Man Can't Live By Bread Alone (You Gotta Have Some Toast)
May 27 '05
The Bottom Line Gud Eats. Up Ahead.
Here is my contribution to Ryan (three-ster)'s "The Food Lover's Write-Off" at http://www.epinions.com/content_4367687812.
What is your favorite:
1. Soft Drink: Diet Coke With Lime. Consume gallons of this stuff. Since I have gotten a slower metabolism with the years I have switched to diet colas and most taste like furniture polish smells, but the limey DC is pretty good.
2. Ice Cream Flavor: BR's Peanut Butter and Chocolate. Makes me think of Reese's cups. There is a Reese's Cup flavored ice cream out there but BR's is better.
3. Fast Food Restaurant: Wow. Talk about Least-Of-The-Evils. Subway I guess. Used to like Denny's but now most of them seem like Dingy's.
4. Type of Pizza: Pizza Hut's PPPP (Pepperoni Personal Pan Pizza). Associated with good memories of before-and-after-climb meals with fellow climbers after a few days in the Colorado mountains.
5. Thanksgiving Dinner: Turkey, dressing, giblet gravy, cranberry sauce, etc. Burt Reynolds said it right: "Cholesterol is what they put in food to make it taste good."
6. Snack Food: Tostito's Scoops and On The Border (Mild) Sausa. I could survive for weeks on this stuff. OBMP (Official Buttered Movie Popcorn) runs a close second, but it has couple of a professional advantages. First, the eater is eating in the dark where their sin cannot be easily seen by others, and second, it is easier to eat handfuls of popcorn when you are watching some tense drtamatic moment as when, say, Paris Hilton is trying to get the wax off her blouse.
7. Side Dish: Tossed salad with Honey Mustard.
8. Food to Eat While Driving: Beans and Lentils. When I'm eating in public I want all the people in passing cars to think I'm a health-conscious, uptight, politically correct health-food nut, rather than the gluttonous lover of sweets, fats, and chocolate that I really am. What a tangled web we weave, eh? Oh well, one must have some paltry human faults, I suppose, to balance all the obvious superbness (JJ). Bring on the Dairy Queen Blizzards, already. But keep them hidden when another car passes.
9. Food for Breakfast: Total Raisin Bran. Love that Vitamin E buzz.
10. Sit-Down Restaurant: Outback Steakhouse. Makes me dream of Australia and those incredible Oz women who glow and men who, well, thunder in the Land Downunder. And the meat is usually pretty good too. Mild addiction to the Bloomin' Onion.
11. Italian Dish: shrimp alfredo in wine sauce. Done right.
12. Chinese Dish: eggrolls in duck sauce (quack!).
13. Sandwich: MacAlister's turkey breast in orange cranberry sauce.
14. Cheese: Kraft Very Sharp with Ritz Crackers and mayonnaise.
15. Donut: Krisp Kreme. They seem like they are guaranteed to send your blood sugar level up around 988, but once in a while the slip into decadence is worth it. In moderation, of course. Only 18 in one sitting.
16. Type of dessert: Graham Cracker Pie. If you have never had any, you must try it at least once before your time is up. Otherwise they may send you back before letting you go on.
17. Type of Cake: Angelfood. It evens the score I suppose.
18. Vegetable: Ah, tomatoes, the "non-vegetable." Freshly picked on a summer's afternoon, eaten with cottage cheese and salt and pepper. It stuns me that for centuries they thought tomatoes were poisonous. Today only little kids forced to eat their veggies are convinced of that. Growing your own veggies usually cures you of any dislike for a veggie. I even got into kohlrabi that way.
19. Fruit: Apples. Apples are a fruit with a very lovely and sensuous history, and they are good and juicy. Apples keep you young and frisky.
20. Food In Bed: No. 2 choice: Baked Lay's Potato Chips.
21. Beer: Rarely imbibe, but like Bud if I'm absolutely forced, under duress, to partake. YR.
22. Drink With Dinner: Adam's Ale. Better known as H2O. Shaken, not stirred.
23. Fruit Juice: Grape Juice. Grape Juice once saved me from mononucleosis, and I've been a fan ever since. Next: Orange juice, which is a universal cure-all for the blues but which will give you a sugar high and the resulting sugar crash.
and Finally...
24. What is your favorite meal? Beef enchiladas with green New Mexican chiles and sour cream, after tostados and sausa, and before sopapillas or flan. The end of human food evolution is somewhere in Mexico, I'm convinced. Mexican food, done well, is da bomb.
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Now that you've been going through all this gastronomically hedonistic datum, don't forget that around the planet a lot of people- and a lot of kids- never see anything like any of this and their time ends all too quickly. Let's make the world a place where someday any citizen of the planet could join in a write-off like this. World Hunger is a real problem that can be eliminated if enough people really care. Seriously, we shouldn't be comfortable with our fortunate food blessings until that happens. Do your part. And as the wall sign says in Mother's Restaurant, "Eat Slowly and Chew Your Food Well.".
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