Stop 1: O’Camelo Diners

In a lazy effort to get to know you and introduce you to the others, I sent out a short little 8 question questionnaire. No, no name tags… I’m most interested in the “in the pouch people” vs. “have a pouch” people. (That is a “Parks and Rec” reference by the way.)

All photos below just randomly stolen from the Internet. I am a terrible person. I wonder how many of you will Google some of these names? You are terrible people too.

The questions:

1. Name & current home town
2. Where did you spend your formative years?
3. Are you familiar with Portuguese cuisine?
4. Name one of your least favorite foods.
5. What is one of your current favorite cuisines?
6. What is the farthest place you have traveled?
7. Do you speak any languages other than English? If yes, which one(s)?
8. Would you rather live in the pouch of a giant kangaroo or have a pouch with a baby kangaroo inside it? (Hidden clause: the tiny kangaroo is a racist)

octopus
MMmmm, Portuguese Octopus

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The answers:

Helder Mira, our “guide”, Hartford

1. Helder Mira, Hartford
2. Parkville, Hartford, CT
3. Quite.
4. Goat.
5. Sushi.
6. Macedonia
7. Portuguese.
8. Live in the pouch of a giant kangaroo. Does it get wifi?

who is dating…

1. Emily Bevelaqua, West Hartford
2. Groveland, Massachusetts
3. Not Really
4. Cooked green peas
5. Japanese (sushi)
6. Italy
7. No
8. Have a pouch with racist baby kangaroo in it

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1. Steve Wood, West Hartford – that’s me
2. Wilmington, Delaware
3. Somewhat
4. Beets
5. Provencal
6. Melbourne, Australia
7. No
8. Have a racist tiny kangaroo in my pouch

Married to…

1. Hoang Wood, West Hartford
2. New Britain
3. Somewhat
4. Meatloaf
5. Spanish seafood
6. Da Nang, Vietnam by birth, Kauai by choice
7. Vietnamese
8. Have a racist tiny kangaroo in my pouch

Dog Breeds
Portuguese Water Dog

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1. Dorie Conlon Perugini, Naugatuck
2. Southington
3. I used to live in Spain and from what I’ve experienced Portuguese cuisine is pretty similar.
4. Mystery meat
5. Caribbean
6. Uganda
7. Fluent in Spanish and American Sign Language. I know enough Luganda to make an ass out of myself.
8. In the words of Lucille Bluth: “I don’t understand the question and I won’t respond to it.”

Married to…

1. Justin Perugini, Naugatuck
2. Naugatuck
3. Yes
4. Anything from the sea, including salt.
5. BBQ
6. Uganda
7. I understand enough Spanish to make my wife nervous when she’s having conversations around me.
8. Live in the pouch

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1. River Brandon, Hartford
2. Newark, VT, Bennington, VT, Flagstaff, AZ, Moultonborough, NH
3. A little
4. Grapefruit
5. Korean
6. Japan
7. Just the bit of spanish I’ve held on to since high school
8. I’d rather have the racist kangaroo in my pouch

Married to…

1. Heather Brandon, Hartford
2. Pittsburgh, PA
3. Only a little
4. Liver
5. Japanese
6. Israel
7. French (rusty)
8. Have a pouch with the little bastard racist kangaroo in it, because it will eventually grow up and go away

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Miss Portugal 2012, Melanie Vicent (not attennding)

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1. Lucy Nalpathanchil, Middletown
2. Meadville, PA or North of Pittsburgh!
3. No. I’m hoping lots of meat
4. Beets! [Steve notes: High-five]
5. Thai
6. India
7. Some spanish, a tiny bit of French
8. Have a pouch with a tiny racist kangaroo that I would mold into an upstanding adult kangaroo

Married to…

1. Jason Neely, Middletown, CT
2. Pittsburgh, PA
3. Not really
4. Baked apples. Yes, this includes apple pie.
5. Mexican, among many others…
6. Cordoba, Argentina
7. Spanish
8. I think it would be pretty cool to be able to live in the pouch of a giant kangaroo. I would have him get some bad ass tattoos and teach him to look really menacing. I think I would like him to learn to play the bagpipes too.

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1. Margaret Honan, Bloomfield
2. Meriden
3. Bufana sandwich, that’s it
4. Like it all. Really. But I guess it’d be pea soup.
5. Like it all. Really. But addicted to Sushi
6. Hawaii and Poland (Steve note: Hawaii is about 1K miles farther away)
7. Polish
8. Neither. But on some days when I have the pouch with responsibilities and things suck, I’ll wish there was a pouch for me to jump into.

Married to…

1. Steve Honan, Bloomfield (tentative)
2. Enfield, CT
3. Bufana sandwich
4. Anything with peas
5. Lasagna
6. Hawaii and Poland (Steve note: See previous)
7. No
8. Both

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MMmmmm, Portuguese… Sardines?

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1. Allison Holst-Grubbe, Glastonbury
2. Sharon, CT
3. Yes
4. Bleu/blue cheese
5. Indian
6. Austria
7. German (basic conversational, decent reading)
8. Tiny racist kangaroo

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1. Elizabeth Larkin, Hartford (West End)
2. West Hartford, CT
3. Just a bit
4. Melon, even wrapped in prosciutto
5. I made pho at home last week and I was really proud of myself, so I’m going with Vietnamese
6. I thought it was Bamberg, Garmany, but I Googled the mileage and it was actually Venice.
7. none
8. Giant

Who is dating…

1. Michael Smutnick, Hartford (Asylum Hill)
2. Pomfret, CT
3. No
4. Brussels sprouts, even wrapped in bacon
5. Indian
6. Canada
7. French
8. Baby

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1. Mara (rhymes with Sarah) Lee, Hartford
2. Richmond, Va.
3. I know it has a lot of fish.
4. cauliflower
5. Indian
6. India, China
7. to one degree or another, French, Spanish, Italian, in descending degrees of proficiency.
8. I’ll take the baby kangaroo. But not happy about it.

Cristiano Ronaldo
Portuguese people love to hate this guy

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1. Emily Tracey, Glastonbury
2. Glastonbury
3. Not really
4. Pork chops
5. Nachos
6. Florence, Italy
7. I can somewhat understand Spanish and Italian but would have difficulty carrying on a conversation.
8. Live in a pouch

BFF’s with…

1. Kristyn, Glastonbury
2. Glastonbury….I can’t leave the bubble
3. Um, no. I’m straight up Italian
4. Beans, all beans in any form
5. Steak? Overweight American Cuisine?
6. UK to visit my family
7. Language of sarcasm.
8. Weird, because I was actually talking to someone about this yesterday minus the racist part. I would much rather have the racist litle kangaroo in my marsupial pouch

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1. Martina Fialova, Farmington
2. Chicago
3. Not at all, never had any
4. Okra
5. Mediterranean
6. Nin, Croatia — farthest from US
7. Slovak, Czech, Polish, little Russian
8. Have a racist tiny kangaroo in my pouch

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1. Daniel Martinez, Hartford, CT
2. Came to the states from Colombia at age 5 and grew up in Hartford
3. Somewhat
4. Fish (but I am slowly starting to enjoy other seafoods)
5. Italian
6. Outside of Colombia because I was born there, San Diego, CA.
7. Spanish, it’s all I speak at home
8. Tiny racist kangaroo, without question

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I hope we have a couple bottles of this stuff

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