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If you watch Batali's "Authors@google" talk(youtube it), you will see that one of the audience questions is a man essentially begging him to bring back his line of sauces. Appartenly, they originally were released through Trader Joe's exclusively, but Batali terminated the agreement when TJ's altered the recipe without consulting him. I think $6 a jar is just too much for a broke college student like me.
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I adore grape soda. That wonderful faux-grape chemical taste is awesome. For that matter, i love all manner of fruit flavored sodas not common in the US. Strawberry, grape, and most of all, apple. Apple is commonly available in spain under the "kas" brand. It tastes like a soda version of a green jolly rancher. So delicious.
Mmmmm... Kas Manzana.

I'm told it's also common in Mexico.

The UCLA equivalent has to be a restaurant affectionately known as buck fitties($.50). The late night fast food stand, now Tommy's Tacos, is still referred to as buck fitties, even by students who never attended UCLA when that was still its' proper name, including myself.
The food is more or less what you would expect for a restaurant open until 3AM, with burgers and burritos topping the menu. However, buck fitties' signature dish has to be their dream fries, an order best eaten while in what SE would call an "altered state." Dream fries consist of a base layer of french fries, covered in cheese and steak or bacon, topped with sour cream and avocado. Just a short walk from fraternity row and the majority of westwood's apartments, the line gets long after 2AM when hungry undergrads leave their parties to grab a bite. A drunk meal at buck fitties is absolutely a prerequisite for graduation.

If you can get to the Kogi truck while you are here, it's really special.

It's an awful show. Ramsay hosts it without an ounce of taste or class. The chefs have a total lack of basic culinary knowledge. The contestants seem to have below average intelligence, and I would imagine so does the targeted viewer.

Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity.
Eta Sigma Chapter (UCLA).
Initiate #286

I'm an undergraduate and a fraternity boy. And I live in the city of Kogi and Umami and a million other wonderful culinary opportunities.
I am your frat boy readership.