Weird Food 2
The Hilton is a lovely hotel, service wise, but it falls down on facilities, particularly food options between 2 pm and 5pm. Also its dinner menu is rather limited. And no bar fridge. Yesterday I got back to the hotel at about 3pm and could find nowhere to buy a drink (the machine on the bottom floor wouldn't take coins).
So I headed out and ended up finding a 7Eleven not too far away. I figured it was a really good chance to check out what real 7Elevens stock. Americans were complaining at Worldcon that food was really expensive in Australia and they reiterated that to me this weekend.
Here's why:
All of this cost me $8.50. When you look at some of the health issues currently being faced in our generation, it's seems ridiculous to ignore the cost of unhealthy, processed junk food.
I didn't end up getting to try the juice because I couldn't refrigerate it and I ended up napping when I got back etc. The grape Fanta tasted like ... fake grapes! Woot. The mini donuts are ... vile! It's like a tasteless, cardboardy thing dipped in cheap chocolate. Twinkies I've had before but I haven't tried this lot yet. The lollies are watermelon flavoured which was kinda cool.
So I headed out and ended up finding a 7Eleven not too far away. I figured it was a really good chance to check out what real 7Elevens stock. Americans were complaining at Worldcon that food was really expensive in Australia and they reiterated that to me this weekend.
Here's why:
All of this cost me $8.50. When you look at some of the health issues currently being faced in our generation, it's seems ridiculous to ignore the cost of unhealthy, processed junk food.
I didn't end up getting to try the juice because I couldn't refrigerate it and I ended up napping when I got back etc. The grape Fanta tasted like ... fake grapes! Woot. The mini donuts are ... vile! It's like a tasteless, cardboardy thing dipped in cheap chocolate. Twinkies I've had before but I haven't tried this lot yet. The lollies are watermelon flavoured which was kinda cool.