American junk food
Exhibit A: Favoured snack of the New Yorker, the salted pretzel. Wikipedia says it’s invented by German monks for rewarding children who learned their prayers (its knot is in the shape of praying arms), it has now found on every street corner in New York in those metal phone booth sized stands. My friend in New York tells me that no one gets food poisoning from those stands, because if they do, they can just up and move to another street corner. It was hilarious too, because these stands often sell hot dogs as well, and on one of my walks down the street, there was an American guy who said “Gee that STINKS. I wish they would kill those vendors!”. Hilarious grumpy man with a chip on his shoulder obviously! Maybe he’s someone who ate a bad one haha 
. Quite good, and a healthy alternative to some other baseball match snacks.
Exhibit B: The toffee apple on steroids. Found in amusement parks, eaten by children who haven’t yet experienced a filling at the dentist perhaps? These are HUGE! And covered with anything from regular toffee, caramel, caramelised popcorn, chocolate and nuts, cinnamon… sink your teeth into those ~ and likely they will stay there 
And finally, exhibit C: the American pizza pie. On Bleeker street, people were eating huge slabs of greasy pizza – meatballs, pepperoni, meatlovers. I thought I would go for a healthier option, it looked quite bready and non greasy, straight from the oven, and uncut. I learned once again that appearances can be deceiving. I had no idea that this beast of a pizza had double the amount of cheese inside, and fatty bits of sausage and who knows what else… by the time I got a snap on my camera, the ring of oil had already started from the cheese which was leaking out the side. Starving though, I tried to eat the crust… and gave up, when my plate became compeltely translucent from the oil, and i may as well have been eating straight off the dirty tray! Eww! So I just drank the rest of my diet snapple, trying not to think about all the fat I had just consumed!