Dried cranberries. I always hated cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving, so I find this strange.
I don’t know what they’re called but you know those little freeze dried green peas coated in wasabi?
A bag of those and a couple cold beers is heaven!
Crispy Minis. The caramel ones.
Evil.
Parmesan & Garlic Cheez-Its.
I can eat a whole damn box - and so can my roommates. I keep the boxes in my room so they don’t eat them - and I do not share.
THEY’RE MINE.
I had Nutella in Germany growing up, always slathered it over a piping hot fresh roll on top of a heaping dollop of salted butter (damn that was good). I don’t know why I never thought of it before, but I now have a new nectar of the gods:
The Nutella Banana Shake
Drop some vanilla ice-cream in with some milk in a blender. Break out the trusty spoon and scoop out 3 or 4 heaping spoonfuls of Nutella, then use a banana to get most of the viscous delight off of the spoon. With the spoon in your mouth, blend and serve.
Man, this stuff is fantastic.
I had Nutella in Germany growing up, always slathered it over a piping hot fresh roll on top of a heaping dollop of salted butter (damn that was good). I don’t know why I never thought of it before, but I now have a new nectar of the gods:
The Nutella Banana Shake
Drop some vanilla ice-cream in with some milk in a blender. Break out the trusty spoon and scoop out 3 or 4 heaping spoonfuls of Nutella, then use a banana to get most of the viscous delight off of the spoon. With the spoon in your mouth, blend and serve.
Man, this stuff is fantastic.
Wow, I didn’t realize there were so many people who liked Indian food! We (my family) have a friend from India who is a FANTASTIC cook. And she feeds us every time we go over to her house! Seriously, it’s really hard to get away from her place without eating or drinking something. And she cooks so well…
She makes these little vegetable fritters called bhajias that are just killer. The onion ones are my favorite. 
Crispy and golden on the outside, with soft spicy-nutty batter and onion on the inside… mmmm. She puts chickpea flour in the batter, which is where the nutty flavor comes from. Oh, and she makes samosas, which I saw mentioned earlier. Sooo good, especially with this cilantro-garlic-lemon-chile chutney she makes to go with them!
I wasn’t going to say yogurt since its not really new or unique, but I’m deffinitley addicted to it.
Huntsman cheese (Double gloucester and blue stilton layered together).
Chalk up another Doper hooked on wasabi peas - they are as bad as chocolate covered esspresso beans
MMmmmm Wasabi Peas!
Well, it’s not new… but I’m addicted to it and I haven’t had it for nearly 3 years now…
Alphonso Mangoes, of course.
I’m from Bombay and I was born at the start of mango season so perhaps that explains it. I can gulp down around 5-6 whole mangos in a sitting(NOT recommended).
Anyone know where I can get that variety State side?
Nope…mainly Tommy Atkins in the shops around here.
By the way, does anyone have any idea how a mango variety received such a Kiplingesque name?
The thing that drives me mad about it is that it seems like it’s an ingredient in virtually every traditional Japanese sweet, so whenever I get omiyage it’s almost certain that I’m going to get more anko.
Are you familiar with Wakayama ramen aka chuuka soba? I’m curious how well known it is outside of the ken. It’s my personal favorite, but then again it’s also virtually the only kind you can get here. Tonkotsu rocks as well.
To get back on topic, my other recent favorites have been Mabo Dofu and Shou Rou Pou (I think I got that right).
Mabo Dofu consists of cubed tofu in a spicy Chinese sauce. I have no idea what the English or Chinese name is (or even if it exists as anything other than as Japanese-Chinese food), but it’s wonderful. Especially on top of rice. I’d had it before but recently I eat it all the time.
I don’t know the non-Japanese names for Shou Rou Pou either, but they’re the small dumplings filled with soup that you can get at dim sum restaurants. I went to Taiwan recently and had the most divine ones I’ve ever tasted. I’ve been keeping my eyes open for them ever since.
Hahahaha… that sounds disturbingly familiar! Except with me it’s usually fresh pineapple, because I can never peel and eat a ripe mango without making a total mess of it. I am fully capable of chowing down more than half of the whole fresh pineapple I am cutting up. I try to wheedle Mom into cutting pineapples now to avoid this.
MOM: (looking in pineapple dish) Hmm, that was an awfully small pineapple.
QB: Well, I ate quite a bit of it while I was cutting it…
MOM: How much is quite a bit?
QB: Um, about half. Oooh… I feel kind of sick…
QUANTUM SISTER: (starts laughing)
MOM: That would explain it.
My stomach was not happy with me that night.
I too can eat disturbingly large numbers of mangos at once. I try to not get mangos too often because of that…
But the food I recently have tried that’s a little unusual and that I loved is kampyo sushi rolls. It’s sweet and not as expensive as some of the complicated sushi rolls. One roll of kampyo and one of tuna and I’m set.
Snickers poppables are a recent addiction for me. That and M&M mini’s. What can I say? I guess I’m miniaturely inclined.
Since I finally found a good chinese restaurant in my area, it’s anything in their spicy ginger and garlic sauce.
Pot stickers on the side of course.
Had my first real bowl of gumbo on our honeymoon last November. From Papa Joe’s, right down on Bourbon Street. Added a little bit o’ that Lousiana Hot Sauce in there (the one with the yellow label, red dot in the middle). It’s 7:30 in the morning, and I want a bowl. My mouth is watering thinking about it. I’m nursing a nine-month old jones.
I bought a book of gumbo recipes while I was there, but haven’t gathered the confidence in my ability to duplicate the heavenly experience that is good gumbo. (Rightly so, I am a hack in the kitchen)
I tried a store bought, pre-packaged variety. 
No love.
Trail mix. 2 kinds, both made by Planters.
One kind is peanuts, cashews, M&Ms, raisins and little bits of dried fruit that I could eat all day.
The other kind is honey-roasted peanuts, caramel popcorn, pretzels, peanut brittle, and yogurt balls that I could eat all night.
Nutella.
Straight from the jar.
I’d elaborate, but I think I’ll just go lie down now.