Hooligans
Today Lars got me a Duke CS t-shirt, I wonder if I dare wear at at Turing-0. In other news I am going to see some baseball this evening. The game is supposedly very boring, I know it will be jazzed up sometime in the next 994 years, but that will not do me any good now :). Yesterday I went to a pizza place called Randys Pizza, their pizzas looked huge so i ordered two slices and some fries. Apparantly, in America even the pizza slices are large, in spite being quite hungry, I only managed to eat one slice and the half of the other one, I left my fries mostly untouched. Another weird thing over here is that they have chloride in their tap water, now I have seen that many places – but here they actually use this kinda water slightly filtered for the coke machines with the result that I get an distinct after-taste of chloride with every sip, like drinking pool water. Or maybe it is just a combination of a placebo effect with my paronoia mixed with the fact they actually have a slightly different way of making coke here (they use a different kind of sugar or something).
Only one and a half pizza slide? Wow… I want to go too… :-)
I hope you will decide on a camera soon so that you can show us how this New World looks like.
And about the coke: I was told by another Thomas at the Game06 workshop that coke tastes better here in Europa since we use sugar from sugar beets and they use sugar canes instead. So you’re exactly right about that. The chloride thing sounds nasty though :-(
Pizza slide? I want to make a pizza slide-show!
Coke in the US is sweetened with corn syrup (not cane sugar), and in Europe where corn is… less readily available corn syrup isn’t used. That along with the different water makes all the difference in taste.
Time to switch to drinking Barq’s root beer, Thomas. :)
Hi Andreas, nice to hear from you :)
Yeah I have head quite a few tales of weird american beverages from peole here. These include root beer and Dr. Pepper, none of which I have yet had the pleasue(?) of tasting
I’ve been reading quietly for a while. :)
I love root beer and live off the stuff whenever I’m in the US. But be sure to get Barq’s or a bootle from a micro brewery. These are usually not as sweet and have a sharper taste. As usual Wikipedia has the low-down: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_Beer
Hope you’re enjoying your American adventures!
I have been reading your blog for a couple of years too :)
I like the US so far.