AMERICAS FOODS TO BE TRIED UPON ON IMMEDIATE ARRIVAL BY RUBYREDD

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!