# Foods usually used sparingly, that you like to eat by themselves **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 13, 2012, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-usually-used-sparingly-that-you-like-to-eat-by-themselves/625002 "2012-06-13T11:32:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-usually-used-sparingly-that-you-like-to-eat-by-themselves/625002/21 "2012-06-13T14:56:55Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Cheez-Whiz, as dip for corn chips. > > Oily tuna fish, right out of the tin on Saltines with a drop of Tabasco. > > Olive-oiled anchovies and green olives on buttered toast points. > > Nutella, spead on bananas. > > Crunchy peanut butter, spread on apples. > > Marmite and sharp cheddar cheese, melted on buttered toast. > > Any kind of sharp cheese, on a baguette or cream crackers (English, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek…) How do any of these address the statement in the thread title? mmm ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-usually-used-sparingly-that-you-like-to-eat-by-themselves/625002/22 "2012-06-13T15:01:42Z")
Hearts of palm. Forget the salad, open the jar up and go to town! ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-usually-used-sparingly-that-you-like-to-eat-by-themselves/625002/23 "2012-06-13T15:17:42Z")
Chili powder. Not that I go at the stuff with a spoon, but I’ll occasionally shake out a handful and eat it. Nice and savory, with a pleasant mild burn afterward. ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-usually-used-sparingly-that-you-like-to-eat-by-themselves/625002/24 "2012-06-13T15:19:18Z")
> [@gallows\_fodder](#): > > Hearts of palm. Forget the salad, open the jar up and go to town! Also, artichoke hearts and baby corn. Just open the can or jar, drain and eat! ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-usually-used-sparingly-that-you-like-to-eat-by-themselves/625002/25 "2012-06-13T15:40:55Z")
Pickled herring in wine sauce- just pick them out with a fork (avoiding the onions) Peanut butter and honey- take a big spoon, get a scoopful, drizzle with honey, and cram it in my mouth Cambozola- also called blue brie… man I love this cheese. The “black-label” Cambozola might be the best cheese I’ve ever had. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-usually-used-sparingly-that-you-like-to-eat-by-themselves/625002/26 "2012-06-13T16:19:07Z")
Sauerkraut. I can eat a big bowl of it (and not cooked for hours so it’s mild, the sour stuff straight out of the jar/can). ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-usually-used-sparingly-that-you-like-to-eat-by-themselves/625002/27 "2012-06-13T16:25:28Z")
Custard or gravy. I’ll happily drink either by the cup (not mixed together). ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-usually-used-sparingly-that-you-like-to-eat-by-themselves/625002/28 "2012-06-13T16:38:54Z")
As a kid I went through a phase where I would eat a bowl full of those crunchy noodles used as a Chinese salad condiment. I loved those things. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-usually-used-sparingly-that-you-like-to-eat-by-themselves/625002/29 "2012-06-13T16:52:48Z")
Any kind of salad dressing. Since most bottles have a narrow neck, I just stick a knife in, and lick the dressing off. Definitely peanut butter, right from the jar, again with a knife. Jello, right from the package. Wet your finger and stick it in the crystals. Yeah, the finger gets stained. Chocolate chips. Hard-boiled eggs. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-usually-used-sparingly-that-you-like-to-eat-by-themselves/625002/30 "2012-06-13T17:55:44Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Sauerkraut. I can eat a big bowl of it (and not cooked for hours so it’s mild, the sour stuff straight out of the jar/can). Do you like [Frank’s kraut juice](http://www.walmart.com/ip/Frank-s-Kraut-Juice-14-oz-12pk/17194341)? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-usually-used-sparingly-that-you-like-to-eat-by-themselves/625002/31 "2012-06-13T18:17:49Z")
> [@grude](#): > > 😕 Isn’t this how people eat olives? I eat black and green olives like this too, I always figured that was what olive bars were for. Yeah! What else can you do with olives anyway? You can make a mufaletta sandwich, but they aren’t used sparingly in a good one, or you could put too few of them in a salad. Even good olive loaf should have a decent density of olives in it, although it’s actually a decoration, not a food product. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-usually-used-sparingly-that-you-like-to-eat-by-themselves/625002/32 "2012-06-13T18:23:46Z")
Prosciutto By the pound, if I could afford it. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-usually-used-sparingly-that-you-like-to-eat-by-themselves/625002/33 "2012-06-13T18:31:00Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Yeah. If I ever catch myself opening up the salt shaker for a snack, I am going to demand an intervention. > mmm I may need one. I do the pickle juice thing, too, and have been known to shake salt on my hand and just eat a little if I’m feeling peckish but don’t know what I want. When I make toast, I put seasoning salt on it rather than something sweet. And I used to eat bullion cubes when I was little. Even now, the cilantro bullion cubes you can get at the store are DELISH!! Just lick one, I dare you! They are quite yummy. As for the original question, um…bread? I know most people eat bread all the time, but I prefer burgers and hot dogs without them; half the time I get a sub I just eat the insides out. But bread itself? I’ll toast half a loaf of rye and eat it with seasoned salt, or eat the whole loaf of french bread and just skip the spaghetti. 😛 Cheese, I also prefer alone. I do the blue cheese or feta crumbles thing too, hehe. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-usually-used-sparingly-that-you-like-to-eat-by-themselves/625002/34 "2012-06-13T18:54:40Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Bully beef or mutton, right out of the tin. > > Campbell’s soups, right out of the can, especially the cream soups, bean soup, and beef & barley. > > Chef Boy-ar-dee pastas, right out of the can. > > B&M Boston Baked Beans, right out of the can. > > Cheez-Whiz, as dip for corn chips. > > Corned beef hash, right out of the can. > > Oily tuna fish, right out of the tin on Saltines with a drop of Tabasco. > > Olive-oiled anchovies and green olives on buttered toast points. > > Nutella, spead on bananas. > > Crunchy peanut butter, spread on apples. > > Crunchy peanut butter and jam, right out of their jars. > > Marmite and sharp cheddar cheese, melted on buttered toast. > > Any kind of sharp cheese, on a baguette or cream crackers (English, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek…) Salt junkie? I am a salt/vinegar junkie. Screw chocolate, but Ill lick the salt out of a pretzel bag if I don’t watch myself. I was in heaven when I discovered salt and vinegar potato chips up in Canada at the age of 5:D I didn’t know that you were supposed to eat fries with anything but salt and vinegar. I like many veggies with butter, salt and vinegar [cider or balsamic] and I will drink any leftover drippings from the veggies left on my plate. Being diabetic sucks, I have to go easy on carbs now, but I still love vinegar on stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-usually-used-sparingly-that-you-like-to-eat-by-themselves/625002/35 "2012-06-13T19:39:37Z")
> [@grude](#): > > 😕 Isn’t this how people eat olives? I eat black and green olives like this too, I always figured that was what olive bars were for. I have never met another person who sits down to watch television with a can of black olives in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other, but I suppose almost anything is possible. Most of the people I know either put a bowl of olives on the dinner table next to the pickles and each person takes a few or they use the olives in cooking, salad, on pizza, etc. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-usually-used-sparingly-that-you-like-to-eat-by-themselves/625002/36 "2012-06-13T19:55:24Z")
> [@Sudden\_Kestrel](#): > > I have never met another person who sits down to watch television with a can of black olives in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other, but I suppose almost anything is possible. Most of the people I know either put a bowl of olives on the dinner table next to the pickles and each person takes a few or they use the olives in cooking, salad, on pizza, etc. we snack on a blend of olives, marinated artichoke hearts, drained giardinara and pickle slices [hubby likes the giardiniera, I don’t. Sometimes he subs pickled peppers.] We are sort of salty/vinegary snack foodies in our house. I will snack on a couple dozen olives chosen over the same amount of grapes. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-usually-used-sparingly-that-you-like-to-eat-by-themselves/625002/37 "2012-06-13T20:10:46Z")
> [@Sudden\_Kestrel](#): > > I have never met another person who sits down to watch television with a can of black olives in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other, but I suppose almost anything is possible. Most of the people I know either put a bowl of olives on the dinner table next to the pickles and each person takes a few or they use the olives in cooking, salad, on pizza, etc. Well of course not, coffee is disgusting. And you know some weird people if they only take a few olives out of the bowl or only use a few in cooking. People like you are the reason it’s so hard to find a good pickle sandwhich. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-usually-used-sparingly-that-you-like-to-eat-by-themselves/625002/38 "2012-06-13T20:27:52Z")
And, as a matter of fact, I just went to grab a bite to eat, and guess what was right in front on the refrigerator shelf? And _Lindsay_ sells black olives in a can with a pop top and a resealable plastic lid in case you’re only hungry enough for half a can of olives. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-usually-used-sparingly-that-you-like-to-eat-by-themselves/625002/39 "2012-06-13T20:36:52Z")
You know that big bloody puddle that’s left on your plate after a nice, thick and juicy medium rare steak? Yeah, both me and my son will lick the plate clean. Then I go cry in the corner, curled up in the fetal position afterwords. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-usually-used-sparingly-that-you-like-to-eat-by-themselves/625002/40 "2012-06-13T21:24:36Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Well of course not, coffee is disgusting. And you know some weird people if they only take a few olives out of the bowl or only use a few in cooking. People like you are the reason it’s so hard to find a good pickle sandwhich. You are sometimes my favorite poster. Unfortunately, due to that crack about coffee, I’m not going to tell you _which_ times. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-usually-used-sparingly-that-you-like-to-eat-by-themselves/625002.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-usually-used-sparingly-that-you-like-to-eat-by-themselves/625002.md?page=3)