• ramble81@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Rule of traveling: never eat anywhere you can back home (which is pretty much any chain restaurant)

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      3 months ago

      I ate at the first ever Carl’s Jr in Japan right after it opened because it’d been 3 weeks since I’d been home and was dying for some home food

      Walk in and it’s themed after LA and SACRAMENTO (home) of all places, and there was a California expat family eating there so we sat next to them and raced about how the food tasted just like home but s little better

      Then the news can say and interviewed the lady and her son

      Sometimes it’s worth visiting those places lol

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        3 months ago

        I moved to London in 2011. When Five Guys opened here in 2013, I think I ate there at least once a week for 2 months.

        Also, what the fuck. It was expensive back then, and it’s just absurdly priced now. Also I don’t eat hamburgers as often which is definitely a good thing…

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      3 months ago

      Tbf, I want to go to Kuwait just for the Taco Bell (and then maybe swing by the Afghan/Pakistan border to check out the market and buy some cool hand engraved shit, but,) Kuwait is the only country that has Volcano Tacos still. I want to bring home, portion out, and freeze an entire bag of that fucking sauce and then I can turn taco bell here into Volcano Tacos (without the red shell but who cares, the secret’s in the sauce.)

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        3 months ago

        Kuwait is not near Afghanistan or Pakistan. You’re mixing up two different US wars ;)

        It has borders with Iraq, Saudi Arabia and almost Iran.

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          3 months ago

          I assume it’s closer together than the US is to either, so “while I’m in the neighborhood” I may as well pop over. Flight has to be cheaper and I could probably get away with making Kuwait a 14hr layover.

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      3 months ago

      I dunno, I got a kick out of visiting Tim Hortons in Saudi Arabia. My Canadian friends on facebook were amused by it.