west coast blues

[greengrayblue]

people on the west coast have this really bizarre habit of putting jalapenos in places they should not be. for instance, the delta, a "southern" "cafe" right up the street from school/my house serves hush puppies with jalapenos in them. the first time i sat down to their "pups in a pond" (hush puppies in gravy, which ostensibly should be very

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I too miss the cuisine of my home state.

[medeainpink]

Jalapenos? Yeah, I feel what your saying. It seems a lot of them time people around here just don't understand anything.My pet peeve is when they put hummos of everything. even when it makes no sense. And I'm not even an Arab and that pisses me off!

[nosuchweather]

i'm telling you, dude. stumptown coffee on belmont. respectable bagels. i mean, they have that sort of glossy "i've been boiled" texture and the bagel taste, and some nice big holes in the middle. not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but SO much better than anything else i've had in portland.

[greengrayblue]

yeah, but i can't just like, go in there and get a half dozen everything bagels, a half dozen plain and walk out. they'd be all "what did the scenester say to the other scenester?" and i'd say "what?" and they'd be all "*scoff* you don't know?"
only this time it wouldn't be matt telling a funny and slightly ironic joke, it would be like for serious that they were asking me this and scoffing at me.

bottom line is, i need to learn how to make my own bagels.