A few times a year, I get a hankerin’ for… gas station cheeseburgers. Of the 7-11 Kwick-Stop variety. Made with “meat” and “cheese”.
So, so good. Once or twice a year. 
AM/PM actually has “decent” beef patties for their hamburgers. Back when I was running couriers a couple of those (infinitely customizable) burgers were my go-to lunch on the road.
I thought I was the only one! I adore fruitcake that has been properly cured with a good deal of Canadian whisky or bourbon.
I prefer canned corn. I live in a region where fresh sweet corn on the cob is cheap, easy to find and fresh, but I’ll take the canned stuff. Corn on the cob is too much work. It’s too messy. You’re not really even ‘eating’ the corn but just popping little corn zits and sucking on the juice. Canned tastes just fine.
Kraft Singles American cheese is not really cheese, but it is the only way to make a proper grilled cheese sandwich.
Marshmallows, Peeps and black licorice are better stale.
Were you working when The Lakers and The Celtics were playing in the NBA playoffs in the 80s? The place rocked. My favorite pizza was chicken, pineapple, cilantro, onion and extra garlic.
Tommys Double chilicheese burgers with extra everything
Modelo Negro and straight peanut butter
Fake paranormal programs on the Travel Channel
Fireball
I like fresh corn on the cob well enough to go through the bother occasionally, but I absolutely agree with you that canned corn is totally fine. I make a lot of bean and vegetable soups, and a can or two of corn goes into the crockpot almost every time. Given the alacrity with which my soup is usually consumed, it can’t be THAT bad.
LOL. sounds like some constipated ‘I’m a REAL man’ type strutting around beating his chest, eating raw meat, not wiping his butt, all-man all the time. No girly stuff for el macho! … Maybe a body builder.
j/k. but I’ve actually run across that type before. all tough guy, like Austin Powers, as if anyone is actually impressed and not laughing at the cock o’ the walk.
I’ll add Olive Garden and Applebee’s to my list too
It’s gotten much better. They revamped their recipe sometime about a decade or so ago, and now they’re actually pretty decent. They were the nadir of fast food for me before, now I actually enjoy them. (I can’t say the same about Papa John’s though. I used to like them in high school when I couldn’t stand Domino’s, and now it’s exactly the opposite for me.) As pineapple on pizza was mentioned, when I was in college and folks decided on ordering Domino’s, the only pizza of theirs I could stand was pineapple and ham. Something about that combo made it edible to me.
For me, McDonald’s. Of the big three (McD’s, BK, and Wendy’s) McDonald’s is my favorite. I typically order off what once was the dollar menu, but now is just a generic $1 $2 $3 menu. The McDouble suits me just fine, and when they have the limited edition jalapeno McDouble, I go nuts for that. And that has, in the years past, been a $1.50 item. Otherwise, if I’m not ordering off the dollar menu, the Quarter Pounder with Cheese or, now, their crispy buttermilk chicken sandwich.
I’m sure in most places in America (or around the world) Dominos/Pizza Hut/Papa Johns/Little Caesar’s are the best you can get. But I grew up outside New Haven and there are really fine, world-class pizza places in and around the city and there is a huge difference between a pizza from Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana and one from Pizza Hut. (And yet, as a kid growing up, we ate at Pizza Hut fairly regularly. In my memory, it was better back then and it was a sit-down in-restaurant experience, with a pitcher of soda, a salad bar and a waitress.)
And I’m sure there’s pretty good pizza in New York City as well.
I would be very surprised if those 4 were the best options for most of the US. Maybe by land area, but not by population. DC’s a pretty shitty pizza town, but there are at least a handful of places within walking distance and a half dozen delivery places better than all those. That being said, Dominos is perfectly acceptable pizza. I remember it being quite bad growing up, but I think their revamp on the recipe has been great for them.
It’s also hard to beat their prices. When you want to feed a family of four for cheap and don’t feel like cooking, there’s always some deal out there either at Domino’s or Pizza Hut or wherever. And Domino’s has plenty of locations in New York City and the metro area, a city where you can find plenty of great pizza, and they seem to survive fine there, so, clearly, there are people who like it and/or find the value worthwhile.
During the 85 and 87 runs I worked the Coop a few of the games. Crazy, but not as crazy as the Jane’s Addiction show in 87. That was a madhouse.
Lost me there.
I love bacon as much as anyone but overcooking it is a sin. My BiL doesn’t like it till it crumbles like sawdust. Heathen.
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It’s not food but I like the stereo ear plugs from the dollar store and the wireless Bluetooth plugs from 5 Below. They sound great to me. And if I lose or break them who gives a rip? I couldn’t imagine paying a bunch of money for them. My daughter paid over $100 for some Bluetooth buds and they perform nor sound any better than the pair I paid 5 bucks for. Insane.
I like Justin Bieber as an individual. I don’t really listen to his music, but he is a self made multi multi millionaire who got to where he is without family connections. He donates a lot of time and money to charity, and only John Cena has done more make a wish charity events than Bieber. He got rich doing what he loves and he does more for charity than most of us ever will.
I also like food from gas stations. Gas station pizza, slushies and hot dogs are pretty good.
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I forgot to mention: It’s also the standard that defines whether anyone else is supposed to like it.
SOME of you guys are in serious violation.
Grapefruit. In any form. Canned grapefruit segments, grapefruit juice, fresh grapefruit. I love the stuff.
And I’m not supposed to have it.
But every so often, I’ll head to the produce department and buy a jar of ruby red grapefruit segments packed in grapefruit juice.
Then I will scurry home, hide in a corner, pop the lid, and dive into bliss.
Sometimes I can make the jar last two or three days. Other times, I eat the whole thing in one sitting.
And then I drink the juice.
After a grapefruit orgy, I figure I’m supposed to drop dead, because grapefruit conflicts with so many prescription medications.
I think I’m due for a jar…
~VOW