Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Day 6

Stuff we are looking forward to eating in America!

Pie
Cheese
Turkey
Cheese
Stuffing
Cheese
Tomato soup...and grilled cheese
Dill pickles
Cheese
 REAL bread
Nachos...with cheese
Tacos
BLTs...but no cheese.  What are you, crazy?
Milkyway bars
Cheese
Legitimate coffee
"spicy" chocolate (Hershey's Cookies and Cream bar)
Salty, buttered popcorn...good with parmesan cheese
Legitimate salad
Ranch dressing
Pizza from the cafe at the downtown Whole Foods (Peter's holy grail of pizza)
Barbecued anything
Cinnamon rolls
Appetizers of all descriptions
Quesadillas
Burritos
Salsa...yeah, pretty much all Mexican and Tex-Mex food
Anything involving an avocado (cheese for vegans)
Potato salad
Breakfast cereal
 Bacon
Blueberry muffins
Samples at Costco
Costco hot dogs
Salmon
Lobster (that one's just Peter)
Fresh fruit year-round
Herbs of all descriptions
Legitimate whole wheat bread
Brownies
Real butter
Cheese
Ben and Jerry's
Fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies, and cookie dough
Pasta.  All pasta.  Especially lasagna
Anything cooked by my mother



Restaurants to which we look forward:

Olive Garden
Joe's Crab Shack
Shari's (for the memories more than the food...sorry mom!)
Taco Bell (yes, that one's just me, an no, I am not ashamed)
The Whole Foods Cafe and Deli...yeah, it's that good.  The one at the big mall in Tualatin has the best seafood chowder, according to Peter.  I think they put all the shellfish that doesn't sell in that chowder.
Jim and Patty's
Papa Murphy's...don't knock it, much less greasy than the big chains
Bellagio's Pizza...I never got to take Peter there, gotta fix that
Izzy's...I like pizza, ok?
Mo's...another one he's never been to, but we have plans to go with a student of mine
Safeway Chinese....ha, gotcha

6 comments:

Leslie M. said...

There is something missing on your list.....it's STARBUCKS and STARBUCKS oh and don't forget STARBUCKS. :D

Leslie

eulcedes said...

ye gods, i wish there was taco bell here in czech. just BK, mcd's and kfc.

Christense Andersen Jiang said...

We actually have Starbucks, Leslie, but that's just so-so coffee. Micah, bonus points for correctly implementing "ye gods".

Christense Andersen Jiang said...

We actually have Starbucks, Leslie, but that's just so-so coffee. Micah, bonus points for correctly implementing "ye gods".

Christense Andersen Jiang said...

We actually have Starbucks, Leslie, but that's just so-so coffee. Micah, bonus points for correctly implementing "ye gods".

Effie said...

This list terrifies me. I'm about to leave for china for four years and all I eat is cheese and avocados. Yee gads