The Last Thing You Put In Your Mouth....

We just returned from Paneras from lunch. Turkey sandwich with cranberries. Too bad, they don't have flavored iced tea that I prefer over soft drinks with too much sugar; I had the root beer.

Chocolate chip cookies and blue ribbon vanilla ice cream.

I just got up an Im eating a bowl of "Cotton Candy" grapes cold from the fridge.

We're officially "off tap" while we host wedding functions, meaning no beer for a few days.

It's my way of getting my sugar high.

My wife and I had breakfast at Denny's and enjoyed their special $4 grand slam with pancakes, two eggs with bacon. It's the best deal in town.

A cup of chili I made yesterday.

We had some store bought sushi for dinner with some hot green tea.

Mug of skim milk.

My sister, brother and brother-in-law came to share lunch together at Fresh Tomato in Sunnyvale. They came at 11am, and just left for home to Lodi and Elk Grove (1:25pm). My brother who is a doctor said, he's still working to help his grandchild attend dental school ($90k/year). I'm the last one in our family to get a college degree, and the first one to retire (in 1998).

Yikes, $90k a year......where is he going to school?

Chocolate cookie, glutenless

Lowfat chocolate milk

Salami and Swiss cheese with onions

I haven't had a nice salami Sammy in years.

I had a cup of yogurt....tres boring

Swiss cheese is something we never have, it sometimes makes an appearance in American food chains but other than that I wouldn't know. I suppose there's some somewhere on the supermarket shelf but I've not seen it. Then again our cheeses aren't distinguished by country but by type, which normally means cheddar and anything that isn't cheddar. We eat a huge amount of cheddar.

That sounds really good.

Not gonna eat any bread, but I think I'll go do a little roll up with hard salami and havarti. I finished the Swiss (Tillamook) yesterday.

What foods do they serve in the American food restaurants there?

Oh. Emmental is what we call Swiss Cheese. Some tangy, some creamy, and in between.

Burgers hot dogs, that sort of thing. I'm not running through a whole menu.

We do get Emmental cheese but I prefer this, it's Norwegian and has a nuttier taste.

Jesus. I wasn't asking you to.

I was just wondering what people in England thought "American Food" was.
So burgers and hotdogs, kinda what I figured. Although I don't know what "that sort of thing" means. What sort of thing?

That would be like me saying "English food is fish and chips. That sort of thing". You know, fish and chip like. Just like hamburgers, I don't think people in England eat F&C's every day, or several times a week.

Anyway. We also eat eat Jarlsberg cheese, and many others.

Americans generally don't call a cheese by the country is known to be made in. Swiss and American are the only 2 I can think of.

It's not like we call cheddar "English cheese" or gorgonzola "Italian cheese"

Growing up in NJ, I only knew of the existence of Manhatten. Or rather I didn't know about New England until I saw it in a restaurant. I thought that was so exotic.
Wherever else I've been in this country that serves clam chowder, I May have seen Manhatten list once.

Now, I can't imagine really liking it.