I need to read about something that isn't politics, or the death of the internet, or what latest beloved cultural icon is literally satan.
This is one of my favorite 'get to know you' questions, and I don't think I've ever posed it to hubski.
If you had to eat a TON of something, like, as much as you possibly could, what would you be able to stuff yourself with?
This question has it's origins in me, pondering how big a bowl of Fruity Pebbles or Cocoa pebbles I could eat. I think I could probably empty a large mixing bowl (~1 gallon liquid capacity) at least once, probably more than that. When I think of how big a single container of fruity pebbles would have to be before I would cry uncle, I get a lil bit ashamed. I'm certain that fluid volume would do me in long before I was sick of the tasty bits.
Alternatively, tell me about a time you ate WAY too much as some kind of dare or challenge.
Ben. What a great question. I love food. I don't know if/how much we've had this conversation, but I f'in loooooove food. Please. Let me talk about food. On a Friday night with a monster-vodka and a half-smoked pre-roll, please, pray tell, Sir Ben, allow me to really get a kick out of this discussion. Yo, man, it is potato chips. That was one of the very first things I thought of when I considered your question, and the longer I thought about it the more I was like "Fuck yea fuckin potato chips for sure man, yeaaaaa!" I. Love. Potato Chips. I love cheddar & sour cream ripples (top tier). I love kettle-cooked jalapeno (top tier). I love barbecue and all stupid marketing ploys at different types of barbecue that come with it (silver medal). i love ripples with onion dip. (silver+ medal, dang, man) i love sour cream and onion (silver. too many? ok fine then bronze. but tied with salt and vinegar. i mean, damn, son!) It's snowing here in DE and earlier my sister and I went to stock up on provisions. The last time I did that at the same Happy Harry's we went to in our little town was in 2015, before an epic snowstorm, which I spent locked in with my then-boyfriend and read all of The Gunslinger and lived off of 2 bags of 20 oz chips and a lot of cigarettes and alcohol for forty-odd hours. It wasn't great, but it was a good time, and in retrospect, a beautiful time of itself. So I was thinking about chips already when you asked this. But damn! Ben, if it ain't right. I love lots of food; I love fried chicken and I love sushi and I love zuppa toscana (budget bytes recipe, google it, it's amazing), and i love cobb salads and i love hot chicken nuggets shaped like dinosaurs dipped in cold applesauce because it reminds me of childhood. and if i ever found a salad bar with these four ingredients, i'd make myself a plate and call it a salad: small diced ham, cold peas, shredded carrots, cheddar - bonus if you have french dressing - because when I was a kid Wendy's still had a salad bar and that's what my brother and I would get every time and that's the 'salad' I would eat every damn time. It would have to be at a Wendy's. And they don't ever have all 4 of those even at my work salad bar at the same time, and they stock that on the daily. Yo, such is life, folks. Food is not only delicious but super evocative for me, one of my favorite topics of conversation. But god damn. Mother fucking potato chips. Hands down, no denying, and I would be happy like, the whole entire time I was chowing down. I don't even want to know how much I could eat. Woooooof, thanks for asking :)
My mind went straight to pizza when I read the question, but how could I forget potato chips? Big yes to cheddar and sour cream ruffles and jalapeno kettle chips. I also like the salt and pepper kettle chips, plain ruffles, and spicy nacho cheese Doritos. I don't like barbeque, though. I eat the entire bag. Not "I can eat the entire bag," I do. Every time. The only reason I don't do it five days a week is my self control at the store. I've started using the cute amazing runner at my run club as inspiration to not buy them. "Someone like her probably doesn't date the kind of person who would eat an entire bag of chips." I still buy a bag every few weeks. It isn't stress eating or binging or anything. I barely even feel bad even knowing it's bad for me and could hurt my athletic performance.
Home made curry. I used to hangout with a bunch of Indian people and there was inevitably food involved and even more inevitably curry. In all its forms. I know curry is the leaf, but it's become the catch-all name for any combination of spices, herbs and masalas. I spent a week or so in hospital due to an eye infection and two of my friends brought in Indian food a few of times. After their first visit, that food was like nothing I'd ever experienced before. It was only made because they cared about me and my well-being. I'm a pretty tough cookie, but after they left I wept to myself like a little child. So. Curry.
Bought 170 oysters the other day and made a little oyster party with some friends. I don’t think I’ve ever reached my limit with oysters, where I don’t want more. Also, I’d eat berries every day. My favorite being blueberries and raspberries. And a piece of proper cheese is my little treat once in a while. I also love soups of all kind. Pho, Borstch, Goulash, creamy carrot soup, clam chowder, Tom yum - I love it all! There is just so much flavor in soups.
pizza is the only food i can eat forever by itself - all other food i need variety of to eat a lot this is why little caesars is good
One time I stress-ate an entire Little Caesar's Hot-n-Ready pizza during a football game. The only reason I didn't have more was because I had only bought one. Fortunately my body didn't balloon outward but I felt disgusted with myself for the next week. So yeah. Pizza.
The thought of eating more than one bowl of sugar cereal makes me nauseous. The consistency of the "grains," the spun sugar, get caught in your teeth, cloying fakeness of the flavors is one of the less appealing things that are consistently in my cupboard (my kid is allowed sugar cereal once a week). I can destroy about three big bowls of Cheerios, especially if thinly sliced fruit or blueberries are in them. I drink a ton of coffee. It's probably the food I consume the most of. Tiny splash of cream.
Probably seafood, I remember once eating so much crab while visiting my family I would have begged for a salad to change it up. Still one of my favourites and I bet I could eat a lot more if the mood struck. Same goes for sushi if I had breaks, and chicken fried rice without. I could make enough to feed a family and eat the whole thing. Cheese. Salami. Oysters. I just love food.
In general, if there is candy near me there will not be candy near me soon. There's a reason I need to exercise my willpower when doing groceries, because once it's in the house it will be in my tummy in a day or two. There are two things that I could eat way too much of: one, mothafuckin' chocolate-covered raisins (preferrably, dark chocolate): and two, white grapes. They just don't fill me up. I once caught myself eating a pound of grapes in like an hour.
When I was a kid, my parents decided that since I was fat it was probably because I was eating too much sugar. So there was no sugar in the house. They even hid the carob, as if anybody would voluntarily eat that shit. But my dad decided that he could buy carnation breakfast bars. I think I was maybe nine the year I ate two entire boxes in an afternoon. If you don't want your kid to be fat don't put boxes of candy bars down by the cereal asshats. ______________________________________ This was in New Mexico, which for some reason never developed the quesadilla. I grew up thinking they were some California airport abomination, not fit for proper authentic Mexican consumption. So considering how much I hated fucking New Mexico, I love quesadillas. When I lived in Seattle and only visited LA, I would attempt to eat a quesadilla for every meal. I still consider it nature's perfect food. However, I've never been able to eat more than one at a time.
I've gone quite a few days (individually) on just crunchy peanut butter. I eat it out of the jar with a spoon.
Lately it's been Tortilla chips, sliced almonds, and blackberries. In that order. In general, man, I can put down a ton of pizza if I feel like hating myself for a while.