I found this hilarious - a plaintive complaint from Sarah, a Kiwi girl who lived in Chicago for 10 years and has just gone back home to live. I can well imagine after getting acclimated to US food, adjusting back to rill-kiwi-fuud will be a struggle: it sure is, going the other way.
Not that the food here is bad, per se - unlike England, it is much more palatable. It's just so incredibly processed, usually sweetened, and .... odd. Grits, something I was curious about, turn out to just be porridge, or a minor variant on it.
On the other hand, we had Carol & BJ (sisters) over for a cooked lunch a while ago, and did a roast of pork & roast veges - potatoes, sweet potato (no kumara duh!), roast carrot & parsnip & pumpkin, and it was like a revelation to them: apparently roasting has just disappeared from the american concepts of how to cook.
Ah, and ambushed again - more P1 tickets at work. I'll try to come back & edit this later to add to it.
UPDATE:
well, more of an addenda really :)
Eh, and Fridays used to be so peaceful - with half the client staff working flexi-fortnights and taking Fridays off, there wasn't a large volume of calls. Something however seems to have changed, and we are getting a steady stream of emergency-fix calls (rated Priority 1) on Fridays, to deploy changes to the application software. I suspect this may revolve around the turnover in developers, plus Thursday being the day for standard fix deployment, i.e. we're getting an upsurge in standard fixes that arent doing what they are meant to do, and noone wants to admit this and just roll back the fix ..... which is what they're meant to do of course, but that would blot their copybooks & make them look bad.
I sometimes think the role of perverse incentives in our management organisations is underestimated.
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