"Ms Leebee" > wrote in
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>> I've done the same(on short visits). It's a *very* bloody convenient
>> avenue in the hustle and bustle.
>
> In Noo York, the cheapest meal you can eat is the 'hotdogs' from
> street vendors. Bland, horrid things they are.
> The better vendors also offer a choice of 'sausage', which is more an
> Aussie hotdog, for 50cents more 
BLECH!! One reason I only buy *gourmet* sausages, usually from my
butcher mate.
The supermarket ones are made up of lips, noses, ears, eyeballs.....
etc, etc.
>
>
>> In the 12 months I lived there, I did a *lot* of BBQ's and home
>> cooked meals/dinner parties. The Yanks were very suprised at the fact
>> that a) they could get good fresh food that tasted like real food,
>> and b) a guy was cooking for them (that wasn't ***!!).
>
> What part of the US ?
Based in LA (Dudley Lane, Venice Beach), but constantly travelled
throughout.
> I found home BBQ'ing in Ca was pretty much on-par with home.
Seems every home in CA has a gas Barby/grill on the 'stoop'.
I taught them how to use a wood BBQ and a plate rather than a grill :-)
>
>
>> BTW.......... *anyone* that goes to a Taco Bell has to be eliminated.
>
> Actually, I am not a fan of Mexican food, but there is no equivalent
> to Taco Bell in Australia,
There is *no* equivalent *anywhere* in the world to Taco Bell. Not even
in Mexico!! TB would have to be the most disgusting "Mexican" food
anywhere on this planet!!
> and I look fwd to my fix when in the States
> Just don't order the nachos ....... )
You will face elimination if you hit the TB!!
If you're going to LA, just take a drive south (on the 15/215?) for a
couple of hours. You'll come to a place called Elsinore. The southern
part is the modern section. The northern part still looks like a Wild
West town. There was/is(hopefully) a Mexican family running a Burrito
shop across the road from the Barber.
A bare shop, with one counter, one stove top and two huge saucepans
bubbling away. One beef, one chicken.
Best bloody chicken burrito I have *ever* had!!