Odd Food Cravings

[Lynn Nightshade]

Ugh, the munchies are terrible. Especially when you've got nothing good to eat in your house, or your friends (who happens to be your next door neighbor) house. Although, the last time I was stoned... I didn't have the munchies, for the first time ever, but that's another story, for another thread.

I'll get the weirdest cravings out of nowhere. It's just bizzare...

I think the weirdest craving I've had, is Taco Bell's hard tacos (no lettuce) at 3:30 AM. They're the only thing I'll eat there, except maybe for their Chilli Cheese Burrito...

[Fox Birch]

guacamole chips with canned tuna as a dip sorta thing. best munchie-cure ever.

[Nie]

I had a real craving for coffee today. This is odd because I really don't drink coffee all that often. I think it's because I've now been working in a coffee shop for a month and the aroma is getting to me. I'm going to end up a coffee addict no doubt. I had a creme brulee which is a flavoured iced coffee thing. It was really yummy.

I also really wanted a burrito. I didn't get that though.

[En]

Watch that coffee addiction... I think I've gone without my two cups a day maybe four times in the last ten years, and wow, you don't want to see me on a no-coffee day Part of it's the writer mystique (I mean, I've got an image to maintain here!) but part is that I learned my coffee abuse habits from my stepmum, who got it from her medical school classmates....

I want orange juice so bad, I may have to go to the grocery on my lunch break. What's weird is that I just ate a brownie and that's what made me want orange juice. *shrug*

[Jameson]

I'm terrible for food cravings. I get hooked on a particular foodstuff and then I'll spend about a month eating it constantly until I overdose and make myself sick of it.
I had really bad cravings for cheesecake yesterday, which is an addiction thats gone on for quite a few months now. I ended up eating half a cheesecake and made myself feel queasy. I actually thought I'd killed that addiction but I'm craving it again today.
Rich tea biscuits are my latest craving - dipped in cold milk. You have to time it just right so that they're soggy enough but if you leave it too long the biscuit breaks off and thats a complete disaster.
I'm substituting biscuits for meals at the moment because it's cheaper.

[En]

Ahaha... I lived on those shortbread biscuits that come in the plaid packages, while I was in Britain last fall...

[Natz]

Oh dear don't get started on the shortbread biscuits. Those are really addictive. I've only just managed to get off them after two years. Mini cheddars are addictive but now i don't touch them after that was all we lived on in the heat in spain. My gran brought a suitcase full. I now hate them and i'm slightly scared of them.

I was craving soup in work today but i couldn't afford it because of the train fare.

Cup of tea seemed to kill that craving. This puzzled me a bit. I don't even like tea that much and yet i drank a cup of it. Perhaps it was because it was cold.

[Jameson]

Ew..I don't like shortbread. It's too buttery tasting for me. It's always packed in fancy tins and packets like it's only marketed at tourists. Is shortbread a scottish thing? I've noticed it's always in tartan boxes.
Mini cheddars are seriously addictive. You can never just have one can you. I prefer cheesy Wotsits though.
I once ate eight packets of Disco crisps and was sick. I have a fear of those now.

[Calavera Diablos]

- Vegetable curry and steamed rice with mini eggrolls, Roasted&salted sunflower seeds with Martinelli's sparkling cider.

En- I think I know the shortbread you're talking about, I always pick it up from the Starbucks, is it Walkers pure butter shortbread?

[En]

I've had Walkers (and loved them, yay!), but these were Macsomething. And the reason I lived on them was because I kept getting them free I dunno what it is, but I have this 'buy me biscuits' look about me, unless I'm in a pub and then it's 'buy me stout.' This is not a disadvantage, especially when one likes butter-taste and stout a good deal, as I do ;D

Shortbread Scottish? Dunno... seems too sweet. Whenever I imagine my handful of Scottish ancestors eating, it's brown bread or mutton. --Maybe you have to have met them. They were Calvinists

I never got into mini-cheddars. Bad experience with Goldfish at an early age.

Made spaghetti last night and used a canned sauce that was labeled low-sugar, thinking that would make it less sweet, but they must have used really sweet tomatoes or something. It was vile. I hate sugary pasta sauce. Back to Alfredoland....

[Natz]

I think it is actually scottish. The difference is though you are paying more for the tarten box. You can just get ordinary ones at the supermarket.

En hope you don't mind me asking but what has a goldfish got to do with mini cheddars?

With pasta sauce here its best to make your own. Buy two tins of tomatos and then pour them over the partially bolied pasta and then bake in the oven add cheese and herbs. Pasta bake and you save about 1.20

Not bad getting things for free En.

[En]

Sorry... Goldfish are a brand of crackers here, not unlike mini-cheddars in a general way.

Hm, maybe I'll give that baking idea a go... me and kitchens are like baking soda and vinegar, but I'm desperate enough to try

Free is not bad. I just worry that I'm using up all my good karma sometimes, and it does seem one needs good karma for things other than biscuits and beer

[Calavera Diablos]

Heh, I've alwasy prefered the Cheddar Goldfish (and Pretzel *drool*) to anything else cheesy like "Cheese Nips" for example. Ugh.

En- You should buy "Nanny Ogg's Cookbook" byt Terry Prachett (author of the Discworld series). It has a few jokes recepies (like the entire section of Dwarf Pastries) in there, but my friends and I are testing our cooking skills by making meat pies, little old world scones and marzipan pastries that look like rats.

I have this subconcious puppy dog look whenever I see someone eating raspberry scones, but I never accept free food. Makes me guilty for not paying for it

[Lynn Nightshade]

En said:

I am in dire and desperate need of pizza. Specifically, meat lovers' or taco pizza. Like, I can feel the cheese on my tongue, I want it so badly.

Unfortunately, pizza is expensive and I have to go home for lunch

I ment to ask about this sooner, but I plum forgot all about it

En- what in the devil is taco pizza?

[Fantasia]

hmmm...I'm not sure, but it sounds meaty. eek! I love pita bread. It's so versatile! you can stuff any lil' tidbit into it and it tastes great, since pita has a relatively flat taste. It's so cool! for lunch today I put tuna fish inside, and it was great. For dinner, I cut up a veggie burger and stuffed it inside, along with a liberal amount of ketchup. Yay, pita bread! ;D