# Foods that fail to fill you up. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 12, 2003, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-fail-to-fill-you-up/194704 "2003-08-12T19:15:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-fail-to-fill-you-up/194704/1 "2003-08-12T19:15:06Z")
For me it’s pizza. It’s not that pizza is my _favorite_ food. It’s not that I just can’t get enough pizza. It’s just that pizza seems to be one of few foods that fail to make me feel full, even when I eat a whole bunch of it. (FTR, I’m one of those people who _hates_ the bloaty ickiness of feeling “full”, and so am rarely able to finish most restaurant or fast food meals. It’s usually only when I can control my own portion sizes that I can clean a plate. Unless the plate is full of fried corn. Then I’m willing to endure the “full feeling” just for the pleasure of getting there. But I digress.) Last week I ate a whole medium cheese pizza by myself at one sitting. Not a ton of food, really, but afterwards I felt like I could easily have eaten another. Today, after I’d already eaten my lunch, my boss ordered pizza for a meeting he was hosting here in the office. There were leftovers. I’ve already had five pieces. And am not feeling the slightest bit bloaty. I could actually go for a couple more. Too bad the only pieces left are Hawaiian. Are there foods that fail to make YOU feel full, no matter how much you eat? ---
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-fail-to-fill-you-up/194704/2 "2003-08-12T19:28:15Z")
I can easily over eat Thai, Chinese and Korean food. I never get full. When the waiter comes to serve the rice I always feel like “oooh that is not enough” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-fail-to-fill-you-up/194704/3 "2003-08-12T19:32:33Z")
I can eat a whole lot of popcorn before filling up on it. Usually I just fix a bag in the microwave and quit when it’s gone. But I could keep eating it as long as somebody filled up the bag or box or tub or tank. If I crack them one at a time (as opposed to the kind already cracked and put in bags) I could eat pecans, peanuts, pistachios, almonds, walnuts, scalybarks (hickory nuts), all day long. I have never had a cashew in the shell. Never even saw one that way. I’d add it to the list otherwise. Same for Brazil nuts. In other words, any nut you have a shell for, except coconuts. One does me there. Salads. Cotton candy. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-fail-to-fill-you-up/194704/4 "2003-08-12T19:35:45Z")
Steamed clams. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-fail-to-fill-you-up/194704/5 "2003-08-12T21:05:22Z")
Sushi - give me five minutes and I’m hungry again. ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-fail-to-fill-you-up/194704/6 "2003-08-12T21:16:43Z")
See, sushi has the opposite effect on me–I gobble it all up, and think, “I’m still hungry” so I order more . . . . . . but by the time I get it (about 5 mins. later), I’m STUFFED and miserable and don’t want it. ---
**Author:** ![Cowgirl\_Jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@Cowgirl\_Jules](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowgirl_Jules)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-fail-to-fill-you-up/194704/7 "2003-08-12T21:30:45Z")
Crab legs - with all the time it takes to excavate the good stuff, I’m sure I could eat them all night long. Pre-excavated would probably be a different story, but where’s the fun in that? ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-fail-to-fill-you-up/194704/8 "2003-08-12T21:35:22Z")
Potato chips and popcorn, I never seem to get full. I get full on Chinese, but I’m hungry again fairly soon. It seems to lack staying power for me. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Gutgore\_Blooddrink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Captain\_Gutgore\_Blooddrink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Gutgore_Blooddrink)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-fail-to-fill-you-up/194704/9 "2003-08-12T21:36:10Z")
Hot wings. 200 chickens could loose their lives for my spicey satisfaction, and I would still want more. ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-fail-to-fill-you-up/194704/10 "2003-08-12T21:39:59Z")
I hear you on the hot wings, **Filthy Beast** (nice username, BTW). What saves about 196 of those chickens, as far as I’m concerned, is that before long I get grossed out by eating meat from a bone. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-fail-to-fill-you-up/194704/11 "2003-08-12T21:43:54Z")
There’s always room for Jello! 😃 I’d have to say donuts! I don’t eat many, but they bring them into the office everyone once in a while and I could easily eat half a dozen or more boston creams without batting an eye! ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-fail-to-fill-you-up/194704/12 "2003-08-12T21:45:13Z")
Flander, that’s what I came in here thinking to post. Except I generally don’t just keep eating and eating Jello, so I guess it doesn’t really apply. I’m going to go with chocolate chip cookies. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-fail-to-fill-you-up/194704/13 "2003-08-12T21:46:06Z")
Ribs. Lots and lots of barbeque pork ribs. Also wings, potato chips, and popcorn. ---
**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-fail-to-fill-you-up/194704/14 "2003-08-12T21:48:08Z")
Breakfast cereals. I can eat bowls and bowls of cereal all day long. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-fail-to-fill-you-up/194704/15 "2003-08-12T22:05:13Z")
Scout, I was suprised I was the first to post Jello! Anyway, I though of another: Ramen Noodles! They’re like 7 for a buck. As you can see, I’m on my way to tapeworms and scurvy! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-fail-to-fill-you-up/194704/16 "2003-08-12T22:19:25Z")
Definately popcorn. I’m constantly shocked at how much popcorn I can eat. ---
**Author:** ![BottledBlondJeanie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/0ea827/32.png) [@BottledBlondJeanie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BottledBlondJeanie)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-fail-to-fill-you-up/194704/17 "2003-08-12T22:41:08Z")
I’m with y’all on the hot wings…somewhere out there is a flock of legless and wingless chickens that lost their appendages to the great god of BBJ’s tummy… Also ditto on the sushi thing ---
**Author:** ![jesleigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@jesleigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesleigh)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-fail-to-fill-you-up/194704/18 "2003-08-13T03:38:22Z")
pasta…I can normally only eat about half a plate of everything else at Applebees, Chili’s or ect., but I can also finsih the pasta, and have room for dessert ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-fail-to-fill-you-up/194704/19 "2003-08-13T03:40:59Z")
Ben and Jerry’s “Brownie Batter” ice cream… usually their ice cream fills me up, but with this one I can eat the whole tub and then regret not having bought two! ---
**Author:** ![jaykr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9e8a1a/32.png) [@jaykr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaykr)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-fail-to-fill-you-up/194704/20 "2003-08-13T06:42:58Z")
Tacos, cheese or any variety of the two. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-fail-to-fill-you-up/194704.md?page=2)