# Foods you just can't get enough of **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 22, 2007, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-just-cant-get-enough-of/405033 "2007-05-22T04:28:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Girl\_Next\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@Girl\_Next\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_Next_Door)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-just-cant-get-enough-of/405033/61 "2007-05-23T05:23:18Z")
[Phở](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph%E1%BB%9F) Phở for breakfast, sure is great! Phở for lunch, I can’t wait! If your meal must be a winner, everyone eat Phở for dinner! ---
**Author:** ![DellieM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@DellieM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DellieM)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-just-cant-get-enough-of/405033/62 "2007-05-23T09:38:56Z")
Scumpup - I’m with you. Spaghetti. Spaghetti. Spaghetti. I love it. I lurrrrve it. I eat it when I’m at a restaurant, at friends, or I cook my own. Bolognaise, napolitan, calabrese, arabiata or my own mysterious mix. Bring on the spag! ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-just-cant-get-enough-of/405033/63 "2007-05-23T10:28:00Z")
Clam chowder. This is totally unavailable in the UK Not the pissy arsed stuff in cans but REAL stuff as served in Rhode Island. I would quite willingly strangle a kitten for a large bowl avec Clam Cakes ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-just-cant-get-enough-of/405033/64 "2007-05-23T11:51:52Z")
Chicken. Fried chicken, roasted chicken, barbecue chicken, baked chicken, chicken nuggets, chicken soup, chicken pot pie, chicken cordon bleu, chicken tetrazini, chicken salad, chicken fajitas, chicken parmigiana, general tso’s chicken, Colonel Sander’s chicken, chicken in oh so many ways. I could never get tired of chicken. And Fritos. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-just-cant-get-enough-of/405033/65 "2007-05-23T11:54:49Z")
[QUOTE=LilShieste] I’m glad I started this thread - crazy loves company. 😃 I’m going to add another food to my list - [taquitos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taquito). If heaven were a food, this is what it would be. ( **berff** ’s mention of taco salad reminded me of this.) LilShieste [/QUOTE] Good gawd, but these tantalizing little tubular treats are awesome! I like to eat 'em with a container of sour cream. Positively dreamy… ---
**Author:** ![MrFantsyPants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@MrFantsyPants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrFantsyPants)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-just-cant-get-enough-of/405033/66 "2007-05-23T12:21:24Z")
For me, the only real purpose of any food is as a vehicle to get Thai peanut sauce into my mouth without looking foolish eating it alone. For those not familiar, (my version) is a heavenly blend of coconut milk, crunchy peanut butter, red curry paste, brown sugar and fish sauce. yum. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-just-cant-get-enough-of/405033/67 "2007-05-23T13:26:08Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] Good gawd, but these tantalizing little tubular treats are awesome! I like to eat 'em with a container of sour cream. Positively dreamy… [/QUOTE] My idiot children eat frozen bean burritos by the truckload but they don’t like Taquitos! I bought two giant boxes of them, just sure they’d eat them up in no time, but nooooo. There they sit, six months later, uneaten, unloved. **Tahssa** your post made me laugh–when I got to the part where you throw corn and bleu cheese into your tomato soup! 😛 I thought of another one, for me. PARMESEAN CHEESE. Lord. I used to come home from work, famished, and eat it with a spoon, straight out of the Kraft container. Years later I discovered the real parmesean cheese (who knew? :o ) and honestly, sometimes I think there needs to be a restrained order issued to keep me out of it. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-just-cant-get-enough-of/405033/68 "2007-05-23T13:58:22Z")
Shrimp. I could eat shrimp every day. [channeling Bubba] Shrimp gumbo, shrimp etoufee, stuffed shrimp, fried shrimp, BBQ’d shrimp, shrimp lo mein, shrimp scampi…[/cb] 🙂 Crabmeat. Not those king crab legs - real, honest-to-goodness, lump crabmeat from Blue crabs. Although I’ll eat crab legs sometimes. But crabcakes, mmm… Crabmeat stuffed flounder. OMG! Potato chips are one of my downfalls. And I’m thoroughly addicted to M&M’s. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-just-cant-get-enough-of/405033/69 "2007-05-23T14:03:11Z")
Concord Grapes. For some reason, they’re not terribly popular – but they are popular enough that I can buy a couple of containers at the supermarket or roadside stands, but only for a brief and ill-defined window of opportunity. I grew up with these – my grandmother had an arbor. Later on, so did my father. Both arbors are gone now. And, because the grapes themselves are so hard to come by, and because making anything is also pretty labor-intensive, and concord grape baking or pastries are even harder to come by. Every year I make my own Grape Pie, which I certainly can’t get enough of. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-just-cant-get-enough-of/405033/70 "2007-05-23T14:03:20Z")
Anything grilled… I love my charcoal grill and everything I put on it. Especially grilled aspargus- the best part about that is my SO doesn’t care for vegetables so its ALL MINE :). I grill lamb, chicken, seafood, steak, shrimp, soon to try clams thanks to my Steve Raichlen book. I wouldn’t survive without my grill. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-just-cant-get-enough-of/405033/71 "2007-05-23T14:04:31Z")
Clams Crab Bacon ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-just-cant-get-enough-of/405033/72 "2007-05-23T14:09:59Z")
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] My idiot children eat frozen bean burritos by the truckload but they don’t like Taquitos! I bought two giant boxes of them, just sure they’d eat them up in no time, but nooooo. There they sit, six months later, uneaten, unloved. [/QUOTE] Well, I’d ask you to fax those little taquitos to me, but you might be better off just trading in those ingrates you call children. Or send them to Junk Food School…_something!_ ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-just-cant-get-enough-of/405033/73 "2007-05-23T14:14:06Z")
Mashed potatoes. You must heat up the milk and melt the butter prior to mixing. They must be whipped up creamy with no lumps, so light and fluffy they melt on your tongue. Mmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-just-cant-get-enough-of/405033/74 "2007-05-23T14:22:22Z")
Nachos. [sub]I looove the little nachos, I love them gooooood.[/sub] Tuna (maguro?) sushi. Given my druthers, I could single-handedly wipe out the world tuna population. Good cheese spread with Triscuits. Rare steak. Lobster bisque. Malai Kofta. Palak Paneer. Shumai. ---
**Author:** ![rhythmonly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@rhythmonly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhythmonly)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-just-cant-get-enough-of/405033/75 "2007-05-23T17:32:43Z")
Mini-Tacos (chips). Dry roasted Cashews. Screaming Yellow Zonkers. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-just-cant-get-enough-of/405033/76 "2007-05-23T18:29:40Z")
[QUOTE=LilShieste] I’m going to add another food to my list - taquitos LilShieste [/QUOTE] I like the frozen \*flour \*tortilla beef & cheese versions. ---
**Author:** ![LilShieste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@LilShieste](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilShieste)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-just-cant-get-enough-of/405033/77 "2007-05-23T20:05:29Z")
[QUOTE=DrDeth] I like the frozen \*flour \*tortilla beef & cheese versions. [/QUOTE] I didn’t like those so much at first… but they soon moved into the apartment adjacent to their corn tortilla siblings, in my heart. (and stomach) LilShieste ---
**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:** [May 24, 2007, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-just-cant-get-enough-of/405033/78 "2007-05-24T00:58:33Z")
[QUOTE=Kiros] I will never be truly skinny because there is ALWAYS a time for just a bowl of pasta, al dente, with butter and parmesan and nothing else. Mmmm, the delicious taste of carbs! [/QUOTE] Me, too! I could eat pasta every day of my life for the next 60 years and I’d never tire of it. It’s not just a vehicle for sauce, either – the texture of it is very important. I’m currently obsessed with pappardelle, the really fat noodles. Oooh, and mushrooms. I have this sick love of mushrooms that blinds me to other delicious options. If I had to choose between succulent prime rib without mushrooms and overcooked chicken with mushrooms, I’d go with the chicken. Pasta with mushrooms? Pasta alla boscaiola? Sheer bliss. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-just-cant-get-enough-of/405033/79 "2007-05-24T04:18:48Z")
[QUOTE=Mouse\_Maven] I’m pregnant. 'nough said. Current “must have”: sharp cheddar cheese. The sharpest. Cheese so sharp it slices _itself_. [/QUOTE] If it doesn’t make my cheeks hot when it hits my tongue, it ain’t sharp enough. Joe ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-just-cant-get-enough-of/405033/80 "2007-05-24T04:30:48Z")
Lately I’ve been obsessed with Reese’s Puffs. Best. Cereal. EVAR. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-just-cant-get-enough-of/405033.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-just-cant-get-enough-of/405033.md?page=5)