Meatballs and gravy

Yakkety Yak

Check this out..the acronym for the 5 Eurozone nations that have been considered weaker following the financial crisis, namely Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain is..........PIIGS.

its no wonder they can't fly.

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My parent's have this uncanny ability to talk about the most inappropriate things during meal times.

You'd think that normal families would use meal times to catch up on each other, and you know to just...talk.

Instead, topics like poisonous cucumbers in Spain and salted eggs infused with toxic dye inevitably crop up when I'm halfway chowing down my dinner.

Its no surprise where the other half of my dinner usually lands up.

Though I understand that they are trying to protect me from 'death by cucumber' (amen) or contaminated eggs for the matter, but that doesn't really explain why my dad was giving me a lecture on the logistics of rubbish pork. He even provided an economic analysis about pig farms and detailed the pricing mechanism between pork prices and quality.

During the entire conversation, I think I gave him the same confused face I had when I was watching Inception...

and Black Swan.

What I'd give to have my parents ask me a normal...'How was your day?'

Instead...I get, 'How was your day? btw don't drink Taiwanese bubble tea cos' you'll get cancer.

But I suppose there is plenty of truth to be told when it comes to food these days..

I mean, from rubbish pork to fake chicken eggs to carcinogenic salted eggs, I think in time, we Chinese people would have contaminated enough to wipe out an entire 10 course Chinese menu.

What's left to eat nowwwwwwwwwwww????????

Anyway, whilst still at dinner...a little bird flew in and rested itself on my mom's shoulder and just might have hit itself on the transparent sliding doors on its way out..whispered to my mommy that....... Ikea might be closing down.

*ohh the horror*

*panic...panic...furniture furniture!*

My eyes were getting watery as I scooped the last spoonful of rice into my mouth.

No more Ikea.....? but.....but.....

.......I can imagine life without a SMÖRG, a BLOÄRG or a CÖMORJ.... :'(

If its true that Ikea's moving away, it'll be the saddest story to have ever originated from hotdogs and meatballs.

Oh you didn't know?

Ikea's restaurant was shut down for 'religious cleansing' recently.

I'll be as hell disappointed if the Swedish furniture giant decides to pack up and go, but I wouldn't be that surprised, since a lot of things that are built in this country aren't meant to last long, or work anyway.

Ikea, without you I'd have to rely on Daiso to furnish my home, albeit sad, and the children will be deprived of the wonders that a little allen key can put together so magnificently...and Governor would sob over our 3rd quarter GDP results that fell due to lower consumption in household furniture and...

never again will hot dogs be the same...

-april