"Hey Josie. You should totally give me your cake because I SAVED YOUR LIFE!"
"So? That was just that one time!"
Hmm. It's sounds like the finest party I can imagine getting paid to go to.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
tommyrot - Jun 24, 2010 7:44:21 am PDT #23688 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Aims - Jun 24, 2010 7:44:54 am PDT #23689 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
"Gimme your cake."
tommyrot - Jun 24, 2010 7:46:37 am PDT #23690 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
"Mom! Nathan's trying to take my cake just because he saved my life that one time!"
Sean K - Jun 24, 2010 8:39:00 am PDT #23691 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
She then proceeded to say that only weak foreigners who couldn't get used to Chinese food "resorted" to eating McDonalds.
My dad and stepmom have been to china, and are both adventurous eaters, and they will NOT eat most local food in china. It is NOTHING like what (at least) USians think of as Chinese food, and the sanitary conditions were most often questionable at best.
They ate at MacDonalds or other USian chains. They are not wimpy eaters.
§ ita § - Jun 24, 2010 8:42:56 am PDT #23692 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've never gotten sick when eating travelling abroad. And I've done some dodgy stuff (in my defence, we didn't know what we were downstream of and we were desperately thirsty). I get sick when I come back to the US or Canada. I have third world tummy.
Zenkitty - Jun 24, 2010 8:46:29 am PDT #23693 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
My dad and stepmom have been to china, and are both adventurous eaters, and they will NOT eat most local food in china. It is NOTHING like what (at least) USians think of as Chinese food, and the sanitary conditions were most often questionable at best.
A world-traveling friend of mine says basically this about food in China and some other places too. What Americans think of as "ForeignPlace" food may bear little to no resemblance to what you'll actually find to eat there, and sanitation conditions may make you not particularly hungry. Like, China is a very big place! - they don't all eat the same "Chinese food" I can get at Jade Palace across the street. In the case of some of the dishes, none of them do.
Hil R. - Jun 24, 2010 8:46:44 am PDT #23694 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I read an article about the food service people for the US Olympic team the year the Olympics were in Beijing. The usual procedure is for them to buy most food in whatever country the Olympics are in, and just bring whatever specialty items they need that aren't available there. For Beijing, though, they brought almost all the food from the US -- when they did their first visit, to see what was available in Beijing, they found a chicken breast at a grocery store that was 14 inches across. They bought it and ran some tests, and they realized that it had been injected with so many hormones that any athlete who ate it would test positive for steroids.
Sparky1 - Jun 24, 2010 8:50:07 am PDT #23695 of 30000
Librarian Warlord
I've never gotten sick while traveling, but I clearly remember friends and I congratulating ourselves on surviving some very sketchy food in Guatemala . . . and then Jenn came down with Denge fever.
Sean K - Jun 24, 2010 8:53:24 am PDT #23696 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Like, China is a very big place!
In China, they just call Chinese food, "food."
t /Chandler
Jessica - Jun 24, 2010 8:53:44 am PDT #23697 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
When I was getting my vaccinations to go to India, the doctor was very reluctant to give my a typhoid shot. He said I should just eat only "safe" food, and I'd be fine. When I asked him to define "safe" he said "Oh, anything in a 4 or 5 star hotel restaurant should be fine." I got the shot. Not too many 4-star hotels on the road from Chennai to Pondicherry.