Local food
Residual political angst in play...
I am from the exotic and foreign islands of Hawaii, so I tend to eat exotic and foreign foods. YUM for me, pooh on you Cokie!
Since Sis and family have been here, I've been indulging in all the fun and exotic local foods (much of which I take for granted since I live in this foreign place). For example, we've had pickled mango, li hing mui, spam musubi, Bale sandwiches, plate lunches, manapua, taegu, kim chee, melona bars, healthy rice (w/nametake, edamame and wakame chazuke), Portuguese sausages, Jack in the Box (there's none in FL-- what are they in a foreign country? No wait, I am...), McDonald's fruit punch, and one bite of natto (only to reconfirm that I absolutely cannot eat the slimy beans).
Despite all the gluttony on my part (it's a great excuse to eat all that stuff) we still have a lot to go. We still haven't eaten Zippy's chili or gone to Island Snow or Waiola Store. Who could come to Hawaii and not indulge in shave ice? Even a future President of the U.S. could be seen slurping down the sickenly sweet goodness from Hawaii (oops, I mean potential future president-- don't want to jinx him like I did those Yankees) on his recent vacation to the land of the unknown, foreign and exotic to all who are not born and raised here... or to those without any sense of geography.
Ooh, tangent-- my bad.
You would think that since I live here, I would eat foreign and exotic stuff all the time, but I don't. This morning, I made a batch of spam musubi, but I haven't made it since the last time she was here (or the time before that) and I don't ever buy it. The truth is that I really don't like Spam all that much (Oh-oh!). And the only reason I have pickled mango or any of those other things is because she's here. I eat normal people food like Pop Tarts, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and apples. I also eat pizza -- yes we have real ovens here to cook food, they're amazing.
My mood: snarky
Oh, yes. I have the day off today! Why? It's a STATE holiday called STATEHOOD DAY or ADMISSION DAY -- admission to the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, not some other foreign country.