hmmm...delicious junk food

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I have a weakness of donuts, the gooier the better

So, what's your poison .......I mean, favorite junk food?

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I vote for really sloppy burritos with cheese strings that just won't stop.

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mmmm...yes, those sound good. And tons of chocolate mint ice cream for desert. ;D

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All washed down with lots of yummy fizzy coke.

[livaco]

tortilla chips & salsa (esp. pico de gallo)

salt & vinegar potato crisps/chips

Reese's peanut butter cups

root beer float

chocolate milk

NOT all of this at once, though....

[bixaorellana]

Announcement:

If anyone needs to get in touch with me, I am moving into Livaco's house.

[lagatta]

Are frites considered junk food? They do contain fat and salt. Good frites are divine. I like them with flavoured mayo as in Belgium. Especially hot and spicy, perhaps with harissa.

An interesting thing to do in a new country is go to a supermarket and look at the junk or snack food. There are usually flavours other cultures would never think of. Some are even worth trying, others are too frightening. (Photographers could really contribute to this thread).

Little interest in sweets, and none in fizzy sweet bevvies. I was so happy when someone made me cheese and herb shortbread cookies!

[bixaorellana]

Something that is deep fat fried .......... then dipped in mayonnaise? Come on, what do you think?

An alarming thing about most Mexican snack cakes is that they taste quite good -- not artificial. By "alarming" I mean that makes them tempting.

[lagatta]

Well of course in terms of fat, salt and calories, frites met (with in Dutch, meaning with some mayo substance) are certainly junk indeed. I was thinking, as in your Mexican snack cakes, of the fact that they don't really contain any strange frankenfood substances. I was just afraid they were somehow too virtuous or bourgie for this thread.

[livaco]

Aug 13, 2009 22:54:55 GMT bixaorellana said:

Announcement:

If anyone needs to get in touch with me, I am moving into Livaco's house.

;D Ha! Bixa, you are welcome anytime!!!

[bixaorellana]

Hee hee, LaGatta ~~ too virtuous, indeed! I guess the definition of "junk" food is food that doesn't give back enough nutrition for the sugars &/or fats consumed. Would everyone agree with that or not?

I doubt the snack cakes are preservative-free, they just taste more real to me than their counterparts in the States. Come to think of it, I haven't had a snack cake for @four years!

*fret fret*
Gee, Livaco, is there a chance we might be bad influences on each other?
(thanks for the welcome!)

[hwinpp]

I'm a bit confused by the term junk food as well. Is it fast food? Just American fast food (sorry Americans!), does it include Asian deep frieds? Asian fast food?

I like the donuts mentioned by D in the OP. Are your donuts round and filled with some jam? I thought in North America donuts were circular with toppings?

My favourite junk food right now, and I buy it every Saturday on my home from the office, are deep fried cookies/breads that I buy from a small cart standing in front of a school entrance. They have mini fried devils (it's a primary school), small balls of dough filled with either soy bean, yam or black bean paste, something that looks like a cherry tart from McD but filled with a savory mung bean mixture, and a couple of other things. I usually get 15- 20 pieces and have them for lunch at home.

[cristina]

My 2 favorite junk foods, aka things I love to eat but aren't so healthy, would be these 2 sandwiches:

1) Fried bologna on soft white bread smothered in mustard.
2) Braunschweiger on soft white bread smothered in mustard.

With both of these, although at different times, I will go for a week eating the same thing for lunch for a week. Then I'm OK. Once a year for each, tops.

Although I did the braunschweiger jag for 2 weeks in a row just last month. And I just checked, and it seems that braunschweiger is not completely bad for you, it does have redeeming qualities.

www.nutritiondata.com/facts/sausages-and-luncheon-meats/1330/2

I need to now go figure out how to insert a proper hyperlink.

Chocolate milk is really very good too. But not with either of these sandwiches.

[bixaorellana]

When I go stay with Livaco, I'm letting her have all the chocolate milk. I know where to draw the line.

I always though braunschweiger was real food, so your mentioning it in this thread gave me a bad moment until I opened the reassuring link. Whew!

Speaking of link -- by "proper hyperlink" do you mean clickable text? If so:

[url=http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/sausages-and-luncheon-meats/1330/2]braunschweiger facts[/url]

will give you braunschweiger facts

Note that you simply write your text, highlight it, click on the url button , then put an equal = sign after the first url and paste the url there.

[cristina]

Thank you! The = was not intuitive.

I will try to remember this. I have just finished a second glass of wine, though. No guarantees.

~C

[auntieannie]

I refuse to consider the delicious locally made ice-cream as junk food.

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Ice cream is an important dairy product.

[bixaorellana]

Well, no one has to accept my definition of what makes food junk. "Junk" is harsh, though. Really what I meant is "foods that shouldn't substitute for more healthful options". I'm such a fun person! ;D

On the other hand, I see a trend developing in the last two posts of "if I like it so much, it can't be junk!". I have a feeling LaGatta's frite fetish is in this camp.

[auntieannie]

I don't eat frites/chips often... it's all a question of moderation. So I am with Lagatta on that one.

[lagatta]

I eat frites very, very rarely. I know they are high in fat, salt and calories. The last time I had a "cornet" of frites was on my birthday this spring. I was just thinking that junk food usually involves a lot of chemical substances not found in nature, which was definitely not the case for these frites - though frozen packaged ones with a "crispy coating" definitely enter the chemical realm. I wasn't trying to claim that eating frites (or "natural" crisps cooked in sunflower oil in small batches) was good for the health or something people should be doing every day.

And as hwinpp asks, what of those yummy fried Asian snacks, like imperial rolls that are fried, but filled with vegetables and/or seafood, and typically eaten with lettuce leaves and other greens? (sort of a yin/yang of healthy/unhealthy).

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Interestingly enough, Quick, the #2 fast food chain in France (after McDonald's obviously) stopped salting their fries about a year ago. There are little packets of salt available for customers who want to use it.

Meanwhile people should know that thicker limp fries are much healthier than shoestring potatoes, because they absorb less oil.

[traveler63]

Mine is:

1. Pomme fretes with Black Truffled Stilton cheese.
2. Potato chips with vinegar and salt
3. Phish Food Ice Cream by Ben & Jerry. At least its only a quart.
4.

[auntieannie]

just had two (huge) squares of Frey Supreme Coffee & Cocoa milk chocolate.

[lagatta]

Currywurst has a museum, in Berlin of course: www.currywurstmuseum.de/

I remember that first hearing "Currywurst", I thought it might be just a sausage with curry spicing - sounded tasty. But no, it is served with ketchup with curry powder mixed in (though now there is a ready-prepared sauce). Sounds junky indeed.

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I can't resist chocolate either. Especially boxed chocolates. Yum.

[lagatta]

I don't like sweets. Love bitter chocolate in a mole sauce, though that is not junk food.

I crave salty things.

[auntieannie]

lagatta, I usually am more of a "savoury" person, too. I do like something sweet from time to time, though.

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I discovered the perfect bonfire treat at an event the other day.

Smores - you roast one or two large marshmallows over a fire, then you put them and a piece of dark or milk chocolate in between 2 graham crackers. Absolutely delicious!

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I was afraid you were going to say 'bacon wrapped marshmallows' or something like that.

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eeww...no, even I draw the line at that.