Recently discovered- dessert yogurt with at least 8% butterfat. There’s a coconut one that’s amazing, but I don’t remember the brand. It’s Greek, anyway.
I’m a permanent naan addict, with a bad pho addiction to boot. And I spend a lot of time here in Toronto dying for decent poutine.
Oh, yeah. I’ve also recently discovered patate alla crema pizza from Amato’s. It’s pizza with cream and olive oil sauce, garlic, rosemary, caramelized onions, and potatoes. It’s amazing.
So you’ve given up deep-fried candy bars, then?
That’s not new, Guin. The thread’s about new addictions.
I was amazed to discover that Mexican-style mangos are amazingly delicious. This sounds completely bizarre, but I assure you that it makes perfect sense to your mouth:
Fresh ripe mango, squeeze lime, sprinkle salt and CHILI powder on it. Eat.
Remarkably satisfying.
Loaker Lemon Wafers, found at Trader Joes.
The only prepared lemon-flavored anything-not-hard-candy-or-pie that I’ve ever found that actually tasted of lemon. Tart, juicy, puckery lemon. Yum.
This Trader Joes sounds like the best place ever. I wish we had them in north central Florida!
As for me, I’ve recently been turned onto bubble tea (also known as milk tea, boba tea, and many other names). They are sweet, flavored tea drinks with floating black balls of tapioca, and they come in plastic cups decorated with anime characters and big wide neon-colored straws for sucking up the “black pearls.” They must have 30 flavors, but the strawberry and honeydew have been my favorites so far. I plan to try a new flavor every time I go back. Bento Cafe is our one place in town (Gainesville) with the bubble tea drinks, and they are becoming quite a phenomenon around here. I have hooked at least twenty people on these myself. The chewy pearls take some getting used to, but almost everyone appreciates the novelty of these drinks.
Have you actually tried KFC pot pies? They’re damn good. I can take or leave the rest of the stuff they serve there, but they do right by the pot pies. Especially if you’re offering Marie Callendar’s as an alternative!
For me, I’ve been strangely addicted to Japanese curry for over a year now. There’s a small ramen place in Berkeley that serves katsu curry that defies description. But I’ll try. Deep fried pork chop over rice with thick curry gravy with huge carrots and potatoes. The closest thing to southern food I can get in the Bay Area, and it turns out to be at a Japanese restaurant.
I was disappointed when I went to Tokyo & Kyoto and found that I didn’t like their version as much as the place in Berkeley. (It’s called Manpuku, for Bay Area dopers, and it’s on College & Ashby. The ramen is excellent too.)
I need to find something else to get addicted to; if I keep up my rate of getting katsu curry about once a week I’m going to become even more of a fat-ass.
Both their red and green sauces are fine examples of the craft.
You’re referring to the place right near Bott’s Ice Cream, no? They do a great job. I took my mother there for her birthday back in 1998. The food was quite nice. We need to lure pugluvr up there for some of their noodles. The restaurant is actually a little closer to Woolsey than Ashby on College Avenue, almost across from the Elmwood Theater.
Ditto on the bubble tea! That stuff’s great. It’s probably the one thing that will actually get me to walk through Times Square in the middle of rush hour. So far, my favorite is the Taro, followed closely by coconut.
Heather
There’s a new limited edition Ben & Jerry’s ice cream out now that is cinnamon sweet cream ice cream with chunks of fudge and oatmeal cookie dough. Where ever I am in the house, it keeps calling to me from the freezer.
Jurkee.
It’s like heroin. I need a twelve-step. Help
It’s a jerkey made from veggie protein and I think soy too.
It tastes and has the texture of beef jerkey but it’'s completely vegetarian. Oh my god, it’s exquisite. So far I can only find it at the local health food stores.
Anyone out there ever have it
I got addicted to mangoes in high school when our Foods teacher made us eat at least a piece of about 10 fruits we’d never tasted before. Expand our palate, she said. I’d had pomegranate, I didn’t like papaya much, but mangoes stole my heart.
I’ve got a happy yogurt fixation now; I have a little tub of it every morning for breakfast.
My addiction last year was salt and vinegar potato chips. Oh GOD…I must’ve given myself an ulcer with those. They gave me chronic heartburn, but I drool just thinking about them…
But the biggest ditto goes to bubble tea and potstickers. We have two places IIRC here in Austin that serve bubble tea – CoCo’s Cafe (a chain with 3-4 locations around town) and Momoko. I know Momoko sells food now, but I don’t know about their potstickers. I worked there for a week in college – “Taro root milk tea with pearl. Taro root milk tea with pearl. Anyone want anything ELSE?! The Blue Lady is good…”
But potstickers…mmmm. I started getting addicted to them when we went to an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet regularly – food was low-quality and low-price, but the potstickers were excellent. And then I discovered you could buy them in the grocery store…I don’t think I’ve gone through more than a week without them since. I can eat them as an entire meal, I can eat them every day and want more the next day.
A plate of potstickers with a can of pearl milk tea makes a truly excellent dinner.
I checked out the website for Coca-Cola in the U.S. I was surprised to see Fanta as a brand in the U.S., since I’ve only ever seen Minute Maid soda, from that company.
Anyway, Fanta is pretty big in Europe and come in a host of flavours, a lot of them specific for a certain market.
In Sweden, Fanta comes in the obvious Orange and Lemon flavours, and a couple of years ago, they added ‘Wild Berries’, which is sorta raspberry flavoured.
Now, I’m not big on soda, anymore, it’s all too sugary, and the diet sodas are icky.
A few months ago, Coke put out a new flavour: Fanta Elder.
Oh. My. God.
Not only the perfect softdrink, but also a perfect mixer for gin or vodka.
I’ve taken up my old pop-guzzling again, which will do nothing for my waste size. But it’s so damned yummy, I can’t resist it.
wonderful,wonderful,wonderful recipe I found at epicurious.com for “cheesecake bites” with fruit in the center.
They set up overnight in the freezer, you take them out about an hour before serving, allow them to defrost slightly, then roll them in graham cracker crumbs. serve with toothpicks. Heaven.
Sam’s Club Brand Cheese Puffs (Made with Real Cheese!!)
Also am in a yogurt phase right now, thinking about changing it to a cottage cheese phase soon.
Mangoes are wonderfully addictive. I also recently discovered yogurt covered raisins - even better than chocolate covered!
I was talking about “addictive foods” with a group of friends the other day, and we decided to make a list of addictive foods that we all agreed on. We just included foods from large restaurant chains that everyone there agreed were addictive. Addictive as in “oh my god, they must put crack in these, there’s no other explanation.” Our preliminary, but incomplete list:
Earls - dry garlic ribs. It’s probably the salt, but everyone agreed that you can’t enough of them, or too often.
Boston Pizza - spinach and artichoke dip.
The Keg - teriyaki sirloin.
[Homer]drools[/Homer]
Total (no, not the cereal) greek-style yogurt. It’s strained (thick! no liquid), and high fat (and low carb), and tastes like clotted cream or buttercream frosting. MMMmmmm.
In keeping with the general theme, Mochi Mango Ice Cream. Mochi dough wrapped around sweet ice cream, each piece is about the size of a small muffin. So damn good. Available at Trader Joe’s, but also - to my delight - at COSTCO! I went through the whole box myself.
As I depend mainly on frozen dinners for sustenance, I’m always seeking out new and unusual varieties to add to my diet. So far, this year’s big winner has been Red Baron Stuffed Pizza Slices. Especially the “Pepperoni Pizza” and “Italian Sausage” varieties – “Five Cheese” and “Supreme Pizza” weren’t very good, and the “Garlic Chicken” variety made me gag.
But the other two have completely supplanted Hot Pockets, which I don’t bother buying anymore. I even tear up those “purchase-tracking” coupons begging me to save $1.25 on ONE box of Hot Pockets…sorry, I’ve made up my mind and I am NOT going back!!
I got addicted to Fanta during my many visits to Germany. The Geman variety tastes much better than the US version. In the US, it comes in orange, strawberry and pineapple (I think). Too bad it’s not that popular over here though.
Orange Fanta: Nectar of the gods