The Big Yellow Taxi

The Big Yellow Taxi was Originally Posted on October 13, 2004 by lavarock

“Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone…”

I have to admit that even though I go on and on about how great it is here in Hawaii, there [b][i]ARE [/i][/b]some drawbacks!

The first drawback is there are too many places selling foods that I just don’t eat. This includes fish and certain spicy foods.

Second, if you are like me, picky about some types of foods, certain parties and dinners cause you to want to peek inside all offered foods and you find yourself asking “Do you know what THIS is?”

Also, I grew up on Chung King soy sauce. I have found it is NOT common here, as the locals like the brewed and lesser know on the mainland brands. Also, don’t even THINK about looking for canned chop suey. Seems that too is SACRILEGE!!!

Then there is my favorite sphagetti sauce “Spatini” which I will now have to import from the mainland.

In a recent blog I mentioned the “snack foods” which I have never tried. They are those which contain either plums, seaweed or cuttlefish…

FInally (and I’M NOT THE ONE COMPLAINING), there are many people over on Oahu today complaining that it is just TOO DAMN HOT this week. This when many of my friends are cranking up the heat and settling down for a long winters’ nap!