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[sparrowgrass]

My ex (AKA the Evil One) used to give me crap about celery. NO celery in tossed or tuna salad, or cooked in spaghetti or chicken noodle soup.

I got myself in trouble last Thanksgiving. I bought the ingredients for stuffing, including, of course, a nice bag of celery. As I diced it for the stuffing, I pulled the inner, sweet, pale green crunchy center out and began to munch it down.

About the time I started on the 3rd little stalk, my brother reached across the counter, smacked me on the top of the head and said, "Don't you think that is rude?" He wanted some too--first time I had had to share my celery center since I left home, I think.

Evil One wouldn't eat raw carrots either, and gave me shit about being too sissy to eat hot things, until I began to like them, at which point he gave me shit about making things too hot for his poor tummy.

Fuck him--I am pretty sure he is dead now. Run over by a steam roller, I think. Got his foot caught under it, and it rolled, slowly, slowly, all the way up til his eyeballs popped out.

I could be wrong about that, but I hope not.

[jilli42]

Boo Berry cereal. I buy one box a year, when it's on sale at Target (like now). It's a holdover from childhood.

Me too ! And I hid it from my kids, they would have devoured it in one day.

[eunny jang]

Guts - I always cook and eat the insides of a chicken while it's roasting and company hasn't come yet; love offal.

I get a lot of crap for eating guts, and licking my fingers when I'm done.

Something is really very wrong with the above sentence, but I'm too tired to try and figure it out.

[WHS]

cheddar cheese on triscuits nuked for 30 seconds in the microwave with soy sauce drizzled on top

[ronnie_suburban]

cheddar cheese on triscuits nuked for 30 seconds in the microwave with soy sauce drizzled on top

Oh yeah...I love that soggy/crunchy thing the triscuits do after being nuked.

=R=

[fluffypopsicle]

Here is a strange thing I like: Campbell's Chicken w/Stars soup, mixed with water & milk & butter and thickened with instant mashed potatoes.

The first time my husband found me making this he just stood there staring into the saucepan with a confused look on his face. I used to eat it quite a lot when I lived alone, but now, not so much.

Or: Campbell's cream of potato mixed with broken up meatloaf pieces, and maybe some peas.

I really love almost all kinds of Campbell's soup, even the "wonton" one.

I also enjoy potted meat, but CANNOT abide Vienna sausages.

[Liz B-F]

Cry Baby Tears extra sour candies, even though these things have actually burned my tongue (and not with heat)

Altoids tangerine sours (sometimes eaten with a real tangerine on the side)

Limes topped with big chunks of good French sea salt

Lemons topped with big chunks of good French sea salt

If all else fails, a plate of plain raw limes or lemons

Underripe plums (I like them the normal way too)

Extra-sour pickles

Walkers salt and vinegar crisps (I don't live in the UK, so these require an expedition)

[Toasted]

i did NOT copy this recipe (munch munch)   

Ha! It's not just me and what do you think I'm eating right now?
Someone asked if you could substitute other flavors of Doritos and I'm sure you could but then you'd probably add some black olives and your own homemade mayo, maybe some micro greens instead of the iceberg lettuce and then the whole thing would be shot to hell. My advise is to stick to the orignal recipe and eat it out of the bowl with the big wooden spoon. With the shades drawn, of course.

[TJHarris]

- A family holiday brunch dish known as "Spam'n'Eggs": White sauce cheesed up with melted velveeta and a pinch of dry mustard, enhanced with cubes of Spam and hard-bolied eggs quartered lengthwise, all served over toast... for what is essentially white-trash Welsh rarebit. Nowadays we still eat it, but with ham and cheddar. It's still embarassing enough.

- Mostly-drained Top Ramen seasoned with half a packet of the flavor-powder, with frozen corn added. In the absence of Top Ramen, egg noodles with butter will do in a pinch.

Spam is not embarrising...It is a way of life!

and...

Is there any other way to eat Ramen?

[Shelley G.]

I am deeply ashamed to admit that I succumb occasionally to a childhood passion for Hostess Cupcakes - the chocolate ones with marshmallow creme (definitely not cream) in the centre, and the little white squiggles on top. Love them.

[Kevin72]

Thanksgiving bump.

Any particular food this time of the year that you simply have to have at your meal?

Example: I mortify my family every year by demanding the canned cranberry sauce. Open can, plop it onto a plate, slice it into chunks, the end. I'm virtually the only one who eats it and my mom knows there'll be hell to pay if it's not there.

My mom's stuffing is made from a mix (not Stove Top): a bag of croutons and a seasoning packet. She finally revealed that little tidbit a few years back and my food snobbery was mortified at first but now, what the hell.

[elswinger]

Semi related to what Kevin said, that because I hated my Grandmother's canned cranberry sauce and yam's as a kid, I am leary of giving the "real" things a chance. just give me meat, potatoes, stuffing, a buttery roll, and a green vegetable (but not creamed) and I am set until the pumpkin pie with Cool Whip!

[NulloModo]

I am a sucker for candied yams topped with candied pecans and browned marshmallows.

I know that apparently eG is marshmallow phobic, but in my mind, no better preparation of yams exists than covered in syrup, and baked under golden brown gooey marshmallow goodness.

Now, if I could only figure out how to do that sugar-free.

[Brite14]

My guilty Thanksgiving pleasure? Candied sweet potatoes- no marshmallows, just sweet potato strips baked in butter, cinnamon and sugar...always sticky and mushy and overly sweet, but I live for it. No matter how much we make, there's never any left.

My dad requires a certain congealed salad made from green jello, cottage cheese, nuts, pineapple, canned pimientos and miracle whip.

My boyfriend swears he likes his turkey "so dry it sucks the moisture out of your mouth."

My sister always rallies for my grandma's microwaved broccoli-cheez whiz casserole.


How did a self-proclaimed food snob end up in such a family?

[handmc]

For thanksgiving dressing balls, mmmmmmmmmmm

Otherwise, rice, eggs and hot chili black bean paste, sweet, hot, fermented, funky with egg yolk! Usually for Breakfast or a midnight snack. yum. Wife just abuses me over this one. Gokujang if I'm out of bean paste.

Cheeseburger, mayo, ketchup,pickle,onion toasted bun lettuce and a sunny side up egg on it. I used to get them in college in KY. A hangover prevention kit on a bun!

I better stop. My chest hurts.

[AzRaeL]

It's called "Soup Tulang" the Asian version of Osso Bucco.
You take a beef shank...well lots of shanks and boil them in a red hot gravy for god knows how long.

You take it out, gnaw the meat off the bones and the knock the marrow out and eat that on bread.



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[Dani Mc]

Haribo Gummi Bears (the kind in the gold bag), left open on the counter overnight, so they get good and hard. I hate super soft gummi bears.

dry cheerios straight from the box

wheat thins. wheat thins with american cheese slices.

cheese popcorn. I've been able to satiate the cravings with the more acceptable 'smartfood' cheese popcorn, but sometimes I just crave the MSG in Wise Food's 'atomic orange' cheese popcorn.

Wendys fries, salted to oblivion, then dipped in a frosty. Damn, but that's sooooo gooooood.

Old school Kraft mac 'n cheese with franks hot sauce. Maybe a hebrew national cut up in there as well, if I'm feeling extra trashy.

[Dani Mc]

My dad requires a certain congealed salad made from green jello, cottage cheese, nuts, pineapple, canned pimientos and miracle whip.


How did a self-proclaimed food snob end up in such a family? 

oh sweet jeebus, my dad likes a very similar thing. I just don't understand.

I have asked myself the same question, btw.

[auntdot]

Ok, I admit it. I really, really like Head Cheese. I also love pickled hot sausages and pickled pigs feet. But my favorite cold cut is Olive Loaf!

My Mom told me that when I was about 4-5 years old, we were in a supermarket and I (normally well-behaved) made a bit of a fuss until she bought a jar of pickled pigs feet.

I ate the whole darn thing.

[Dian]

It's called "Soup Tulang" the Asian version of Osso Bucco.
You take a beef shank...well lots of shanks and boil them in a red hot gravy for god knows how long.

You take it out, gnaw the meat off the bones and the knock the marrow out and eat that on bread.



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This is undoubtedly yummy! Who gives you crap about it?

[fatmat]

I'm going to share this one with the world - For me it's a kind of coming out! I think I may be the only consumer on the planet... maybe, but I urge you to try.

Peanut butter, a little oil (to thin the nut butter), curry powder - all mixed with sauerkraut. I eat will an entire pound of sauerkraut in one hit this way

Edited by fatmat, 20 November 2004 - 10:47 AM.

[MarketStEl]

cheese popcorn.  I've been able to satiate the cravings with the more acceptable 'smartfood' cheese popcorn, but sometimes I just crave the MSG in Wise Food's 'atomic orange' cheese popcorn.

Now we're in the neighborhood of my own favorite piece o'crap guilty pleasure: Cheese puffs. Baked, not fried--the ones all puffed up with air.

Almost any brand will do, but tops on my list is Herr's Hot Cheese Curls.

But while we're on the subject of cheese popcorn: I discovered something at a Cabot Cheese tasting event recently that I am going to have to pester my local supermarket to carry--Cabot Cheddar Shake.

That's right, folks--powdered cheddar cheese in a shaker jar! (Actually, it's the genuine article, finely grated, like Kraft or 4C Parmesan.) Now all I have to do is make some popcorn -- the old-fashioned way, on top of the stove -- shake this stuff all over it, and I'm in heaven.

Oh, one more thing: anybody else here like to scarf down cottage cheese with hot sauce? (The milder cayenne sauces like Frank's RedHot work best, IMO.)

Edited by MarketStEl, 20 November 2004 - 11:05 AM.

[auntdot]

I'm going to share this one with the world - For me it's a kind of coming out! I think I may be the only consumer on the planet... maybe, but I urge you to try.

Peanut butter, a little oil (to thin the nut butter), curry powder - all mixed with sauerkraut. I eat will an entire pound of sauerkraut in one hit this way

Fatmat, this new format confuses me and I am not sure I doing this right.

But I will eat almost anything with peanut butter. And usually add a bit of Worcestershire sauce to it.

Never thought of your combo, but it sounds like it might work.

Will give it a try. Thanks.

Edited by auntdot, 20 November 2004 - 12:39 PM.

[foodobsessed]

Oh my gosh! You people are my soulmates!!!!

My first answer is absolutely SLIM JIMS!!!! Can't get enough of 'em!

Spaghettios w/ Meatballs
Big Macs
anchovies
Buffalo wings
Frank's Hot sauce (on anything)
Crispy skin off of a roast chicken
Salty fatty crust on a standing rib roast
beef marrow from Osso Buco
Stale Peeps
Stale pretzel rods


YUM!!!!

[TarteTatin]

6 ounces Barilla Elbow pasta.
1 clove garlic.
1 small red hot pepper.
Very good olive oil.
TONS of grated monterey jack with jalapeno peppers.

Mix well.

[Curlz]

On a chicken: "The part that goes over the fence last," as my dad calls it. AKA the tuchas. In my family, there's a fight for it whenever a whole chicken comes out of the oven!
Chicken/turkey wings. I'm the one who actually buys packages of turkey wings, btw.
Vienna Fingers.
Lime flavored Tostitos.
If I have an open bag of either of those last two in my house, they call me--from inside the cabinet! "Heloooo...we're in here..." If the package remains unopened, I'm fine.

[Dani Mc]

wings, oh gawd, wings.

there's a chain here called Atomic Wings. The guys who run the one on 12th and 1st ave now know my voice, and my exact order:

single order w/suicidal hot sauce,
extra ranch dressing
salad w/goat cheese and walnuts.


My favorite hangover breakfast is a bag of honey roasted peanuts and a coke. That tends to get weird stares at the office.

[Syrah]

BUT I DO hear about my 'gross' vegemite fetish: traditionally served on thickly-buttered toast, just a scraping of it; and most people still think it's foul.
I love it smeared on the crusts of my bread and will even eat it with a spoon straight from the jar!
It's so salty, and almost 'meaty' in a way (although Promite and Marmite are far more like that). Vegemite on toast with a banana sliced over it.
Hey! don't knock it 'til you ty it!

There is nothing wrong with vegemite, although the banana is a new combo for me. I may just have to try that.

[adegiulio]

On a chicken: "The part that goes over the fence last," as my dad calls it.  AKA the tuchas.  In my family, there's a fight for it whenever a whole chicken comes out of the oven!

My dad used to call it the "rondelet"
Pretty gross Curlz...there's plenty of good chicken to not have to eat the ass...

[2roost]

Grilled CheeseFood Sandwichs dipped in ketchup
Boiled hotdogs topped with chunky bleu cheese dressing
Wendy's Bacon Double Cheeseburgers (hold the tomato - it's a texture issue I love the taste of tomato)

and perhaps most disturbingly ..................... Peanut Butter and mayonaisse on toast.

Edited by 2roost, 09 December 2004 - 04:33 PM.