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We have a window in the kitchen and one in the living room, on (somewhat) opposite walls, and we try and open both with the hope that the draft will carry out the smoke. It's usually not enough, and so we usually have the chair under the smoke alarm so that we can hold the button down and turn it off. I'd love to hear what people recommend, because we won't take out the batteries.

Mmmm, warheads. I don't know about ulcers, but I remember eating too many of them and feeling like the surface of my tongue was sloughing off from all the acid. The only thing I disliked was that once you got through the extremely sour surface, it was too sweet. I always liked sour candy, and I always will. Pixie stix. Those were always exciting. My mom didn't give us much candy, so what I got from other sources were always fun. I'd probably still eat one or two of those (and then feel horribly horribly nauseous afterwards). There were some candies my mom woulds sometimes buy (and disperse to us slowly). Like Haribo peaches and Kasugai muscat gummies. I think she preferred to give my sister and I candy that tasted like actual fruit. ← Yup. I worked at a performing arts day camp for two summers, and at the end of the day they would always hand out ice cream or some other frozen treat. The best days were when they handed out those ice cream cups and when it was chipwich day (which was very infrequent... and unfortunately, as the orchestra hut was farthest from the entrance, it was hard for us workers to get there in time). Some of the other stuff was gross... Sponge Bob sherbert bars with gumball eyes?? Eeeewwww.

Mmm, that's pretty close to me. I'll try and remember to post about it once I go there.

Elsie, I also am indebted to Pierogi. I made this last weekend. Not only was it lovely that evening, but it reheated very nicely the next day. The only down side to this dish is that you eventually run out of it and end up gazing sadly at the bottom of the empty bowl. pat YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY !!!!!! I am *so* glad you guys liked it ! And good to know it reheats, Pat. I was so afraid the sauce would break if I tried to heat it up the next day. Good deal !! ← Pierogi, I just made that recipe last night, after your recommendation and those rave revies from Elisie and Pat W. My boyfriend doesn't like tomatoes as a general rule (he only eats tomato sauce on pizza, and usually he gets white pizza), but he said he'd be willing to try it... probably because of the gorgonzola. It was great, and a few bites in he said that we have to make the recipe again. He even ate a piece of tomato or two! Thanks for letting us know about that one!

And according to that Home Ec video from 7th or 8th grade, it makes a balanced breakfast too!

Yeah, that thing has been in my "away" message on Google Talk/AIM for a while now. It's horrifying. BTW, check out this post early on in this thread.

A little off-topic, but I never thought that was why people had that opinion. I thought it was just because tomatoes are actually classified as a fruit in botanical terms, as seeds within a plant ovum usually indicate (meaning other vegetables like peppers, eggplants, zucchinis are also fruits), and people just knew that they were really a fruit better than some of the other vegetables-that-are-really-fruits.

Ok, so rather than have to actually go and check grocery stores, or email the company, who will probably then have to direct me to the distributor... (In other words, I'm lazy.) Has anyone seen Rakusens matzoh in any particular stores, esp. in/near the EV? I've only been living here for half a year, so I haven't checked before. It shouldn't be too hard to find, because I ate this brand almost exclusively for years growing up on LI, and was able to find it in a particularly large Wegmans in Rochester, NY. Picture for illustrative purposes. website (I didn't find the information on there, but maybe I missed it.) (I ask because it's my favorite brand. Is that strange? A favorite matzoh brand?)

Oh, wait, there's one. Mmm. When I buy a ripe triple-creme, it's usually as a guilty, greedy endeavor where I know I only want it for myself. And I finish it all off and feel kind of sick but very happy afterwards. Ok, let's be honest. When I'm bored I think about all sorts of delicious foods I could be eating. It's how I got through some dreary orchestra rehearsals in college!

Mmm, pickles. Although, for me it's specifically good half-sours. When I used to take violin lessons in high school in Brooklyn, we'd stop by a Russian market that only sold smoked, dried, or cured fish. We'd get a container of half-sours, and 2 whole brined herrings, and almost consume the whole container of pickles immediately. Oh yes, then I have to add brined herring to the list (the pickled stuff with vinegar in jars just doesn't cut it). Mmmmmm. The weekends we brought back herring were happy ones indeed, for all in my family! My dad would fillet and skin them, and then slice the fillets into pieces 1-inch across. And everyone would sit around watching and trying to steal pieces as soon as they were ready. Mmmm. Smoked salmon, lox, gravlax... But then again, if I sat around waiting to eat brined herring, I guess smoked salmon/lox wouldn't be too far behind, eh? Especially since my parents would buy whole salmon when it was cheap and use one half of it to make gravlax. I remember waiting eagerly for it to be ready to eat. And again, being impatient as my father sliced it. Dammit, now I'm hungry for smoked/cured/brined fish.

There are worse things to binge on than pistachios. I have a tendency to tear through large amounts of dried seasoned seaweed, unless it's the kind that has a few pieces individually wrapped in plastic (too much work!). I also eat large quantities of kimmel crackers at a time if I don't eat anything on them. They're just so thin and tasty! Mmmm... Neither are quite what you describe, however.

::looks around furtively:: ...i eat them... ::duck:: i try no to think about the sodium content... i also don't usually drink all the liquid anyway.

I wish those were more widespread. I've only seen a bag like that once, when I was in Brussels, Belgium at Cantillon Brewery. The woman who put our things in the bag was very proud of their biodegradable bags when I said, "Hey, cool!"

True, and a good point. However, I always load my own bags when I have cloth, and frequently pack my own plastic bags in the stores with the angry clerks (the groceries weren't packed directly into the plastic bags, so it was faster if I just took things and packed). I like to make sure my produce doesn't get squished, and that things are somewhat balanced for the walk. Plus my mom trained me to pack my own! I'm probably just annoyed because I always have/had issues at that supermarket in particular, probably because it's almost always busy and probably understaffed by the managers... I've stopped going because there's almost no benefit to me (financially, distance and time-wise, and in terms of selection).

Since I don't have a car, I carry my reusables with me the whole way to the store. With that and the fact that I often do my grocery shopping on the way home, I've managed to start having some with me at all times. I have a few large canvas bags that I used a lot in Rochester (where I'd take them to the public market and Wegman's) which I've since stopped using regularly, though they are the most comfortable for carrying large loads of groceries. They're really just too big to fold into my bag and leave there, so I only bring them when I have BIG shopping plans. SOOOO, for everyday use I've got 3 folding bags. I aim to have reusable bags that can fold in or fasten on themselves, so they stay compact in my bag and are pretty much out of the way, because otherwise I'd stop carrying them. The ones I have now are from 2 Japanese makers, but next time I have to think about buying some I'll probably buy some from Envirosax, which has 5-bag sets (in the graphic series) that have their own pouch. Sometimes, I admit, I'm too lazy to pull the reusables out. It's not that big a deal, since I end up reusing them for trash (like other people). One thing I can't seem to reduce, though, are vegetable bags. If I've got only one or 2 things I don't use them, but it's hard to go up to pay with 5 apples rolling around in the basket. I haven't even bothered attempting this, because I don't want to make the people angry at my local market... it's a small place and I'd have to go completely out of my way if my wayward free-range produce caused problems. It was worse when I was in Rochester at the public market (still haven't been to the Greenmarket here)... they'd put whatever you selected into a shopping bag alone, without even thinking, so even with the canvas bag I'd come home with 8 plastic bags. What bothers me, as someone in NY where reusable bags are a little more common, is that I've gotten an attitude from some store clerks HERE, of all places, when I want to use my cloth bags (particularly not-so-"green" stores). You'd think they'd be encouraged to help customers use them, since they result in lower operating costs for the store, no?? YES, I understand that you're pissy because every other customer has been tap-dancing on your last nerve, but for God's sake, could you not act like me and my cloth bags are stomping on your toes?

Yeah, I pretty much do that with my multicolored candy. I might eat a few, but if I have the space, I pour the rest out, and sort and count them so that I make piles of each containing the same number in each. Then I eat whatever random ones, always grouping them so that I have one of each color, so if there were overwhelmingly more orange ones, I'd eat them until I could pair it with a yellow because finally I had the same number of yellows and oranges (but more than any other color). Then, when I'm done with the "extras", I start picking up one of each color and eating them as a group.. I might ingest them separately, but I have to find some "logic" to the order I eat them when they're in my hand, and they have to be in my hand as a group before I eat them. I can't find the post where someone said their husband won't eat things on bones b/c they're "too much work", but that's my sister's logic for not wanting to eat lobster or crab. Too much work for too little benefit. She'd happily polish off a thing of wings, though. I just visited friends at my alma mater, and while eating in the "All you care to eat" (yeah, that's what they're calling it) dining hall for brunch, I had a plate of tater tots. I ate a few normally, and then I started pushing them around with my fork, so that I had all the whole ones on one side of the plate, and the little bits of potato and the broken ones on the other side. Then, I ate the bits, and then the broken ones... One of my friends was sitting on my left, and he had been watching me do this. I looked at him and said, "What, I had to eat the broken ones first!" His response was, "Man, I missed you."

Hehehe. I just wanted to say that I liked that. donbert, those photos make me drool.

Well, actually... I always liked organ meats and offal in general, even as a child (veggies, too, because my mother usually only cooked things until they were barely cooked and still crisp). Two of my favorite food memories were the spicy beef tendons my mom would buy at an Asian market in the next town (I know my sister loved that stuff too, and she was the one who always wanted "normal" food at restaurants, like ravioli at an Italian restaurant), and watching my dad make chopped liver. In fact, any day with liver was a good day! I would have never missed the chance at some new and unusual meat, at least if I was dining with my family. If it was at school, or with peers in general...well, probably not. That's changed since college, where I decided everyone who thought those things were weird and gross could go suck it. I find that for me, the nostalgia and desire is more a matter of the psychological aspect... almost completely so. There are one or two things I can think of (congee, because my mother would make me eat it when I was sick, and a few scattered vegetables that I disliked my mother's preparation methods of) that I didn't like eating as a child but will eat now, but they're pretty few and far between. I thought of something a few days ago, actually, and failed to mention it here earlier. I decided to buy a bag of those "Grandma's" sandwich cookies (I think they're made by Frito Lay), since they called out to me (damn vending machine) as something I always wished I could buy for snack in my elementary school cafeteria. Waaaaaay too sweet (though I have a low tolerance for sugar unless balanced with sour), and the filling was a bit grainy. Mmmmm, I want some tripe now. I don't think that's what I was supposed to crave reading this thread, though. Hehe. Twizzlers I kind of like. Yeah, they taste mostly like wax, but they also don't taste as much like pure sugar as some other candies. (edited to make myself a little more clear)

I understand completely. I craved that same kind of stuff as a child, and was interested in it when I grew up and could buy it myself. I didn't grow up in a kosher home, though my dad does avoid pork and mixing meat and dairy together (well, he will eat pork if it's chinese food once in a while... but I still didn't get much bacon!). My mom wanted the best for my sister and I, so she maintained control on our diet at home. Junk food and processed food was a rare occurrence. Also, it seemed to me that everyone else - who were not like me, the biracial, first-generation-American whose family didn't have as much money - had those things pretty regularly. So those things became to me, in my mind, a huge treat. Like baloney sandwiches, and fruit roll-ups. I mean, if everyone else is eating those things, they must be AWESOME, right? Once I got older, I started getting those things for myself. In high school, I didn't have the opportunity to really pig out on that stuff that much, so it was still pretty good. Then, college was my chance to eat all the processed, sugary, salty food I rarely got to eat. Well, it didn't last long after that. About a month in I got it all out of my system, and had them enough to determine that most of that stuff really wasn't that good at all. Especially not as a regular part of my diet. I think my parents probably laid a foundation for me as far as eating habits and my palate are concerned. Also, I just start feeling gross after eating too many chips or too much candy. Aaaanyway, I think there's a combination of things going on when you try those things and think, "Yuck, why did I like this so much?" Yeah, I think some things might change, but I think that's few and far between. It's hard for companies to change formulas for those things, I think, because the people who buy them regularly will realize something's off and complain (like with Coke). But I do think that for the majority of those products, there is definitely a psychological element to why they seemed so good, and I think that's especially true when it comes to people who didn't necessarily get to eat those things much as children. Throw in the fact that your palate changes over time, and there you go. But yes, Jelly Bellies are wonderful. I don't bother with other jelly beans, because they just don't have the same vivid, and usually accurate flavor. One thing I know has changed, that isn't quite junk food but I loved it anyway, is Orangina. They started making it with corn syrup here in the US and otherwise messed around with the recipe, and it tastes awful. My boyfriend, who will eat chips for dinner, is really upset about this fact, because he is nostalgic for the Orangina of his childhood - his French grandparents would always give it to him. He takes the opportunity to drink it when we're somewhere where it doesn't suck (like in Europe, or, more likely due to cost, Canada). He also likes to drink San Pellegrino Aranciata, because it's pretty close to what he remembers. I have more, but I have to get back to work!

This reminds me of "animal 51".. anyone else? (I believe that's the correct name for the lifeless blob Taco Bell or KFC was supposed to be slicing flesh from for their meat...the internet seems to be awfully quiet about it. Come on, internet! It's a conspiracy theory!!!! You LOVE them!) Also, it's funny that the idea is to appeal to vegans/vegetarians, because they're usually the ones most against non-GMO products... you know, crimes against nature and all that...

Oh, they opened? Look at that! Raji, I expected you to be the first one in the door (and to report back to us).

I don't know if I could handle that stuff. Not just because of the worms themselves, but... IIRC, if the cheese goes too.. ermm... "far"... in the decomposition process, you can die from it. Apparently if the worms look OK, it's supposed to be a sign that things aren't too far gone, but.... Worms wiggling inside my oozy cheese = not interested. Death wiggling inside my squishy insides = no way. I don't think I'd freak out or vomit or be more than just stunned if I ate it unknowingly. But I've already heard of it, so I'm going to steer clear of any creamy-looking cheeses in Sardinia...

Not to hijack the thread, but if people want to mention places that are great but don't ship... or at least PM me names.. I myself wouldn't mind.

Well, noting the wonderfully bad taste of Miami's beloved Herald, another online blogger (our own Miami Danny) took them to task, and came up with a few choice drink names of his own, which you can see here. ← Yeah, i've already been "familiar" with that name for a while (I've actually never seen one in person). I believe the idea is that you have to chug it before the ingredients... ermm... coagulate. ewwwww....

Mmmm, congee... though I used to associate it with being sick when I was younger because my mom made us eat it when we were sick (pretty neutral, pretty much no fat, etc etc), and I couldn't appreciate it at the time.