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?
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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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10-22-2006 @ 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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10-22-2006 @ 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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10-23-2006 @ 1:22AM
Mel said...
Grilled peanut butter and cheese. mmm!
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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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10-23-2006 @ 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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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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10-23-2006 @ 3:07AM
melorama said...
Oh yeah, another vote for those awful, pink and white circus animal cookies....Oh how I love them so!
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