So it's almost time to have made a decision about lunch, at least for those of us on the East Coast, but no PeeP Post yet. What up with that?
So in honor of the man, I will bring the discussion to Peeps The worst sweet treat I've ever had. Marshmellow covered in sugar. Thank God they only come out once a year during Passover.
Wait, what, they now have Peeps in the shape of Christmas trees too? Shit. I hate Peeps.
Peep is still ok in my book
So in light of gross foodstuffs (eg: peeps) What is your snack kryptonite? Can you live the rest of your life without eating one more Funyon? Would you rather get into a street fight with Mike Tyson than eat a Circus Peanut? Are you unoriginal enough to say that you hate Black Licorice?
I'll catch you around the lunch counter today folks. Stay warm out there when you get your lunch. Oh yeah, what'll it be that you're eating?
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My snack kryptonite:
Pretzels. That's right. I hate pretzels. When I get a bag of mixed chex mix, I throw the pretzels out. WHen I'm on a plane that dishes out those little snack packs, if its pretzels and not peanuts I heave a big sigh and say "no thanks, i'm fine!"
There are exceptions to the pretzel rule:
Large soft pretzels with mustard.
Snyders of Hanover mustard flavor pretzels.
Any other pretzel can go twist itself into a knot, cover itself in sodium iodide, and bake itself under 350 degree temperatures for all I care
Booooo to those spicy gumdrops and jelly beans EXCEPT the black ones...I actually love licorice. Not a fan of peeps either, but I'm sure HT has enough love for them for the rest of us.
Today was going to be soup day here in the dept. Apparently they use one of those big catering style coffee pots to make soup in. Everyone brings in an ingredient, throws it in the pot and wa-ta-da, stone soup. This will be delayed until tomorrow it seems since the only ingredients present are broth, beans and onions... which means I am left lunchless. ACK!!
I do not like peeps unless they are battling in a microwave.
I stay away from black licorice.
Ixnay on the combos as well.
BBQ-flavored chips and those caramel bulls-eye things (individually, although I'm sure that a combo platter of BBQ chips and bulls-eyes would induce vomiting). Caramel itself is heaven. I'm always a fan of butter cream frosting on anything. But combine the two and allow it to get stale you have something I wouldn't eat if I were trapped on a desert island.
Lunch today will be something from the work caf, because it is too freakin' cold to go anywhere else!
Lunch today for me too will be from the cafetorium. Though it will probably be overrun by the other folks like me who don't want to bundle up and venture into the freezing cold.
All that will be left will be radishes and tarragon.
I love Peeps! (PeeP however, is a whore)
I could exist solely on snack foods, as I love most all of them. Black licorice not so much, and I'm not a big fan of orange-flavored things, but the rest of it is mostly divine. The list of snack foods and candy I love is way too long to mention here though.
I don't like chocolate so much (though the dark chocolate M&Ms are tasty) and I'm not huge on the aforementioned flavors, and I'm not a huge fan of fruit pies. (Pie is a snack, right?)
Last night I snacked on the following instead of dinner:
Pate on Table Water Crackers
Some kind of italian dried sausage, similar to, but not actually, pepperoni
Marshmallows
Swiss Cheese
Cornichons
NO worries HT, Last night instead of dinner I had Doritos (nacho), Left over Wasabi peas, and yellow Gatorade. I ate terribly yesterday.
I'm with you on the Pretzels Dog. I totally trash them when they show up in my Chex mix too. However, I will eat all three of them in an airplane pack. If you don't occasionally face the monster, you won't remember why or how much you hate them.
GG, you must be my Bizaro blogger since I enjoy barbecue chips and love the 'caramel cremes' I'm only about 46% in love with bbq potato chips, but I'm at like 94% in love with honey bbq fritos, so it averages out to 70% and where I come from, that's a C- which is good enough for me.
Jo, peep battles are funny, but does anybody eat them afterwards? I hope not, Radiation can't help those awful things.
Peep, I wanted to include everybody in my comment, but you're making it hard with your level of effort. Combos, yeah. Circus... I mean orange chalk, yuck.
Helio - I ate the Peeps, post fight. They were delicious. Tasted like toasted marshmallows, only crispy.
Yum.
i hate peeps (but not PeeP) back in college my stepdad got it in my head that i liked those little fuckers and would send boxes of them at every holiday. luckily i had a roommate that ate the hell out of them. i personally will not eat any of the blue snack foods. i pick the blue m&ms out. also i hate fake strawberry flavor, blah! real strawberries are great, but fake takes like hand lotion to me.
but i like pretzels (any kind) and LOVE licorice. combos are ok, but i always feel like shit after eating them.
lady a, thats so sad about your soup!
watchdog, your cafitorium has tarragon? just tarragon, or tarragon on something? like tarragon salad? or tarragon chicken?
lunch today will probably be a turkey sammy. not hungry yet though, just had brekky about an hour and a half ago.
I not only hate Peeps; I find myself reevaluating my valuation of people I know when I find out they love Peeps.
That said, I support the idea of Peep-jousting, although I have never seen it happen. I assume this can only be because the entire time I lived in a house with at least two Peep-jousting enthusiasts, we never had a microwave.
I love pretzels. WD/Helio - we should hang out when you're knocking back Chex mix. I'll bat cleanup for you.
Much like McDonald's cherry pies, I don't ever find myself craving caramel creams, but I'll eat a bowlful of them if they are in arm's reach.
I also like BBQ flavored chips, but I tend to burn out on them much quicker than most other flavored chips.
So, that's how I stack up with most of your answers. (I can take or leave the licorice, Lady A.) In the immortal words of that sage and poet Will Hunting, "Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or, do you - is that your thing? You come into a bar, you read some obscure passage and then pretend - you pawn it off as your own, as your own idea just to impress some girl and embarrass my friend?"
Yes. You know what I really can't stand? Butterscotch anything, but especially those yellow cellophane-wrapped hard candies. It makes my stomach churn and my heart die. The worst of it is when you think it's caramel (like on a make-your-own-sundae bar or something) and dive in to it like it's caramel and then find out that you just ruined your sundae with butterscotch. Gross.
How ya like them apples?
For lunch today, I'm going to have a can of Giant-brand Campbell's Chunky Soup knock-off. I think Roasted Chicken with Rotini and Penne Pasta. I'm busy busy with editing the script for my online training module for preventing, detecting, and addressing sexual misconduct. Nothing says "cheer up" like talking about child molestation.
mmmmmmmmmm butterscotch. you can put butterscotch on anything and i'd eat it. or caramel. but i dont like the texture of the creme in those little carmel creme candies. ick, it feels like plaque after a night of margaritas.
I love funyuns...I won't regularly eat them but when the craving hits I'll eat an entire bag.
what are those caramel creamy things called..cow tails? Yum.
like my local child sex crimes detective always says... "if it feels like 3 or more fingers, It's probably a dick" put that shit on line
I like the yellow Brach's candy, but hate the rest of butterscotch just like Quake. The most vile is the snack pack pudding in that flavor. Blech.
We have a 'Professional' series microwave in the house now. Aww Yeah.
There are Doritos flavors out there that are like kryptonite to me. Buffalo Ranch for one. If I were in charge of Mad Magazine, I'd totally have a fake ad for Buffalo Retch Doritos.
those butterscotch snack packs are good frozen.
Of course you can eat Peeps after they are microwaved! Don't you know that radiation makes all of your food healthier, and tastier? Embrace mutations--it's how evolution works. (This bit of government-sponsored propaganda was brought to you by my employer, who shall remain nameless in the interest of blogger anonimity).
Booo..my lunch was crap. I picked up a veggie hummus wrap from TJ's....bland bland bland.
Sorry guys, I tried to help Peep but it was about as useless as mushy sugar coated packing peanuts.
I had the Taqueria Arandas today ... so I'm waiting for the "Grease Explosion"(TM) later today. Similiar to that new show on television but it doesn't stink as bad.
3 fajita tacos with the home made flower tortillas cheese, pico, and lettuce
mmmmmmm
Oh ... and I need to do some sort of crazy import from this site to the new one... it is shaping up pretty well.
blt with turkey on wheat toast. potato salad. vitamin water to drink.
Tried to order sushi to be delivered (from Ichiban, LT) because I am NOT going outside but they aren't answering their phone. I will likely go without lunch as a result.
Update:
They finally answered the phone for sushi! Therefore, I will be having sushi for lunch!
Quiet in here lately.
Initial edits out the door! And only a week late!
I wish I had more than soup for lunch. HT, you wanna toss a little raw fish this way?
Yesterday you call me Canadian and today you want my raw fish? My, how the worm has turned.
Sushi was good, though they forgot soy sauce, so I went without. Not ideal by any means.
I don't think it's all that much of a stretch. Who do you think invented eating raw fish?
Canadians. Duh.
I was underwhelmed with my lunch today, so I'm thinking about knocking my socks off with dinner. Any big ideas out there?
Steak
I concur with the Czar.
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