Do you have a secret food?

by Nicole Weston, Posted Oct 22nd 2006 @ 4:33PM

Reruns of Sex in the City, combined with a brief glance at this Chowhound thread, brought up the interesting topic of secret foods. The idea here is that every person, no matter how dedicated a foodie they are, has at least one "secret" food that they eat when there is no one else around. It could be sometime simple that you fall back on when you lack the time to cook, but it could also be something that you just don't want anyone else to see you eat. Are you a health food lover who indulges in a couple of Oreos and a big glass of milk when you have the afternoon off? Maybe you don't feel like cooking dinner and have a (frozen) waffle loaded with peanut butter instead.

Two favorites of mine are s'mores without chocolate, since it just seems slightly less guilt-inducing to have the molten marshmallow on crunchy grahams even though I might have a few more than I ordinarily would, and dry cereal (current fave is Honey Bunches of Oats), which makes a great snack when I don't feel like having anything salty.

'Fess up - what are yours?

Filed Under: Food Quest, Did you know?, Ingredients
Tags: comfort food, comfort foods, did you know, food, Food Quest, guilt foods, secret foods, secret snack, SecretSnack, single foods, snack

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10-22-2006 @5:07PM tr said... it would have to be reese's peanut butter cups and bananas. a bite of a cup, a bite of a banana, repeat. also, i've been known to eat lucky charms for lunch and dinner. i'm strange.
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10-22-2006 @5:25PM Mensch71 said... 1. Green olives chopped up and mixed with Philly cream cheese into a chunky spread. Smear on the little pumpernickel cocktail breads. Repeat. Salty, creamy carby goodness.

2. White powdered sugar donuts broken into bite sized pieces and dipped into raspberry preserves. For some reason, this is better than a fruit filled, powdered sugar donut.

3. Buttered saltines. There's no defense for this.
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10-22-2006 @5:28PM lauren said... Slim Jims.
No, not just beef jerkey -- thats not so bad, but the artificial, processed, slimy, long tube of tasty goodness that is a Slim Jim.
It is sooooo embarassing....
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10-22-2006 @5:38PM megsie8543 said... oreo mcflurry. i usually only get them when i travel alone, so no one i know realizes that i actually patronize mcd's.
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10-23-2006 @2:16AM Christy said... Cream cheese & saltines with the salty side down on your tongue. Very important detail.

Also, nutella with about anything.
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10-22-2006 @6:31PM random said... Tater tots.

Something about those little oven-fried potato gems just makes me happy. I'm notorious for eating a meal of nothing but tater tots.
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10-22-2006 @8:00PM lauren said... 1. an entire box of cereal
2. cookie dough
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10-22-2006 @8:17PM itsasecret said... I would tell you but it's a secret!
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10-22-2006 @8:18PM grumbler said... Eggo, peanut butter, nutella, and banana sandwich. breakfast of champions.

...or a turkey sandwich with ruffles. =)
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10-22-2006 @9:23PM Kris said... Fried onion and cream cheese sandwiches, and circus animal cookies (the pink and white ones), but not together.
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10-26-2006 @9:16PM Melissa Cartwright said... pretzels and cream cheese!!!
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10-22-2006 @10:24PM Seth Davis said... When I'm too lazy to cook: Amy's Organic Hot Black Bean Chili with Notta Pasta rice noodles, turkey bacon, Guiltless Gourmet Black Bean Dip, and hot sauce. I love it, my wife -- not so much.

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10-22-2006 @10:53PM Sera said... Chocolate, candy bars, Ice cream sandwitches, Mellowcreme Pumpkins, Jello sugar free puddings....the list goes on! Yum YUM!
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10-22-2006 @11:38PM Angela Pitt said... Now, if I told you, it wouldn't be a secret, would it?

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10-22-2006 @11:54PM evan d. said... Bread egg/egg in hole/egg in a basket....but using an Eggo waffle instead of the bread. I can put either away like they were pancakes.
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10-23-2006 @1:01AM matt said... cookie dough. the totally tubular kind. my tears make regular cookies soggy.
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10-24-2006 @7:18AM chef jason said... fritos and microwaved canned chili

processed cheese crackers - $.33 at the 7/11 and mountian dew
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10-23-2006 @1:22AM Mel said... Grilled peanut butter and cheese. mmm!
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10-23-2006 @2:22AM Becke (Columbus Foodie) said... My secret food would have to be Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Totally awful for me because it's so processed, but total comfort food.
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10-23-2006 @3:05AM melorama said... I definitely have some of the oddest "guilty pleasures":

Mayonnaise on steamed rice
Canned corned beef
Salt sprinkled on chocolate
Cheap pizza, periodically dunked in Pepsi like biscotti

When I was a kid, I enjoyed making and eating "bologna wraps", which consisted of a circle of cold, Oscar Mayer bologna, wrapped around a small ball of cold, leftover rice. I was doing this before the whole Spam musubi craze happened, so I would like to lay claim to having invented the original luncheon-meat musubi/maki :P
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