Guilty Pleasures

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I was reading the Saveur Forums and someone posted the question, "Guilty Pleasures?  I was wondering what other people's secret and possibly scary food indulgences might be."

Intrigued, I read on... some I can relate with, others are disguising.  Nearly all of them are foods they had as children.  Here are some excerpts:

• "Peanut butter and Miracle Whip sandwich—on super soft white bread." 
• "I love to sip on the brine from a jar of capers." 
• "I love sliced cucumbers that have been soaked in a vinegar salt and onion brine on open faced peanut butter sandwiches.  I also love butter on slathered on saltine crackers and hot chocolate." 
• "Chocolate covered coffee beans dipped in Nutella" 
• "BUGLES.  Cheezos (only the crunchy kind).  Stinkin' Chef Boyardee pizza from a box." 
• "Spaghetti-O's with meatballs (no franks, please)" 
• "the hostess cupcake. You know the one with the white squiggle on it?" 
• "I get a ridiculous craving for a Big Mac once a year." 
• "A hostess twinkie, a small bag of cheetos (someone else said this one already) or an Entemann's honeybun (which has more fat grams than two big Macs by the way)." 
• "Bread (mostly Homemade) With Horseradish Mustard With Syrup To Top" 
• "noodles... Stir in some Campbell's tomato soup and top with Kraft parmesan (shaker cheese we used to call it)" 
• "When I was a kid, my sister and I used to enjoy sipping capfuls of vinegar. Malt vinegar was our favorite... We did the same with A-1 steak sauce. As an adult, my guilty pleasure is definitely circus peanuts... my oddly spongy treats." 
• "Guilty pleasure = Nutella off a spoon. Unusual childhood dish = Ricotta and Jelly on Toast." 
• "I was raised on this sandwich. At least twice a week for 18 years! Now I have gone all "classy" and have PB and Mayo. I still love it and it is fun to gross out your friends." 
• "I crave a peanutbutter sandwich with dill pickles. Or sometimes bread and butter pickles.  Or once a year or so I have to have Spaghetti-O's out of the can. I cannot abide them cooked, they smell like vomit and are too squishy." 
• "I have been known to take corn flakes and dip then in soft butter" 
• "Guys regular potato chips (not the waffle type), crushed, then placed between two pieces of squishy, insipid, white bread, which have been slathered with plain yellow mustard." 
• "Thinly sliced radishes, heavily salted, on buttered white bread."

My guilty pleasure?  An avocado, peanut butter and Vegemite sandwich.  Oh Lord!  My wife can barely even watch me eat one - but they're so good!  What are your guilty pleasures?

Comments

[Colleen Brown]

OMG... had to cringe at some of the combos on this list of guilty pleasures.. Yours I could do if it was just Vegemite and Avocado without the peanut butter... I just have to open the Vegemite in our house and they all scatter and gag...LOL... Cheers for now!

[lo]

Avocado, peanut butter, and vegemite, huh? Not sure I can envision that.
We try not to have "guilty pleasures" around our house... but maybe hot dogs baked in puff pastry count! :) Totally devoid of much nutrition, but they taste great.

[Dave Koch]

I used to sip A1 sauce with a spoon too.

[Annie]

My husband loves PB, vegemite and avocado too. Where do you hail from that you know vegemite? I am, of course, Australian. I love Peanut butter and crushed plain salted chips on bread. But vegemite plays a big part on our household. All my daughter ever wants on her school lunch sandwich.
Great blog BTW,
Annie

[Sapuche]

Okay, my gag reflex has calmed down enough that I can type again. This is a great list, actually, for when I come down hard on myself for not eating as well as I think I should. I do recall that as a kid I used to eat bologna sandwiches slathered with mint jelly. That's pretty cringe-inducing to me now; back then I guess I was just really stupid.

[Maggie]

If you really need a salt shot a friend in middle school and I used to suck on chicken bouillon cubes. I can't even think about it now without shuddering. I am guilty of mixing up single serving cookie dough. A spoon of butter, 2 of brown sugar, and enough flour to get the right consistency smashed together with some chocolate chips thrown in.