What bothers me is where these people got the idea that that’s Rod Stewart singing in the intro. He did the original version of that song for ‘Patch Adams’, but he did not perform the ‘Enterprise’ version. That was Russell Watson.

Ham (must be off the bone, none of this lunchmeat shit, must also be cold) and alfalfa sprouts, on Bimbo white bread.

Everywhere is better than Olive Garden.

1) They’re only used as salad toppings. Get the scallop capellini instead.

I’m white, and I had to ‘translate’ a black customer’s accent for the (also white) clerk at a convenience store when said other customer came in looking for these. I swear, she couldn’t understand a word he said. Was she new in town?

My neighborhood Italian place is miles ahead of Olive Garden, AND they have a takeout window (no drive-thru, YET). They’ve also got the best fried onions in town.

This is Madison, summed up in one event. We’re freaks, but we’re AWESOME freaks.

My family went to the Upper Peninsula (of Michigan, of course) on vacation. This was in 2005, and we were driving a ‘Light Blue Metallic’ 1992 Buick Century sedan. My mother had heard of a supposedly excellent beach at the end of a small peninsula. We took note of a sign at the start of the lone gravel road. It…

The ham steak dinner at the truck stop up the highway from my childhood home. A slice of ham the diameter and thickness of the top of one of those little French cafe tables, enough fries to choke a rhino, and a soup-bowl sundae for dessert. I had a very big appetite as a child, despite spending most of it below the…

Always a good idea. The good food is generally found where the locals eat. Except in the US, where they pack into McDonald's like those cardboard 'burgers' are manna. Not that there isn't good food, just that it's phenomenally hard to find. I could recommend a few places.

"There's no sauce in the world like hunger."

I had almost the same experience, only I got peanut butter crackers, Nesquik, and 'The Swan Princess'.

Or a trail runner, but their stories are marginally more interesting. Marathon runners don't have to carry bear repellent.

There's a cramped little hole-in-the-wall sushi restaurant in my hometown, where I had a plate of gyoza, then one piece each uni, smelt roe, and flying fish roe, washed down with a can of Coke and followed by a deep fried slice of cheesecake. Heavenly.

That omelette the Doctor cooks up in the episode ‘The Lodger’. Even though it appears to be filled with ham, grated cheese and MAYO (or is it pancake batter? Hard to tell.).

They’ll usually stop if you go out to meet them, especially if you’re visibly carrying cash. Just don’t stand in their path. Go out, stand where they can see you such as on the right-of-way, wave a fistful of bills.

There’s one independent truck that covered my neighborhood for the past several years (haven’t seen it yet this year, sadly), that was actually rather hard to track down, because it played ‘Turkey In The Straw’ at such high volume it could be clearly heard four blocks away. The first year, he actually got lost, went…

Good point. I think some of my neighbors came from there.

You do realize '$8 bucks' reads as '8 dollar bucks'? I hope they didn't actually charge you either twice or in male deer.

Try some of the places in Madison WI, they do decent salsa. And I'm both German and Norwegian.