Observation America, Etc

[givemethegun]

* There is a trampoline phenonema here where they secure safety netting around the circumference. Not only are they denying Funniest Home Videos 90% of their fodder, but they are ruining life in general.

* I am addicted to the smell of pumpkin pie spice. In fact, as suspected, all of my Halloween dreams are coming true.

* Why is everything so

Comments

[sinndar]

Poor Baby. I feel for you. Find ye a health food store, or even something bigger like Whole Foods or Trader Joe's. You can find Australian yogurt there. :)

[givemethegun]

I've found a place called Greatest Greens, and it rocks. But their yoghurt still sucks. And I hear nothing but wonderful things about Trader Joes, but apparently the closest one is in Chicago. I am terribly jealous.

I'll need help from your bad self, and Mars, amongst others, to point me in happy directions re: this.

[sinndar]

You might want to add my friend vagus_nerve. She's in IL also, and is very hip. :)

[aebon]

i second this. wholeheartedly. i refuse to shop anywhere else.

[hologram_golem]

Sweetie, I was born and live in this country and *I* can't eat those breakfasts. Jess and I look at sausage and hash browns and wonder "what the FUCK?" Seriously, it's great midday hangover food though. But this is coming from someone who eats a bowl of cereal every morning.

There's this olive bar in Chicago which has something ridiculous like a thousand different olives to select. I'll look online for it when i'm not... ahem... late for work and dicking around on the net rather than go.

[givemethegun]

I love hash browns...potato-anything, really. But the madness must end. I'm at maximum girth again, and it's horrid.

Kalamata olives are the way to my heart. You said olive bar with thousands of olives? I see.

(And oi, I hope to meet you someday! Not for hash browns, though...)

[antiquehighheel]

Okay, sounds like grocery shopping is in order whenever you and Wade visit Chicago. We'll load you up with Fage Greek yogurt (which is nice and thick and has spoiled me for every other type of yogurt).

[nsingman]

You are permitted to take the uneaten portion away with you, you know, and have it later. Portions are large, yes, but I don't really see a problem, as a consumer of comestibles, with being offered more food for a lower price. We alone control our gastronomic destinies!
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As for the dining culture, that depends largely on the restaurants. I work in Manhattan; there are many fine restaurants here. In most decent-sized cities, there are at least a few nice sit-down places where you can enjoy a leisurely, elegant meal. Healthy eating, too, is a personal choice. Unhealthy eating is easy and cheap, though.

As for the supermarkets, they vary dramatically, too. I feel your pain.

I hope you're around more! It's nice to have you here.

[sweetfuckall]

That usericon is so bloody rad.

[stephen_c]

God help you if you ever step foot in a Shonies (yep, the same one referenced by Ween in Japanese Cowboy) or a Claim Jumper. Ridiculous portions. Then again, when you get to Seattle, I'll take you and Wade to Beth's, where every breakfast dish is served with all you can eat hash browns.

Dining culture varies around the country. There'll always be the chains, but smaller individual restaurants will be where you want to go for more realistic portions and better quality food. Even in the cowtown in California's central valley where my half-brother lives, they had a French ex-pat from Marseilles who made the most amazing cassoulêt.

I love reading these posts.

[ariadnelives]

Claim Jumper is the worst (or best, if you can eat what you ordered for the next three days). Do they have Oregano's out there? Biggest food ever.