okay, here's the shizz, my family doesn't really shop at your traditional coles or safeway supermarkets (of course we go there occasionally cos they're closer, but its not part of the normal routine, and the supermarket near us happen to be either sims or IGA) we go to aldi for the supermarket-style items and the markets, little saigon and footscray for the fresh stuff. i went grocery shopping in footscray with my father today, we went on this hour-long search through possibly every single pokey store it footscray to locate this special fishsauce he was after. we couldn't get the saffron (he wants to make some fancy-schmancy paella-like dish), but we did get a really nice peanut oil - think aromatic seasame seed oil, but with the smell of peanut paste (not jar peanut butter, but ground peanut butter from a nut store).

anyway, how is all the delicious things i was buying relevant to anything, well i had an interesting conversation along my travels. for all you peoplez who arn't samuel, there's this nut shop in footscray, john's nuts, and the son of the guy who owns the store, is one of those built wogs. he lifts weights. he has a really fat neck. if you're sam, he's the guy whom you bought your hooka from. so anyway we wa buying spices and i grab a bag of besan flour.
"what are you going to cook with that?"
"uhh, vegan food i guess"
"what's that?"
"its like a vegetarian who doesn't eat eggs or dairy"
"i could never do that, i'd drop weight"
silly man, noah hannibal is larger than that guy. he's a vegan and a weightlifter.