12. Superfood Me
I’m hungry, so it’s time to eat. My mum’s paying.
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50 pence (iN Da Pod)
I started my blog as a continuation of the daily write-up that I did when I got 500 people to give me 50p so that I could buy an iPod.
World Record Holders
There's a lot of tube related stuff on this site due to me being a former World Record Holder for travelling around the entire network (275 stations) in the fastest time possible back in May 2004.
Living in the USA
After living in London for the first 33 years of my life and working for the BBC News website I moved to Charleston, South Carolina in the USA in May 2006 for three and a half years before moving back to England and back to work for the BBC in November 2009.
Underground : USA
So for ten weeks in June, July and August 2009, I drove 20,000 miles around the the lower 48 contiguous states of the USA visiting towns and places that shared the same name as places on The London Tube Map.
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July 20th, 2009 at 5:38 am
looking at the video, the population of Moonshine is 2 - except during lunch!
and if the English say your food is tasteless and bland, you know it’s got to be awful…
July 20th, 2009 at 9:14 am
the woman and husband that run the store live above the store, and are the official only population of the town, yes. more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonshine,_Illinois
my mum i think was basically referring to the “on the road” food that she has to eat. in the few occasions that we ate out properly (e.g. in New Orleans), it was lovely.
July 20th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
I want one of those moonshine burgers! The part of the video in the beginning when you were parked outside the high rise it looked like a council estate . Great video, I am glad to see those small towns!
July 20th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Your mom is super adorable.
July 20th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Also, at least she didn’t say we’re all a bunch of fat loud rude assholes.
July 20th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
I am very glad you and your Mom enjoyed visiting Missouri.
As you may recall, I was in charge of promoting it for 4 years.
The slogan I inherited was “Missouri Loves Company.” Yikes.
July 21st, 2009 at 2:32 am
@lindsey, she did but i edited that part out /grin/
@chuck, missouri was nice! it’s weird how you just get a feeling about a certain town or city, and how that can extend to a whole state. Missouri = Nice. Indiana = Less so!
AND! found this:
CBS Sunday Morning also did a feature on the Moonshine Burger store…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGkBilF6GU8
July 21st, 2009 at 4:12 am
Yes, I was only referrring to on the road and motel food being bland, whenever we had a meal in a diner or restaurant I enjoyed it very much. Hot, quick, tasty and good portions. Relatively cheap too, there was a lot of waste though, both food and packaging. I don’t think recycling has caught on too much, all those plastic plates and cutlery being thrown away in the trash surprised me. Here in England recyclng has become almost a religion!
July 23rd, 2009 at 7:48 am
When your mom asked the guy in Metropolis if the Supermen helped people etc., it reminded me of this news story that my friend showed me several months ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da1ADqPplQ4