Food

Nov. 10th, 2004 06:13 pm
stoutfellow: (Ben)
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Sometimes I get a little insecure about my tastes in food.

At age 46, I still like peanut butter. I buy 40 oz. jars of Jif Extra Crunchy and consume them in about two weeks. I eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I eat peanut butter sandwiches. I eat it with a spoon. I smear it on celery. If there's no bread, I'll smear it on a slice of cheese and eat it that way.

I like root beer. The department secretary keeps the fridge in the faculty lounge stocked with soft drinks. (We pay her $.50 a can.) At my request, she makes sure there are always a few cans of A&W in there. I think she smirks behind my back.

I like macaroni and cheese; it's one of my comfort foods. Stouffer's and Marie Callender make fish/mac & cheese dinners, and I buy one maybe once a month.

I get to feeling like one of the great unwashed when I think about these things.

But then I get to thinking something else. I've eaten and enjoyed escargot in Paris, rijstafel in Amsterdam, and bouillabaisse in Marseilles. I've had spaghetti carbonara in Rome, calamari in Venice, and truite almondine in Tours. I've eaten shortbread on the island of Mull. (I've also eaten poi on Oahu, but I didn't enjoy that.) I've made my own pad thai, frittata, and lasagna (with and without spinach). I make two kinds of quiche, and I've even baked my own bread, although not in quite a while. [NB: I'm not bragging; I'm strictly a by-the-book cook. The only virtues I can claim here are a willingness to try things and the ability to follow instructions.]

I still like peanut butter, and root beer, and mac & cheese; but I'm not so insecure about it after that.

Date: 2004-11-11 12:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] allyra.livejournal.com
I love all those things, too, and I'm not ashamed of it! Though I don't much care for A&W...I'm a Hires girl!

I also love grilled cheese with tomato soup.

I suppose I'm a simple child, but why waste money on fancy foods when the simple ones taste so much better?

Date: 2004-11-11 12:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stoutfellow.livejournal.com
I also love grilled cheese with tomato soup.

Mmm, yes. (Drat, now I've got to go to the store ASAP.)

Date: 2004-11-11 12:57 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] nlbarber
Count me in for the peanut butter and mac & cheese, though you can have all the root beer. I had to cut back on both when I changed my diet last year, though peanut butter and almond butter are now back as guilty snacks. And I'll eat almost any mac & cheese: Kraft stuff in the blue box to a gourmet version I made once that had a hunk of whole-milk mozzarella buried in the middle of the dish. You baked it, then dug down into the casserole to get some of the melted pure cheese in each serving.

I'm not going to think about how many Weight Watchers points that would be...

Date: 2004-11-11 01:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hornedhopper.livejournal.com
"Current mood: defiant"

Snort! Like you have to defend the American Way, or something (g)!

Although I have a wide-ish variety of things I *will* eat, I end up eating the same things every lunch and breakfast. Every day. Before, it was cereal for breakfast and yoghurt plus apple for lunch. Since my stomach went wonky several years ago, I changed to a half bagel for breakfast with cream cheese and a half bagel for lunch with either hummus or pieces of either pepper jack cheese or dill Havarti. Other people find that strange, but it comforts me, and it's all I can eat at a time. In fact, I'm going to go make one for dinner, now that I think of it.

Fish and fish-related things are right out, though.

Date: 2004-11-11 01:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kd5mdk.livejournal.com
I'm in favor of all those foods. (Well, I've had none of the ones you mentioned overseas.) I suppose the insecurity is supposed to set in some time past 21?

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