i was really hungry.

as if girl scout cookies weren’t bad enough on their own, there is now edy’s samoas girl scout cookies ice cream! 

other flavors not seen at my local kroger but seen on the edy’s website include:

 slow churned rich and creamy thin mint cookie ice cream, and peanut butter tagalongs ice cream!!

hello UK people! i am very honored to be in your newspaper today!! i hope you enjoy reading my blog over your tea and crumpets this morning..or your bowl of weetabix..or takeaway currys.. or cadbury chocolate.. or a bottle of irn bru, or whatever it is you guys eat i promise new and exciting content soon! i hope!!

if your valentine hates you because you bought them a box of drugstore chocolates, you should consider taking a trip to the ikea foodmart.

nothing says “i love you” quite as literally as an i love you torte from ikea:

you may also consider a box of swedish choklad praliner! (chocolates!)

your valentine will swoon!!

pepperidge farm ginger family cookies featuring conjoined twins! found at your local target store.

ladies and gentlemen, you will be happy to know that i finally made it to the kosher market!

tadaaa!

inside of this glorious building lived many amazing and delicious kosher grocery items.

there were bags of frozen falafel,

boxes of frozen potato knishes,

freezers full of broiled chicken livers,

pretzels shaped like trucks,

bags of little challahs,

kashrus alerts,

and many other kosher groceries waiting to be eaten!

thank you to the lady who erased my $16.60 in overdue fees at the library while i was checking out “the pleasures of colonial cooking.”

i have been dreading paying them for three years, and they finally reached the point where i couldn’t hide from them by using the u-scan anymore, but the library lady came to save the day (and me 16 dollars) and now i have a colonial cookbook!

thank you library lady!!

last weekend i took a short-lived trip to canada. here are things about canada that you will be happy to know:

canadians buy milk in a bag (but also in cartons..which more people appeared to be buying, despite the fact that there was three times as much bagged milk.)

canadian mcflurries are better than american mcflurries (especially the kit kat variety). other varieties at mcdonald’s in windsor included rolo and smarties.

canadians eat poutine, even at burger king

the candy at the checkout (known to the canadians at the real canadian superstore as a “till”) is totally different and way better than any snickers and crunch bar mumbo jumbo you might find here in the states. no one seems to be as fascinated by this amazing foreign checkout-candy phenomenon as me, but i will always find it to be amazing.

canadians have these, and you don’t. (but i do because i bought a bag of each)

also it appears as if candians bag their own groceries, and push around funny looking shopping carts (which i sadly do not have a photo of.)

in conclusion: canada rules.

100 “must-eat” american foods

foods i have eaten are in bold..

1. New York pizza
2. Hoppin’ John
3. New Mexico green chile
4. Homemade buttermilk biscuits
5. Tasso
6. Whole Maine lobster
7. Calabash-style shrimp and hushpuppies
8. Kansas City barbecue ribs
9. Hot glazed Krispy Kreme
10. San Diego fish tacos
11. Cheese curds
12. Key lime pie
13. Philly cheese steak
14. Memphis pork barbecue sandwich
15. Lowcountry boil
16. Huckleberry pie
17. New England clam chowder
18. Boiled peanuts
19. Buffalo burger
20. Eggs Benedict
21. Pastrami on rye
22. Corned beef and cabbage
23. Pancakes with maple syrup
24. Everything bagel with cream cheese and tomato
25. Thin Mints (preferably frozen)
26. Frito pie
27. Potato knish with mustard
28. Silver Queen corn on the cob
29. Soft pretzel from a street cart
30. Fresh-picked blueberries
31. Sourwood honey
32. State fair funnel cake
33. Chesapeake crab cakes
34. Candied yams
35. Oyster dressing
36. Snow cone or snowball
37. Wild Alaskan salmon
38. Sautéed morels
39. Persimmon pudding
40. General Tso’s Chicken
41. Frozen custard
42. Italian sausage with peppers and onions on a hoagie bun
43. Chili dog
44. Buffalo wings with blue cheese
45. Spam musubi
46. Saltwater taffy
47. Fluffernutter sandwich on Wonder Bread
48. Black and white cookie
49. Frybread
50. BLT with thick-cut applewood bacon
51. Baked beans
52. Pumpkin pie
53. Collards with vinegar and Tabasco
54. Tex-Mex fajitas with skirt steak and sautéed peppers
55. Fried green tomatoes
56. Succotash
57. Shrimp and grits
58. Hot water cornbread
59. Barbecue chicken pizza with red onions
60. Chicken fried steak
61. Carnitas burrito
62. Apple butter
63. Geoduck
64. Soft-serve ice cream cone dipped in chocolate shell (especially Dairy Queen)
65. Pecan pie
66. Catfish supper at a church or fire station
67. Oysters Rockefeller
68. Homemade cranberry sauce
69. Pimiento cheese
70. MoonPie washed down with R.C. Cola
71. Pickled watermelon rind
72. Cracker Jacks at the ball game
73. Smithfield ham
74. Meatloaf and mashed potato blue plate special at diner
75. Chicken and waffles
76. Po’Boy
77. Green bean casserole with French’s fried onions
78. Stuffed sopaipillas
79. Turducken
80. Shad roe on toast
81. Sweet potato casserole with or without marshmallows
82. Cioppino
83. New York cheesecake
84. Pan-fried river trout
85. Jambalaya
86. North Carolina pig pickin’
87. California rolls
88. Burgoo
89. Penuche fudge
90. Fried peanut butter and banana sandwich (the Elvis)
91. Scrapple or livermush
92. Elk medallions in red wine reduction
93. Muscadine grapes
94. Cheeseburger at backyard barbecue
95. Open-face turkey sandwich
96. Chicago deep dish pizza
97. Cobb salad
98. Peach pie a la mode
99. Macaroni and cheese with Tillamook sharp cheddar
100. Root beer float

the british list:

apparently this list is not very british, but that’s okay, you’ll live.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake
how many have YOU eaten?

i have a long way to go..

the “pumpkin vinaigrette” dressing in doles new autumn salad mix tastes about as much like pumpkin as this plastic pumpkin bucket:

hurricane ike took out the power in many places, including grocery stores. sadly, all of their ice cream and tv dinners melted