It's actually Canada that's got the really good sweets: Coffee Crisp, Smarties, Kinder Eggs... mmmm.
― Finefinemusic, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
smarties: http://www.shopatmoxie.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/smarties350.jpg or smarties: http://candyaddict.com/blog/uploads/smartiesuk.jpg
??
― sunny successor, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
damn. smarties no2:
http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/1123/smartiesukle2.jpg
― sunny successor, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
they sell kinder products here!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I would eat all this giant Smarties.
― suzy, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 19:13 (sixteen years ago) link
It's so clear that I have got to get back to Canada, wow.
― Sara R-C, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/1123/smartiesukle2.jpg These smarties!
Re: Kinder products - they're German but apparently rarely seen in the USofA; Americans online seem (rightly) to think Kinder Eggs a source of joy and amazement.. didn't know if they'd made it to NZ.
― Finefinemusic, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey Im eating a fun size banana laffy taffy right now. Here are the jokes on the wrapper:
From Whitney P in Champaign, IL 17: WHAT IS AN OWL'S FAVORITE SUBJECT? 17: OWLGEBRA
From Connie G in Kent, WA 18: IN WHAT MONTH DO PEOPLE TALK THE LEAST? 18: FEBRUARY-BECAUSE IT'S THE SHORTEST MONTH OF THE YEAR!
?!
― sunny successor, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
banana laffy taffy is the best of all laffy taffys, btw.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Also lol Cool Whip, I know the guy who invented it.
-- HI DERE, Tuesday, May 27, 2008 12:28 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link
RR, cool whip isnt the same as the cans. its totally next level. id be surprised if there was any dairy involved at all.
-- sunny successor, Tuesday, M
HI DERE - details plz
SUNNY - cool whip is a fucking blight on this planet. its literally whipped corn syrup & water & it is horrible. eat it next to actual whipped cream & you will never want it again.
― deeznuts, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
i have and youre right but ill still eat it
― sunny successor, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link
No time for Cool Whip. All the time in the world for Reddi-Whip. People in my family have been known to go to the fridge, get the can of Whip, squirt a bunch into open palm, snarf up. Also watching what happens when you stick a big white ZAP of Whip on black poodle's nose: first the contortions to remove it, then aggressive demands for MOAR.
― suzy, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 21:06 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah see reddi-whip is incredible. i have no idea why anyone would buy cool whip & never miss an opportunity to berate anyone who does. no offense to HDs buddy who i am super envious of & is obviously a genius if hes managed to pawn that crap off on the populace like he has.
― deeznuts, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link
also apparently the guy I thought invented Cool Whip... didn't???
-- HI DERE, Tuesday, May 27, 2008 1:54 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link
ok day ruined`
― deeznuts, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
RR, see ref to biscuits -n- gravy upthread. A USA-style biscuit is like nothing you have thought of as a biscuit up to now.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 22:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Other corn-based products to seek out: spoonbread and indian pudding
― Jaq, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 22:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, when I was in NZ, for breakfast I got eggs & chips, which = brilliant but not found here. But here = grits and hashbrowns and great pork sausages and biscuits & gravy. NZ (and AU) sausages were more cereal-filler than is normal over here. Another more southernly thing to try: red-eye gravy, which is made with the drippings from a country ham and black coffee.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 22:50 (sixteen years ago) link
we have kinder surprise, and we have smarties - but we also have pebbles which are like smarties but nicer.
yes jaq, the american version of 'biscuit' is radically different from the new zealish version!
― Rubyredd, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 03:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Transhemispheric Translation Guide (Fill in the Blanks)
AUS/NZ/UK Biscuit = US/CA Cookie US/CA Biscuit = AUS/NZ/UK ???? (Very salty scone??)
Also for me:
AUS/NZ/UK Icing Sugar = US/CA ??? (Confectioners Sugar? Powdered Sugar?)
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 13:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Also RR Cream in a can = Reddi-Whip
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 13:55 (sixteen years ago) link
sunny, you are such a rotter, i <3<3 you.
― estela, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link
also, even though ruby is in nz, and i haven't met her in person, i feel sad that she is moving so far away, this is dumb but true.
― estela, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
even though she is going to nth cali which is nowhere near me and likely a place i will never visit again, im excited -- also dumb but true.
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link
i did the exact same thing as you and ruby, married an american and moved to the u.s., we are like a bunch of nylons wearing, lucky strike puffing war brides.
― estela, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 14:10 (sixteen years ago) link
awww ladies! <3 <3 <3 <3
estela, what is a 'rotter'?
sunny, what sort of fruits/veges should i try that aren't available here?
― Rubyredd, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
also, sunny: i really want to travel pretty extensively round the US so maybe we will come visit arkansas(?) sometime.
― Rubyredd, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link
rot·ter (rtr) n. Chiefly British Slang A scoundrel.
it is my idea of a compliment.
― estela, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 14:49 (sixteen years ago) link
we dont have fruits and vegetables in arkansas so i am clueless. come visit memorial day weekend for RIVERFEST. had you been there this year you would have seen zztop AND huey lewis + the news. You must feel dreadful now.
estela, did anyone end up guessing where your husband is from on that guess where estelas husband is from thread? i think i guessed georgia.
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:17 (sixteen years ago) link
The only fruits I can think of you might not be able to get outside the US are US persimmons (not the same as the japanese variety) and some of the variant berries (i.e. marionberries), but these are also difficult to get anywhere outside of the areas they grow. Maybe ground cherries and prickly pear fruit?
― Jaq, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
DO NOT CONSUME: American Bread (full of sugar) American Orange Juice (full of sugar and orange colouring) American Margarine/Butter (I don't want to know what that's full of) The McGriddle (I was young, drunk and naive)
DO CONSUME: Onion Bagels (A+++) Pizza (dis is da REAL PIZZA, A++++++) Super Big Gulps (TWO litres of fountain soft drink at a low low price)
DO VISIT: Panera Bread (I miss the portobelly mushroom and cheese sammich with chippies and free refills) Cheesecake Factory (what do you mean we gonna have cheesecake for dinner...whoa, wait a second) Hooters (obvious)
DO HUNT AND KILL: That dude at the train station that said "is that a New Zealand accent?"
― King Boy Pato, Thursday, 29 May 2008 13:49 (sixteen years ago) link
"is that a New Zealand accent?" is American for "I think you're Australian but I thought I heard that you maybe used a certain short vowel sound plus being able to recognize the difference between the two would be so cool, oh, fuck it, I'll take the risk."
― en i see kay, Thursday, 29 May 2008 13:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The problem is that the South Australian accent is not too far off the New Zealand accent but like fuck an American would ever know the existence of a South Australian accent. Or the existence of South Australia.
― King Boy Pato, Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link
dude i didnt know about the existence of a sth australian accent!
― sunny successor, Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:16 (sixteen years ago) link
sunny, grady was right on that thread, the answer was los angeles, i meant to say so after the poll ended but i forgot.
― estela, Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:17 (sixteen years ago) link
repping the west coast on the east coast!
― sunny successor, Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link
and doing a lovely job.
― estela, Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
You should try some american varieties of apple, I suppose...and you're in Calif. so (I think?) you should be able to get grande delicious citrus fruits. Alse American watermelons are fucking giant. Not sure what size they are in NZ. We had some Japanese exchange students at our house, and when they saw out 1.5 foot watermelon, one of them exclaimed, "We are...very impressed...by the size...of your melons!" (I now say this to myself often.)
― Abbott, Thursday, 29 May 2008 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
hahahahahahahaha
― HI DERE, Thursday, 29 May 2008 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
The butternut squash is delicious.
― Abbott, Thursday, 29 May 2008 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Getting into this thread pretty late... I forget to keep checking the other boards.
Anyway, a couple places to check out sooner rather than later:
1. Top Dog: http://topdoghotdogs.com/ If possible, go to the original location on Durant in Berkeley. I love the Portugese sausage dog, but you really can't go wrong with most of the menu.
2. Tillie's Diner in Alameda: http://www.yelp.com/biz/tillies-diner-alameda Some of those Yelp reviews are asinine, but to be fair Tillie's is shadow of it's former self when the Navy was still in town and there were ten thousand dockworkers who needed diner grub twenty-hour hours a day. The reason to go is the mammoth steak bits and eggs breakfast (pictured here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/quartzcity/811523120/ ). According to legend, this was the breakfast meal of choice for Oakland Raiders linemen.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 29 May 2008 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
We say "school" instead of "skwell", unlike you convicts on the East Coast.
Oh, and we buy milk from the DELI!
― King Boy Pato, Friday, 30 May 2008 03:32 (sixteen years ago) link
There's a WA accent too, they say "heyahh" instead of "here". Sort of.
Is cheesecake factory in the US the same franchise as the one here?
― Trayce, Friday, 30 May 2008 04:28 (sixteen years ago) link
No, no, it's VASTLY different. It hardly even has cheesecake even on the dessert menu.
― King Boy Pato, Friday, 30 May 2008 05:23 (sixteen years ago) link
tried so far: haribo jelly raspberries: average mint three musketeers: average chocolate skittles: kinda gross burrito (from chipotle): pretty good except for the cilantro clams: excellent trader joe's vegan choc chip cookies: amazing
i really want to go to taco bell but jordan says they masturbate in the meat. i think he just says that so i'll get a vege taco.
― Rubyredd, Monday, 14 July 2008 04:37 (sixteen years ago) link
No, he's serious, there's masturbation all over that meat. That's why it's rated Grade-D or below.
― Z S, Monday, 14 July 2008 04:43 (sixteen years ago) link
coriander is v divisive
― wilter, Monday, 14 July 2008 04:48 (sixteen years ago) link
hey i kind of hate cilantro too, doesn't everybody?
― gr8080, Monday, 14 July 2008 05:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay, I did not even realize that chocolate skittles exist. But yeah, they do sound kinda gross...
― Sara R-C, Monday, 14 July 2008 05:30 (sixteen years ago) link
xp I like cilantro. Please don't alienate me!
xp I kind of love it, but I do know a lot of ppl who hate the shit out of it.
― wilter, Monday, 14 July 2008 05:31 (sixteen years ago) link