AMERICAS FOODS TO BE TRIED UPON ON IMMEDIATE ARRIVAL BY RUBYREDD

"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.

xp Dan, I think John is still in the middle of those years.

Mmmmmm hostess cupcakes. WANT

Swiss Cake Rolls are the king

My husband will eat those Little Debbie ones every day if I don't make fun of him about it.

wait there are only 100 calories in nutty bars??????????????

So I could eat like 20 of them and be fine for the day!!!!!!!!!

omg start crunch! i am feeling nostalgic now but i used to get so pissed cause my mom would always buy those instead of something awesome like nutty bars (i think they seemed somehow less bad to her?). they were so freaking sweet and almost molassesy?

when I was a kid, I thought the smell of cilantro was the smell of rabies,

Youu think Jesus is gonna buy this shit?

xpost Eat 20 nutty bars, but don't forget to take a multivitamin or otherwise it's probably Scurvy-land for you, too. And if I had to call you and John both "Scurvy," that would just be confusing.

Maybe you could call me "Rickets"; it wouldn't be accurate but it would be less confusing.

All of this talk of nutritional diseases is reminding me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgayZqbc6Xo&feature=related