for that, it was really cold inside ^^;our pipes froze :P

It has to be around -60F/-55C where my parents live for that to happen ^^; Ah, Texas . . .

[lottiechan]

I`m generally ok with melted cheese on, for example, pasta, but solid cheese, ugh. Though I`m not that fond of cheese fondue either, but of an overkill, that one. I also do generally like what we call "French cheese", brie, blue cheeses, stuff like that, but again, not too much at once, tiny tiny bits at a time I can handle.

Me and Aiba share our birthday! Besides that, we have the same hyperactivity (and random bouts of seriousness), make the same type of stupid comments, and have the same random interest in things like science. We also both tend to be really enthusiastic for anything new, and jump right into it.
Sometimes I wonder if it`s a December 24-thing or something, IDK XD

ah, Texas does have the image of being pretty hot, like, always XD

Holland`s weather is getting more and more extreme and weird every year. Climate shift yay? XD Last winter, we had snow for like, 6 weeks. Pipes froze all over the country because it always freezing, the trains stopped going because the tracks froze, the salt that we pour on the streets to un-freeze them ran out, it was pretty much a big disaster XD

And ofcourse, the first time that winter I fell with my bike was when almost all snow was gone and I missed the tiny bit remaining in a corner XDDD

[flange5]

Oh that's right! I think you'd told me you were a Christmas Eve baby before ^^;

Texas . . . it's a big state, around the size of France, but it's generally warm. We're pretty far south though, so it's really warm quite often.

6 weeks of snow would incapacitate everything here ^^; In northern Illinois, where I grew up, the snow would mean that it was relatively mild, since it was warm enough to snow ^^; Driving would still be a pain.

And ofcourse, the first time that winter I fell with my bike was when almost all snow was gone and I missed the tiny bit remaining in a corner XDDD

EXACTLY. This would happen to me, too ^^;

[lottiechan]

your state is bigger than the country i live in ://////// like, several times bigger....

Northern Illinois sounds like it sucks XD Snow can be pretty, but not that much or for such a long time. It would suck even more if it was too cold to snow, so, no thanks XD

I don`t know, i like believing I`m really good with bikes and can manage, and I did manage with all the snow...(most of the time, I fell once or twice this year, but that was a first in years! =DDv ), so me falling on this tiny bit of leftover-snow really kind of sucked. Admittedly, when I called my mum, I could barely tell her what happened because I was laughing too hard, but still XD

[flange5]

Texas is HUGE :P I'm still getting used to it. We're about 3 hours north of the border with Mexico, and yet from where we are, driving at a fast pace, it takes around 6 hours to get out of the state :P And then all you get is Oklahoma ^^; After 10 years on the east coast where you can go through several states in just 2 hours . . . it's kind of annoying ^^;

Northern Illinois--I feel a bizarre fondness for its extreme weathers--very hot in the summer very cold in the winter, and tornados in the spring ^^; But it's beautiful and you really feel the seasons. Here, there's no snow, little rain (but when it does rain it's spectacular) and no real autumnal shift, other than generally milder weather. it seems strange.

With the cold . . . I think much colder than 0F, it doesn't really snow anymore . . . the coldest wind chill I think we had in IL while I was there was around -60, which I think is almost the same as in Celsius--remember the -50 freezer segments of A no Arashi? it's about that cold. You just don't go outside. At all. And you drink lots of hot chocolate, and there's no school because no one should be outside long enough to wait for the buses ^^; But that's pretty rare. -20, though, is not at all uncommon for a few days every year.

Admittedly, when I called my mum, I could barely tell her what happened because I was laughing too hard,

To my mind, this is the only appropriate response (assuming no injury, of course ^^;). I remember slipping on ice with a heavy backpack and laughing hysterically because, like a turtle, I honestly couldn't stand up again ^^;

[lottiechan]

from where I live in holland (admittedly, about as south as it gets), it takes about 4, 5 hours I think to get to Paris. Which means you went through the last tiny bit of Holland (roughly 5 minutes by bus XD), then an hour or two through Belgium, then go into France and just drive to Paris. Couple of hours XD Add an hour or 3 from my hometown, which is mid-Holland-ish, and...Europe is really kind of sad XD

I do love being able to feel the different seasons, I`m used to it, even though Holland has a very mild climate. lately, it`s been getting more extreme, which means winters with days of -20 degrees celcius, and summers with days of 37 degrees celcius, but that`s kind of extreme for Holland XD no tornadoes, no earthquakes, no animals more dangerous than ticks and wasps and the occassional snake, we`re not used to anything around here XD

I remember once, when I was young, I had slipped on the ice on the street with my bike and one strap from my backpack somehow got stuck beneath the steering thingy, and I couldn`t get up anymore. A friend of my mom came cycling by and just kind of ignored me flailing there, and then this complete stranger came by and helped me up. Weird XD

this winter when I fell, thankfully no injuries! It`s also a dangerous spot to keep lying, so I had to get up and move real quick, and didn`t have the chance to check if everything in my bag survived (phone and keys and stuff in the front pocket of my bag, that I fell on >_> ). But everything survived! =Dv just a bit of a bruise on my knee, I think. luckyyyyy

[flange5]

I love how close together things are in Europe! Here, if you're in the west half of the country, it feels so spread apart :P

Holland sounds kind of idyllic--here we have some poisonous spiders and snakes, and scorpions, which completely freak me out. Luckily, I live in the center of the city, so the scorpions don't really live here much, but on the outskirts where my friend lives . .. her cat killed a scorpion in her bedroom DDD: I would move to a new house, seriously >_<

Wow, I hope your mom gave her friend a really hard time after that D: People, seriously.