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Sauteed Brussels sprouts with bacon!

There is no other perfect flavor combination in my mind than bacon and a sip of milk. Take that, vegetables!

A Belgian-style waffle with fresh strawberries and vanilla ice cream.

Toast! All kinds of toast with jam, peanut butter, eggs, nutella, anything!

Kinda similar to crepes, I suppose.

I wholeheartedly agree with focusing on making school cafeteria food better first, then worrying about how close or far the fast food joints are.

What difference will 1/10th of a mile make, anyway? My friends and I just hopped in our cars when we wanted junk food. Or walked across the street to the office building that had a Chinese buffet. Or around the corner to the grocery store to get snacks, sodas, anything.

One of the best memories I have with reading and food was in the student union building in college. They had a Chick Fillet there. Once a week, I would get nuggets, fries, and chocolate milk for lunch. I remember reading Memoirs of a Geisha while enjoying my food, and since then I always recall the taste of greasy, salty, chocolatey goodness whenever thinking of that story.

A friend from Buffalo, NY was in town, so she whipped a few local treat: chicken finger subs slathered with bleu cheese spread. Yummy!

Maybe someone is sending a message to "meat" under the tree? Get it? MEET?!

*cough*

"I wish my hands were as small as a turkey's leg bones....oh wait."

Well, this wasn't really at a restaurant, but I had a silly experience with a drink from a vending machine in Japan. It was a brightly colored purple box, leading me to assume the beverage was grape juice. I paid my 350 yen, and down plunked the drink. Eagerly, I stuck the straw in the top and took a sip, anticipating the sweet thirst-quenching slurp of juice...

...When out came this gooey, gelatin, grape jelly juice thing! I swear, it was like grape jelly in a box that you drank through a straw! I started laughing, and shared the mystery goo cooler with my friends. Serves me right for not learning more Japanese before my trip!

But don't you see?! It was EXPLOSIVE TERRORIST BACON!

Jan! I just did a huge research project involving his film, Faust. One of the motifs is closeups of disgusting-looking food and people chewing it. How funny to see another piece by him involving food!

I feel a good rule of thumb is everything in moderation, nothing to excess.

Though I do worry about the two regulars who ask for ten-Splenda lattes at the Starbucks where I work.