OK, so here's the place to discuss junk food. What IS junk food? And
what kinds can't you  live without?? :-)

21 responses total.

[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'.

Funyons
Pork Rinds
Little Debbie anything

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. 

Cinnamon toast. Sweet & Salty Bugles. 

Pringles.  No redeeming nutritional value that I can find.

It feeds the soul!

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!

I have a weakness for pretzels, the saltier the better.

my favorite right now is baked cheetos.  But my old standard is fritoes.

Pretzels dipped in chocolate... popcorn and chocolate... yummm

Marshmallows.  In jello.  With Cool Whip.

The trifecta of glorious junk food.

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".

It was the fifties.  Nuff said. ;-)

Um...it bound fruit together, so it became a de facto "fruit salad?"

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".

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.

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.

resp:17 oh yeah! :) 

I love pretzels in chocolate.  yum.

I like pretzels and ice cream.  A bite of sweet followed by a
contrasting bite of salty.  Sort of a yin-yang experience.  Ommm....

oh that reminds me.  when I was a kid I LOVED ice cream and potato 
chips.  Same concept as #20

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