05/19 - Rice?

Pseudo Italian,

I miss home for the Slurpees,

I'll pass on dessert


Today after work I went for supper with two other teachers, Aykut and Rommy, to a cheap Italian chain restaurant called Saizeriya. The place is pretty hilarious. They have shockingly cheap food and wine, but they kind of only half serve you, as you have to get up to get a lot of your own things. We discussed Canada a bunch because Rommy and I are both Canadian, and Aykut has been making fun of me for using the terms Freezies and Slurpees. Yet, he calls freezies, Ice-poles. That is utterly ridiculous compared to freezie. Discussing this topic I realized that I hadn't had a Slurpee for over three weeks, which is not a long time, but knowing I won't have one for more than two more months is rough. I love Slurpees and with the weather here I would probably be indulging in them quite often. Maybe too often, so it might not be the worst thing.

The only real reason we ended up at Saizeriya was because Rommy is vegetarian, and we needed to make sure there was a good meatless option for her. The other topic we talked about at length over dinner was how hilarious some of the dishes end up being here. For example, the "spaghetti" meal I ate at the University cafeteria, which was actually breaded chicken, with salad, a tiny amount of spaghetti and sauce, served with miso soup and a side of rice. Aykut also had us cracking up recounting some weird bread items he had at an Italian joint in Korea. Saizeriya was definitely heavy on rice options for an Italian restaurant, but the funniest part of their menu were there desserts. They actually had ice cream served on the same shells the small pizzas we ate for supper were made on. So strange.