# Culinary crack
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culinary-crack/759646
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 11, 2016, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culinary-crack/759646 "2016-07-11T12:44:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2016, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culinary-crack/759646/1 "2016-07-11T12:44:25Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2016, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culinary-crack/759646/2 "2016-07-11T12:58:33Z")
Bacon
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2016, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culinary-crack/759646/3 "2016-07-11T13:19:29Z")
I allow myself to buy a package of stroopwafels only once every six months. Any more frequently would be very dangerous to the scale.
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2016, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culinary-crack/759646/4 "2016-07-11T14:06:37Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2016, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culinary-crack/759646/5 "2016-07-11T14:22:44Z")
> [@MissTake](#):
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> I allow myself to buy a package of stroopwafels only once every six months. Any more frequently would be very dangerous to the scale.
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.
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### Author:  [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2016, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culinary-crack/759646/6 "2016-07-11T14:39:10Z")
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. 🙂
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### Author:  [@pidgeon92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pidgeon92)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culinary-crack/759646/7 "2016-07-11T16:57:40Z")
Popcorn for sure. At home with truffle salt and parmesan.
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2016, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culinary-crack/759646/8 "2016-07-11T17:03:42Z")
Off to Cafe Society with this!
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### Author:  [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2016, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culinary-crack/759646/9 "2016-07-11T18:18:38Z")
I could eat a jar of green olives at one sitting. I don’t buy them anymore.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2016, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culinary-crack/759646/10 "2016-07-11T18:29:36Z")
For me, it’s carne asada fries.
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](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Carne_Asada_Fries.jpg), 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.
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### Author:  [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culinary-crack/759646/11 "2016-07-11T19:06:02Z")
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:
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culinary-crack/759646/12 "2016-07-11T19:26:03Z")
> [@Shoeless](#):
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> 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!”
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.
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culinary-crack/759646/13 "2016-07-11T19:43:39Z")
> [@bump](#):
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> 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.
You poor, poor man…
(I’d be happy to take surplus off your hands!)
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### Author:  [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culinary-crack/759646/14 "2016-07-11T21:03:49Z")
> [@Smapti](#):
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> For me, it’s carne asada fries.
>
> 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](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Carne_Asada_Fries.jpg), 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.
heh dele taco makes them now …
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### Author:  [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culinary-crack/759646/15 "2016-07-12T00:11:10Z")
Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Cashews. Crack covered in crack with a crack coating. On crack.
Holy Hannah, these puppies are yum!
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### Author:  [@DrForrester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrForrester)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2016, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culinary-crack/759646/16 "2016-07-12T00:55:38Z")
[Cranberry Crack](http://www.midcenturymenu.com/2014/11/frosted-cranberry-squares-1965-vintage-thanksgiving-recipe-test/)
1. Make’em
2. Eat’em.
3. Repeat.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2016, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culinary-crack/759646/17 "2016-07-12T04:06:32Z")
> [@panache45](#):
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2016, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culinary-crack/759646/18 "2016-07-12T05:24:41Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2016, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culinary-crack/759646/19 "2016-07-12T05:25:39Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2016, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culinary-crack/759646/20 "2016-07-12T05:45:47Z")
Girl Scout Cookies. I wouldn’t be surprised if they did put crack in those things.
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