Nothing much heavy today. Admittedly, the prupose of this post is (hopefully) a fun test to see if anyone out there is reading this silly thing.
So here it is: food. And not just any food, either. We all know the (supposed) benefits of a healthy diet,a diet that's high in fiber and low in cholesterol. I'm told such a diet will make one virile and handsome and able to lift a Chrysler. One-handed. Yipee. Let us leave such people to their grazing.
What I'm talking about is a bit more...elemental. Earthy. Sensual. Specifically, junk food.
What constitutes junk food? Is it food that's by definition bad for your health? Sure, that helps, but not neccessarily. For instance, I grew up in the South. For years I daily ate such fare as country ham (containing salt content on par with the Dead Sea), green beans with fatback, cathead biscuits, fried corn, spoonbread, chocolate pie, iced tea so strong and sweet a guy could chop a cord of wood after just a glass...all manner of things that I'm sure would cause Richard Simmons to roll over in his grave (he is dead, isn't he?).
In my college days, my standard favorite dish, owing to extreme poverty (not to mention congenital bad taste) was cheap Winn-Dixie chili mounded on top of cooked Minute Rice, all heated in a Mirro popcorn popper, and washed down with grape Tang. Even now, my mouth waters.
Today my favorites include such varied fare as chili dogs, vienna sausage out of a can (don't wipe the jelly off; it's good), bags of beef jerky (or if I'm flush, kippered beef strips), salted peanuts in the shell, boiled eggs, and Breyer's Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream. Yowza. As the thread title says, darn fine eatin'.
So what say you all? Anybody like to tell what your secret ba-a-a-d foods are? Come on, spill. We're all friends here. Far be it from me to tell your wife...
Posted by jlr-5352 at May 19, 2006 01:30 PMHere are a few of my guilty pleasures:
Peanut butter, mayo, and pickle relish sandwiches. (Haven't had one in years, thank goodness, but used to eat them as a kid.)
Grilled cheddar cheese sandwiches dripping in butter. (I'm trying to be good. I only make these whenever we actually have bread, cheddar cheese, and butter in the house. Which is all the time...)
I am actually trying to eat better now. Whole grain bread, brown and wild rice, plenty of vegetables and fruit, and not much meat. Just got a copy of The Maker's Diet and am trying to learn something from that.
Pray for me....
Sigh.
Nancy Mehl
Posted by: Nancy Mehl at May 21, 2006 12:34 AMI remember well the first southern Kentucky breakfast I had. My mother-in-law went all out in honor of my first visit. Pork chops, country ham, sausage, eggs, fried potatoes, gravy, biscuits, fried apples and cow butter she made by shaking cream in a mason jar, and to top it all off......banana pudding topped with egg whites she beat to a high fluff with a fork. To this day banana pudding is one of my fave guilty pleasures. How my husband's family stayed thin on such fare is beyond me.
I discovered Little Debbie oatmeal cookies in Kentucky, back when they were HUGE and had a LOT more frosting in them. Also, Mississippi Mud Cake which surely has to be the best chocolate dessert known to man, at least they way they make it in Kentucky is best.
Posted by: Laurel Johnson at May 21, 2006 08:56 AMSkinless chicken is a waste of time... ...caffeine, nicotine, and sugar are the Three Major Food groups. And they're all a part of my breakfast routine.
I love Kool-Aid (30+ years past the time I should have stopped drinking it).
Hark! Did someone say banana pudding? Another great breakfast dish (and lunch)(and dinner)(and just 'cuz)
Posted by: Unique at June 16, 2006 07:56 PM