Its not just me ...

I started to think that maybe I was obsessing about the food in America, but I am not alone - see attached blog...http://www.pizzasandcream.typepad.com/

In any case, this morning during one of the interminable advert breaks on telly, there was one for Bush's Honey Baked Beans. I kid you not - ugh! "First we take the beans and slow cook them in brown sugar. Then we add crispy bacon, and a touch of honey and barbecue sauce, and you have the best tasting beans in the world!" I beg to differ - that does not make for a quality bean taste in my book. Brown sugar AND honey AND bacon. And no doubt topped off with cane syrup (everything is it seems!).

I am also spending too much time watching the World Cup. Surprisingly there is still coverage of the World Cup despite the USA not making it through. But after the travesty of the Australia-Italy match today, I almost wish there wasn't. It wasn't so much that Italy won - I thought Australia were on borrowed time in any case - it was HOW they won. Even the Italians didn't look proud, and this is the race who will take credit for the Romans creating everything! Oh well. Maybe England will actually wake up for their next match and provide some entertainment for a second.

Things America does do very well though are real sales, and great made for TV westerns. Both of which I enjoyed over the weekend. Broken Trail (starring Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church), is fantastic, well worth watching. And the Saks sale resulted in me buying not one but two evening dresses (never a bad thing to have a choice!). The BCBG one makes me look as much like Angelina Jolie as I ever will (being shorter, wider, and generally baggier than her), and the Laundry one makes me look as much like Sienna Miller as I ever will (being the same height, but lets just say she could hide behind me with no effort whatsoever). So happy happy when such items are half price at about USD200 a piece!! Yippee! I actually enjoyed shopping for once in my life...

Another first for me today - I caught the subway to work. It was threatening to rain so miraculously every light ceased to function on the roof of taxis, so I trundled down the street, on to a subway, and trundled the one block at the other end to work. All for USD2.00. Very easy, I got a seat, and there were even slightly normal looking people sharing the carriage with me. There was one weird guy at 34th Street, who stuck his bag into the doors as they were closing, and then just waited patiently for the conductor to open the doors again. So peculiar, he just stood there placid as can be, without trying to wrench the doors open or anything. And they re-opened and he got in. He did have the announcement "holding doors open will delay the departure of the train. please do NOT hold the doors open!" shouted over the tannoy, but he maintained his equanimity and smiled happily into space ... I want some of what he is having - maybe honey beans for breakfast?