Are you from around here?

"Are you from around here?" quoth the cab driver to the nugget, directly upon the nugget having planted herself comfortably in the back seat.

The nugget, she pretends hard-of-hearingness-through-the-shell-of-golden-batter, "Sorry?"

"Where are you from?"

"Umm. Well," the nugget, she pretends denseness with great concentration, "I just got on here."

"No, I mean, where are you from?"

The nugget gives up.

"Australia."

"Ahhhh..." the cab driver beams with immense satisfaction at having spotted an Alien Life Form, 'I knew you weren't from around here. That was why I was asking!"

The cab driver proceeds to rattle on and on and on about Australia, and how his daughter is studying there, also quizzing the nugget about what she's doing here...

...it's lucky I've been going to Melbourne every year for the past 5-6 years or I think my convenient lie might possibly have turned inconvenient.

Previous Incidents of Alien Nuggetness Recorded in These Annals
(For the Nugget Hath Decided that She Shall Record Them All):

Identity, Perception, 'Are You Training That Dog?' and, 'Are You Local?'
Ha! Obviously, the Golden Glowing Goodness of the Nuggetty Batter Dazzles Their Eyes and Brainz!
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maraş dondurması - Turkish non-melting icecream, one of the foods I gotta try someday!

It's troo! An icecream that doesn't melt! And in the case of maraş dondurması, a specialty of the Kahramanmaraş region, it's so tough and sticky that they eat it with a knife and fork! In fact, you can apparently play jump-rope with it. O.o

Lies you say? Nu! Nu lies! The resin from an orchid, which is a main ingredient, is responsible for the gooey taffy stickiness of doom!

Nice article on Salon.com with lots of details (but sadly no peektures), including - importantly! - how it tastes.

Interesting video about how it's made, but it's all in Turkish, without subtitles. :( Towards the end bit (10:00 and 13:00) you get to see the sticky gooey goodness in action though.

Someday I will be able to plan my hollydays far enuff in advance to go try this stuff...