Iguana is for Tex-Mex what the Olive Garden is for Italian food. Bland and terrible. Pueblo, El Ray and others have more palatable options including the dreaded bean.

Solid Snake

The hole is at the bottom and covered with sugar.

I can confirm that it was the warmest May in living memory. Sometimes we only get about a geek of +20c temperatures in the summer, but obviously that's changing now.

This could be a thing. We're not exactly low on options when it comes to karaoke bars in the greater Helsinki area.

They're luckily quite common here in Finland. Oddly enough this latest one wasn't unusually bright even though it was visible in a much larger area. Range over intensity. No idea what's the science behind that.

How uncommon is this in California?

There's an American food store in Forum. You might want to give them a try for specific cravings like these.