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I cant eat Krispy Kreme its to much sugar for me anymore. i guess im getting to old to have alot of sweets anymore. Posts: 40 | Registered: A Long Time Ago!
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I used to love Krispy Kream. then when I was a junior in high shcool I went to florida for a wrestling tournament. We wrestled for a couple days and vacationed for a couple. One of the scheduled sight seeing deals we decided to go on was to go snorkling. We all had a bunch of Krispy Kream and then hit the water. Unfortunately there were huge waves and we should have never gone out because everyone turned green and everysingle person save for myself and my two friends steve and brad spent the entire trip puking. I have a great memory of my mom with her head in a bucket the entire time. All very funny but it turned me off the goodness of the Krispy Kreams for life.
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I have never particularly enjoyed donuts - well, maybe a good ole fashioned apple fritter from time to time . . . I know - highly un-American.
*shrugs*
I do like nummy blueberry muffins with fresh blueberries.
I don't like jet-lag. Although, rivka is right - melatonin is supposed to help regulate sleep. It helps the pineal gland do its' job better.
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KK is okay when they're fresh and hot--they tend to taste kinda greasy to me, and the donuts are so airy that you're finished practically before you start eating it.
*best* donuts ever are from small doughnut places run by Asian families in California. Whenever we visit Cali my dad gets a box. Yum.
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I've never had a Krispy Kreme. That I can remember. But then, my memory's so lousy that it's actually possible, but I don't think they exist in Canada, do they? So that would severely limit the possibility.
I haven't had a donut or cruller or anything remotely close to anything you'd fine at a donut shop since leaving Canada. I'm lucky that we have three McDonald's in the entire country, and one KFC, and 3 or 4 Pizza Huts, and a few Dominoes. I think I'd be pushing it by asking for doughnuts, too.
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A nice tan, when I can get one, keeps my psoriasis under control. Plus, I don't look so pasty white, like the belly of a fish. I learned long ago that overweight people like me look much better when the color of their skin isn't like a strobe light in its attention-getting whiteness.
I'm not talking about a please-may-i-have-some-skin-cancer tan, like somebody who has worked as a cowboy every day of their life. I'm just talking about a slight golden glow. I've had that about three time in my life and it was like a good makeup job without having to mess with the cold cream to get it off at night.
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(has to go get one of those, to cover up swimming suit lines on back, left over from really bad sumburn from last summer, so I don't look like even more of a dork in my matron of honor dress for my sister's wedding)
That was somewhat incoherent. I start my new job today and I was too nervous to sleep
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Just be careful - sunburns aren't nearly as attractive as tans. I have the tanning gene from my father, but I usually have a farmer tan. I refuse to go barefoot or sandalfoot when I garden. And now that I've taken to wearing kneepads, I get white stripes around my kneecaps. Perhaps I can start a trend - the "zebra" tan...
On doughnuts... Unfortunately, my metabolism won't allow me to indulge in them the way I'd like. If I eat too much sugar, I get fainty and weak. So I have a one-doughnut limit, which much also be accompanied by lots of milk and preferably a sausage or egg. If I eat a doughnut, I want it to be a REALLY GOOD one.
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I wish I had my fish-belly complexion back. I haven't looked the same since I got that sunburn . . . seven friggin' years ago! Posts: 1814 | Registered: Jul 2004
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quote:Sid, the only place I've seen Tim Hortons south of the US-Can border is Buffalo NY and my main gripe with their overproliferation there is that they are so popular that the West Coast obsession with espresso stands (every 35 ft if you please) has not managed to spread there and take hold. Worse, when I work out there, I actually have to drive around a while before I can find some place that makes chai tea.
jeniwren, the next time you are here (that is to say, Buffalo), I'm certain my wife could direct you to some fine places for chai tea. We DO have some coffee shops, they just aren't as obnoxiously omnipresent as they are everywhere else. Posts: 5422 | Registered: Dec 2001
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OSC - you know it is just WRONG that you started this thread when almost everyone was at Bob & Dana's wedding, so we could't reply (well, at least those of us who don't yet own laptops. And the ones that had laptops were not the type to be up at six AM, unless they hadn't yet gone to bed).
I'm usually always online around that time in the morning, and I would have replied if it had been any other weekend in the year.....
And that would have prevented you talking to yourself like that.
Farmgirl
(not to mention that fact that if you were going to be wide awake on Saturday anyway - you might as well have been at the wedding! in stead of talking to yourself at home)
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Fish-belly white is fun!! At least that's what I keep telling myself since I can't really go out in the sun anyway. I flash fry. I can get a BURN in 20 minutes. My co workers asked me not to wear shorts until I used fake-tan because my legs look like glowsticks. (Yes, someone actually said Glowsticks to me...)
ah, the joys of Irish blood...
If only Guinness helped with the skin color - then I'd be a lovely shade of "stout"
quote: I don't HAVE a tan. I was just wishing for one.
I don't and see no reason to have one - and I'm Middle-Eastern!
quote: A nice tan, when I can get one, keeps my psoriasis under control. Plus, I don't look so pasty white, like the belly of a fish. I learned long ago that overweight people like me look much better when the color of their skin isn't like a strobe light in its attention-getting whiteness.
You're not fat. You're slim. It looks always like you're fat from the top - but what's noticable is your slim face.
I myself am probably around 75 KG, I'm 14 y.o. and I'm 1.75(+?) CM tall. I don't think that I'm particularly slim - as I eat much fat and do little sport - but I still receive compliments regarding my looks (from Raia, at least).
Live your way, but I see no problem about your body, personally...
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I'm with Dunking Doughnuts. an this addiction you better stay on forever be addicted to Hatrackl!
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When I got back from two years as a Missionary in Mexico I had a really nice tan on my arms and face (darker then some of the natives) although since I spent the two years in a white shirt and tie that was about all of me that was tanned. You know you need to do Something about your tan lines when you can take your shirt off and see the outline of a tie on your chest....
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beverly, I may not be fish-belly white all over (largely because I'm not nearly as good about sunscreen as I should be), but except for my hands/ lower arms, feet, and face -- I'm pretty darn close.
Another advantage of wearing modest clothing. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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quote: Plus, I think the Mongols are about to invade.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover ! A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover ! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced : Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail : And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean : And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war ! The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves ; Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware ! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair ! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Ah, Opium! The joy of life!
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Ha I never burn I just tan nicely!(Thats the truth too. I worked at a summer camp for a couple of months once and when I came back I was so dark people who didn't know me didn't think I was white. It was kind of odd...)
And does any one but me dislike most wheat products in general? Not a fan of doughnuts, muffins, cereal, bread, etc. Still eat it, just not a fan.
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Uggh...I wish I could tan, it's kinda hard to do in Minnesota, any tan I do get in our 3 months of daylight goes away withing a month...If you can even call it a tan in the first place, my partially German skin turns more red than brown. Posts: 163 | Registered: Nov 2004
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Uh . . . quidscribis lives in Sri Lanka. She's from Canada originally, but that's not where she lives now.
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I've never had a tan in my life that wasn't first a burn. And even then it always looks a bit orangy.
I always use sunscreen now, but I really hate the stuff. Your skin can't breathe with it on. It doesn't allow sweat to evaporate, which makes your body temperature rise. In hot/humid conditions, sunscreen is a nightmare.
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Soara, yes, indeed, I do not live in Canada any longer. Haven't for over a year and a half. I now live in a country where everywhere I go, I'm stared at for my pinkness. And whereas I was merely of average height in Canada, here, I'm positively tall for a female.
Unfortunately, I'm back to having to buy men's shoes because there are no women's shoes in the entire country that fit.
And I've been to McDonalds twice in the last year and a half, once to Pizza Hut, and we occasionally get pizza delivered from Dominoes. But let me tell you something - McDonalds is the only one that is consistently the same. It's true. Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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Do they have a lot of neat and exotic (to Westerners) ingredients at places like Pizza Hut? For some reason, I'm always interested to learn how different cultures interpret our much-maligned "fast food culture". Like how in Germany, you get salami instead of pepperoni, and in Japan, you can get corn on your pizza.
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You can get chicken biryani at KFC and McRice instead of fries at McDonalds. Pizzas can be devilled (spicy), chicken sausage is actually chicken wieners, cuttlefish (to you, squid) is included in the seafood toppings. At McDonalds, they have regular ketchup as well as chilli garlic ketchup, which I prefer by a long shot.
You can look at the Pizza Hut menu yourself in English, Sinhalese, or Tamil. Oh, and apparently, we have 9 Pizza Huts here. I had no idea there were so many!
Pizza options include Tandoori Chicken Lovers, Mutton Lovers, and Devilled Chicken.
What else do ya wanna know? Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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To Jonathan Howard: I sincerely hope you meant you were 1.75 meters tall. 1.75 centimeters puts you in the Guinness Book of World Records as shortest organism to be able to post on the internet.
But your encouragement to me is kindly. Please remember, though, that the picture of me here on line was taken when I weighed about 20 kilograms less than I do now. Right now my head closely resembles a hot air balloon.
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Well, I always replace CM and M, since I write in both formats. Occasionally someone thinks I'm a tiny organism or a particularly erect Titan.
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"I always replace CM and M, since I write in both formats."
Um. I could see confusing inches with meters because one writes in both formats. But confusing centimeters with meters is like confusing inches with feet.
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You know, you've exposed a secret advantage of English measurement: no one can get the decimal point wrong. Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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Cuttlefish=squid is good enough for my purposes. I didn't know they were slightly different, so thanks for that. I just know that they look the same to me, so as far as I'm concerned, they are the same. Plus, here, they're treated as if they are the same. Kinda like plantains and bananas. In the Americas, there are distinctions between the two, but here, the labels are used interchangeably.
We get big squid here - really big. As in, the body is up to 12 inches long, and tentacles another 15 or 18 inches beyong that. Yowza!
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