Went to my favorite movie palace this weekend and watched The Secret Lives of Pets.’ My son thoroughly enjoyed the movie. As per usual, I ordered a bottomless popcorn (lotsa butter lotsa salt) and soda. One simply can’t watch a movie in a theater, after all, without popcorn, even if it is sold at outrageous prices. I left the movie theater feeling absolutely stuffed. It seems I ate two big bowls of popcorn without entirely realizing it.:eek:
Some people have a sweet tooth and can’t say no to sugary stuff. I apparently have a ‘salt tooth’ and am powerless to stop eating salty stuff as long as it’s in front of me. Once a bag of chips or pretzels gets opened in my house you can pretty much measure its lifespan with a stopwatch. It’s like crack to me. Anyone else suffer from a similar affliction?
I can’t help but buy a bag of cheap store brand salt & vinegar potato chips when I go to the grocery store, and will eat about half the bag when I get home and then finish it the next day. I’ve even told my wife “These things are like snack crack!”
Cool Ranch Doritos usually suffer the same fate, but I don’t buy them as often.
Unfortunately (?) my wife figured out how to make those things pretty credibly. They’re awesome, but my stroopwafel consumption has probably quadrupled now that I don’t have to go buy them.
It used to be Doritos (the regular flavor, before they had to start calling it Taco or something)… an open bag would deplete itself continuously. I always believed there was an addictive chemical included in it - same as Cheetos for some people - and thanks to Michael Moss’s Salt Sugar Fat, now I know it’s true.
If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a San Diego dish that originated in the mom-and-pop Mexican restaurants that coexist every few blocks but mostly serve the exact same menu prepared the exact same way. You start with a big pile of French fries in a Styrofoam clamshell, then load on damn near a pound or so of cubed, well-done carne asada, followed by a liberal topping of shredded cheddar and/or cotija, as well as a few ladles of guacamole, sour cream, and (optionally) refried beans, and then smothered in red pepper hot sauce (the kind where sometimes a jalapeno seed gets stuck in the nozzle of the bottle and you have to squeeze the heck out of it to get it loose.)
It looks something like this, it has more calories than one person ought to consume in several days, and it’s absolutely DELICIOUS. When I moved away from San Diego it was the single biggest thing I missed, and when a San Diego-style Mexican restaurant actually opened near my work a few years ago, I swear I gained 10 pounds in 2 weeks.
Crunchy? Salty? Greasy? I’m there. Popcorn, Doritos, potato chips, all grist for my mill. I wonder how the per oz. price compares with crack? :dubious:
You don’t start eating till you get home? And still have some left for the next day? I eat half the bag while still in the store, and finish it off on the way home.
I have friends who even when all their kids (four of them) lived at home, would still have uneaten birthday cake days or even over a week after the birthday. My mind boggles.
I’m not overly impressed with most Trader Joe’s products, but their salted chocolate-covered caramels are orgasmic. Luckily, we only rarely have access to them, since we live in Indonesia, so when we get them we are careful to share and eat them slowly.
However, I’m convinced that if an unlimited supply was placed in front of me, guaranteed to be replenished immediately and edible without cutting into my husband’s fair share, I would eat an entire package of them every day until I grew too obese to move.
Cadbury Mini Eggs: milk chocolate and (especially) dark chocolate.
Mint m&m’s (in particular, the ones sold during Christmas).
In terms of salty or spicy snack food, I find it hard to stop when I have a jar of hot or medium salsa and tortilla chips. However, they must be plain and “authentic” type. No Doritos or Fritos.
My mind boggles.