Churro Waffle with Cinnamon Ice Cream
Status: Restaurant (Bru's Wiffles)
Satisfaction: 10.
Associated with: Christmas in the Park
They say it's a San Jose tradition, but "Christmas in the Park" is really my family's tradition. Every year, the city of San Jose hosts this great event where they close off two blocks in downtown and schools, organizations, and individuals come out to decorate trees like these. Then they set up these archaic-looking animatronic booths that do things like sing Christmas carols in a steely GPS-type voice and look like they've been pulled out of a bad sci-fi film, and everybody walks around and looks at them and sort of smiles and enjoys the cheesy show and everyone else's company. They also set up this booth where you can throw coins at a (fake) reindeer's mouth, and if your coin goes in, it'll ding and say "Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas!" My mom always brings literally a couple pounds' worth of pennies, and we throw pennies for half an hour until our arms get sore and people just stand there cheering us on, which explains both why we own this tradition and how little we care about being the corniest (read--cool) family in the city.
Anyway, every year at this event my parents will buy my brother and me churros like we've five years old again, and we'll stand there with our churros and our bag full of pennies and be the jovialist--that's not a word, but what am I studying in an English doctoral program if I can't make up words?--bunch in town.
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