Sunday, January 23

Mini-Stop Menagerie

The Mini-Stop is a peculiar place. There's something about the clean, brightly-lit interiors that just make you want to BUY something to munch on whenever you see that familiar orange, white and blue coloration of the sign. You really should make it a point to NOT be in the vicinity of a MS if you're hungry and you're intending to eat somewhere else, since you probably will find yourself spending on tsitsirya and groceries uncontrollably. At least, that's what ALWAYS happens to me. Sheesh.
Anyway, last night, after the night's coffee with birthday celebrant Vin, me and Cams dropped by a Mini-Stop to stock our respective larders with fast chow. I picked up a the latest in microwaveable eats- a spaghetti bun sandwich and the pizza pandesal (bacon cheeseburger flavor).

The spaghetti bun is what it sounds like- a hotdog bun stuffed with party spaghetti- the kind with the soft noodles and sweet sauce. The only meat in it are four (count 'em) smalll slices of hotdog on top of the thing. Heated up, it makes for an unusual but oddly cool snack. It's actually not so odd- we usually eat spaghetti with bread anyway, so here we're just pretty much cutting out the plate and substituting it with a bread container. Not bad, really.

The pizza pandesal bun isn't really something I found liking... the flavor's good, but the heated-up snack feels soft and flaccid (hmm), and just not right. I like my pizza crispy. Still, it was an experience.

I wonder what new fast snack the ol' Mini Stop will cough up soon? Just another thing to not necessarily look forward to but just deal with as we go deeper into 2005.

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