AMERICAS FOODS TO BE TRIED UPON ON IMMEDIATE ARRIVAL BY RUBYREDD

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 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.

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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?

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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

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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

oh -> clam chowder

nilla wafers dipped in cool whip.

jordan just told me that dr pepper has PRUNE flavouring! i was always under the impression it was of the cola family. not sure about orange crush: i don't like orange softdrinks like fanta or anything like that. but that other stuff sounds good, esp the waffle house place. america has cadbury creme eggs and hershey's so i'm not worried about the chocolate. america also has almond roca which just about makes up for anything.

i'm excited about deepfried clams.

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i'm also excited about going to one of crab places.

curt1s those look kinda boring - are you supposed to dip them in stuff?

can a get description of 'grits'?

wallpaper paste.

i thought so.

sunny, i don't actually like pavlova.

grits are awesome, esp. with butter/salt/pepper

you could visit one of America's many "culturally themed" restaurants

http://www.typophile.com/files/outback_logo_5055.jpg

you can have pineapple crush instead!

i still think the chocolate will taste a lot different to you.

dr pepper tastes like cough medicine without the fun of cough medicine

another addition: Ben and Jerry's "Phish Food"

nilla wafers dipped in cool whip.

-- estela, Monday, May 26, 2008 9:48 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

face dipped in cool whip

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!