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You know what sounds yum to me? Pizza with a side of fries. Pizza places should sell french fries.
This was the default meal served to students in schools I attended from about 6th grade all the way through high school. At first it was a slice of awful cafeteria pizza with a side of fries, but then they started bringing in pizza from a local pizzeria (but kept the mediocre cafeteria fries). I assume by now they've moved to Pizza Hut or Dominos (unless they've succumbed to more recent demands for more healthy student lunches).
mullacc, my high school did the same thing. How could I forget! I might be craving junk food from my teenage years. Although, most of the time I was a salad bar person. I even brought my own fat-free dressing from home in a film canister. Ah, where has my discipline (or craziness) gone?
The thing about fair food is that it always looks better than it is. Except maybe for the strawberry shortcake at the Plant City Fair. That's good eating.
Pizza and fries? If you're in Southern California or the Phillipines, try Shakey's Pizza Parlors and get a side order of Mojo Potatoes, battered with the same stuff they use on their fried chicken. It was my first exposure to coated fries way back in the '70s... (and I just discovered that some locations are offering a "Mojo Supreme" pile of potatoes covered with cheese and chili... my search for the Ultimate Chili Fries may be over!!!) And Shakey's was also a pioneer in putting pineapple on pizza, for which many hate them but I love them.
One weekend while visiting "The Big City" (we live on a small island but go to Seoul and Busan often to get away) my husband and I vowed to subsist the entire weekend on street food. It was heaven.
Luckily for us, lots of Korean street food includes fresh fruit, smoothies, ice cold beer, cheap but fantastic frozen coffees, pancake/egg thingys, hotdogs on sticks wrapped in every incarnation of the potato you can imagine, and oodles of noodles.
The food will definitely be the thing I miss most once we move back to the states.
Once when I was in the States I came across a place that sold pizza with french fries on it. I think they had a burger & fries pizza, too. Couldn't bring myself to order it, though I do love me some greasy salty food.
EJ, you have taken the OMG photo post to new levels. Bless you, brave warrior. Although of course no-one could ever wrest the envy/vague nausea-inducing food crown from the eternal champeen, jonmc.
Another thing — pizza in Korea is covered in weird toppings like sweet potato (almost always rendered into Engrish as "sweaty potato"), corn, something called "potato mousse", coconut flakes, and this sweet sour cream sauce that sorta tastes like vanilla yogurt.
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