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Super Secret Guilty Pleasure Foods (vanity)
PA times | 8/23/05 | Dr. Pissant

Posted on 08/23/2005 8:32:28 AM PDT by pissant

Most of us take pride in the fact that we have some knowledge of proper nutrition and diet. Many of us run, bike, or do other vigorous exercise to maintain or college figures.

But there are some foods, often discovered in our youth, that no matter how nutritionally worthless they may be, are just too darn tasty to give up.

We may not tell our friends and loved ones, and we'll hide them under the other groceries in the supermarket, but somehow these guilty pleasure find a way into our gullets!

So without further adieu...

Top 5 Guilty Pleasure Foods

5. Velveeta Cheese. Who knows if there is any dairy product in this stuff. But darn it tastes good smothering nachos or melted on a toasted cheese sandwich!

4. Chicken in a Biscuit. The perfect cracker to compliment Velveeta. It's good to know that MSG and powder made from dry chickens can be so addicting!

3. Vienna Sausages. Though these little gems are not likely to show up as an appetizer at a fancy party, give me that yummy taste of Mechanically Separated Chicken and pork over cavier anytime!!

2. Sardines. Something about little stinky fish in a can turns off alot of people. But the fond memories of camping trips eating these oily creatures on a saltine cracker....

1. Hot and Spicy Pork Rinds. I know these delicious fried chunks of pig fat made a comeback during the Atkins craze. But some of us never abandoned these carnivorous treats! PETA be damned!


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To: toomanygrasshoppers

Have not done it in a while, but it is sooooo good.


421 posted on 08/23/2005 12:39:04 PM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
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To: motormouth

Thought you'd appreciate the tagline too.


422 posted on 08/23/2005 12:39:47 PM PDT by JimWforBush (Alcohol - For the best times you'll never remember)
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To: Frenetic

I would have put SPAM on this list too. I have to admit that one of my favorite sandwiches is fried SPAM & american cheese on quishy white bread. I can't eat it too often though due to heckling by my GF and the fact that it is artery clog heaven.

When I was in high school in the 60's, my boyfriend used to bring fried Spam & American cheese sandwiches for lunch. He would always give me a half. Sweet huh?


423 posted on 08/23/2005 12:42:27 PM PDT by toomanygrasshoppers ("In technical terminology, he's a loon")
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To: PennsylvaniaMom
organic, raw, and ripe in nature.

No one really eats that way all the time. They only say it to sound hoytee toytee.

424 posted on 08/23/2005 12:48:26 PM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: EX52D

I like Kettle Korn or popcorn with Milkduds.


425 posted on 08/23/2005 12:50:00 PM PDT by toomanygrasshoppers ("In technical terminology, he's a loon")
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To: EX52D

Have you ever tried "Peep jousting"? Take 2 Peeps and stick a toothpick in the front of each. Place them in the microwave about 2 inches apart and turn the microwave on high. Watch the fun.


426 posted on 08/23/2005 12:52:07 PM PDT by toomanygrasshoppers ("In technical terminology, he's a loon")
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To: toomanygrasshoppers
See post 413!!!

Emeril has nothing on us!!!

427 posted on 08/23/2005 12:52:28 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (I used to take the highroad, but the altitude gave me nose bleeds....)
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To: teenyelliott

LOL...and all of that from a person who goes by 'twinkie.'


428 posted on 08/23/2005 12:53:47 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (I used to take the highroad, but the altitude gave me nose bleeds....)
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To: teenyelliott

Every now and then I chop it up and make sh*t on a shingle, just to relive my school lunches.


My Mom called chipped beef and white gravy, "Roses in the Snow" on toast. LOL


429 posted on 08/23/2005 12:57:04 PM PDT by toomanygrasshoppers ("In technical terminology, he's a loon")
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To: PennsylvaniaMom
And I don't even know what a potsticker is...

Dumpling. Korean, I think. Meat and cabbage and whatnot inside a little dough folded up. You can buy them prepackaged at Wal Mart or supermarket and it comes with a spicy sweet n sour sauce.

SD

430 posted on 08/23/2005 12:59:32 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: PennsylvaniaMom

That's how I eat it too. A Milk Dud and then a handful of popcorn. LOL


431 posted on 08/23/2005 1:00:35 PM PDT by toomanygrasshoppers ("In technical terminology, he's a loon")
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To: PennsylvaniaMom
Good point.

Not to mention that this is supposed to be about guilty pleasures, not tofu and goat cheese.

432 posted on 08/23/2005 1:05:05 PM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: SoothingDave
Thanks Dave. Somehow, I have never had a potsticker...but they sound good.

Another guilty pleasure w/cabbage is huluski...noodles, cabbage, a little onion, alot of butter...

Gosh, I am getting hungry.

433 posted on 08/23/2005 1:08:36 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (I used to take the highroad, but the altitude gave me nose bleeds....)
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To: teenyelliott

Agreed...I (showing my dietary ignorance is bliss attitude) have never had tofu or goat cheese. A child of the 70s here...I even once made that 'Mock Apple Pie' on the back of the Ritz Cracker box...it actually was pretty good :)


434 posted on 08/23/2005 1:14:37 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (I used to take the highroad, but the altitude gave me nose bleeds....)
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To: PennsylvaniaMom
I'm with you.

I refuse to eat anything that might be served in an over priced San Francisco restaurant.

435 posted on 08/23/2005 1:19:03 PM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: PennsylvaniaMom
Another guilty pleasure w/cabbage is huluski...noodles, cabbage, a little onion, alot of butter...

I'd rather have pierogies.

SD

436 posted on 08/23/2005 1:19:18 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
Don't know about McCormick's Season All but I have eaten packages of whole cloves or Cinnamon sticks. The heavy bark type Cinnamon stick as opposed to the thin type is particularly fun.
437 posted on 08/23/2005 2:38:30 PM PDT by nomorelurker (wetraginhell)
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To: Monty Python

Don't be so sure. Chicken liver wrapped in bacon and glazed with maple syrup is a ritzy appetizer and delicious. I forget what it is called. You'd be surprised how tasty it is.


438 posted on 08/23/2005 2:58:34 PM PDT by A knight without armor
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To: SoothingDave
cyborg: I used to work in a healthfood store frequented by a radical vegan who considered the bee to be an animal and honey to be its vomit. . . . Eggs were chicken menstruations.

soothing dave: That's ridiculous. Eggs are chicken ovulations.

I'm betting that's not the only thing the old fool had wrong. LOL

But to "win" a confrontation with those radical types, the best thing is to throw their gross-out rhetoric back at them, in spades. After all, I know an egg is an egg, but this dude thought it was a "chicken menstruation." Say that kind of thing to him enough, and HE'LL be the one annoyed, not me.

439 posted on 08/23/2005 3:41:38 PM PDT by Petronski (I stick to Rovian talking points: "I love Cyborg!")
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To: johnny7
In my line of work... we'd call you a synergist.

Thanks, that's what I do best.

440 posted on 08/23/2005 3:48:23 PM PDT by knak (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing)
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