AMERICAS FOODS TO BE TRIED UPON ON IMMEDIATE ARRIVAL BY RUBYREDD

whatever you contribute to this thread will be placed on a shopping list to be taken with me the first time me and j-dawg go to the 'grocery store'.

also: this isn't just a list for junk food. fruits and veges and stuff that are unlikely to have been available to me in nz can also be recommended.

God those are so gross.

First thing you need do is visit a taqueria where nobody speaks English.

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thread for Jeno's (RIP) and Totino's frozen pizza

libcrypt, you underestimate my love of all things higly processed and artificial.

Rubys, you will surely find plenty of amazing things in USA supermarkets, then. It's a bit shameful to think of any of them as particularly "American", however.

gr8080 that frozen pizza stuff looks AWESOME

well i mean stuff that i can't get in nz. and you have to admit that the array of american junkfood is pretty astounding.

CHEESY, SALTY, CRUNCHY, AWESOME

Keep an eye out for Scrapple, Souse, and C-Loaf, tho those more highly available in certain southern USA states.

I wish I had some idea of what isn't available in NZ.

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those pizzas are usually less than $2 and sometimes they go on sale for $1. maybe cheaper, food is expensive here so i'm prob. out of touch.

explanations/descriptions plz, libcrypt.

gr8080 those look tasty but also identical to something we already have here. i shall still try them tho.

btw, my ex-boyfriend's wife is a food scientist and she used to work on Totino's pizza rolls.

sara, just assume nothing is available here and you won't be far off the mark.

awesome food/drink combinations

Rubys, they's mostly parts of the pig most folks find too disgusting to eat. They's combined in bricks with various sorts of glues. Scrapple is more homogeneously glued together, while souse is rather gelatinous.

C-Loaf is just a loaf with a C.

gross

i can't wait to see if a mcdonald's big mac in america tastes different to a nz big mac.

libcrypt, i think i'm going to pass on that. my vegan bf will probably appreciate me passing on that, too.

RR, you are making me sad. At least you have all those crazily named candies! ("perky nanas" still makes me smile)

okay we do have some awesome LOLLIES (i'm going to insist on calling them chocolate bars and lollies when i'm in the US), but so does america! i promise i will try to remember to bring a ton with me so i can post them out to all you guys.

Rubys, try olallieberry pie. That's pretty USA-specific, I think and darn-shootin' good.

LOLLIES

Hmmmm, maybe you can get that to catch on here.

jordan s, what are butterfingers

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I am going to have to think about this topic, and possiby visit the grocery store.

You know what, I've been secretly craving a Charleston Chew bar lately, though. I don't know why. So get one of those.

i already got jordan saying LOLLIES

what the hell are OLALLIBERRIES

Note that I have been vegetarian for 20-some years now but wifey swears by scrapple and also finds real scottish haggis a total treat.

Bugles are awesome; gr8080 OTM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9rbj4idyc8

http://www.nestle.ca/NR/rdonlyres/62433100-3EE1-4B04-945A-7E9C2935435D/0/butterfinger_cta2.jpg

kind of an indescribable taste-- very awesome flaky orange filling covered in chocolate. a must try.

The olallieberry (pronounced oh-la-leh, sometimes spelled ollalieberry, olallaberry, olalliberry, ollalaberry or ollaliberry) is a cross between the loganberry and the youngberry, each of which is itself a cross between blackberry and another berry (raspberry and dewberry, respectively).

(Wackypedia)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWyrOzXoKEc&feature=related

i still don't really know what a OLALLIEBERRY will taste like. will add to my list.

butterfingers sound delishhhhhh!

ah yes CRUNCHY AND PEANUT BUTTERY for the butterfinger

i'm excited to try the whole range of hostess products

Tamarind-based candy (again, MX-ish) is fine stuff. Also, if you can find chili-lime flavored dried split lima beans, they are seriously AWESOME.

I am seriously biased toward the latin side of CA cuisine.

i hope they eat this in NZ:

http://kms9262.k12.sd.us/kraft_macaroni_cheese.jpg

see, wellington/nz in general, is v v limited when it comes to 'ethnic' food. auckland is probably better (since a third of our pop. is located there) but here it's all turkish and malaysian restaurants mostly, esp when it comes to cheap-eats.

there are no ethiopian restaurants here, and maybe like two mexican restaurants (both on the pricey side).

we have prepackaged mac n cheese

a GIS for 'cheetos' without the safesearch filter on is... kind of... REVOLTING

a GIS for 'cheetos' without the safesearch filter on is... kind of... REVOLTING

i feel like this thread needs bell labs and jaq

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I think the answer to that question is a clear NO!

Story here.

What I wouldn't pay to see that cartoon.

(I wonder if RR is disturbed by this bizarre thread drift...?)

we have covered this already: LIST THE WAYS THAT JOHN JUSTEN IS NOT A RESPECTABLE WOMAN

But can it ever be covered enough?

(Also, wow, I had forgotten the existence of that thread. Well done, Scurvy.)

OMG i had a 'biscuit' for the first time yesterday - why didn't anyone INSIST i try this buttery treats sooner???? it was cheddar and chives and it is possibly the best american staple i have sampled thus far.

Biscuits are most certainly an art, not a science. Also, they're most often consumed with other foods, such as chicken/gravy, and so get less delicious-meal credit. (Have you tried Oaklandian chicken & waffles yet?) My southern-US-bred ma used to crumble up hard biscuits (certainly harder than those you've tried) in buttermilk for spoon-aided consumption. I never really made sense of this, but biscuit culture is diverse.

chikn biscuit ftw

this whole chicken/waffle thing sounds terrible to me. i also can't stand the bacon/syrup/pancake combo either.

The key to making the syrup thing work is that you have to put it on (1) waffles that have had (2) butter applied and melted moments prior. Also, use real maple syrup, not high-fructose BS. Bacon is irrelevant.

chikn biscuit ftw

nooooo, pork tenderloin + gravy + biscuit

ew

it's so gooooood. Maybe it's a southern thing.

Biscuit wars.

Hardee's has something real close now, "pork chop gravy biscuit." The gravy is the sandwich condiment! Can you feel your heart closing up yet?

Now I'm sorry I'm going vegetarian the rest of February.

Be still, my heart.

had my first in and out burger today. v v nice!!!

god I'm starving... why did I look at this thread again?!

krispy kreme HOLY SHIT

i know that creamy filling is probably some kind of pig fat or crushed hooves or some shit, but GODDAMN

fyi: i ate TWO kk donuts, and the TWO inandout cheeseburgers, and then fell into a carb-coma on the way home. my stomach now looks like a malnourished ethiopian child's.

i think with kk it takes just two. the first one is like 'well this aint so hot' the second is 'holy shit give me more'

ive never had one with filling though only the plain old glazed ones

I like Krispy Kreme, but they have disappeared from the Twin Cities (so far as I can tell). I always ate the custard-filled ones with chocolate on top.

do they have eskimos in the us ms rubyredd? round and succuclent as a sweet pig, pagan little icons loved by kiwis since their earliest incompetent,resolute, gummy, golden hearted staring bug days, but i digress, have your heard the facts?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/2349017/Eskimo-lollies-rile-Inuit

hope the us of a is treating you well and you and your beau get back to nz one day to make pressed letters and babies that eat eskmios etc :)

yes, i read that article! (i read stuff.co.nz for the nostalgia)

we'll most likely be back for a honeymoon once my greencard comes through in a year or so.

hey justine, happy ANZAC day, Im sure your bloke will love nz.

Id love to get to the US myself one day, you might enjoy Joe Bennets description of his travels through the US:

"and I travelled light. I carried only a backpack of prejudices. Cherised prejudices, racial heirlooms that I was unwilling to let go.I had been raised to see Americans as energetic children , committed to making money and being keen, but all of them, in the words of Evelyn Waugh, who was and remains my favourite bigot, 'exiles uprooted and doomed to sterility'...These people were different but if I had to choose a single adjective to describe them I would not choose sterile. I would chose good. These people were good.The young did not seem disaffected. The old seemed free from bile. Their intrest in me was all that I could wish and their generosity was greater than I could handle."

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April is the worst month to be AUS/NZ ex-pat what with missing 4 day easter weekend and then 3 day anzac weekend.

I regret telling you to try Idaho Spud; a friend bought one for me recently ("though of you! Idaho!") and I forgot how waxy and mushy and tasteless they are, like an old man's balls.

anyway my answer now is roasted Hatch green chile
yum

i bought a thing of hatch chiles when i was in america

america is really just a well-oiled mechanism for delivering food to mouth

Just want to add to Abbott's endorsement -- anybody can have this precious stuff without going to New Mexico, if you have a store that carries Anaheim chilies and have a way to roast them. (Gas oven with a broiler rack works best.)

abbz if you mean the candy bar I REALLY ENJOYED IT!!! i think. i can't actually remember and i may be confusing it with something else.

hahahaha "rubyredd"

these are the heights that itr aspires to fyi

3.5 years and
i haven't tried snoballs, olallieberries/pie, panda express, scrapple, funyuns, hot wings, bbq ribs, clam chowder, cool whip, white castle, it's-it, church's chicken, popeye's, taco bell, spam

i liked hershey's at first but now i hate it
cheetos are inferior to nz's 'twisties'
i still haven't been to chez panisse but i did go to millenium and it was awesome
in-and-out was amazing the first time, subpar other times, and their fries are the worst
sunny otm about pretty much everything - i still feel sad about once a week bc i miss nz bread so much
salt water taffy is... salty; idgi
good biscuits are SO FUCKING GOOD. a million x better than boring scones

re. grits: i will cook them when you come here

― lxy, Tuesday, May 27, 2008

YOU TOTALLY DIDN'T

everything here tastes like medicine!!
still true

RR, send me your address, too, so that when it cools off here I can send something your way. I promise to try not to lose it.

― Sara R-C, Wednesday, August 6, 2008

YOU TOTALLY DIDN'T

but then again i totally didn't send anyone any new zealish candy bc it all ended up in my belly

hey ruby do you like toffee pops, i've been scoffing them all week.

just1n3 OTM, In-N-Out's fries are rubbish.

Are you a vegetarian? If not, I don't see any reason why you should be shying away from hot wings or ribs. I don't think the rest of them are so neccessary, but you sorta owe yourself snoballs since you started the thread off with that intent.

God, those Snoballs look like thistles.

I love toffee pops, and squiggles, mallowpuffs, collisions, all of them!

The us is really lacking in the the fun-cookie dept

come back, bring lollies, i will make grits

<3

Hostess went bankrupt, so y'all need to act fast.

xp we were talking the other day about how we'd love to do that pac-nw road trip all over again - it was so much fun. alas, we are saving it all for a trip to paris next year instead.

yeah lxy, but you can come to paris and cook us some grits there, that would be fine.

i will very happily do that.

"RR, send me your address, too, so that when it cools off here I can send something your way. I promise to try not to lose it.

― Sara R-C, Wednesday, August 6, 2008

YOU TOTALLY DIDN'T

but then again i totally didn't send anyone any new zealish candy bc it all ended up in my belly"

:(

Another thing I have, unsurprisingly, failed at.

Just come visit me in Minnesota, I will feed you many treats, hand made, not kidding!