MAD MAX ATE HERE

Some people from Latin America like to visit the United States over winter break. Well, California. Where there are enough Spanish speakers that one can easily navigate the wild areas outside the cities without having to worry much about rabid white Christian nationalist savages. They probably don't visit the Midwest or South. Where if you see white Americans it's best to run for your life. If I travelled over the holidays, I would do something similar.
New York. Canada. Seattle. Portland. The places Trumpites fear to go.

Bigfoot country, rather than Bubba-stan.

Places with food as well as liberals. And where you can be reasonably certain there aren't grits, but there is hot chili sauce. Not that it's my life's mission to avoid grits, but there have been entire years when grits weren't on the menu, and I've survived perfectly well without them. Cooked grits a few times, threw the bin away one day when I realized that the rest of the container was long past its prime. They're decent with cheese, chilies, and bacon.
Much like taco chips and all of Texan "cuisine".

There are probably several eateries in San Francisco where grits are on the menu, because we don't want visiting red staters to starve. But I don't know where they are.

We're good that way.

Plus of course there's polenta. We joined the polenta craze briefly when it happened, and then kind of lost interest. It tasted much too Mississippi, probably. Like something General Lee would eat. Possibly while slogging through Delaware. Dunno, wasn't he supposed to have battled the British at Valley Fork or sumpin'?
Possibly he fought Scarlett O'Hara.


Sometimes the entire rest of the country sounds like total culinary nightmare country. Fried chicken, cornmeal sludge, and kool-aid soaked pickled cucumbers in one area. Casseroles, greasy deep-dish pizza, and baked beans everywhere else. A long indigestion road trip.

You're welcome.



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