I was reading the thread about American food that grosses out Europeans. Ironically, the thread made me incredibly hungry, hungry for things they found disgusting! :eek: I had an overhwelming desire to to eat something…unhealthy and so characteristically American that the very though would turn folks green in the gills
While I was out, I bought a doughnut. Not a good doughnut from a bakery, oh no, that’s too fancy! I went and got a doughnut from 7-11 (a convenience store chain). Feeling that paying $0.85 was excessive for a fresh doughnut, I opted for one in the ‘day old’ section which were on discount for $0.50. From the looks of it, this pastry (if it still qualified as one) looked like it came out of the same factory that makes play-doh and as such was suitable for my personal indulgence. When I took it home, I cut it in half lengthwise like a bagel, and fried it…again. I fried the cut halves on a skillet to make them crispy (or as crispy as I could get it ). Reminded of the deep-fried ham sandwich with custard my best friend enjoyed at a restaurant the other day, I then stuffed some micowave bacon, along with some margarine in it and ate it like a sandwich. I washed the whole thing down with rootbeer.
If this grossed out anyone, I’m sorry. Its just I read the thread about all the American food that makes foreigners gag, and it gave me this bizarre craving for all those things. I want to drink E-Z cheese product straight out of the can, eat pickled eggs until I get ill, and get drunk off cheap American beer right now.
Where’s this thread? I’m currently in China and the moment I get home in December I’m grilling big, dripping cheesburgers. Snow or no snow. And baking pies. And bacon, bacon cheeseburgers. And cold pop.
Well, where do you think those 7-11 doughnuts come from, if not a bakery?
I have a friend who owns a ‘fancy bakery’; they also supply doughnuts & other pastrys to local chains like 7-11 and SuperAmerica, to some hotels, and even to 1 hospital. These bulk sales are a large part of their income.
I asked him once if there was any difference between the doughnut that sells for $1.25 in his ‘fancy donut shoppe’ and the one that sells for 50¢ in a gas station. He said that they come from the same recipe, cooked in the same fryer, by the same cook. But in his shoppe, a pretty waitress sets it before you on a nice plate. In the gas station, you pick it up out of a bin with a sheet of wax paper.
Dude. No, no, no. Do they not have Krispy Kreme where you are, the actual store with the “Fresh Donuts Now” neon sign? Because that is how you eat a donut. It’s still disgustingly American, as you can see the donut assembly factory machinery from where you eat, and something watching them scrape the gloppy glazing off the conveyor belt is… well, it might put you off your fresh hot donuts. For three or four seconds maybe.
I’ll have to confess it did actually gross me out a little; I tried to read it objectively, but failed; to me it says "I took this stale ball of fried grease, fried it again, added some fatty meat, some more fat…
It’s all subjective, but yes, it made me feel queasy, but if you enjoyed it, knock yourself out; they’re your arteries, for as long as they continue to function as such.
Hey! Incubus has hard, manly, American arteries. None of those flimly, flabby, foreign, girly arteries for him.
Incubus, my arteries and I salute you. Remember, contrary to what every, single health professional in the world may tell you, such food is good for you. It makes your heart stronger, because it’s pumping sludge. Those so-called heath professionals don’t want you to have hard arteries, because it will make you as powerful as they are.
Yeah! They never point out the health benefits of hardened arteries. It’s demonstable that hardened arteries reduce the chances of coming down with Alzheimer’s disease!
