Thursday, October 7, 2010

Day of pigs

For the record, Ica kebab pizza makes my stomach hurt.
Strangely enough, Europe has some of the worst pizza in the known universe.  Sure, Italians invented pizza, but it was probably invented by an Italian living in Hell's Kitchen.
Did chicken-curry-banana-peanut pizza not sound like a bad idea immediately?  How did it make it into an oven, let alone on a menu?  fuck me.
In Sweden every pizza comes with something called "pizza salad".  As far as I can tell it is just some type of cabbage/vinegar concoction.  It isn't terrible, but then again I enjoy cole slaw.



We had a few guest lecturers from Cuba in school today.  They had to have interpreters and for the first time I realized how much of a disadvantage language can become.  From my limited understanding of Spanish, I could tell most of their meaning was lost in translation.  Fabian (a Colombian in my course who previously lived in London) translated a few things for me.  After the lecture he told me that he finally understood how the professors could make it out of Cuba.  They were extremely leftist and basically communist theorists although it really wasn't very clear from their lectures.  Again, due to translation issues.  I guess I can see why they were well received in Sweden; social democracy goes a long way.








Roland, a totally rad Hungarian who also spend several years in London, had a much more colorful reaction to the Cuban professors.  Roland was 9 when the Soviet block fell, so he has vivid memories of life behind the iron curtain.  His response to the claim that every Cuban citizen is given a job based on his/her skills was "Sod off you Communist cunts! If life is so grand, then why is there so many fucking cubans sailing to fucking Miami in tires?"
Apparently communist Hungary wasn't allowed the great job placement that Cuba enjoys.
As a side note, check out the news.  Hungary is suffering from the worst toxic spill in the country's history.  It is legitimately upsetting.
Sorry for the bad picture Roland.

2 comments:

  1. Nice post, just one thing : Sweden definitely is not = with all Europe. Northern countries are quite different from the rest of Europe and actually almost all the countries differ one from each other ( different cultures, traditions and so on). Your view is too holistic, don't place the whole Europe in the same bucket!
    Swedish food kinda sucks, but it's made for their taste. Swedish pizza has nothing in common with the Italian one.
    PS I hope you'll have time enough to travel and taste all the flavors of Europe!

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  2. Pizza kebab? Better wash that shit down with a crab juice.

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