I guess it's time to talk about food since so many of you ask about it.
My big meal of the day comes at school at lunchtime. Not bad, for school cafeteria food, and if it is especially good, there are bags available to take some home.
I could easily live on Chinese food but periodically get a craving for some "comfort food". So far, I have located Combos, peanut butter, Pringles, Oreos, Diet Coke, hot dogs, outstanding tomatoes are now in season and the tangerines I remember from my last stay here.
Chinese are big snackers and there is a world of crackers and chips but you have to be careful since they are often oddly flavored: barbecus chicken potato chips, seafood platter Doritos, and a saltine looking cracker that is fish flavored (found that out the hard way!).
What I find really annoying is the dififculty in finding bread products that don't have something hidden them. For, example, I found things that looked like dinner rolls with which I thought I could make ham and cheese sandwiches. Beautiful and fresh, I was so pleased until I cut one in half and found plum paste in it. Often what is inside is not bad, it is the surprise factor that gets to me.
Fruit and vegetables are wonderful, though not as cheap as I remember. I bought 3 nice tomatoes yesterday for about $1.50 - not so different from what I would pay at Giant. Restaurant food is also not cheap unless you stick to rice or noodles. Of course, since there are no restaurants in my town, good eating out only happens on weekends. When we were in Natou over the long weekend, we did have two great dinners. They both had a salad bar, which I hadn't seen here yet and really pigged out. Three plates of lettuce doesn't leave much room for anything else but who cares!
There is now also ice cream and ice cream products eveywhere which is a treat. Before they told us to avoid them because of the fear of Tuberculosis.
Another interesting product is fruit flavored milk. I have never been much of a milk drinker so I haven't gotten into this but there seems to be a major effort to get people to drink more milk so they have flavored it with all sorts of juices (apple milk?) Could this be why kids are so much bigger?
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I got quite a chuckle out of your story of bread with plum paste in it. Not exactly sandwich making material! I know what you mean about the surprise factor - when you're buying something for a particular purpose, you'd sort of like to know what you're getting.
Karen, I finally got your blog back on my new fancy pants computer. I miss you so much, I have a lot of reading to catch up on. I for one would like to find out what a plum roll tastes like!
"FOOD, glorious Food,,,,,,,,,,," Oliver! (Attribution is a good thing!)
I had much to much of it in Europe --- and have continued the sining since my return on Thursday (dinner Friday in Baltimore with Maaryrose Whelley et.al; with my neighbor Neil Roe at his home on Saturday; with my sister in Hagerstown on Sunday and last night with the Jims at Clyde's (the newly re-done one on Wiscounsin Ave above Western)).
I was getting concerned that you hadn't written -- and then I thought of the blog site. GOOD JOB, Kid.
I still would like a regular mailing address and, if you have such a thing, a phone number (and time difference from the REAL world).
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