Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Yousef- Oooh, I love eating nuts and they are one of my favorite snacks, and I love getting them in trail mixes and bags, and I am a fan of Japanese-style nuts, but they too also get stuck real bad in my teeth when I do so, especially the sweet ones like pralines. I absolutely hate it when I’m eating an apple and the skin gets stuck in between my teeth. It happens way too often.

Mexico has such great taste with their food. I have eaten a good amount of Hispanic dishes and baked goods. I do think the baked goods sold in the Mexican stores here in America (the pan dulce specifically) are more authentic. The concha pan dulce is sweet but not overly sweet because the sweetness comes from the topping, and the bread underneath is usually plain and unflavored, which makes it really good. Tastes good with milk! In Kuwait, do they have any stores that carry Mexican and Hispanic food and bread?

If you do get soft serve ice cream, what flavor are you getting? Curious. I’m not gonna get any ice cream today, and I’m just gonna focus on eating that giant chocolate bar.

@Pastellioli your apple rant sums how I feel about both the fruit and the company!

Mexicans obsession with tortillas is exactly like ours with pita/khubz. Lovely folks. Need a Mexican cookin friend. We would be homies. I cook him arab food and he/she/they cook me Mexican food. Or do fusions. We’d be besties.

Yeah in Kuwait tortillas are extremely easy to get and fairly cheap. Come in big packs. Other styff like guacamole’s easy to get and my mom often makes it at home.

There’s other stuff I can mention like chili but it’s safer to categorize that as more cultural overlap. I can’t say exclusively arab or Mexican. It’s pretty much both.

There’s other stuff that can be labeled as such. Although I do associate jalapeño with being more Hispanic but that’s also extremely common here and I love it. You have no idea how much I freakin adore adding so much jalapeños to this “fries with cheese” dish we have.

Soft ice cream flavors? Huh, I’m not really sure. Despite it being one of the most popular snacks in Kuwait I can’t say we’re quite creative with our choices. Flavor is what matters because the choices are:

• vanilla
• chocolate
• vanilla/chocolate mix
  Hope that satisfies your curiosity. I’m likely to get the last option.

@Yousef- Tortillas are so good when you cook them into a tostada. Guacamole and beans are so good when you put them on there, but with the beans you got to eat it fast so it doesn’t get soggy.

Cheese with fries is a good one. I sometimes get chili cheese fries and they are so amazing. I don’t really put jalapeños in food like that but it probably is super good.

Plain vanilla is so tasty. A lot of people think plain is bad, but I think plain flavors are good. For non-soft serve ice cream, my favorite flavor is mint chocolate chip, though that’s a pretty hated flavor since a lot of people think it tastes like toothpaste with chocolate. I like it and so do my siblings, but it’s universally hated it seems. I did get a vanilla and chocolate mix of soft serve ice cream not too long ago but surprisingly my stomach didn’t give me issues that time.

@Pastellioli non vanilla lovers don’t know what they’re missing.

I keep going back and forth a lot on non soft, my favorite would be honey and nuts.

Can’t get behind chocolate mint. Mint itself? Fantastic, especially with black tea or Arabic tea. Chocolate mint? No way, Jose!

Jalapeños are tasty on everything. They should be in everything. I should become President of earth and make jalapeños mandatory on all foods.

@Yousef- maybe my second favorite flavor is jamoca almond fudge. Baskin-Robbins has so many great flavors. I also loved their bubblegum ice cream with real bubblegum pieces in there, but I think they removed it. I also do like to eat mint and chocolate candy like Junior Mints, but I do understand why a lot of people hate chocolate and mint. It does sound disgusting sometimes.

@Pastellioli cotton candy is a close second for me, baskin Robin wise.
Although I no longer go to BR for the ice cream, I go there for the milkshakes now. Well, like once a year. They’re pretty fatty. Sometimes on my bday.
Donuts are another thing I rarely have but, enjoy nonetheless.

@Yousef- I never do get milkshakes from Baskin-Robbins, but I have had cake from there.

I love donuts but haven’t had any in a while. Maybe it was a year ago on the same day of the 2023 Super Bowl? My memory is a bit too fuzzy. I remember a small donut shop that me and my family would go to on the way home, and I’d always get a sprinkled donut there. I have very good memories of that. Never got jelly filled ones, I was always discouraged from doing so since they are messy. It is nice to get sweets and junk food for a few special occasions and not all the time.

Had a nice couple of days. After the heatwave ended, finally was able to go out. Did some errands, went out with my friend, and treated myself to some new Trolls Mineez. I've been collecting these, so here are some new ones I picked up.

Also, been enjoying my Saturday evenings which usually consists of some chocolate milk and playing a classic PC game (anything from the 90's to mid 2000's). Even went out for ice cream today. Nice couple of days.

@Tyranexx Yup, they're pretty much like Gyoza, except the dough is a bit thicker. They do come out good either fried or steamed, mom and I usually get the steamed ones from the local Chinese restaurant. We use to be able to buy them from the Asian market where we use to live, and cook them ourselves. Alrighty, will admit, I do have a fear of flying.

BTW, the food from your trip look great. Also, I see some Gyoza there.

@Sunsy
Oh, correction.
The Japanese dish name is Gyoza, not Goyza.
I know some of Japanese words.

@Pastellioli the donuts I have aren’t usually fancy, a simple glazed doughnut sometimes does the job fine enough.

But one time I’ve had a “cake donut”, absolutely divine, a little too much for my health so it never became a common thing for me. I gotta toughen up!

@Yousef- I don’t eat cake donuts or any donuts that are loaded, but again, simple can be better and still good. Simple desserts I do think tend to be better than fancy ones, and you are likely to get less sick.

Also, bad segue, but how has your day been going? It’s pretty much the early morning here. Sleepy but still managing to stay awake, but I’m still going to sleep soon. Listening to Japanese music again. I want to change my avatar already so much, but I think I should wait lol. I was able to draw and I am almost done with a sketch that I’m going to color later, though I got so indecisive with the pose and although I already stated what the drawing was going to be in an earlier post in the thread, I already changed it. I plan to post it to the artists thread, maybe later tomorrow! Pretty excited. I already showed a few older artworks there, and I have always wanted to show my art to others here.

With drawing, I have a bad tendency to have too many ideas in my head that I flip flop between them and can’t choose, and my vision changes repeatedly, so I can waste most time drawing a pose for a character and not getting onto the fun stuff fast. Since I haven’t made a finished picture in a month, I used a reference picture as a basis for my picture. I wasn’t able to draw as much as I wanted to today, but I guess that’s life; you get busy and you find yourself having less time to do fun hobbies and always finding yourself occupied doing boring stuff.

@Pastellioli I should’ve clarified cake donut, in case you never saw it before, is not an actual cake, but a regular everyday donut that has the texture, consistency, bite and flavor of a cake. Essentially a cake that’s just shaped like a normal donut. I might have a pic somewhere

Ahhhh found it!!

4th image is just a random donut I liked. Obviously all taken on different days.
I’m surprised how high quality the images are. I didn’t like them when I took them but they’re not that bad on a closer look.

Not a bad segue at all, friend. It’s currently 11:00 am as of the time I’m typing this in kuwait. I’m a little sleepy, despite sleeping 6 hours. I am never curing that sleep deprivation, huh.

I’m never in a hurry to my change my avatar. I’m comfortable with my man Chuck. Gotta get that dead rising hype train going as well. Been replaying some of the games.

My day? It’s going swimmingly. Combatting the sleepyness but also about to start Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, mainly because seeing a mutual go through his ps3 backlog as part of his New Year’s resolution and him currently blasting through that game specifically has inspired me to do something similar as I’ve wanted to toss out a couple of 360 games off of my backlog and I do have easy access to the game, knew it’d come in handy one day! Plus it’ll be great to be on sync with him during conversations. It sounds like it’ll be a lot of fun having a simultaneous playthrough with one another.

@Yousef- Ooh, those donuts look so tasty. Thank you for sharing them! I miss eating them.

I absolutely love picking avatars and profile pictures on general, it’s such a great way to show your likes and interests and the possibilities are endless. I’ve maybe changed my avatar on here about five times, though they are almost always Conker lol and there was only one time I had an avatar that wasn’t him. I want to change it to another avatar of him, but I will wait a bit longer to do that. I was thinking of having my avatar as a Vocaloid this time, but I don’t think I will.

I am thinking about it now, and I haven’t really been gaming recently. I don’t have a backlog like most people unfortunately, mostly cuz I don’t know which games to play and buy, or which ones fit my gaming tastes. It’d be nice to but I need to find some fun games to play. Probably older ones since that’s up my alley, and I don’t really play modern games, though there are a few games on Rare Replay that I need to touch, including Nuts and Bolts and possibly Jet Force Gemini, but I tried that again recently and I am not a fan of the controls, but I will likely play those at one point. I am probably going to play my rhythm game in a few days though, since I believe they are going to add a song I really like in a few more days, but it’ll probably be a small game session.

@Pastellioli you ain’t alone. Jet Force really never quite clicked with me either. Possibly my least favorite in the RR package.

@Yousef- The controls are just so hard to get used to. I even changed the control scheme to modern and it still felt awful and so hard to play. I did play it before last year and I do not ever remember the controls being that bad. I’m really not interested in playing it cuz of that, plus I heard it’s a slog to get through with how you have to rescue all of this bear alien tribe just to beat it.

@Anti-Matter Thank you! Just edited my post and made the correction.

hey guys! im finally back
iv missed yall

@ThatZeldaNerd hello and welcome back, friend. We’ve missed you too.

@ThatZeldaNerd Welcome back! In TotK I just got the cutscene with your PFP in it! I only have the "Defeat Ganondorf" quest left (and a few memories)!

@Sunsy ooh, I love Gyoza! My mom is Filipina and my stepgrandma is Japanese, so I love Asian cuisine!