While visiting Germany, I learned how Europeans really felt about Americans – “fat, lazy, gun slinging, burger-loving Americans”. The younger generation knows better, though. You’re not going to get mugged or shot by a rogue hillbilly while traveling around this...
Mourning Breath
posted by gspeed
Your morning can’t be off to a great start when it feels like you’ve made out with your cat’s butt all night long. Thankfully, I have no cats, but morning breath is one of the worst thing to wake up to (second to a cat’s butthole). I’m not ashamed to admit that oral hygiene is a big...
Eat Your Blutwurst!
posted by gspeed
I went to boarding school in Germany for a year. Out of all the horrors I endured there, nothing stands out more than the incident with one particularly gross encased meat product- The Blood Sausage. Boarding school wasn’t too bad, but naturally there were rules we all had to follow-Lights...
If I CAN CAN YOU CAN...
posted by gspeed
Back in the day, it took a while to drum up enough courage to take a bite of the jiggling mass of spam that made its way out of the can and onto my plate. But boy, was it worth it: Pure sodium, meaty goodness. It did help that anything tastes good when you’re eating it on the beach. But...