Post Your Vice

[ChristineM]

Ameristan has better food, primarily because of great variety.
Same goes for chocolate, eg, our access to wonderful
Mexican style chocolate.
We also have great cheese selections, but I'll grant
that you have more....which explains why your men
are calmer. ("You give the meanest white man a piece
of cheese and he turn into Mr. Rogers." - Robert Freeman)

I will admit you have a much greater variety of fast food restaurants.

Hey. Come on, i have tasted cheese in ameristan but just couldn't lower myself to try spray on cheese.

And from what i saw most chocolate was mass produced, not hand crafted. Although good beans are much of the battle in making good chocolate

 

[Revoltingest]

I will admit you have a much greater variety of fast food restaurants.

On a flight from Europe, I sat next to a Frenchie.
He admitted to me that we had much more variety
of ethnic foods.

Hey. Come on, i have tasted cheese in ameristan but just couldn't lower myself to try spray on cheese.

Our hardware stores have much better cheeses than the spray on kind.

And from what i saw most chocolate was mass produced, not hand crafted. Although good beans are much of the battle in making good chocolate

Hand crafted chocolate is over-rated. The makers typically
start not with raw beans, but rather already manufactured
chocolate. Then they gussy it up, & raise the price.

 

[ChristineM]

On a flight from Europe, I sat next to a Frenchie.
He admitted to me that we had much more variety
of ethnic foods.

Our hardware stores have much better cheeses than the spray on kind.

Hand crafted chocolate is over-rated. The makers typically
start not with raw beans, but rather already manufactured
chocolate. Then they gussy it up, & raise the price.

Ethnic, yes will agree with that. That does not necessarily mean better

Hardware stores, explains a lot.

Maybe in your neck of the woods. Here a chocolatier is an artisan job

 

[Revoltingest]

Ethnic, yes will agree with that. That does not necessarily mean better

Hardware stores, explains a lot.

Maybe in your neck of the woods. Here a chocolatier is an artisan job

It certainly does if one likes variety.

 

[ChristineM]

It certainly does if one likes variety.

A variety of fried chicken wings, burgers and tacos, your choice.

 

[Revoltingest]

A variety of fried chicken wings, burgers and tacos, your choice.

Perhaps you can't get good ones in Francistan.
Burgers & tacos have wonderful variety. But my little
town also has Lebanese, Greek, Israeli, Nepalese,
southern Chinese, northern Chinese, Vietnamese,
Thai, Mexican, Tex-mex, French, German, Polish,
Indian, Korean, Italian, southern Ameristanian, vegan,
& even Canuckistanian (poutine).

 

[ChristineM]

Perhaps you can't get good ones in Francistan.
Burgers & tacos have wonderful variety. But my little
town also has Lebanese, Greek, Israeli, Nepalese,
southern Chinese, northern Chinese, Vietnamese,
Thai, Mexican, Tex-mex, French, German, Polish,
Indian, Korean, Italian, southern Ameristanian, vegan,
& even Canuckistanian (poutine).

Very good. I guess we have the same variety if travel is acceptable l, maybe 2 or 3 hundred kilometres ,-)

 

[Daemon Sophic]

In particular, Diet Dr. Pepper, Diet Coke, and Diet Mt. Dew (although I’ve recently kicked that last one).

 

[Subduction Zone]

A variety of fried chicken wings, burgers and tacos, your choice.

Italian, Chinese, lots of Vietnamese in my area, back in Minneapolis if one is into masochism there are even German restaurants.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Unlike others my vice is under control. I have a firm grip on it:

Spoiler

 

[Rival]

Duck is my favourite meat but it's one of the worst for you

 

[Wu Wei]

Tea
Good Chinese Food
Good Japanese food
and......

 

[Subduction Zone]

Duck is my favourite meat but it's one of the worst for you

Really? I have not heard that. But then, though I too love duck, I do not eat it often enough for it to be a factor. The housemate has very pedestrian tastes, duck is not one of them

 

[Revoltingest]

Very good. I guess we have the same variety if travel is acceptable l, maybe 2 or 3 hundred kilometres ,-)

Sounds inconvenient to me.
But I'm sure you've figured out how to cope with where you life.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Tea
Good Chinese Food
Good Japanese food
and......

I got spoiled when it comes to Chinese food in Minneapolis. They had a rare gem, a fairly authentic Chinese restaurant. It was near the University of Minnesota campus, We also had quite a few students from China and it always seemed to be half full of Chinese students. Late night they even got more authentic than the standard menu. Sadly it closed some time ago. And even rarer it was a fairly authentic Cantonese place. Nothing I have found since comes close. Sigh, maybe in Seattle, but out here in the burbs there is only your standard Chinese just a small step above fast food.

 

[ChristineM]

Duck is my favourite meat but it's one of the worst for you

There are 2 duck farms within spitting distance, it is by far the most popular meat in the area. Every resteraunt serves duck, supermarkets reserve whole isles for ducks, fresh and frozen, prepared to cook or not, confit, magret, foie gras. All other meats are crammed together in the opposite isle.

We had a pair back in the uk, wonderful eggs but the birds were so cute, sweet natured, fussy, loving i just cannot bring myself to eat their meat.

 

[ChristineM]

Sounds inconvenient to me.
But I'm sure you've figured out how to cope with where you life.

We have, eat local and enjoy.

 

[Revoltingest]

We have, eat local and enjoy.

That's what I do too.

 

[Wu Wei]

I got spoiled when it comes to Chinese food in Minneapolis. They had a rare gem, a fairly authentic Chinese restaurant. It was near the University of Minnesota campus, We also had quite a few students from China and it always seemed to be half full of Chinese students. Late night they even got more authentic than the standard menu. Sadly it closed some time ago. And even rarer it was a fairly authentic Cantonese place. Nothing I have found since comes close. Sigh, maybe in Seattle, but out here in the burbs there is only your standard Chinese just a small step above fast food.

similar thing here. Use to go tp Boston Chinatown a lot with Chinese friends (Cantonese) in my youth and I am now married to a Chinese woman (Beijingren), and when we were dating we used to go to Flushing Chinatown to eat...and then she took me to Beijing.... so.....if it is not authentic, I can take it or leave it

 

[Revoltingest]

similar thing here. Use to go tp Boston Chinatown a lot with Chinese friends (Cantonese) in my youth and I am now married to a Chinese woman (Beijingren), and when we were dating we used to go to Flushing Chinatown to eat...and then she took me to Beijing.... so.....if it is not authentic, I can take it or leave it

I'm into flushing too.