The Official First World Problems Thread™
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Dear God.
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You have to understand, I lived for a number of years in New Zealand, where pizzas are tiny things, perhaps half the Costco size, and they believe in neither pepperoni nor parmesan. It is a horrific place! So a simple, good pepperoni pizza is like heaven to me anymore.
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Woo! San Diego pizza!
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You have to understand, I lived for a number of years in New Zealand, where pizzas are tiny things, perhaps half the Costco size, and they believe in neither pepperoni nor parmesan.
I've had Mexican food in New Zealand (yes, really), and I now understand your position.
But still, if you live in ANYWHERE OTHER THAN NEW ZEALAND, dear God, find a real pizza place.
And don't get me wrong, Costco is a local company, I love them, all your dollars flow right here into my local economy. They just can't pizza.
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I've had Mexican food in New Zealand (yes, really)
That takes some serious skill. I saw a place in Auckland over by the quay that sold nachos, but I only saw one real Mexican restaurant.
There was some kind of NYC-style pizza place in NZ that some friends and I stopped by when we finished exams, and that place was good. It was like I was in a sane country again. But it was too expensive to just go to frequently.
But still, if you live in ANYWHERE OTHER THAN NEW ZEALAND, dear God, find a real pizza place.
If I was going out to pizza with friends, definitely. But I'd take a freshly cooked Costco pizza over, say, Dominoes any day.
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That takes some serious skill. I saw a place in Auckland over by the quay that sold nachos, but I only saw one real Mexican restaurant.
It was a mall restaurant in Auckland. Around... Christmas 2000? Ish? And no there's no way in hell I'd remember the name of the mall or restaurant now.
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If it was the place that used to be a planet hollywood or something, with rocket-themed elevators, I think I remember seeing a closed Mexican place the first time I went there. I only heard mentions of one still existing, but never saw it.
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You are greatly overestimating the quality of my memories from 2000.
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To be fair to NZ, you could also buy cheap bowls of teriyaki udon from Noodle Canteen, every bakery had steak and curry meat pies, the fish and chips were amazing (my whole family died a little inside whenever someone tried to take us to fish and chips back here), and there were some really great Korean places around.
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The problem is I come from Seattle area where we have great restaurants of EVERY nationality.
I live in a small town, population 8000, and we have three Teriyaki places, one sushi place, a Pho place, several Mexican restaurants, a Chinese restaurant, two QUALITY pizza parlors (and a Little Caesar's so), a Greek place etc. In a SMALL TOWN. AND THEY'RE ALL GOOD.
We even have a British pub if you want fish and chips.
You can't find that anywhere else in the world. As I soon learned as I started traveling the world.
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Portland has several billion pho places, generally shabby and run-down, so I haven't worked up the courage to try one here yet. We have some epic food carts, though.
Honestly, my only complaints about the food in Auckland were: Lack of Mexican, lack of good pizza, EXPENSIVE
Someday, though, I need to visit Osaka (Japan, for whatever kind of noob doesn't know that). I hear they have the best food carts.
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Portland does have good food trucks. I like that big parking lot you guys have set up downtown with all the trucks there everyday, like an outdoor food court. In Seattle there's no centralized location to find trucks, you just have to kind of look them up.
I'd be suspicious of any pho place that didn't look run-down. Just like you want to avoid the taco truck with the $150,000 bus.
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The pho place we frequented in NZ was just an average looking shop. Not fancy (because that would make no sense) but it also didn't look like they dug all the parts of the building up from the local tip.
I like that big parking lot you guys have set up downtown with all the trucks there everyday
I actually work like 4 blocks from there, so I can get there if I need to, but there's another smaller group of them closer by.
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You should go to, oh what was its name... the Frying Scotsman food truck if you want fish and chips. OMG that was amazing.
(However you'll slip into a coma an hour later due to the 5 gallons of grease.)
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If the name is anything to go by, you can only be correct.
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And don't get me wrong, Costco is a local company
When did you relocate to San Diego? <SCNR
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You need to take some trolling lessons from Ben "it takes 5 minutes to start Windows" L.
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My optimal pizza strategy is Costco. They make the best, cheapest one around.
That's a bad combination of criteria to try to minmax.
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I actually work like 4 blocks from there, so I can get there if I need to, but there's another smaller group of them closer by.
@boomzilla's nanny-state is finally league-alizing food trucks at the end of the month.... until then we - I and cow-workers - starve.
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Best, largest pizza for $10 around afaik.
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@Magus said:
I actually work like 4 blocks from there, so I can get there if I need to, but there's another smaller group of them closer by.
@boomzilla's nanny-state is finally league-alizing food trucks at the end of the month.... until then we - I and cow-workers - starve.
Huh? Got a link about that?
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And don't get me wrong, Costco is a local company, I love them, all your dollars flow right here into my local economy. They just can't pizza.
If you think that Costco pizza is bad, you haven't tried Sam's Club pizza. They come about 1/4 inch thick. The crust is about 1/16th of an inch, the rest is cheese. If you get another variety besides plain cheese, the toppings are just a thin layer on top. With such a thin crust, you'd expect it to be crispy, but you're wrong. The cheese puts out extra oils during baking that keep the crust soggy. And because the sauce is almost non-existent, the cheese infiltrates the crust. The cheese is so rubbery, that I'm not even sure it's real cheese.
Sam's Club pizza is an abomination that should be sent back to the lowest level of Dante's hell.
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Best, largest pizza for $10 around afaik.
We like to get the take and bakes from Sam's Club. They're pretty decent and super cheap.
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Sam's Club pizza is an abomination that should be sent back to the lowest level of Dante's hell.
What? No, it's great! Our stores must do it differently. The pizza you describe doesn't sound at all like the stuff we get.
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@abarker said:
Sam's Club pizza is an abomination that should be sent back to the lowest level of Dante's hell.
What? No, it's great! Our stores must do it differently. The pizza you describe doesn't sound at all like the stuff we get.
I suppose it's possible. I know that the closest Sam's recently had a new member promotion and doesn't even carry half the items that they were offering incentive coupons for. Why would you even pull shit like that?
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What? No, it's great! Our stores must do it differently. The pizza you describe doesn't sound at all like the stuff we get.
The Sam's Club's I've eaten pizza at aren't really what I'd call good, but they're not the inedible-sounding mess @abarker describes. Maybe that's just another case of Texas being better (although in this case, only a little.)
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You can't find that anywhere else in the world.
Well, the Seattle metro is gifted in that regard ;) (as is where I live)
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The cheese is so rubbery, that I'm not even sure it's real cheese
So it's American cheese?
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@ijij said:
@boomzilla's nanny-state is finally league-alizing food trucks at the end of the month.... until then we - I and cow-workers - starve.
Huh? Got a link about that?
Here's a link. It's not a good link. But it's a link:
The green truck in the background appears to be the Tortuga wagon - one of our favorites!
We had trucks around work here, but then the local lobby-café dude started calling the police... the Tortuga guy in particular put up with it for while, paying the occasional $50 ticket as a part of doing business, but eventually the judges started to look a little more at him for being a multiple repeat offender.
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I work in a below-ground basement...
FWP: if the power goes out, our emergency lights do not come on.
FiIed under: ... and WTDWTF was on my secondary monitor, and not plugged into the UPS
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FWP: if the power goes out, our emergency lights do not come on.
That smells of a Code issue -- I'd have the building inspectors check that one out.
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That smells of a Code issue -- I'd have the building inspectors check that one out.
This smells of the most subtle troll of all time.....
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That smells of a Code issue -- I'd have the building inspectors check that one out.
No debuggers available?
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Here's a link. It's not a good link. But it's a link:
Oh, I get it. They generally haven't been allowed on public roads. They had to get permission to sell in a private parking lot or something. Pretty sure my county has a rule about that, which given how narrow roads tend to be, and how hard it is to find parking, seems like a reasonable thing.
Apparently the state is saying they can park on state maintained roads.
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Apparently the state is saying they can park on state maintained roads.
Basically, because that was being used as an excuse... without any judgment about whether any particular selling spot was a safety issue.
(Which is it's own set of weirdness about who maintains which roads)...Naturally, they will need special speed-limit signage that enables their privileged over-exploitation of the public common good.
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(Which is it's own set of weirdness about who maintains which roads).
Actually it's easy enough to tell because of the shape of the route number signs.
It's local federalism!
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Actually it's easy enough to tell because of the shape of the route number signs.
Less about figuring out the legality, more about the "why?" Even the little roads around work apparently are state roads...
@boomzilla said:It's local federalism!
Funny how the state police patrol the federal roads (interstate), the county police patrol the state roads...And...around here, depending on which park you're in the Federal police could be patrolling the bike path. :
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And...around here, depending on which park you're in the Federal police could be patrolling the bike path. :
The only speeding ticket I ever got (knock on wood) was from a Federal Police Agency. Specifically, the US Park police on the GW Parkway.
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FWP: if the power goes out, our emergency lights do not come on.
Huh. Hope you've got a couple of candles and/or flashlights.
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@ijij said:
FWP: if the power goes out, our emergency lights do not come on.
Huh. Hope you've got a couple of candles and/or flashlights.
Just my UPS and my monitor... ;)
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On the one hand, my vegetarian housemate and I should have checked our order before leaving the take-away sushibar. On the other hand, they did technically give us what we ordered.
Except... when we ask for an 18 piece sushibox, half fish, half vegetarian... we expect 9 pieces of each type, not 18 half-and-half pieces. <nobr>—_—</nobr>
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....fine, fine... you caught me in an exaggeration.. after I shut down, .I also had my flip-phone so I didn't bump into my furniture when I left for coffee.
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We have a new coffee machine at work. The coffee it makes is OK but not as good as one from a coffee shop. It is, however, free.
FWP: Do I have the lesser-quality free coffee or pay $4.00 a day for the better stuff?
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Even Starbucks doesn't charge $4, WTF.
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