Update Season VIII - "Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!"

[Lief 🗽]

Do they even have Chinese food in Oklahoma?

Bushie being an adult man in his 30s and still approaching vegetables with a five-year-old's attitude of "yucky gross" is one of my favorite update saga tropes.

[Joe Biden 2020]

They have Chinese in Oklahoma.  I don't touch the stuff, but they do have Chinese food.

[Joe Biden 2020]

In 9 days from now, I will be about to start my journey to the Republic of Kenya.  I will get the last of what I need today, such as a small fan and bug spray.  I will pack by the end of this week.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Today's menu will likely consist of cereal for breakfast and Spaghetti for dinner.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

You should try to help the elephants in Kenya. See this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/opinion/sunday/slaughter-of-the-african-elephants.html?_r=1&
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/06/inside-the-global-industry-thats-slaughtering-africas-elephants/276582/

[King]

Today's menu will likely consist of cereal for breakfast and Spaghetti for dinner.

The Wheat Council's product placement is getting ridiculous

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

They have Chinese in Oklahoma.  I don't touch the stuff, but they do have Chinese food.

Is it the ethnic food there?

[Lief 🗽]

They have Chinese in Oklahoma.  I don't touch the stuff, but they do have Chinese food.

[Hash]

What kind of food do you eat when you're in Kenya, Bushie? Do they have some Kenyan guy flip some hamburgers and fries to feed the Americans who can't eat local food or healthy food?

[Keystone Phil]

God bless Our Dear Friend but he's almost certainly the type that puts ketchup on his spaghetti. Ketchup already disgusts me. If I was ever in the presence of someone putting ketchup on their pasta, I'd literally vomit.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Hash, the diet consists of chicken, beans, lintels, rice, and fresh fruit like small bananas, kiwi, watermelon, etc.  I only found one hamburger place at the Nairobi airport on the way home.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Phil, I'm not that crazy!  Ketchup and spaghetti don't belong in the same meal!

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

God bless Our Dear Friend but he's almost certainly the type that puts ketchup on his spaghetti. Ketchup already disgusts me. If I was ever in the presence of someone putting ketchup on their pasta, I'd literally vomit.

[politicus]

God bless Our Dear Friend but he's almost certainly the type that puts ketchup on his spaghetti. Ketchup already disgusts me. If I was ever in the presence of someone putting ketchup on their pasta, I'd literally vomit.

Why do you find that so repulsive?
 
(putting it on pasta is the primary use of ketchup in my neck of the woods, so you better stay far away from Scandinavia)

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

God bless Our Dear Friend but he's almost certainly the type that puts ketchup on his spaghetti. Ketchup already disgusts me. If I was ever in the presence of someone putting ketchup on their pasta, I'd literally vomit.

Why do you find that so repulsive?
 
(putting it on pasta is the primary use of ketchup in my neck of the woods, so you better stay far away from Scandinavia)

Well, Phil, being the italian stallion around here, naturally finds it repulsive......but I agree with him and I suspect many here do as well......it's just gross.  A tomato based sauce is normal.....ketchup......disgusting.  IMO.

[memphis]

They have Chinese in Oklahoma.  I don't touch the stuff, but they do have Chinese food.

I love Chinese food, but there's this one Chinese place not far from my job that is a little too authentic for me. So I guess I can understand how Bushie feels.

http://www.newasiagermantown.com/page15.php

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

People actually put ketchup on pasta?!

[WalterMitty]

bushie's diet may have been suspended for at least another month or so.  breaking....

[politicus]

People actually put ketchup on pasta?!

I think its fairly common unless you have a Mediterranean background.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

People actually put ketchup on pasta?!

I think its fairly common unless you have a Mediterranean background.

Dukey and I are Greek, and Phil's Italian, so you might be onto something there.

[Keystone Phil]

God bless Our Dear Friend but he's almost certainly the type that puts ketchup on his spaghetti. Ketchup already disgusts me. If I was ever in the presence of someone putting ketchup on their pasta, I'd literally vomit.

Why do you find that so repulsive?
 
(putting it on pasta is the primary use of ketchup in my neck of the woods, so you better stay far away from Scandinavia)

The primary use? Wow. What a horrible part of the world.

People actually put ketchup on pasta?!

Yes, they're called "filth."

[Kitteh]

I've never once heard of putting ketchup on pasta. That sounds disgusting. Fwiw my grandmother is from Germany and I've lived on both the west and east coasts but with very little interaction with the residents of the wasteland in between.

[King]

Only people I've heard put ketchup on pasta are Honey Boo Boo's family, so yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if it's common in Okie land.

[politicus]

Hash, the diet consists of chicken, beans, lintels, rice, and fresh fruit like small bananas, kiwi, watermelon, etc.  I only found one hamburger place at the Nairobi airport on the way home.

Are you sure you can stand all that healthy food? It must be quite a shock to your body.

If you actually moved to Kenya permanently you would probably loose weight quite easily.

[politicus]

Okay a quick search seemed to confirm its un-American to use ketchup on pasta. But I still wonder why, since its basically just a tomato sauce. Too sugary?

I know two American families that do it, both Midwestern WASPs + an exchange student I once knew with a 2. generation Russian New Yorker background, but they are probably just unrepresentative.

An American expats view of the Swedish love of ketchup, which is similar to ours.http://somethingswedish.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/when-in-rome/