icce

I love icces they are so amazing and you can get only at any gas station basically anywhere except Mexico. In the United States every gas station and even some of the fast food places have slurpees. There is jolly rancher flavors, green apple, blue raspberry, cherry, and Fante flavors as well as pina colada, coffee, coca cola, sprite, orange, and even grape. These are just a few of the flavors; I would not even be able to say all of them out there. There cheap, sweet and quick to get. They are so wonderful because they last so long and are quick to get anywhere. It is something that everyone likes and I guess is an American tradition.
Compared to smooties and shakes they are not dairy, and are refreshing and cold since it is so hot out here in California. It is only of my favorites things to drink but since I was in Mexico and they did not have any sluprees I mean seriously I went to seven eleven and they did not have any slurpees. I would really like to know if anyone has ever been to any seven eleven and they not have slurpees. It was insane and I was so mad. But since they did not have any I substituted them with frozen margaritas and daiquiris. Which ended up being way better in the long run. so I guess you cannot always get what you want especially if you’re in another county. apparently you have to do it their way if you want to get somewhere or at least have fun and have a refreshing drink by the pool.
Going to Mexico made me realize a lot of things, so many things are different from what I was used to. I mean I took the simple fact of walking into a gas station and getting a slurpee on any corner.

Fraud

Does it make you wonder why you can go into a restaurant and order food and it come and it looks nothing like the picture in the menu? This really makes me mad because more than half the time that you get food it does not look anything like the picture. Why do we settle for less, I mean why does no one complain about it not looking like the picture? Seriously look at all the Burger King, Carl’s Jr., McDonalds commercials and menus does anyone ever get anything that looks like the picture.
Even I do not complain and I do not understand why I do not. Why should we get what we pay for? That is false advertisement. But no one cares at all. The burgers are always juicy, big, and they look so delicious, but when we receive them there all smashed together and oily. Not only in at fast food joints, but in restaurants as well. I really want to go a restaurant that all the food actually looks like they say it is.
I asked a couple of people and they all said that Carl’s Jr’s food looks the most like what is advertised. And I do agree with that but to me Carl’s Jr is more expensive than other fast food places. But I guess if you want what you really should get in the first place you must pay more. But I still do not get it why do we do this? Whose ideal is it in the first place to designs these mega burgers that are so fake? How did they know they were going to be able to get away with it? what really gets me is when I see an advertisement of this amazing burger and I go and get it and it is nothing like the picture but somehow it still taste great. I do not even realize that is nothing like the picture and there is no crunch lettuce or mega big pickles. A fat chunk of meat or that toasted bun.

cannot always have it your way

I am in Mexico on my spring break and today I went to a real authentic taco stand in Playa De Carmen, Mexico. It was so different from anywhere I have ever eaten before. It was a whole in the wall, it was in like in a roll up garage and man that was working there lived in the back. This place had no options, carnitas, tortillas, Jabanero sauce, onions, coke, and orange soda. That was all they had on the menu I was so confused. It was like nothing I had ever seen before. All they had was carnitas tacos when Jabanero sauce, and boy was it hot. I did not taste it until I was half way done with my second taco. It burned my mouth so bad. They did not even sell water when I asked for water the man went next door and bought a bottle of water for 10 pesos. The man laughed at me when I asked if they had beans and rice. At first it was kind of scary because I did not know what anything was going to be like. But then I started to realize that everything was so simple. It is so crazy how everyone takes it for granted all these sauces and options.
It was so cheap, since Mexico goes by kilos, we got 1 kilo, tortillas, a total of 8 bottled drinks and our totals was only eighteen American dollars. It was cheaper to eat there then at McDonalds for breakfast that morning. You cannot even image how good it was as well. Just like the day before my family and I ate at a hotdog stand, and it was ten American dollars for four sodas and ten hot dogs.
It really makes me wonder how it is fair when we go through the drive through at any American fast food place and we pay like five or six dollars just to get a meal. That is nowhere near how good these places were. Eating at these two places was really a reality check because it really tripped me out. I could not get my head around how they can give you this much food for so cheap. I am still puzzled.

Amusement Parks

Why is food at Disneyland, Knott’s Berry Farm, Six Flags, and any other amusement park so dang expensive. But do not get me wrong I love going to six flags and it is the fact that these places are amazing that people will pay the price. It is like you have no choice I mean really as if you do not pay enough to get in the park, all the food is outrageous. How much money would they really loose by making their food prices a little cheaper? I would actually buy food in the park if it was cheaper rather than have a picnic in the parking lot. For example there is there one place in Disneyland where I am sure that everyone knows about where you can get McDonalds fries and for a large French fries it is like five something. If you went and got one right now down the street to any dang McDonalds you can get a large French fries for half the price. Here is an example at Knott’s Berry Farm there are two places that you can get funnel cake which is like the best in the world. I really wonder how much it cost to make a funnel cake. I do not know the price of them now but I remember if you wanted strawberries it is like two dollars extra. At my work I can get a twenty ounce bottle of soda for a dollar but all the vending machines in amusements parks are like three dollars, how crazy is that? I do not get it how they can charge so much money for the simple things just because they are in a gated fence that calls themselves Disneyland, Knott’s Berry Farm, Six Flags, or any other amusements parks. What gets in the heads of people that they think paying that much for anything is ok, how in the right mind did the people come up with the idea of charge all this money for cheap food think that it was actually going to work. Was it always expensive even when they first opened?

CRUNCHY BUT NOT TOO SOGGY

mmmhm Cereal, not too soggy but not so crunchy either. So many different kinds; Trix, Cap’n Crunch, and with berries and peanut butter, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Lucky Charms, Fruity Pebbles, fruit loops, Check Mix, Rice Crispies, Frosted Flakes, Cocoa Pebbles, Apple Jacks, Frosted O’s, Kix, Raison bran, Corn Flakes, Rice, Corn, Multi grain, Wheat Chex, Cheerios, Honey Nut Cheerios, Special K, Life, Wheaties, Mini Wheats, Honey Bunches of Oats, Pops, Cocoa Puffs, Total, Cookie-Crisps, Golden Grams, Reeses Puffs, Banana Nut Granola, Breakfast with Barbie, Chocolate Donutz,cream of wheat, Grape Nuts, Reptar Crunch and this is not even half of them on the market today! If you think about it a cereal box is always so colorful and fun it is like a rainbow of excited when looking down a cereal aisle at the store, with games on the back of the box to look at when eating in the morning. There is always a story behind the picture of games on the back, search for the missing people or fill in the blanks. They always have theme songs to them for the commercials and as well as catchy slogans like “crunch-a-tize me cap’n” and “silly rabbit Trix are for kids”, so many box of cereal made just to catch an eye of a little kid in the grocery store on TV there is always wild adventures going on inside the cereal box. But as well as there are many cereals just put out when a certain movie comes out so they see Kung-Fu-Panda and then just want the cereal box because that’s what on their kids do not care what it taste like. Do they? I remember pick cereal because of the cool color changing spoon, or weird toy that they might come up to be appealing to the consumer. But as well as there are many cereals that are good for you like cheerios can lower your cholesterol so it makes it not just appealing to young children but too older and middle aged people as well. Like Special K can help you lose weight, and with overweight Americans they try everything to lose weight I wonder how many people have that box of cereal sitting in their pantry. Really does every cereal taste that much different from another mean every brand has about every flavor you can think of. Us Americans eat it like no tomorrow for breakfast, lunch and some even like if for dinner!

Do you eat to live or live to eat.........

We indulge ourselves with food eggs, sausage, milk, cheeseburgers, fries, shakes, smoothies, soda, chips, pizza, ect. day after day, how much is really too much? It takes fifteen minutes for our body to tell our brain that we are full. How much do we really eat in fifteen minutes before it is too late, of being over stuffed? Feeling bloated, getting heartburn, and an aching tummy. It can start of by going to eat at a restaurant and your parents saying that you better finish all your food and not waste it. What are you supposed to order that you can finish everything on your plate? Or should the question be why does the American serving so big compared to so many other countries.
Your stomach is supposed to be the size of your fist, but it will expand if you eat more than that and can possibly stay stretched out if that is you’re normal eating habit. I had my wisdom teeth pulled about a week and half ago and for one week I had nothing but liquids, frozen things that would dissolve in my mouth or ice cream. A couple of days ago for the first time in a week I had a chili dog with fries for brunch and I had two chicken enchiladas with beans for dinner and like an hour later my stomach felt like it was going to explode and I did not really even eat that much throughout the day. We could really eat less on a day basis and not be hungry and as time goes on your body with adapt to it.
It just continues to amaze me that the slower that we eat the healthier we would be. But the food taste so good we just eat so quickly and we eat and eat and eat like we cannot get enough of it. So many foods work against our body and those are the ones that seem to taste the best. Consider this when you go to the grocery store how my isle of healthy food is there compared to ice cream, chips, soda, and so much processed frozen food isles.