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denise
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Junk Food
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Sep 5 19:45 UTC 2007 |
OK, so here's the place to discuss junk food. What IS junk food? And
what kinds can't you live without?? :-)
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denise
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response 1 of 21:
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Sep 5 19:47 UTC 2007 |
[A side note: we do have a 'comfort food' item here, too. Though some
comfort foods are considered as junk food, there are many of the
comfort foods that aren't 'junk'.
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edina
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response 2 of 21:
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Sep 5 19:48 UTC 2007 |
Funyons
Pork Rinds
Little Debbie anything
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jadecat
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response 3 of 21:
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Sep 5 20:54 UTC 2007 |
Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs... but only near Easter. *grins* Actually,
most anything peanut butter and chocolate.
I consider junk food to be foods that might taste mighty good but tend
to have more negatives to them than positives. Like the fat to calorie
ratio, or the type of fats... and so on. I will still eat 'junk' food,
but I really try to limit the quantity.
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samiam
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response 4 of 21:
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Sep 5 21:56 UTC 2007 |
Cinnamon toast. Sweet & Salty Bugles.
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cmcgee
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response 5 of 21:
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Sep 6 00:01 UTC 2007 |
Pringles. No redeeming nutritional value that I can find.
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edina
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response 6 of 21:
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Sep 6 00:14 UTC 2007 |
It feeds the soul!
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slynne
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response 7 of 21:
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Sep 6 01:07 UTC 2007 |
I like pringles and well, pretty much most kinds of chips.
The ultimate junk food, in my mind, has almost no nutritional value at
all, being pretty much pure sugar. Gummy Bears!
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remmers
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response 8 of 21:
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Sep 6 09:49 UTC 2007 |
I have a weakness for pretzels, the saltier the better.
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furs
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response 9 of 21:
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Sep 6 10:17 UTC 2007 |
my favorite right now is baked cheetos. But my old standard is fritoes.
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jadecat
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response 10 of 21:
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Sep 6 12:43 UTC 2007 |
Pretzels dipped in chocolate... popcorn and chocolate... yummm
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mary
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response 11 of 21:
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Sep 6 13:28 UTC 2007 |
Marshmallows. In jello. With Cool Whip.
The trifecta of glorious junk food.
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edina
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response 12 of 21:
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Sep 6 16:18 UTC 2007 |
Mary, I'm totally giving you the "rock on" sign for your jello
suggestion.
Someone has to explain to me how jello came to ever be called "salad".
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mary
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response 13 of 21:
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Sep 6 16:49 UTC 2007 |
It was the fifties. Nuff said. ;-)
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samiam
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response 14 of 21:
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Sep 6 16:57 UTC 2007 |
Um...it bound fruit together, so it became a de facto "fruit salad?"
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cmcgee
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response 15 of 21:
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Sep 6 17:15 UTC 2007 |
In one of my grandmothers' hand-me-down cookbooks, there are several
molded salads that used plain gelatin to hold raw vegetables together.
I suspect flavored gelatin and fruit were a simple step "forward".
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edina
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response 16 of 21:
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Sep 6 17:32 UTC 2007 |
My ex (who is from Ireland) loved to deride me for jello salad recipes
I'd grown up on. Then I pointed out a lamb aspic recipe that I came
across in an Irish cookbook. It was interesting to watch him spin
that one.
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denise
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response 17 of 21:
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Sep 7 00:45 UTC 2007 |
Re-10: <<Pretzels dipped in chocolate... popcorn and chocolate... >>
I was thinking exactly those things just last night. Chocolate and salty
stuff really do go well together. At the movies, I used to almost
always bring some chocolate to have with my popcorn. I handful of
popcorn and a bite of chocolate... Good pretzels with chocolate is
great, too. I've even tried a sample once of a chocolate covered potato
chip that tasted good, too.
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jadecat
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response 18 of 21:
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Sep 7 01:16 UTC 2007 |
resp:17 oh yeah! :)
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furs
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response 19 of 21:
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Sep 7 12:02 UTC 2007 |
I love pretzels in chocolate. yum.
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remmers
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response 20 of 21:
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Sep 7 12:20 UTC 2007 |
I like pretzels and ice cream. A bite of sweet followed by a
contrasting bite of salty. Sort of a yin-yang experience. Ommm....
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furs
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response 21 of 21:
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Sep 8 23:49 UTC 2007 |
oh that reminds me. when I was a kid I LOVED ice cream and potato
chips. Same concept as #20
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