BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...

Subject: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: gnu
Date: 14 Sep 09 - 08:14 PM

Got coupons in the mail for Big Macs and such.... once or twice a year, I do it. Today I got the BOGOF Macs and made one HUGE burger by taking out most of the buns. I struggled to jam the whole works down my throat in one decadent gorging, but I did it... until next year.

Now, KFC (crispy)... once evey two years... oooo... just felt my colon say WHAT? IS THAT ANYTIME SOON?

I had to do the Macs... I lost another two pounds in the past week.

So... what do you "do" once in a long while?

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Sep 09 - 08:18 PM

Sweet corn on the cob, with tons of butter and salt. Also, white jasmine rice (as opposed to the healthier, brown rice alternative).

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Sep 09 - 08:27 PM

Spam....as a kid, I loved fried Spam (with Ketchup)....now I remind myself about every 5 years. It still tastes....ummm... familar, but I never have the urge to buy another can.....for a few years.

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 Sep 09 - 09:06 PM

I spend about half my weekends at festivals of one sort or another, which means I'm around a lot of festival food. I can avoid most of it pretty easily, but once or twice a year I must have a really big smoked turkey leg.

It's not that I like them all that much, it's the act of eating them. Eating a smoked turkey leg is a publicly sanctioned form of disgusting primitive behavior. Turkey leg eaters become pretty much indistinguishable from Neanderthal Man. Just trade the Hawaiian shirts for bearskins, and we'd be right at home in Gorn's cave.

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: maire-aine
Date: 14 Sep 09 - 09:09 PM

A Sanders hot-fudge vanilla-icecream cream puff. I haven't had one in several years, but I can taste it in my head.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 14 Sep 09 - 09:46 PM

I have a cartoon in my collection that illustrates this situation.

Middle aged woman goes to pantry & pulls out boxes & bags of snack food & sits in front of TV munching with remote in hand. Sound balloons from TV are bits from soap operas, games & reality shows. In the last frame she staggers off, bloated & holding her stomach,thinking "For some reason now & then, it's something you have to do"

My favourite food is deep-dried yumminess, & every now & them I buy a bit, knowing it won't taste as good as it looks & I'm rarely disappointed.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: Beer
Date: 14 Sep 09 - 10:04 PM

Drink Beer.
Beer(adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: Maryrrf
Date: 14 Sep 09 - 10:21 PM

Fried baloney sandwiches on white bread. Sometimes when mom was out, Dad would make dinner and that's what he often fixed. My brother and I though it was a rare treat. He'd make slits in the boloney (technically "bologna" I guess, so it wouldn't curl up in the pan and we'd eat it on Wonder bread - no mayo or mustard, just the fried boloney in all it's salty goodness...

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: Alice
Date: 14 Sep 09 - 10:38 PM

A chocolate milkshake. Once every year or two.

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: frogprince
Date: 14 Sep 09 - 10:45 PM

When I saw the title, I thought it was about a problem with excess gas; I'll have to get back to you as regards a relevent. response

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: ranger1
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 12:21 AM

Dean, I thought the same thing. specially since it was right above the Spaw thread.

For me, it's a big bag of potato chips with a container of french onion dip. Or a bag of garlic bagel chips with a container of whipped cream cheese. I consider the Ben & Jerry's ice cream to be therapy...

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 12:53 AM

When I'm in Buffalo, NY (about twice a year), I have a double-order of wings extra hot, a pint of Guinness and a hot fudge sundae at the Shannon Pub.
And then for dessert......

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: akenaton
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 02:12 AM

Sex.......sadly.

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 10:06 AM

Life is short. Eat dessert first.

I take the line from Auntie Mame (Ros Russell) very seriously: "I want to LIVE, LIVE, LIVE!!!!" I intend to live until I die. Live every moment and love every moment. Pat Swayze is a great example!

That brownie with choc ice cream at the Cafe NamasThe has become weekly treat. But so is the music and if I clap enough, will I use up the calories?? Beer/Adrien and his gang were a terrific treat last week!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: bobad
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 10:30 AM

"Beer/Adrien and his gang were a terrific treat last week!!! "

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: gnu
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 10:35 AM

Terrific AND such kind hearts... they let a Hran player join in. Warms my heart... sniff...

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: SharonA
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 11:23 AM

Well, I must confess that I cut loose far more often than "every now and then" -- hence the obesity! -- but among the sinful treats I enjoy, there are two that will send me to a sub-basement of Hell:

1. Scrapple. It's gotta be Hatfield brand, because it's got the best blend of spices on the stuff IMO. It's gotta be fried up like scrambled eggs (mooshed up and pushed around in the frying pan), not fried as a whole slice nor flipped like a pancake (which burns the surface and leaves the inside too soft). For those who don't know what scrapple is, you may be better off not knowing, but you can read all the disgusting details here. Just to prove how bad it is for you, this page verifies that there are no healthy alternatives to it!

2. "Dulce de Leche" -- caramel pudding made by boiling sweetened condensed milk in the can. The food of the gods. Just don't do what my friend did (and I do mean my friend, not me!) and let the hot can explode hot pudding all over your kitchen walls, ceiling, curtains, etc. Looking at the aftermath of that incident kinda put me off dulce de leche for a while... but not forever!

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 11:33 AM

Now that I have high cholesterol, I've cut out meat, eggs, cheese, and butter, and so far lost 15 lbs in the first 3 months - but when I went camping, I *had* to eat the steak brochettes someone made, they were YUMMMMMY! The funny thing is, usually, I miss cheese way more than I miss meat. I think that once a year, I will have a cheese course. I already know that once a year, at this camping thing, I will eat meat. And love it.

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: RangerSteve
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 11:52 AM

A few things mentioned above - Spam and milkshakes. As for scrapple, it's available in most NJ diners south of I-78. I get my fill of it, since I'm a serious diner fan.

Fried seafood of any kind, except squid, which I don't consider to be food. Pecan Pie. Onion Rings - battered, not breaded. A few Chinese dishes - Walnut chicken or shrimp. Sweet and sour chicken. Fried wantons.
Mexican food - real Mexican food from a real Mexican restaurant - three enchiladas - one beef, one bean, one cheese with a huge helping of refried beans.
Sicilian style pizza. Reeses peanut butter cups. peanut butter and bacon sandwiches.

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 12:06 PM

It is far easier to stick to a diet if you allow a treat now and then. I lost 30 pounds in 4 months by sticking to: nonfat plain yogurt for break; salad and humous for lunch; brocoli and chicken breast (boneless, skinless) for supper, with salsa. But on Sunday - a cheese omelet with homefries and a double choc muffin which usually lasted me until Tuesday. I still stick to a low carb diet - except for treats now and then. Strict self-denial is not good for the soul but the music helps, yes?

Thanks for the u-tube post of Adrien and gang! Nice to share with the less fortunate.

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 01:03 PM

...but Imodium usually takes care of it.

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: frogprince
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 05:01 PM

Usually my self discipline isn't too bad, apart from Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. But, let me see a second piece of Banana Cream pie left over after others have had their first chance at it, and it's a "goner".

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: SharonA
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 05:32 PM

When I was a kid, my mother would sometimes make butter-and-sugar sandwiches for me. Butter spread on white bread, coated with white sugar, covered by another butter-slathered slice of white bread. I blame her for setting my feet on the path of self-destruction! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: frogprince
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 05:51 PM

My gosh; I know, somewhere back in the depths of my memory, that I've eaten butter and sugar sandwichs, but that hasn't crossed my mind in about a hundred and thirty-six or seven years. I do remember, continuing a lot longer in life, that she usually would have a little pie crust dough left over if she made pie, and that always got baked with sugar and cinnamin.

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 05:51 PM

"sweetened condensed milk" (Borden's Eagle Brand, of course)

Now SharonA had to go and remind me.. *sigh*...

When I was a kid, I just opened the can with a 'church key'...the kind that makes triangular holes..and pour it on a slice of bread. THAT one I now do even less often than Spam.....maybe every 6-8 years.

(we kept it in the fridge, and when it was getting low, I'd tilt it up and blow in the small hole to force a bit out the large hole... I was usually careful)

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: Gervase
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 05:55 PM

Marzipan for me - I'll buy a half-pound block and usually end up demolishing it in an afternoon.

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: open mike
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 07:08 PM

pickled herring and caviar in a tube
http://www.flickr.com/photos/candleshoe/2819083771/
on any Swedish special occasion...
and a new treat i just discovered
(also a Swedish tradition...crawdads
or crayfish..especially in August!)

and since aquavit is difficult to find
here, it is an only an occasional treat.

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: Maryrrf
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 07:49 PM

I wish I hadn't seen that mention of sweetened condensed milk/dulce de leche. Fortunately I don't have any in the cabinet, otherwise I'd be reaching for it. My great grandmother used to babysit me when I was little and I still remember those butter and sugar sandwiches on white bread - they were sooooo good. (Trying to resist the urge to go make a butter and sugar sandwich...)

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 08:06 PM

butter & sugar?

Now, my mother used to make cinnamon toast with lots of butter and a thick coating of sugar...with a coating of cinnamon. The sugar was little rolling hills of sweetness, not just a light sprinkle like I see these days. I made some...oh...maybe 2 years ago.

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: Bert
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 08:30 PM

Lardy cake does it for me. Trouble is that I can't make just one, 'cos everyone in the family wants one as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: Maryrrf
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 08:39 PM

Oh yes, cinnamon toast is another variation of the "butter and sugar and white bread" theme - and a delicious one it is! Yeah those were the days, when no one stinted on the good stuff. Slather the white bread with butter and, as Bill said, plenty of sugar topped with cinnamon. Pop under the broiler till it bubbles. I make it maybe every six months but of course now I'm rather stingy with the butter and sugar because I feel guilty about the calories, and I make it on whole wheat bread. This is a very dangerous thread. I have all the ingredients on hand to make this sinful cinnamon toast....

Subject: RE: BS: Every now and then, I just cut loose...
From: Janie
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 09:37 PM

Not to imply that my dietary habits are otherwise very good these days, but....A Shoney's Hot Fudge Brownie about once every 3 or 4 years.   Rich, large chocolate brownie, vanilla ice cream, loaded with hot fudge, whipped cream, and a cherry on the top.