Back when I was visiting Chicago, I had some modestly interesting food experiences. From a Thai restaurant I ordered some tastefully arranged strips of duck:
Those ducks are as tender and delicious as they are cute.
The restaurant was apparently famous for their charred beef salad, which is like a normal salad, but with beef and spices.
We ate the meat by wrapping it in the lettuce like a taco.
Nearby where I was staying was a Lebanese grocery and bakery. I asked the lady behind the counter for one of every kind of baclava they had in stock.
Notice that there are no duplicates. I would not be so crass as to pick one that was better than the others however. They were all flaky and sticky with a variety of stuffings of nuts and sugars.
From the same grocery, Vimto:
Proving that other cultures and countries do indeed have a pretty good handle on the concept of "Orange Crush."
Back in Austin I was exploring the freezer section of the Fiesta, and I noticed that not only did they stock the cuisine of the non-English speaking world, they also had the weird foods from Britain. Here’s what was labelled "Irish Breakfast Bacon:"
They tasted like a cross between bacon, a pork chop, and a salt lick.
I also bought at the Fiesta a bag of Carnavalitos. This is probably the only time in the Spanish language when a food beginning with the letters "carn" does not contain meat.
The Miller High Life is in the photo expressly to demonstrate scale.
Speaking of bacon, from the candy store on South Congress I bought this tin of bacon-flavored gum.
Yup. Tastes like bacon.
