To Do:

[cherry]

Walk into a restaurant in the States with a friend. Ask for a plate of poutine with a couple of serviettes, and pitcher of iced tea. Request a bag of dill pickle chips, and one of salt and vinegar, to munch on while we eat. Watch the expression on the poor waitress's face.

I've known for a while that poutine wasn't common in the States, and that if you asked for an iced tea, you were likely to actually get a cup of iced tea, but it wasn't until the other day that I was informed that they had no dill pickle chips. Or salt and vinegar. It seems to me that those would be two flavours of chips that would be hard to introduce to a new market, when I think on it. We're just used to them, but they're actually rather sharp.

And really? No poutine? You don't know what you're missing.

Great. Now I need poutine. ::G::

Comments

[tellitslant]

Eeeeyuck. I hate poutine. Of course, people tell me that they make it different here in Alberta than they do in french Canada, but really... how many different ways can you make it?

You know what else they don't have? Smarties (at least, not widely... they have them in some places). Isn't that WEIRD?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bounce_/]

*blinks* They don't have Smarties?

*grins* And I'm thinking that this poutine stuff sounds pretty nice. I mean, it's chips with gravy and cheese.

[tellitslant]

No, they don't. Every time I send a package to the States, I stick some Smarties in... which probably makes it rattle weirdly and hence makes the border patrol open it, but it's worth it, right?

And poutine is just not good. It's not just cheese, it's actually cheese curds... >.< I do know people who like it, but not me. ;)

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

No... Smarties? ::Blinkblinkblink:::

(And Shhh. You're going to scare the poor little Australian girl. I've worked so hard at convincing her that I'm not the odd one...) ::G::

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bounce_/]

You ...odd? *laughs so hard she falls off the chair*

I've got another thing to add to my list of food to send to Americans now.
Lessee, Smarties, the little TimTam bars, Cadbury chocolate, Vegimite. *grins* Those poor things. They've got no *good* junk food at all. :)