I only know one semi-rural Midwestern guy who was excited to go there as a tourist. Previously I took him around Denver when he left his state for the first time. We went to a ramen bar and he didn’t feel comfortable ordering the bowls, but didn’t know what anything else on the menu was. I recommended fried rice, his first time eating it, and he sent me texts for the next few months talking about how awesome fried rice is and how he wishes he could find it locally.
lol, accurate. i have an aunt like this. if a place has mini golf, go karts, and an Applebee’s, it has everything.
and all these things are within 45 minutes of her house, but some of us, being uncultured, fail to grasp the subtle differences between Applebee’s locations even after they are explained.
I understand the midwestern cultural isolationism. Everything is so spread out that if you aren’t in The Big City you’re in a town where time stopped in the 1950s. If you aren’t even in the 1950s town, you’re on an island with 20-100km+ of exclusive car travel between you and basic services. When I did tech support for an ISP-of-last-resort for these customers, the broadband gap alone was existential horror. Their monthly data consumption matched my daily at 3x the price, limited to an unreliable 300kb/s at best. A town with an Applebees and a go kart track is a desert oasis when your town only has a gas station/bar/triple church combo. That’s somethin’ to do outside of shooting things that might explode in your trash fire.
I can’t judge him there because it’s a dish I also only get from restaurants. They do it so much better. If I’m investing that much time in a starch I’m making a 𝓅𝑜𝓉𝒶𝓉𝑜.
I recommended fried rice, his first time eating it, and he sent me texts for the next few months talking about how awesome fried rice is and how he wishes he could find it locally.
This makes me really sad for some reason. America takes away the humanity of all who are forced to suffer under her rule, even those in the core.
I only know one semi-rural Midwestern guy who was excited to go there as a tourist. Previously I took him around Denver when he left his state for the first time. We went to a ramen bar and he didn’t feel comfortable ordering the bowls, but didn’t know what anything else on the menu was. I recommended fried rice, his first time eating it, and he sent me texts for the next few months talking about how awesome fried rice is and how he wishes he could find it locally.
He loved Branson. Lots to do.
lol, accurate. i have an aunt like this. if a place has mini golf, go karts, and an Applebee’s, it has everything.
and all these things are within 45 minutes of her house, but some of us, being uncultured, fail to grasp the subtle differences between Applebee’s locations even after they are explained.
I understand the midwestern cultural isolationism. Everything is so spread out that if you aren’t in The Big City you’re in a town where time stopped in the 1950s. If you aren’t even in the 1950s town, you’re on an island with 20-100km+ of exclusive car travel between you and basic services. When I did tech support for an ISP-of-last-resort for these customers, the broadband gap alone was existential horror. Their monthly data consumption matched my daily at 3x the price, limited to an unreliable 300kb/s at best. A town with an Applebees and a go kart track is a desert oasis when your town only has a gas station/bar/triple church combo. That’s somethin’ to do outside of shooting things that might explode in your trash fire.
It’s so easy to make it takes like 10 minutes outside of cooking the rice.
I can’t judge him there because it’s a dish I also only get from restaurants. They do it so much better. If I’m investing that much time in a starch I’m making a 𝓅𝑜𝓉𝒶𝓉𝑜.
Chinese grand dad teaches you how to make dishes like the restaurants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn0YTv4S9vI
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
This makes me really sad for some reason. America takes away the humanity of all who are forced to suffer under her rule, even those in the core.