AMERICAS FOODS TO BE TRIED UPON ON IMMEDIATE ARRIVAL BY RUBYREDD

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

http://www.rafa.com/graphics/zl303goines-Can.jpg

I will tell you that if you are thinking of trying funjuns and they only have wise onion rings WAIT til you can find funjuns. Then, do not, I repeat, do not exceed fun size!

thanks mookie, i will add that to my list of places to visit.

funjuns?!?!

oh i spelled it wrong.

http://blogs.tampabay.com/popmusic/images/funyuns_2.jpeg

In-N-Out Burger

Do they have avocados in NZ?

we have avocados.

i've heard of this burger place and since i'm a big burger fan it will be at the top of my list.

By a lot of elementary schools in the East Bay there are sometimes churro carts where you can get a bag of them for a few dollars.

svend, you'll be pleased to know that thanks to you and about a 100 other ppl i know who've made reference to oakland being a shithole, jordan now wants us to move to somewhere like alameda or berkeley as soon as his current lease is up in august. this is mostly because he's worried that i will hate it there, thanks to everyone relentlessly badmouthing it to me, even though he really likes it, and moving will be a pain in the ass, and his current apartment is completely awesome, and he totally doesn't want to live in alameda or berkeley.

back to food discussion now.

chez panisse is kind of famous and v. expensive -- save it for mega-celebration

oh man is it one of those places where i'll have to point at the menu when i order because i can't pronounce any of fancypants frenchy names?

no one will mind if you use a cute kiwi accent

yeah i think i'm gonna be heavily relying on the novelty of my accent for a lot of things.

RR have you ever had hot wings/buffalo wings? They are probably the best fucking food in the world.

Try Dickel brand bourbon!

yeah i've had them once before i think, at this tex-mex (i think that's what the style is called??) restaurant here in welly a few years ago. but i'm a baby when it comes to spicy food :(

xpost and i'm a fussy drinker - i had a v v v bad experience with homebrewed bourbon in my teens and can't even stand the smell of it since.

Oh man that is a shame but I can dig.

There are a lot of 'hot wings' that aren't even half spicy.

http://www.wingstop.com/img/content/menu/images/menu07_r1_c1.jpg

Oh man now I want to go to Wing Stop so bad. Why do I do thins to myself?

THEIR FRIES ARE SO GOOD

http://www.wingstop.com/img/content/menu/images/menu07_r3_c1.jpg

your a ccent will get u by in many situations

oakland will be fine. everyone is boring. your boyfriend knows better than the losers on here

Have your boyfriend take you to a good barbecue joint and get a proper rack of ribs.

Do you like peanut butter?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/elysesewell/IMG_8751.jpg

You can eat grotesquely oversized burgers:

http://www.chss.iup.edu/kpatrick/Man%20Bites%20Other%20Things/Clearfield,%20PA,%20Denny

abbott that place sounds yum! i love potato salad and cole slaw!!!!!

and OMG what are those IDAHO SPUD things?? they look awesome.

jergz you are so right and that's what i keep telling jordan.

I <3 PEANUT BUTTER, ABBOTT

seriously ruby the more i think about the madder it makes me. get there, see how it is. i bet it'll be fine. and then if not, move. easy.

i know, jordan had kind of mentioned moving a couple of times in the past, just because he's worried oakland won't be safe enough for me, but this last week he's gotten really serious about it, and i feel bad, like maybe i shouldn't have said anything to him all those times people have gone 'ohhhh oakland' to me. but yeah, i'm excited about moving there and oakland has fuckin cool art galleries and the parkway movie theatre.

what would be really awesome (except not really) is if we moved somewhere lame like alameda and the next day i got mugged outside our new house (i think this is called cutting off yr nose to spite yr own face, but whatevs).

This vvvv

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/7886/habaspp0.jpg

RR, the chocolate here tastes so bad. coke tastes slightly different. cheese and butter are weird shades of yellow and cream. bread tastes like a tablespoon of sugar. oh and NO PAVLOVA.

but you should try:
Waffle House All-Star breakfast
salt water taffy
any cereal with marshmallows
grits
Mexican food
orange crush
dr pepper (so gross but you should still try it)

theres lots more but thats all i can think of right now

oo...banana laffy taffy

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!