This is a fun game. I’m not sure I can remember all of mine.
North America: Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, New York, Boston, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento (such as it was: more of a light rail / tram).
Africa & Asia: managed to travel without using rail.
Europe: London, Paris, Amsterdam, Rome, Venice (more of a tram: Tranvia di Venezia), Vienna
Not in the poll, but I’m a bit spoiled by the tunnelbana in Stockholm. Each station is a work of art!
https://www.visitstockholm.se/se-gora/sevardheter/konst-i-tunnelbanan-upptack-14-vackra-stationer/
You left cheddar cheese off the apple pie poll.
No I didn’t.
I don’t go out of my way to ride transit systems, but i usually end up doing so. I find them easy to navigate. I don’t worry about a cab driver taking me to his friend’s place instead of the place i asked for, nor about getting into the wrong bus, nor about waiting in the wrong place for the bus. And i rarely rent a car while traveling. So I’ve ridden the transit system in most every city I’ve visited that has a useful one.
Damn I miss Athens and Greece, best holiday trip of my life.
Ok, sure, I’ll join.
North America: Washington, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, and I’ve ridden Sacramento’s light rail if we’re counting that.
Europe: Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, and sort of London (I’ve never really been to London apart from Heathrow Airport, but I did use the Underground to get between terminals at Heathrow so I counted it in the poll)
Oceania: Sydney. In Melbourne I rode the tram but not the metro system.
I’ve ridden most in the poll. For ease of use and affordability, you can’t beat Mexico City.
Dang. How’d I miss it?
Oh, sharp cheddar.
About half the time, I want apple pie au naturale. When I do want to gild the lily, my first preference is whipped cream. Ice cream is a distant second place. If you were to serve it with clotted cream or creme fraiche, I would enjoy it, but those are pretty rare in my part of the country, and it would not occur to me to ask for it.
As far as being touched while drinking, it depends on the gender and the hotness of the person doing the touching.
I like a hot dog with ketchup and relish. More than two or three toppings, and you are gilding the lily. I want a hot dog, not a pile of toppings with a scrap of meat at the center.
I’ve only ridden on two subway systems outside of the United States, Toronto and Montreal.
PM me that recipe @Karen_Lingel!
I’ve ridden most of them in the poll (plus Australia).
I wish the subway poll had an option “I’ve ridden some of these and I’d like to tell you about others in the discussions thread”. In addition to several in the poll, I’ve ridden the systems in Montreal, Osaka and Buenos Aires.
I got myself majorly lost in the Brussels metro systems.
I did vote yes for the Cinnamon Ice Cream recipe.. but then I noticed
that @Karen_Lingel voted no thanks.
So I’d like to know if she voted that way because she’s already got
it, or whether it’s because it’s not very nice !
I can’t speak to her recipe but, in general, cinnamon ice cream is Da Bomb so even if her recipe is so-so, it’s probably still pretty good.
Sherlock Holmes - Don’t know enough about the specific actors or what SH movie they made to give a valid answer, & if I watched them all I might have a preference so even that wasn’t a great choice. Didn’t vote.
I’ve generally liked the Holmes actors fine, maybe RDJ a bit less…I even liked the kid in Young Sherlock Holmes, Nicholas Rowe.
Nicol Williamson…or Peter Cook.
I liked Jeremy Britt as an older Holmes, later in his career. RDJ was a pretty good younger Holmes - perhaps mid-career. I know people didn’t like his take. I think they expect a more cerebral Holmes, but they forget that Holmes was a pretty good bare knuckles boxer. IIRC, one of his former opponents said that, if Holmes had stuck with it, he would have been a champion. He also would take to shooting at the walls of his flat when bored.
Holmes was no Nero Wolfe. He was a man of action.