Shaken Up On A Tuesday by "Everything is bigger in Texas"

So yesterday in Explore Austin, I stopped by http://www.whataburger.com/ because I was hungry and didn't feel like making the Tator-tot Casserole quite yet. (Sorry for making you most likely salivate with the mention of such a tasty MN dish, but fear not, the post and pics will come soon since I plan to put on my cooking apron this afternoon). Anyways, so I decided to try a taste of this undiscovered burger. To no surprise I ordered the Whataburger with Bacon and Cheese. (Just a single though, because Shiner Bock has given me plenty of back up calories). Since I came from the gym, I thought a shake would be in order (you know, for the protein milk provides). So I ordered the value meal with a substitute strawberry shake. To my surprise and okay sure, a bit of fright, I was handed a huge shake, which I believe to be 32oz if I read the code under the cup correctly.

To be honest, It  probably wasn't a good idea to finish such a large shake, when milk and me are no longer good friends but I am not one to waste ice cream, plus it tasted pretty good. The burger was pretty good as well. However, lesson has been learned. Specify Small or hell, a Medium if you order a shake with your combo meal at WhatABurger. I hope I may save you some future discomfort if you are ever faced with such circumstances and also have had a fallen out with once tasty real cow milk. 





Since it's the middle of the week lets do a 2-fer post. It was either in Antigua or the Mexico resort which included free room-service with the all-inclusive where I fell in love with Papaya. It might have been Mexico because I would always order the fruit plate and there she was, this delicious red soft melon. Kind of like cantaloupe but a softer sweeter taste is what I remember. Don't get too excited, outside of Mexico or Caribbean, those papaya's lose their freshness on the freeway/boat and I have yet to experience the greatness I had there. Now the papaya I cut up yesterday, wasn't horrible, it just wasn't what I remembered. So I made a blend with some of cuttings.

I blended that papaya and other random fruit up with some SoyMilk to make a terrific tasting fruit smoothie. Perhaps in hindsight it would have been better to not consume such a large smoothie hours before a work out and a huge future milkshake but those whataburger events were not foreshadowed. Nonetheless here's the take away, if your fruit doesn't taste as great as you would like, blend it up.
This post is a bit different but I thought my two 32oz adventures were worth sharing because it's true, "Everything is bigger" here in Texas.