decidedlyodd

For lunch, my roommate Bev, his friend Mary and I went out to the Q Shack in Durham. Mary is visiting from South Carolina (where she’s lived virtually her whole life) and when she heard that they serve hush puppies (a fried mixture of corn meal and wheat) with bar-b-q in North Carolina, the inevitable “my state’s bar-b-q is better than your state’s bar-b-q” argument began to ensue. None, the less the food was good, although none of us was able to finish everything. I had a plate of that typically North Carolinian shredded pork with vinegary sauce along with hush puppies, fried okra, cole slaw and a glass of sweet tea. It was good even if we all did begin to slip into a food coma afterwards.

On the way back, we stopped at A Southern Season over in the University Mall. It’s this large, gourmet supermarket. I didn’t buy anything, but they did have quite the assortment of imported, fancy and just plain rare candy. I was quite amused that amongst all the fancy chocolate, was a bunch of Milka Chocolate. Now, don’t get me wrong–it’s not really bad chocolate–but it’s the cheapest kind of chocolate I’ve seen in German supermarkets. They also had Kinder Eggs although they were in Spanish, had these strange vinyl casings (instead of the foil wrappers), and cost $2.50 a pop.