lia

Wise's Cheez Waffies? PMS 'must' food.

and thank you again, that Stash Jasmine Tea is excellent.

Another vote for Atomic Wings here and i had some EXCELLENT, super spicy classic tasting sauce, not too flabby, but not too overdone wings at Nice Guy Eddie's on houston and first.

Yes, I just caught that on cable last week for the first time in years and it's one of the VERY FEW movies that makes me miss the '80's. The other is Crossing Delancey.

now.....Cool Whip i hated, but Dream Whip I LOVED. BUT only in its powder form, i'd eat the contents of a packet in one sitting. That and Coffee Mate.

Thank you, just stocked up on Jasmine Tea (why is that so hard to find in stores) AND the closeout holiday chai. yum.

My mom once accidentally subbed cayenne pepper for paprika on roasted potatoes. Frustrating because her roasted potatoes are delicious.

my two favorite books ever....but be careful with the lime pickle! definitely an acquired taste... halfway through that, Fast Food Nation is up next...

The best part of the angel food cake episode was not the cinnamon/cocoa addition to the canned vanilla frosting (could anything be more disgusting?) or the canned apple filling dumped in the middle of the kwanzaa cake, but the fake pearl necklace wrapped around the BLUE hannukah cake. With the wiry blue pearl Star of David plunked on top. hilarious.

yeah, but there was a bubble gum FLAVORED Now & Later and I think i could've existed solely on those in high school. I can still taste them...

best hot chocolate ever: choc-issimo i make it very (almost too) thick and i always add a dash or two of cayenne.

yep, the restaurant where i work has a rather generous and tasty staff meal twice a day, but sometimes a bagel or sandwich from the shop next door just hits the spot a little better.

I can't drink it straight, too thick and syrupy....but i love the regular flavor diluted, AND i was in a bar recently and saw them use it in a frozen margarita. yum.

Oh man, i would KILL for a Star Bar right now. or bubble gum Now and Laters. I lived on those 20 years ago.

the oreos? i seem to remember them being very expensive, like a dollar each, but you could only get them in multiples. the fried mars bars go for $2.25.

Deep fried oreos seemed to be the latest trend at this year's San Gennaro Festival. I didn't try one. I'm close to getting a fried Mars Bar at A Salt and Battery but I'm very afraid.

Mmmm.....the Total full fat is wonderful, but at 20g of fat per package, yowza. and their 0% fat version is delicious enough that you don't need to splurge. I love it with Sarabeth's Peach-Apricot spooned in.

more former MIL bad meals: The summer weekend with awful cold cuts ("$1 per pound!) and the macaroni salad made with store brand mayo and (ick) sweet pickle juice. Nothing else. Grilled zucchini topped with bottled red wine 'vinaigrette' dressing. I ate a lot of peanut butter that weekend. The chicken grilled with some bottled "grill" marinade. Thank goodness for Rice a Roni. Same here; I mentioned Rice a Roni, I sort of envied what i called 'rice a roni / shake and bake' households because i had a fascination with that sort of food. I wanted spaghettios so badly that when my mother broke down and bought it for us, even though I immediately understood that my food was better, i still craved Chef Boyardee. Later on, when on my own, my fascination turned to frozen convenience foods. Lean Cuisine and the like....I got over that quickly....

Why did they discontinue Wavy Gravy? Wasn't that wildly popular? My very first experience with B&J: my first semester of college, 9/84, way upstate NY in the Adirondacks. My roommate and i hit a small general store several miles off campus. We buy a pint of a strange ice cream in a maroon container called White Russian. I loved white russians so i'm captivated by the ice cream. we get back to our dorm, i taste one spoonful....I say 'uh oh' and i hand the pint to my roommate. She tastes one spoonful, says 'oh my god' and hands the pint to our male friend.. He eats the entire pint within five minutes. and sugar plum! i loved that, but i think i was the only one....

I found a box of Betty Crocker Scalloped Potatoes from I don't know HOW long ago...

President's Choice used to be available at D'Agostino's Supermarkets in NYC and i loved everything. The ginger snaps were the best ever, very spicy; the lemon sandwich cookies were delicious...i was very upset when i couldn't buy them there anymore. I miss pepperidge farm's Molasses Crisp.