
15 May Death by Fast Food
It is not your average day when you can go visit the final resting place for over a half million people then eat a cheap American burger across the Atlantic. After being let loose at the Vatican my group and I managed to scurry our way through the city. Before visiting the catacombs we stopped at a comic shop and a mini market. At the market we found this exotic condiment called “McDonald’s ketchup”… I ended up buying a bottle of Coke, just to see if all the chemicals banned in Europe make any difference. I was not surprised when the soda did not erode my enamel. After our various stops and escapades with the metro we finally managed to get to the catacombs. During the tour we got to explore tombs that were abandoned for over a millennium. 90% of these graves were also looted during its abandonment. The sense of pure silence could be felt, something indescribable. After the tour, my group and I went to get some gelato at Romana. The only words I can use to describe it is beautiful and perfect. After finishing our glorious gelato, I convinced my group to enter the sacred Burger King. Literally, the burger did not make me feel bad about myself after consumption and it did not taste like a rubber frisbee. Hell, it was actually good. The Italians probably still see American food as a disgrace though, I mean I would. Our next stop was actually next store from Burger King. This is where we ate our dinner at. I can’t remember the name, it was simply your basic Italian pizzeria. Strangely though, they had tons of Nutella stacked like art in shelves. Shamefully I did not take a picture of this Da Vinci. People in America would drool to even see a picture of a Nutella art. I will get back to the actual food though, the pizza. What was a bit different was that your meal was weighed on a scale instead of by the slice. The pizza sure did weigh me down a bit. I will stop with the cheesy puns now. All in all, a day in Rome calls for adventure by getting entwined into a world far different from the place across the ocean blue.