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So Indiana, South Bend that is is soooo different than CT. Just many little differences not counting the big cultural differences (that is just a nice way of saying there are more ugly and stupid people here than back east).
First, everything here is on a grid. North, South , East, West. All the roads are squared off in those directions almost perfectly. Its unnerving. You'd think a Ryoga like me would find it better and easier to find things since they are on a grid but the disconcerning aspect of that strict grid throws me off. I always did prefer unline paper to lined paper anyway. Except for doing math problems.
Then enterance doors to stores are backwards. Back east 99.9% of stores the enter door is on the left and the exit door is on the right. Or the other way around. which ever it is over here it is opposite. When I first moved here, countless times I have tried entering through the exit door out of habit. After a year it still bothers me. Things like that make me miss things that are taken for granted like Stop and Shop. And Dunkin Donuts.
Dunkin Donuts. Nope no Dunkin Donuts. Plenty of Krispy Cream and Starbucks, but those are nowhere near the same as Dunkin Donuts. D&D had really good coffee. And tasty donuts. And a wide assortment of Bagels. MMM Bagels. I miss bagels. Rare to find decent bagels around here, probably because of the small number of Jews in town. I don't think I have seen one Temple anyway around here. I know there are Jews cause we have some Jewish members at the country club where I work. No Jews also means no Pasterami. ((drool sound)) mmmm pasterami. yummy black paterami, the fatty kind, fried up on good bread with spicy mustard and some mayo. mmmmm. The closest I got to pasterami was some mediocore kind on a sandwich at Quiznos.
Pizza. Pizza here sucks. There is maybe one that is ok. All the rest suck or are the chains like dominos or papa johns. Oh what I would give for some Captians pizza even. Modern Pizza with those bubbly crusts...mmmm...Mama Theresas, Pepe's, even skanky Santini's in Ansonia is way better than the junk here. At CT visiting time I will be hitting Pizza joints. My mouth is watering already.
So when visiting back east, Mo will be gorging on Pizza and Dunkin Donuts, eating at diners (nope no diners here), stoping at Rudy's down town New Haven for those awsome fries and many many dips, and getting my fill of Kielbasa and polish deli hams. (yep no Polish around here. You'd think there would be, but anywhere I've been sent too that claims to be a polish deli is the crapiest of crap and not even polish.)
First, everything here is on a grid. North, South , East, West. All the roads are squared off in those directions almost perfectly. Its unnerving. You'd think a Ryoga like me would find it better and easier to find things since they are on a grid but the disconcerning aspect of that strict grid throws me off. I always did prefer unline paper to lined paper anyway. Except for doing math problems.
Then enterance doors to stores are backwards. Back east 99.9% of stores the enter door is on the left and the exit door is on the right. Or the other way around. which ever it is over here it is opposite. When I first moved here, countless times I have tried entering through the exit door out of habit. After a year it still bothers me. Things like that make me miss things that are taken for granted like Stop and Shop. And Dunkin Donuts.
Dunkin Donuts. Nope no Dunkin Donuts. Plenty of Krispy Cream and Starbucks, but those are nowhere near the same as Dunkin Donuts. D&D had really good coffee. And tasty donuts. And a wide assortment of Bagels. MMM Bagels. I miss bagels. Rare to find decent bagels around here, probably because of the small number of Jews in town. I don't think I have seen one Temple anyway around here. I know there are Jews cause we have some Jewish members at the country club where I work. No Jews also means no Pasterami. ((drool sound)) mmmm pasterami. yummy black paterami, the fatty kind, fried up on good bread with spicy mustard and some mayo. mmmmm. The closest I got to pasterami was some mediocore kind on a sandwich at Quiznos.
Pizza. Pizza here sucks. There is maybe one that is ok. All the rest suck or are the chains like dominos or papa johns. Oh what I would give for some Captians pizza even. Modern Pizza with those bubbly crusts...mmmm...Mama Theresas, Pepe's, even skanky Santini's in Ansonia is way better than the junk here. At CT visiting time I will be hitting Pizza joints. My mouth is watering already.
So when visiting back east, Mo will be gorging on Pizza and Dunkin Donuts, eating at diners (nope no diners here), stoping at Rudy's down town New Haven for those awsome fries and many many dips, and getting my fill of Kielbasa and polish deli hams. (yep no Polish around here. You'd think there would be, but anywhere I've been sent too that claims to be a polish deli is the crapiest of crap and not even polish.)