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[Arino]

chew chew and slurp slurp is part of every good play play when you shoot shoot and stuff goes boom boom. post ur fav!

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[PC Engine Fan X!]

Yeah, Pizza Hut pizza is awesome. Be sure to ask for a coupon discount before being rung up since it's no fun paying big bucks at regular price, especially if ordering two or more large speciality pizzas. I like mine with extra cheese from to time, especially with the Stuffed Crust option & classic Pan Pizza crust option as well. Some Mountain Dew to accompany the usual ol' 2 liter-sized Pepsi does the trick in my book.

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Pizza Hut Factoid Time: The current 2023-2024 Pizza Hut logo & fonts used on the pizza cardboard boxes nowadays, is a "throwback/subtle nod/tribute" to how Pizza Hut's logo & font typeface used to look back in the early 1980s. Pizza Hut was originally based out of Kansas City, KS back in 1963 -- their "secret recipe" for their famous "pan pizza crust" was created on the very first try. The Personal Pan Pizza was created/sold in their Pizza Hut restaurants back in 1983 when it first was introduced to the general public. Pizza Hut spent two years to perfect it's Stuffed Crust before unveiling it in the 1990s to resturants nationwide.
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Round Table pizza is ace as well, considering it's Southern California Menlo Park, California roots/inception back in 1959 (it's since moved on to Chicago, IL, for it's "base of operations/headquarters" nowadays). It and Pizza Hut are the two most expensive nationally-based pizza chains to patronize nowadays but totally worth it in the end -- you do get what you pay for. At least with Round Table pizza, they provide paper plates, napkins + packets of parmesan grated cheese & red pepper flakes "free of charge" if you order your pizza delivered straight to your door. How cool is that?

Another major issue/gripe with RTP is, if you order $75.00 usd or more (with tip included in the overall order) worth of food/soda/appetizers with "home pizza delivery" option chosen, their "new company policy for late 2023-2024," is to check your ID (but if you order $74.99 usd or less (with tip included in the overall order), then the RTP delivery guy/gal won't need to ask to see your ID, period). True story. Before RTP implemented that new policy of checking your ID for an extremely large pizza delivery order, it used to be checking your ID with pizza orders over $110.00 - $120.00+ usd (which I liked better imho). The "real reason" why they do this nowadays: too many people using "fake credit card numbers" to order pizza for home delivery (and try to score some "free pizza" in the process & beat the system at it's own game while at it) -- exactly what the RTP delivery guy said to me.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[Arino]

Yeah, Pizza Hut pizza is awesome.

True, the first stuffed crust I ever had was from Pizza Hut back then I think. I also like Domino's and Papa John's, especially Papa John's Special Garlic Dip and their "Garlic Sticks with Four Cheeses".

[BareKnuckleRoo]

I think lemonade is literally the best drink ever conceived. You can add all kinds of fruit to it too that go well with citrus, or use another citrus as a base instead like lime or yuzu.

[Daytime Waitress]

I think lemonade is literally the best drink ever conceived. You can add all kinds of fruit to it too that go well with citrus, or use another citrus as a base instead like lime or yuzu.

Yuzu is legit from the heavens.
Saddened I spent thirty years without it in my life.
Happy I rectified that at some point.

I've even come around on buntan (translator's note: buntan means angry grapefruit).

[Lemnear]

Yeah, Pizza Hut pizza is awesome. Be sure to ask for a coupon discount before being rung up since it's no fun paying big bucks at regular price, especially if ordering two or more large speciality pizzas. I like mine with extra cheese from to time, especially with the Stuffed Crust option & classic Pan Pizza crust option as well. Some Mountain Dew to accompany the usual ol' 2 liter-sized Pepsi does the trick in my book.

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Pizza Hut Factoid Time: The current 2023-2024 Pizza Hut logo & fonts used on the pizza cardboard boxes nowadays, is a "throwback/subtle nod/tribute" to how Pizza Hut's logo & font typeface used to look back in the early 1980s. Pizza Hut was originally based out of Kansas City, KS back in 1963 -- their "secret recipe" for their famous "pan pizza crust" was created on the very first try. The Personal Pan Pizza was created/sold in their Pizza Hut restaurants back in 1983 when it first was introduced to the general public. Pizza Hut spent two years to perfect it's Stuffed Crust before unveiling it in the 1990s to resturants nationwide.
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Round Table pizza is ace as well, considering it's Southern California Menlo Park, California roots/inception back in 1959 (it's since moved on to Chicago, IL, for it's "base of operations/headquarters" nowadays). It and Pizza Hut are the two most expensive nationally-based pizza chains to patronize nowadays but totally worth it in the end -- you do get what you pay for. At least with Round Table pizza, they provide paper plates, napkins + packets of parmesan grated cheese & red pepper flakes "free of charge" if you order your pizza delivered straight to your door. How cool is that?

Another major issue/gripe with RTP is, if you order $75.00 usd or more (with tip included in the overall order) worth of food/soda/appetizers with "home pizza delivery" option chosen, their "new company policy for late 2023-2024," is to check your ID (but if you order $74.99 usd or less (with tip included in the overall order), then the RTP delivery guy/gal won't need to ask to see your ID, period). True story. Before RTP implemented that new policy of checking your ID for an extremely large pizza delivery order, it used to be checking your ID with pizza orders over $110.00 - $120.00+ usd (which I liked better imho). The "real reason" why they do this nowadays: too many people using "fake credit card numbers" to order pizza for home delivery (and try to score some "free pizza" in the process & beat the system at it's own game while at it) -- exactly what the RTP delivery guy said to me.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

What kind of rubbish is this? Are they pizza chains? OMG D:
No junk food pls T_T
I only eat hand-made pizza cooked in centuries-old wood-fired ovens. There are plenty of small bakeries like this here, from generations of bakers who pass down their secrets.
Or "Pinsa", a type of ancient roman "pizza" (but in ancient times it was called "Grand Flatbread" [translated]) made with different flours together, the dough is left to ferment for at least 7 days and they usually have an oval shape and are smaller.
Or pizza scrocchiarella, which is very thin, rigid (plain white) and crunchy like crackers.

I think lemonade is literally the best drink ever conceived. You can add all kinds of fruit to it too that go well with citrus, or use another citrus as a base instead like lime or yuzu.

I can't live without fruit...or fruit juice! I eat at least 1 every day.
I would put lemon in every drink, i even have a small lemon tree

Pepsi... okay, but maybe it's Pepsi Man's fault if i accept it.

[Randorama]

Lemnear, 'aa pinsa nun la conoscono fore de Roma, e te pensi ch'aa sanno ner monno? E dajje, su!
Tr: 'Pinsa is unknown outside Rome, and you think that is known in the world?' C'mon, now!'

Pinsa is one of those ultra-local foods that exist everywhere in Italy: well-established in a city, virtually unknown everywhere else. Pinsa is from Rome, and until a few years ago most Italians wouldn't know about its existence. I wouldn't eat it outside Rome, to be honest: I trust local recipes from the locals.

PC Engine X-like factoid (!): Spritz has become something of a "global cocktail", but until 20 years ago people had to go to Venice to drink one. I am old enough to have experienced this first-hand, as my then-MA Norwegian supervisor ordered a spritz in Milan in 2006, and the bartender looked at him as if he asked a Martian drink ("I am sorry sir. Is this a new cocktail? We never heard about it").

+1 For citrus fruit-based juices, especially when thick and pulpy. I am currently living in China so I simply lost track of all the varieties of citrus fruits I can eat, and anyway local lemons are a bit sweeter so they are *perfect* for juice but also as a condiment for salads. Pink varieties of Pomelo are bliss, even if they don't lend themselves to being squeezed into juice. Besides, citrus fruits pack dozens of vitamins. For the drinkers, Chinese beer brewers have started trying out Lambic beer with Chinese fruits: Lychee and Pomelo are my favourites, but I don't dislike other flavours (e.g. Jujube, Dragon fruit, Tangerine).

Aromatic tea is also great: I am currently trying out Pu'erh tea varieties aromatised with tangerine and berry flavours and scents (Pu'erh is oxidised, thus "black" in appearance but as strong as coffee). Perfect for busy afternoons and shmup evenings: it takes hours to exit the system, so by 9-10 pm I am still quite "electric", thanks to this tea.

[Lemnear]

Lemnear, 'aa pinsa nun la conoscono fore de Roma, e te pensi ch'aa sanno ner monno? E dajje, su!
Tr: 'Pinsa is unknown outside Rome, and you think that is known in the world?' C'mon, now!'

Pinsa is one of those ultra-local foods that exist everywhere in Italy: well-established in a city, virtually unknown everywhere else. Pinsa is from Rome, and until a few years ago most Italians wouldn't know about its existence. I wouldn't eat it outside Rome, to be honest: I trust local recipes from the locals.

PC Engine X-like factoid (!): Spritz has become something of a "global cocktail", but until 20 years ago people had to go to Venice to drink one. I am old enough to have experienced this first-hand, as my then-MA Norwegian supervisor ordered a spritz in Milan in 2006, and the bartender looked at him as if he asked a Martian drink ("I am sorry sir. Is this a new cocktail? We never heard about it").

+1 For citrus fruit-based juices, especially when thick and pulpy. I am currently living in China so I simply lost track of all the varieties of citrus fruits I can eat, and anyway local lemons are a bit sweeter so they are *perfect* for juice but also as a condiment for salads. Pink varieties of Pomelo are bliss, even if they don't lend themselves to being squeezed into juice. Besides, citrus fruits pack dozens of vitamins. For the drinkers, Chinese beer brewers have started trying out Lambic beer with Chinese fruits: Lychee and Pomelo are my favourites, but I don't dislike other flavours (e.g. Jujube, Dragon fruit, Tangerine).

Aromatic tea is also great: I am currently trying out Pu'erh tea varieties aromatised with tangerine and berry flavours and scents (Pu'erh is oxidised, thus "black" in appearance but as strong as coffee). Perfect for busy afternoons and shmup evenings: it takes hours to exit the system, so by 9-10 pm I am still quite "electric", thanks to this tea.

Sorry..i can't help it, i come from a small town, one of those that are super stereotyped in American movies, full of old people and historic shops, between the mountains and the sea, with a lake too....i mean, here they still make artisanal ice cream...even the pub produces its own beer...it could be The Shire of the Hobbits in the MiddleEarth or the setting of any game from the Atelier series, but with more SodoSopa-style places
I'm not a worldly person like you, i'm much more...rural :v

[Randorama]

Sorry..i can't help it, i come from a small town, one of those that are super stereotyped in American movies, full of old people and historic shops, between the mountains and the sea, with a lake too....[...]

Bolsena? Pinsa, lake, between the mountains and the sea, cutesy pubs...Unless they make Pinsa in Abruzzo or Umbria, now (Pinsa and arrosticini would be a perfect combo, though). You can travel when you grow up: just find the right job, see the world, make friends (pardon, "acquaintances"), travel a bit, see the sights, do alright.

I periodically come back to Poppletum, to use the village's Latin name: every type of dish (and drink) is hand-made, of course, and freshly fresh (could it be otherwise? The pub across the street brews its own Stout beer). Pu'erh tea can be bought online from Milano importers and Sicilian farms have begun to grow lots of Asian citrus fruits: you could check bigger markets in the Capital city, if they ship online.

By the way, Ice Cream and Gelato are not the same food (! plus ).

[BareKnuckleRoo]

I've always loved sorbet out of all the frozen desserts. Though a good ice cream cake is hard to resist.

Lately I've been into fruit jelly a lot too. Gelatine packet or a fruity jello flavor, fruit juice, and some chopped fruit. Mix as per directions then after adding the cold liquid, add a bit of chopped fruit, and pour into something like wine glasses to set. Don't go crazy on how much chopped fruit you add, you want a nice open consistency of fruit to jelly.

[Lemnear]

Sorry..i can't help it, i come from a small town, one of those that are super stereotyped in American movies, full of old people and historic shops, between the mountains and the sea, with a lake too....[...]

Bolsena? Pinsa, lake, between the mountains and the sea, cutesy pubs...Unless they make Pinsa in Abruzzo or Umbria, now (Pinsa and arrosticini would be a perfect combo, though). You can travel when you grow up: just find the right job, see the world, make friends (pardon, "acquaintances"), travel a bit, see the sights, do alright.

I periodically come back to Poppletum, to use the village's Latin name: every type of dish (and drink) is hand-made, of course, and freshly fresh (could it be otherwise? The pub across the street brews its own Stout beer). Pu'erh tea can be bought online from Milano importers and Sicilian farms have begun to grow lots of Asian citrus fruits: you could check bigger markets in the Capital city, if they ship online.

By the way, Ice Cream and Gelato are not the same food (! plus ).

Gelato (and yogurt also!) ,even if it has several flavors o_0
No, secret location, unique dialect, 10.000 inhabitants (and a fuckton of wine).
At the lake there is also a small amusement park, with some arcades, there are Metal Slug 1, Tekken 3, Soul Calibur 1, Time Crisis (I don't remember if it's 1, 2 or 3), Crazy Taxi and Scud Race.

Arino wants to kill us all with saturated fats and tasty additives :v

[Randorama]

No, secret location, unique dialect, 10.000 inhabitants (and a fuckton of wine).

Every place in Italy has its own dialect (and its own wine, pasta dish,liquor, micro-climate...). I teach the subject in tertiary education, so you can trust me on this (or perhaps read here about the central dialect families)

Roo: which fruits of choice? I usually buy sorbet because I am lazy (ahem), but also any citrus fruit sorbet is fine, for me. Well, anything with citrus fruits is fine for me, including liquors. I admit eating lemons' pulp after squeezing them, but again Chinese lemons generally have a less zesty and gentler flavour, so this is not a problem for my palate.

[Arino]

Pepsi... okay, but maybe it's Pepsi Man's fault if i accept it.

Idk what you're trying to say.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

Roo: which fruits of choice? I usually buy sorbet because I am lazy (ahem), but also any citrus fruit sorbet is fine, for me.

We have two really good brands in Canada, Kawartha Lakes and Chapman's. They both do mainly ice cream, but have really good sorbet options:

https://kawarthadairy.com/project/raspb ... e-sherbet/

https://www.chapmans.ca/class/sorbet/

As far as fruit jelly goes, last time I made it I had some canned whole raspberries from a farm, did that with lime-jello, used the canning juice, my god it was tart and the liquid was dark, verging on almost brown? But incredibly tart and good.

[To Far Away Times]

I'll go years in between drinking sodas, but on the super rare occasions that it happens, it has to be a Mexican Coke with the cane sugar.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

My store sells the individual tall Coke glass bottles filled with classic Coke -- upon closer inspection of it, reveals it does, indeed, come imported from Mexico. I do recall that was possible to get a 6-pack of either bottled Pepsi or Coke back in the late 1970s in to the early 1980s. Nowadays, it mainly a sense of nostalgia in buying one. I've seen the individual tall glass bottles of Pepsi for sale as well.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[To Far Away Times]

The funny thing is that sugar is cheaper, tastes better, and healthier to consume than high fructose corn syrup.

But the corn-industrial complex lobbied to get their inferior products subsidized, so we ended up with the worst possible outcome.