Sausage patties are best when fresh-cooked, but if you have to eat leftovers, cold is better than re-heated.
I don’t do cold fried chicken. I don’t reheat cold fried chicken, either. Fried chicken is good only at one point: hot and directly after it’s been fried. After that, nope, I’m not interested.
True story: my MIL brought over fried chicken one weekend when we were working on the house and stashed it in the fridge. At lunch, I made myself a ham sandwich. When she asked me why, I said that I just don’t care for cold fried chicken. I’d go hungry if all that’s available is cold fried chicken. (Well, maybe not if I was starving on a deserted island, but otherwise, I can miss a meal.)
Ham is a good answer - it’s pretty tasty cold. As is corned beef. Corned beef is better when it’s fresh, but still good cold. I used to eat cold pizza, but haven’t really done that in years.
This. I can’t force myself to drink regular iced coffee anymore. Two large shots of espresso poured over ice is sublime and makes all other iced coffee beverages taste like contaminated water. Only the espresso can give me the coffee flavor I crave and love.
Also Pizza, certain items of chinese (not rice or egg rolls but almost everything else), and roast chicken are all just as good (or better!) when cold. I actually prefer fried chicken warm, but will gladly eat it cold.
I’ve only ever had borscht hot; Friends back in the States assure me it’s properly served cold.
The skin on fried chicken is best cold (room temperature, not refrigerated). The stuff inside the skin, however, isn’t. It’s a conundrum.
As for pizza, I wouldn’t say any pizza is ever BETTER cold than it was when hot but it is often still very good (depends on the crust type, very thin isn’t great).
Agree with turkey, almost always better cold. Also, almost always better a bit on the dry side so that I can combine it with something that will provide moisture. Those superb turkeys people do at Thanksgiving to produce a exceptionally moist bird are awful because I don’t want to eat it with anything else.
Conversely I much prefer pumpkin pie warm that cold (which seems to confuse most people).
Lasagna is a food that I prefer at room temperature over hot (though this isn’t generally true of pasta).
…a whole lot man.
I’ve had peanut pies (legume what?), walnut and just found a mixed nut pumpkin pie recipe… that might be amazing. I’ve made watermelon rind pie which is actually a crushed nut pie–the rind is there for mass not flavor.
All of these are good hot but just as good, or better, cold:
- most pizza
- most chicken, especially fried
- most Chinese food
- steak
- pork chops
- spare ribs
- tea
- mac & cheese from a box, but not the home made kind
Mr. Horseshoe taught me the sublime pleasure that is: frozen gummi bears. Well, gummi anything.
Not refrigerator cold for me, but cooled down to room temperature. I feel like I can’t taste the food when it’s piping hot. If I do drink tea I let it cool down, too (or drop an ice cube in it).
I’m happy for you, finding something that you like but this post made my teeth hurt! You don’t have a lot of fillings, do you?
Microwaved pizza does suck, which is why god invented the Nuwave. Or a toaster oven.
The only thing I can think of better cold vs. hot/room temp is cherry pie.
Mmmm, not much beats a cold leftover pork chop straight from the fridge. (Especially around my house, where “leftover” and “pork chop” doesn’t often appear in the same sentence.)
Boiled shrimp as just as good/better cold as hot.
There’s this queso blanco dip that you get in mexican restaurants back east. I love this stuff, it’s awesome, and I don’t give a rats ass whether it’s authentic mexican or not…
It’s served hot, so you can dip your nachos in it, or pour it over your food - either way, it’s a win-win.
One day, I got some food to go, with a large cheese dip. For some reason unknown to me or the Gods, I couldn’t finish the dip and the bag of chips, so I put them in the fridge and went to bed.
Next morning, I pull it out. It’s thick again, but not like a block of cheese… one could still stir it, etc.
Inspiration struck! I took a handful of nachos, crumbled them into the cold dip, and voila!
Mexican corn flakes!
And I gotta tell ya… that shit was goooood. So good that this became a regular habit of mine… and then my daughter, who loved Dad’s Mexican corn flakes as much as Dad did.
Preach it. In order for leftover pork chops to exist around here, I have to cook a family pack and send the kid over to a friends for dinner. 
Anything with tomato sauce tastes amazing cold. There may be some things that taste better hot, but the majority are better cold.
There was something else I had recently, and I was amazed that it was better cold, but I forgot what it was. All I remember is that I finally got a chance to eat it hot, and it sucked.
Fried chicken and pizza, definitely.
Do y’all mean “room temperature,” or out of the icebox? Some have indicated the latter, which I don’t get… generally I like my food warm, except salads and the like.
I do not, however, understand the allure of superheated foods or drinks. I have learned to order my chai latte at Starbucks at 140 degrees so I don’t get a scalded mouth, or have to wait five minutes to enjoy my drink.
I had a friend who didn’t like ice in his drinks because it made it too cold, so I guess there’s space on this big blue marble for all kinds…
I like my fried chicken and pizza out of the refrigerator. But not out of the freezer.
As a kid, we would grill huge T-bone steaks for every birthday celebration. We raised our own beef, so I didn’t know that most people didn’t have three or four leftover fork-tender steaks in their frig the day after. So…I love cold, day-old steak. Haven’t had that in forty years.
Reese’s peanut butter cups from the freezer are better than at room temp.
mom used to get hostess snacks from the day old bread shop. They were stale and crumble in your hands. We learned to eat them directly from the freezer. A hostess cupcake doesn’t freeze hard at all. But it also doesn’t crumble if it’s stale either.