Can I Get Fries With That?

God, it seems all my posts revolve around food. If you didn't know me at all you must think I am fat or something (though Dan and my mother infer that I am).

Anyhoo, I've been in Italy for the last couple of days and I can wholeheartedly tell you that I am pasta and pizza out! More so pasta than pizza since I have pasta for lunch and dinner as the first plate (Italians love eating each food as a separate course, which annoys me to no end). Needless to say, I can live without pasta for at least a month. I usually don't like pizza, but I love the pizza in Italy, especially in the neighborhood my family live in. I had pizza for dinner when we arrived, and the other day we had pizza for a snack (yes, a snack!). We are having pizza on Friday, and I'm sure I'll probably end up having it again as a snack. Kind of getting bored with pizza.

But what I have noticed about London and Italy--you can't find good, cheap, diverse food. For example, Dan, Dan's friends, and I went out to sushi at a fairly expensive place. But if you look online, you can't really find a reasonably priced sushi place. I don't even know if they sell sushi here in Rome and if there is, it's probably really expensive and in the expensive part of the city. And Chinese/Thai food in both London and Rome are definitely awful, which makes sense since what we know as Chinese is really American.

Now, I won't speak for the US, but at least for the DC area you can find reasonably priced and very tasty varieties of food. If I have a sushi craving, there are many places I can go knowing that I don't have to spend an arm and a leg. I'm perfectly content with ordering Chinese food from the place around the corner. There are definitely cheapo Italian places that are decent. I hate pizza though, but you can find good places all over. I can't really say that about London and definitely not Rome.

Perhaps I haven't really given a fair chance to London. And I think Dan and I are hanging out in expensive neighborhoods that warrant the expensive menu. But there's definitely no good places in Enfield, which is sad. And Italians are isolationists like that.