AMERICAS FOODS TO BE TRIED UPON ON IMMEDIATE ARRIVAL BY RUBYREDD

They have dr peppers in australia, they dont have in nz?

Grits rule. Use butter and salt, pls.

add enough butter and any starch is good. grits are worth a try

The way Curtis describes grits has me thinking of polenta, I guess it's the same family of flavour what with being corn and all.

grits don't really sound like my kinda thing, but fuck it, i'll try them out.

come on guys, i need some more 'healthy' stuff to try, because this shopping list is starting to make jordan worry about my health (he already said 'you're not gonna eat this all right away, right?' so i pouted and pulled the 'BUT IM MOVING HALF WAY ROUND THE WORLD' card on him. which pretty much gives me a license to eat whatever i want and fuck my arteries).

cool whip sounds like the same kind of aerated cream cans we get here (which i adore).

Has anyone mentioned White Castle hamburgers yet?

Also lol Cool Whip, I know the guy who invented it.

RR, cool whip isnt the same as the cans. its totally next level. id be surprised if there was any dairy involved at all.

its one of those "foods" where you eat a spoonful and think "this is terrible!" then you eat another spoonful.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004Y6A6.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

^^^ Cool Whip in a nutshell

yes

Cool Whip = tub of processed awesome

Ingredients

Cool Whip is made of water, corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated coconut and palm kernel oil (CPKO), sodium caseinate, vanilla extract, xanthan and guar gums, polysorbate 60 (glycosperse), and beta carotene.

also apparently the guy I thought invented Cool Whip... didn't???

Dan, are you seriously recommending White Castle hamburgers!?

Cool Whip makes me shudder, but apparently many people enjoy it, so don't listen to me, RR; try it for yourself!

WHITE CASTLE HAMBURGERS MAKE YOUR STOMACH HAPPY, THEN V V V SAD, THEN HAPPY

I am totally interpreting that through the lens of my last pregnancy, Daniel. JUST SO YOU KNOW

gross

Sonic hamburgers! Not sure they have a presence on the west coast though.

xpost Yes, it was kind of gross. Except for the part where food tasted so awesome that I gained a ton of weight, but honestly then I wound up looking REALLY gross, so overall, I'd say "gross" is accurate.

Burgers I can't resist are from Culver's. Their frozen custard also A+++++

oh shit I should get lunch

i used to love sonic when i first got here but now i cant work out why. nothing is appealing except pineapple sundaes

healthy eats specifically for here, ruby? there are lots of course but they're way less exciting to talk about. of course you can go to the organic grocery store and get good wheat bread and fixings but that's BORING

re. sno balls: BAD to eat but FUN to play with
re. dr pepper: YUM! tastes like lipstick
re. almond roca: it's made in tacoma, our sleepy neighbor to the south; you can go to the factory outlet!
re. grits: i will cook them when you come here

i have never ate a sno ball.

grits: MUST TRY. awesome: shrimp and grits. also awesome: cheese grits. so awesome that someone graffitied the wall outside my house.

http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/3388/2402071821vx6.jpg

(sadly the wall's down now, rip cheeze gritz)

yes, cheese grits are very awesome; i will cook grits for all this itrers.

Grits are indeed similar to polenta, but it's a different part of the kernel. A common way to have grits is to cook them twice: Once for regular cooking, then after they have cooled overnight, fry them up in patties. Serve with traditional USA breakfast foods.

I suppose you don't have to let the cool overnight, but it helps them stay together.

Oh, a totally USA thing to have is chicken & waffles, and there are plenty of places to get 'em around here (e.g., in Oaktown):

House Of Chicken N Waffles
444 Embarcadero W
Oakland, CA 94607
Phone: (510) 836-4446

The way Curtis describes grits has me thinking of polenta, I guess it's the same family of flavour what with being corn and all.

-- Trayce, Tuesday, May 27, 2008 2:31 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Link

grits are like the southern u.s. version of polenta and are sooo goood

spicy cheese and sausage grits mMMMMMM

speaking of southern food: biscuits in gravy

mexican food also otm

All this grits talk has me thinking about the empty industrial-sized tub of grits my wife brought into our marriage full and how perhaps it should be full again or at least approximated by another full tub.

It's actually Canada that's got the really good sweets: Coffee Crisp, Smarties, Kinder Eggs... mmmm.

smarties:
http://www.shopatmoxie.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/smarties350.jpg
or smarties:
http://candyaddict.com/blog/uploads/smartiesuk.jpg

??

damn. smarties no2:

http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/1123/smartiesukle2.jpg

they sell kinder products here!

I would eat all this giant Smarties.

It's so clear that I have got to get back to Canada, wow.

http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/1123/smartiesukle2.jpg
These smarties!

Re: Kinder products - they're German but apparently rarely seen in the USofA; Americans online seem (rightly) to think Kinder Eggs a source of joy and amazement.. didn't know if they'd made it to NZ.

Hey Im eating a fun size banana laffy taffy right now. Here are the jokes on the wrapper:

From Whitney P in Champaign, IL
17: WHAT IS AN OWL'S FAVORITE SUBJECT?
17: OWLGEBRA

From Connie G in Kent, WA
18: IN WHAT MONTH DO PEOPLE TALK THE LEAST?
18: FEBRUARY-BECAUSE IT'S THE SHORTEST MONTH OF THE YEAR!

?!

banana laffy taffy is the best of all laffy taffys, btw.

Also lol Cool Whip, I know the guy who invented it.

-- HI DERE, Tuesday, May 27, 2008 12:28 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link

RR, cool whip isnt the same as the cans. its totally next level. id be surprised if there was any dairy involved at all.

-- sunny successor, Tuesday, M

HI DERE - details plz

SUNNY - cool whip is a fucking blight on this planet. its literally whipped corn syrup & water & it is horrible. eat it next to actual whipped cream & you will never want it again.

i have and youre right but ill still eat it

No time for Cool Whip. All the time in the world for Reddi-Whip. People in my family have been known to go to the fridge, get the can of Whip, squirt a bunch into open palm, snarf up. Also watching what happens when you stick a big white ZAP of Whip on black poodle's nose: first the contortions to remove it, then aggressive demands for MOAR.

yeah see reddi-whip is incredible. i have no idea why anyone would buy cool whip & never miss an opportunity to berate anyone who does. no offense to HDs buddy who i am super envious of & is obviously a genius if hes managed to pawn that crap off on the populace like he has.

also apparently the guy I thought invented Cool Whip... didn't???

-- HI DERE, Tuesday, May 27, 2008 1:54 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link

ok day ruined`

RR, see ref to biscuits -n- gravy upthread. A USA-style biscuit is like nothing you have thought of as a biscuit up to now.

Other corn-based products to seek out: spoonbread and indian pudding