AMERICAS FOODS TO BE TRIED UPON ON IMMEDIATE ARRIVAL BY RUBYREDD

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.

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.

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?

also, sunny: i really want to travel pretty extensively round the US so maybe we will come visit arkansas(?) sometime.

rot·ter (rtr)
n. Chiefly British Slang
A scoundrel.

it is my idea of a compliment.

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.

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?

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?"

"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."

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.

dude i didnt know about the existence of a sth australian accent!

sunny, grady was right on that thread, the answer was los angeles, i meant to say so after the poll ended but i forgot.

repping the west coast on the east coast!

and doing a lovely job.

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.)

hahahahahahahaha

The butternut squash is delicious.

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.

dude i didnt know about the existence of a sth australian accent!

We say "school" instead of "skwell", unlike you convicts on the East Coast.

Oh, and we buy milk from the DELI!

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?

No, no, it's VASTLY different. It hardly even has cheesecake even on the dessert menu.

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.

No, he's serious, there's masturbation all over that meat. That's why it's rated Grade-D or below.

coriander is v divisive

hey i kind of hate cilantro too, doesn't everybody?

Okay, I did not even realize that chocolate skittles exist. But yeah, they do sound kinda gross...

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.

If you go to Taco Bell when it's busy and order a popular meal they simply won't have had time to jizz in it. Also, even with spotty teenage boys there are only so many times a day you can manage it so if you go after a certain hour your odds of avoidance are probably pretty good.

Alternative find your local mexican taqueria and at least the jizz will be authentic south of the border jizz.

dont you think cilantro kind of tastes like soap?

It tastes of bleach rather than soap, I reckon. NB I like the bleachy taste.

Coriander only tastes like bleach/soap when it is off, otherwise it is lovely.

Cilantro hate is a defect. I pity you all.

yeah Ned is right, it's genetic

Coriander only tastes like bleach/soap when it is off

Coriander tastes like bleach all the time, and it's delicious.

coriander/cilantro tasting like soap is an enzyme thing in some ppl

y'all. coriander/cilantro is a godsend. deal with it, k?

omg I love cilantro. Cilantro haters = crazeeee. Welcome to the US RR. Sounds like everything is going wonderfully so far. So very happy for you.

just sample my first twinkie. pretty average :(

try a hoho

try a zinger

http://www.chocablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/nutty-bar-1.jpghttp://www.taquitos.net/im/sn/LittleDebbie-StarCrunch.jpg

YES WHAT CURT1S SAID

also i think that the cilantro divide is actually how jesus knows which ones of us to rapture in the end times, so you pagan cilantro haters better start some sort of tongue scrape and hormonal treatment routine yo

pffft, if Jesus wants me to eat cilantro, Jesus can eat ...well, cilantro, because it may as well be shit.

Funfact: when I was a kid, I thought the smell of cilantro was the smell of rabies, because I once saw a dead bird on the driveway of my neighbours' house and (I assume) they had a cilantro patch growing in their garden. I smelled it and assumed the bird died of rabies and that's the smell of rabies. It took me 18 years to figure out that it was cilantro!

WWJE?

BB remember the multiple years when we lived on Nutty Bars? good times

i wish i'd gotten the hostess cupcakes instead :( the pig fat cream in the middle of the twinkie is pretty good, but i don't like how the sponge stuff tastes kind of salty.