celebrate!

Yesterday was a very special day for America.  A day that transcends barriers of race, age, gender, and sexual orientation.  A day that I celebrated, despite being in Germany, and that I hope others did as well.  Because although National Cheese Lover’s Day is only an American holiday, I see no reason why citizens of the world cannot enjoy it.  Except maybe some of my Asian brethren.  You know who you are.

But I celebrated with the classic tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwich – if I had known before 4pm, I could have made arrangements for mac and cheese, but for some reason my work calender only has things like New Year’s Day and Easter.  Even if you missed this auspicious event, you can prepare for 2010 by finding out what kind of cheese you are.  Speaking of my stomach, I also discovered this list of official state foods (well, Wikipedia-official).  I’m torn between disappointment that California, salad bowl of America, has none and a general feeling of superiority that my home state is too busy debating same-sex marriage and universal health care to vote on whether the state pastry should be a strudel or a sopaipilla.  And if you think that’s a laughable debate, clearly you are not from Oklahoma (state vegetable: watermelon.  Yes, you read that right).  Ladies and gentlemen, there are not red states and blue states, black states and white states, queer states and straight states.  There’s Oklahoma and there’s everyone else.