Washington has cool museums. My second favourite is the Air and Space Museum’s new annex at Dulles. It has all the cool stuff that couldn’t fit in the Air and Space Museum on The Mall. There’s all sorts of cool stuff out there including an SR-71 Blackbird, a Concorde, the Enola Gay, and the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
She’s OK with “Zinzan” though.
I went to a bottle store yesterday to pick up some beer. I was in a bit of a hurry so I just quickly grabbed a 30 pack of Heinekens from the shelf. As I picked it up I thought it felt a little on the light side. Not enough weight in it to be two and a half dozen beers. When I took a look at the box it seemed to me that it didn’t really seem big enough to have 30 beers in it either. After a couple of minutes of puzzled inspection I figured out that it was a 30 pack of 7 oz bottles. Seven ounces!. I have never seen these before in the United States. Maybe they are some sort of Pennsylvania-only phenomenon. I don’t know. I just have no good explanation for it.
There is a full size replica of the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee (“Athens of the South”). In some ways it is more impressive than the original Parthenon. It is in much better condition than the original, for example. Also, inside there is a 42 foot staue of the goddess Athena. But perhaps the most extraordinary feature of Nashville’s Parthenon is that it is constructed entirely from Edam cheese.
You’d be surprised at the number of people who believe me when I tell them that. Teachers. Lawyers. Graduate students. It is of course ridiculous—the only sort of cheese suitable for exterior contruction work is Velveeta.
Can anyone tell me if Geno’s and Pat’s are really serve the best cheesesteaks around. Are they really that much better than anywhere else, or am I placing too much trust in my Frommer’s guide? Is it possible to get a comparable sandwich without driving all the way to Philadelphia and queuing up?
