Favorite Munchy Food (List Your Favorite UNUSUAL Munchies)

Self | June 10, 2002 | PJ-Comix

[Commander8]

Ants on a log.

[LibertyGirl77]

I'm with you--nothing better than that salty, soft, tasty Prosciutto. I'd rather have salt than anything sweet. My all-time favorite snack, which I eat constantly, is sourdough or challah bread dipped in a mixture of extra-virgin olive oil, parmesan cheese, salt, pepper, and fresh garlic. YUM! I can't wait to go home and eat it tonight!

[uglybiker]

Golly! I saw no mention of Japanese Pizza. Asparagus and squid ink, anyone?

Then you can wash it all down with some Grass Jelly. Yum!

[Maceman]

They also left off my PERSONAL favorite -- a sandwich made of thinly sliced boiled cow's tongue piled high and topped with thousand island dressing and coleslaw, between two slices of rye bread, or a bulkie roll. Serve with sliced picles and a side of potato salad (or french fries).

Truly one great culinary creation -- found only at the finest NY style delis. Yum!!!

[lds23]

Sprinkle Rice Krispies over Chocolate Ice Cream. Of course, any cereal and any flavor ice cream would do.

[lds23]

I've been trying to find the unfrosted ones for weeks - they are my all-time favorites. I end up settling for the frosted ones, but it's just not the same.

[anniegetyourgun]

These lips will not touch the frosted ones - no matter how desparate! I went for years without the regular ones until my local store FINALLY brought them back this year! I'm always tempted to buy 12 boxes at a time - in case they do that to me again!

[Physicist]

Marmite: a bitterly salty yeast extract eaten chiefly in the U.K. Excellent in homeopathically dilute doses, repellent otherwise.

Moxie: an old-fashioned soda pop flavored with gentian root extract for a bizarrely metallic bitterness. My brother calls it "the Marmite of soft drinks".

Kim-chee: Korean spiced cabbage. This is nearly the ideal food for me. I love cabbage, I love spicy food. There's an oriental buffet at Penn that stocks it; when I really have the muchies I buy a dollar's worth of kim-chee and wallow in it.

Natto: fermented soybeans eaten in Japan. The spoilage polymerizes the complex sugars of the beans, and they end up covered in an amazingly sticky goo with entertaining physical properties, and an indescribable flavor that is generally masked with copious amounts of wasabi mustard. I lived in Japan for a year and a half and grew fond of it. Invariably, natto would be held up as an example of native Japanese fare disliked by gaijin. When I would profess to like it, the Nihonjin would just as invariably respond, "oh, gross, you really eat that stuff?"

Stonewall Chile Pepper Company Salsa Habanero: I collect hot sauces. My capsaicin tolerance is such that I'm nearly insensitive to Tabasco sauce. And yet, this stuff is almost too hot for me. It's hotter than all but a few hot sauces in my collection, but beyond that, the flavor is outstanding. It is hot enough to induce acute colitis within hours, which none of my sauces can do. Dip a corner of a chip in it, and it's agony. Scoop some, God forbid, and it's a full twenty minutes of unalleviated tears. When I'm in a mood to descend to the ninth level of Habanero Hell, I soak my gills in this stuff, and I stay near a bathroom.