Food review: America

Bill and Kristen bought us many delightful treats and I ate most of them so here we goooooo~

TGI Fridays Potato Skins (Cheddar & Bacon)

These start off great, and then get worse the more you eat. They originally taste like Rashuns (which is awesome because Rashuns are awesome) and then after the fifth one they taste like feet. They are not potato skins btw, they are just reconstituted potato like everything else in America.

Rating: 2 stars (4 stars if you only eat a couple)

Burger King Ketchup Chips

I didn't eat these because tomato sauce is gross. They smelled a lot like Tomato Munchos though. Which probably means they are gross. Bill liked these.

Rating: 1 star (estimate)

Doritos: Late Night Taco flavour

These tasted exactly like what they are, which is Doritos that have been dusted with the seasoning sachet you get in an Old El Paso taco or burrito kit. They tasted okay, I guess. Would be easy for non-Americans to replicate.

Rating: 3 stars

Sun Chips

Inferior Grain Waves.

Rating: 3 stars

Peanut Butter M&Ms

I will never understand America's boner for peanut butter. These were the worst M&Ms I have had. They are better than if someone made M&Ms with raisins inside, I guess? They are still M&Ms though. Everyone else seemed to like these for some reason.

Rating: 2.5 stars

Almond M&Ms

Superior Peanut M&Ms. Would eat again.

Rating: 4 stars

Pretzel M&Ms

THESE ROCKED MY WORLD

Rating: 5 stars

Milky Way

I didn't try any of this, but it just seems like a Mars bar without the caramel? How is that good on any planet?

Rating: 2.5 stars (estimate)

Butterfinger

I did try this, but I can't really remember it. It was really chewy? Maybe a wafer or some form of nut at the bottom of it? I dunno I don't remember it being that exciting. Butterfinger is a really unappetizing name btw

Rating: 2.5 stars

Baby Ruth

Again, I think I tried this, but I don't remember it too well. Kind of like a Picnic I think? Maybe this was the chewy one. I do remember this being significantly better than the other ones.

Rating: 4 stars

Hey dudes we are sad to be leaving America. Got to hang out with heaps of ultracool bros and met some new ones! Thanks for fun times and please visit Australia soon ok!

Celebrity zillionz at Kmart

Today we ate lunch at the self-proclaimed best pizza in New York, Lombardi's. It was pretty good, 4.5 stars. I had a beer that cost me $7 with tip (I was not aware it would be this much before ordering).

Webber ate this for breakfast

What

Hotel breakfast in NY. ilu America

this was in the science museum in london, note that it is mac OS7 or something & the file name indicates it is from 1994

this is a french style hotdog, 5 stars!

this weird stuffed guy was in a shop window

on Viðey Island

I rode this guy but the guy webber rode kept stopping to eat grass lol

Riding guys

Nice day in Reykjavik

"I don't remember this phase of the village people" - Lyndal

There is quite a lot of John Farnham for sale at Icelandic flea markets (2 copies)

It's all about the Ragnheidurs

devo walking area

This biscuit is delicious! 5/5

Iceland airport activity at 1am

Landing in Iceland at 11:00 pm

This is your head rest on the plane

No thank you Icelandair!!

I actually disagreed with this later

Iceland is hilarious and this weird plane survey was just the start

in iceland all the hot water smells like sulphur. it reminds me of rotorua and also farts. iceland is fun so far stay tuned!

This would be good for Kat but was also £95

What? We couldn't find NZ

One of the worst things with one of the best things. Together at last!!

from the royal college of physicians (they have free wifi, obv)

Burying webber at Brighton

I assume the award was "beach that is most uncomfortable to walk or sit on"

lyndal's feet around the world: pebbley brighton beach edition

this will "help maintain male comfort"

"if you hang around me you'll always be a bit sick"

- lyndal

Reviews: London

No pictures here sorry.


Irn Bru

I know this exists in Sydney but I'd never tried it and everyone always wanks on about how great it is so I thought I'd give it a go. It tastes super super sweet. It reminds me of something I've had before that I wasn't fussed on, but I can't think of what. Maybe creaming soda? Anyway Irn Bru is not as great as everyone wants you to think; don't listen to them.

Rating: 2 stars


Rolo milkshake

This seems to be a thing in England, where you select a chocolate bar or fresh fruit and then they make a milkshake out of that for you for around 2.5 pounds. I had a Rolo one. DELICIOUS. This is up with cricket as the greatest thing you have ever invented England, well done.

Rating: 5 stars


Steak lunch at pub

This was real dry and terrible and also five or six pounds. BOO

Rating: 2 stars


Blackcurrent soda

I was at the pub and I asked the guy what sodas he had and he didn't understand, and so I asked him what soft drinks he had and he didn't understand, so I ended up getting this because Ro ordered this right before me. It is a glass of soda water with a bit of blackcurrent syrup at the top. This is the best drink because it is 30p for a pint. A+ would drink again.

Rating: 4 stars


Wanky fish and chips

On our first day in London we went to a wanky fish and chip restaurant in Covent Garden. It was like 11 pounds but it was real good, so probably worth it. Take off one star if you want to take into account how expensive it was.

Rating: 4.5 stars

Things about England:

• Everyone here loves Lucozade. It's like the most popular drink after beer and Coke.
• The most English thing seems to be having a pier jutting out into the ocean, and then filling that pier up with slot machines and then letting five year olds play those slot machines. Ro also loves doing this.
  
• I didn't realise that ale is just flat beer until I ordered one. Ale is gross.
• England is totally the rudest country ever. I think out of about fifty customer service experiences we have had in this country, ...two? have been friendly? All pubs and shops are populated by severe eastern European woman who answer requests with "YES." and then don't do what you want until you ask them another three times. If England is what America would be like if tipping didn't exist then y'all should probably just keep the tipping.
• A lot of people just have their dogs wherever, often off the lead. Like not just parks and stuff, on streets in the middle of London and on the tube and things like that. Real weird.
• There are Australians everywhere.
• Fosters is a thing here. It's available at all the pubs and people seem to actually drink it. I might have to try it one day, for science.
• Mind the gap
• The tube is too small. Get a bigger tube, England.
• It is summer here, so people keep walking around with their shirts off and announcers on trains keep encouraging people to drink plenty of water ps it is like 20 degrees
• Americans talking about the "toob" are real funny
  

this was in japan i forgot to post it

See!! Proof!!

Romany and I are driving

Vampire deer

Science!!

O cranberry guy! This is from some exxy Japanese donut store btw

This is a delicious salted caramel donut from New York donut or whatevs

What do you think about this??

yesterday

yesterday sucked the end

in the toilet at Vienna airport

food & drinks review

Georgia Vintage Coffee - ¥120
This was advertised on the train as a double gold medal winner. Was watery & not sweet enough - 2 stars


Rockmelon Soda - ¥80
This tasted EXACTLY like rockmelon! DELCIOUS!! 5 STARS!


Peach Drink - ¥120
This was pretty nice, but quite sweet. Tasted like grape Zappo lollies - 3 stars


Nashi drink - ¥130
Tasted just like nashi! Apparently has 10% - 3.5 stars


Seafood riceburger meal with white grape soda from Mos Burger - ¥650
I ate Mos Burger in Singapore in 2000, and was excited when we discovered there was a store across the road from the hotel! The burger is made with two rice patties rather than a bun, and the middle had a patty made with seafood and tempura peas.
The grape soda was just like white grape gummi lollies, and the cup had a cute tiny bird on it - 4.5 stars

Coffee thickshake (no photo) - ¥210
SO DELCIOUS! It was the thickshake of my dreams - 5 stars


Japan 'away jersey' ramen - ¥160
There was also a 'home jersey' type, but this one looked tastier. This was seafood flavour and was quite tasty, but it really lacked enough vegies - 3 stars


Boss Cafe au Lait - ¥120
After sampling many types of coffee in a can, I now see why Tommy Lee Jones endorses Boss brand. It is far superior, with a lovely coffee flavour without being watery and there is enough sugar - 5 stars

When we met with Sara yesterday, I mentioned how I love coffee in a can. However, apparently all the vending machines suddenly swap from having hot coffee for wintertime to cold coffee for summertime. So I have to make sure I only come in hot weather to avoid horrible hot coffee.

I have drunk so many fancy drinks while here, I haven't drunk the same thing twice. Normally I would never ever pay for a drink, unless I left my water bottle at home. But with so many delicious choices, what am I to do? There are many more I didn't take photos of, but you will just have to imagine all the things I drank and ate.

cupman, explained

Previously I posted a picture of cupman, but the text didn't email through.

I bought this guy in a fancy department store for ¥750, which I feel is worth it. His sole job is to hold down the lid of your pot noodle, rather than struggling with a fork. As the noodles cook, his arms go white, to entertain you!

I made a point that Japan has superior instant ramen technology, in the above noodles it has a separate tear off section to easily and safely pour off the water from your ramen without losing any of the tasty cabbage & meat cubes inside.

The ramen above is UFO (¥168), and is super tasty. The dehydrated meat cubes inside are DELICIOUS! We might take some to Iceland because we won't be able to afford any other food - 4.5 stars.

THURSDAY THURSDAY

Thursday was a big day because we were going to meet Sara! Sara speaks Japanese so we were super excited to ask her a bunch of questions about what was going on. In Japan you spend a lot of time trying to figure out what is going on. We were meeting Sara at 1pm at Nakano station. We were planning on getting up early and doing something beforehand but this did not work out as we are extremely lazy. Before I get to that, the night before I was reading the hotel book as I wanted to find out the price of meat lump. In the elevator there is a picture of a meat lump on a nest of shredded cheese and we think they are pouring oil on this. It could also be Ponzu which is something that Sara told us about. People put ponzu on everything even on your fried (or friend whateva) chicken (if you like). I almost wrote fried children but that is ok too. Anyway there was no price for meat lump but I did find this and racistly took a photo of it for you
So make sure you do that at the gym. So Thursday morning we went to Mos Burger to eat the naan with curry sauce, cabbage and sausage. There is also a Mexican naan with mince, corn chips and a bunch of other junk. It was quite great but not as great as the other Mos burger which ROCKED anyway this is what it looked like (3.5/5)
Yummu so then we headed off to meet with Sara. We were a little bit early so we went to look for a post office but we were on the wrong side of the train station. Webber bought some CC Lemon so he has now drunk 140 lemons or something. We met up with Sara, gave her a slightly melted Caramello Koala and went to Uniqlo which is a cool store and I got some amazing roomwear shorts and sunglasses. HEL YEH! Then we went to Nakano Sun Mall which is full of heaps of nerdy stuff including some picturesque face washers that featured Star Wars characters walking underneath cherry blossoms etc. They were magical but also about $18 so we didn't purchase any. Sara told us all about SMAP and also Arashi who are on EVERYTHING! They are on pretty much every TV show and they also manage to advertise competing cell phones! This morning I was wondering when they get to sleep as when I went to sleep they were on TV and when I woke up they were on it again! Sara told us that they all work for the same talent agency and they just get paid like a salary and you get more money the more senior you are rather than how popular or how much work you do. Also there is a girl band with 48 members! Only 20 members perform at one time but you get to vote for whoever you want to perform! They are called AKB 48 you should google them! We went to a chain restaurant which had cold green tea which was delicious and they gave us a glass of water to chill us after our spicy Japanesse curry (Japanese curry is not spicy). Then we caught the train to Harajuku so we could walk down Takeshita Street and eat a crepe!
This was the guy we got! Delicious! He had a whole slice of cheesecake in there! The whole crepe was soft unlike the crepe I ate at ice cream city which was crunchy on the outside. At one of the shops here Lyndal bought a small straw hat!
It was only 315 yen! Bargainb! Then we walked to Shinjuku because we wanted to go to Loft and Muji. Loft was full of amazingness such as this


(Sara-lobster, Lyndal-flon and Webber-pig)

They had some pretty awesome paper sticky tape there but it was too exxy and also woah they had some super special furniture. There were many things to buy but we don't have a house in Japan to put them all in. Then we went to Muji which is all stuff that is unbranded. I drank peach nectar DELICIOUS! Lyndal drank jelly drink DELICIOUS! Then we went to an izakaya where a man crouches by your table to take your order. Webber ordered a cocktail which was a carbon offset cocktail and he got some free chopsticks! We all got tiny foodstuffs to eat with drinks and it was delicious good times. We left at about 20:20 and Sara had to catch her train back to her town which takes about 90 minutes! Sara explained many mysteries to us like why people all go eeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhh all the time (they think this is what western people do) and she told us all about what the magazines were saying. Oh my this post is huge ok so then we came to hotel and went to sleep after watching Arashi. This is to ensure that we dreamt of Arashi which of course we did! So des ne!