I used to work near a little restaurant called "Rasta Grill". It was this weird fusion of Italian and Jamaican food, and everything was absolutely delicious. We'd walk down to Rasta at least once a week or so and have giant plates of spaghetti with jerk chicken in the wonderfully bizarre atmosphere.

Well, we always suspected that some of the employees perhaps took the Rasta theme a little far, and occasionally partook of Jamaica's other famous export. Our suspicions grew one day:

Us, ordering: ...and an order of garlic bread.
Cashier: [writes "GBR" on the ticket, but draws the "G" almost like a "6"]
Cook, taking ticket: OK.... hey, what's "6 B R"?
Cashier: That's a "G". It's garlic bread.
Cook: [long, confused pause] And they want 6 of 'em?

As our anniversary dinner tradition, Jen and I drive to Stanton to eat at the Uptown Brewery. Each year, we ask each ourselves if we really want to go all the way down there. Each year, we decide that we'll have a nice meal and that it's not that far anyway. Each year, we wonder why we don't go there more often. I don't want to disparage any of the wonderful local places, but it really is true: the best restaurant in Norfolk is in Stanton.

Jen and I took Jake and Ari to Omaha. I had joked with Jake that I was going to make him eat sushi, and to my surprise he loved the idea. There was a restaurant downtown within walking distance of our day's destination and I thought we'd leave Norfolk early and have an early lunch. On our way in, though, we were running a little late. As we passed Yet Another Strip Mall, I saw a big "SUSHI" sign and asked Jen if she wanted to see if it was busy rather than getting all the way downtown and finding out we didn't have time to eat. She agreed and we pulled in.

What a surprise.

McDonald's nutrition information

Subway's sandwich nutrition facts

I was buying groceries and saw a new display of pre-packaged plastic boxes of sushi. In the middle of Nebraska. Supermarket sushi. The idea kind of horrified me, but eventually my curiosity got the best of me and I had to try some. I settled on the spicy surimi roll and threw it in the cart. As I was checking out, I asked the cashier if anyone else ever bought these, or if I was the guinea pig. "Oh yeah," she said. "We sell lots of it!"