Food and fashion
It’s a multi-cultural extravaganza! I’ve noticed lately that BP keeps a rotating coffee flavor between the Columbian Supremo and French Roast, and it’s from a different country each time. The last two visits have claimed to be from Kenya and Guatemala. I wasn’t so fond of the Kenya stuff. I’ll put “coffee tastes weird” on my list of reasons not to visit sub-Saharan Africa, right under “might get eaten by a lion”. The coffee from our Central-American allies was pretty good, though I’m not sure that I ever found the tantalizing smokiness that was advertised.
On other fronts of experiencing the world beyond us, Mike wanted some kind of Asian food stuff, so a group of us in the Smyrna-Marietta-Cobb free-trade zone left for Buford highway and its bigass Asian grocery store. All we bought was junk food, but we couldn’t understand any of the letters written on them, so it was rad. I got some pumpkin-pie flavored pocky and a Thai basil seed and honey drink that was really weird and not very refreshing. I got it mainly because I wasn’t initially convinced that it was edible, since the enormous number of basil seeds floating in the yellowish liquid had an appearance reminiscent of very large protozoa, as if the bottle were in fact simply taken from the Thai equivalent of the ‘hooch. It tasted ok, but weird. Boing! was way better, and Mexican. Chris got some peach gummy candies that were both gummy and peachy. I’m not sure what Mike got. Probably real food, since he was the one who knew what he was there for.
In other news, my most recent pair of sandals broke, and I foolishly didn’t have a hot spare. It’s now entirely the wrong season in which to buy sandals, and I don’t have anything to wear with my Hawaiian shirt. Why was I still able to buy, from a reasonably full rack, a flower-print shirt for four bucks, but couldn’t find any sandals in my size? I can understand sandals disappearing faster than the shirts, what with being more acceptable in public and all, but sandals of a particular dimension? Stupid weather-centric fashions.