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I'm back and ready to finish telling you my story! Okay guys if you had only one option of food to eat for the rest of your life, what would it be? Well here in Italy that choice is a lot more prevalent than in America. Pasta, pizza, panini or salad is about the only options at more than all do the places. Not to offend any Italians because those foods can be great at many places but America gives us the unlimited options of eating anything we want. It's great! Now, about Florence though, there are some Chinese and American diners in the area or some upscale restaurants that serve steaks like Aqua Al 2, UH this place is amazing! I had a sampler of their salads, chicken, fennel and Greek for my primo course and my secondary course was a chefs sampler of steak. If your mouth is drooling yet, it was filet mignon with blueberry sauce, filet mignon with balsamic glaze and a foccasia bun toasted with slivered beef, tomatoes, arugula and parmesan cheese! Does that not sound like heaven? I could live with that restaurant as my only option. What's cool about this place is that you can go to this restaurant!! It has two other branches in America, California and Washington, D.C. So no worries, you get the chance to try some Italy cuisine in America, although my Ohio fans have to travel a bit but I'm telling you, your tummy will thank you later!
Okay, so back to some Italian cuisine options, Pino's is a small sandwich shop owned by PINO! What are the chances, right? He has over 30 sandwiches to choose from which makes his place even better because you could do a 30 day challenge that is actually super easy and attainable. 30 sandwiches, 30 days can I do it? The answer is No, but I have a friend, Dom who is actually completing this by the end of this week and successfully by Friday he has had 30 different sandwiches from Pino's. Come on, let's give him a round of applause everyone! Now in America we don't have to make up such challenges, you can go into a restaurant and fine a challenge posted in their menu or up on their wall like Quaker Steak and Lube. The atomic wing challenge which consists of signing a waiver, basically saying if u get sick you can't blame them, and attempting to eat X amount of extremely hot wings in a time frame. I don't know about you, but you can't get me to go above the level .. Mild. Oo, to my Kent State fans, Remember the big challenge at Mikes Place?! Yea that's about all I got with that one, to everyone that doesn't live in Ohio, look up Mikes Place it's a cool joint. But any-who, my point being is that us Americas can make anything into a race or a challenge even with food as Italians prefer to enjoy what they are eating, especially since they have adapted this new concept of slow food. This concept is based off of sustainability and organic,  eco-friendly foods.  There is this one restaurant called, Eataly that is all about this concept of fresh, farm produced ingredients to make food that people choose and sit down to eat. In Italy you barely see a fast food place and there are no drive thru's restaurant here at all, well at least in the parts of Italy I have been too. They do have McDonalds and Burger King though and this one weird place that resembles a KFC called Star Chicken. Italians also do to-go orders but they call it take away, which makes sense. Although Italy's food choices are much different and resemble some what of a culture shock, it's all been pretty good. I can't lie though, I do miss my American food!! I think it's safe to say I won't be having pasta for awhile once I get home.

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