Pathetically Delicious

This is how tough it gets at times here in Zaozhuang. As a westerner suffering from western food withdrawal I am forced at times to make dire decisions. This time around it took me tothe extent of calling my friends that went to Tai An and asking them to bring me back a Big Mac and Quarter Pounder from the McDonald's in that town. The Tai An McDonalds is the second closest McDonald's to Zaozhuang, and so is also the second closest restaurant to Zaozhuang that serves anything resembling a real western sandwich. The food was bought at 11:30AM BST, and then accounting for travelling time and switching of buses, arrived at my door 5 PM BST. Upon arrival it was ABSOLUTELY f%$&ing DELICIOUS!!

I hate McDonald's, and yet once every couple of months you'll find me in this type of compromising situation, where first I wolf down a Quarter Pounder, nearly choking myself, and then let things slow down a bit with the Big Mac, even letting the situation get a little, dare I say, intimate...

Anyway, such is my life here, nothing I am too happy about, but something that I feel is necessary to continue on in a healthy frame of mind. Some people might be saying, "But John, didn't you just recover from a serious stomach ailment? Might this not be the best time to be eating McDonald's?" and to you all I can respond is, "Please, shut the f&^$ up."

Here is my friend who helped me to pull off my 3 hour call-in delivery, who also, unexpectedly, appears to be a distant relative of the Hamburglar.