Foods you like a little too much ....

[megomania]

Store brand UNFLAVORED seltzer

I drink like a 6-pack a day

That's all we drink at home. Safeway plain seltzer...between my wife and I we go through at least 3-4 12 packs per week. They're always on sale too.

-Chris

[DaniellePlaysWithToys]

Cool Ranch Doritos.

[EmergencyIan]

This thread now has me wondering if I've ever had a real bagel.

You likely have not unless you went to a good bagel place when Mego Meet was in NYC.

I’m from Indiana and had not had a real bagel until I moved to NYC, even though I’d had “bagels” before.

- Ian

[JediJaida]

Paella with a big pot of beans on the side; made with ham, pork and sausage.

[Mikey]

Store brand UNFLAVORED seltzer

I drink like a 6-pack a day

[YoungOnce]

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These things are like crack cocaine....

[Mikey]

My ma used to make really great garlic bread

The end result was a huge pot of wet garlic dumplings

Nothing like today's garlic knots … These things were soft and wet

Unfortunately, she took most of her recipes with her

[The Nawd]

For me it would have to be pizza.

[Hector]

Bread. I eat bread everyday. If I remove that from my diet, I’d be a lot less fat, lol.

I can’t live without it. Love my baguette, chiabatta, sourdough, batard, birote, heck, even plain old white bread.

Love it with butter, mayo, olive oil, etc.

I eat bread day/night...with most of my meals. Unless it’s Mexican, then it morphs into corn and flour tortillas, lol.

Take away my bread and I will terminate you...

[TrekStar]

For me it's pizza, with just about any topping or just plain.

[JediJaida]

Corned beef hash with eggs. Ham steak with anything.

Pasta with meat sauce and sweet Italian sausages

[Brazoo]

It is the same thing. The "corned" of corned beef comes from the beef being cured with a large-grained salt rock, also called a "corn" of salt. I'm available for parties where I can bore you and your guests with all kinds of useless trivia.

Oh wow! That's great, because for some reason I was confused by "salt beef" but I guess I was always too dumb to bother looking up why corned beef was called corned beef. Haha!

[PNGwynne]

Are we discussing corned beef now? Because I can update my post on page 1. Yum.

[Wee67]

Oh man! That sounds fantastic!

Recently I was in London and there's these two super old iconic bagel shops where the thing is to get a salt beef sandwich (salt beef sounded kinda weird to me, but I'm pretty sure it's just corned beef).

It is the same thing. The "corned" of corned beef comes from the beef being cured with a large-grained salt rock, also called a "corn" of salt. I'm available for parties where I can bore you and your guests with all kinds of useless trivia.

As for my food kryptonite- soft pretzels. I love 'em. It may be the thing I miss most from my hometown of Philly. Yeah, yeah, friends and family, but I loves me some pretzels. BTW, did you know 80% of all pretzels produced in America are produced in Pennsylvania. I'm still available for those parties.

[Brazoo]

Aren't traditional bagels boiled in salted water first, then baked? That sounds challenging at home. Then again, I don't like to bake, just cook.

You're right, you boil them before you bake. That part isn't too big of a deal though. When I make a batch it's only 8 bagels.

I love cooking, but I only started baking a little over a year ago. Before that I had no interest. It seemed like you had to be too precise and seemed too fussy or something. It just never appealed to me.

I think the whole baking thing started after we moved. I didn't like the local pizza options so I started making my own pizza dough, and there isn't a bakery I like nearby so I experimented with a really simple white bread and it turned out okay, so I moved onto rye and bagels. I've also been making pretzel and potato buns for homemade burgers, and those are surprisingly easy to make and turn out amazing.

Now that I've gotten a basic handle on it hardest part is the kneading. I have really weak/bad wrists so the kneading has been doing some damage — but I've gotten hints that Hanukkah Harry might be getting me a mixer this year, so if that happens it will be a game changer!