Eaten Up

Pinch My Salt’s Meme of 7 (or 10) Things You May not Know About Me and Food.

1. Like much of their generation, meat is a staple for 3 meals a day of my parents and dessert goes with at least 2 meals. Everything that isn’t from a tin is fried in butter has the flavor and color boiled out of it.
2. Once when traveling with my diet-conscious in-laws we walked thru an alley. I smelled deep-frying oil and remarked mmm, it smells like mom’s cooking. They thought that hilarious and terrifying both.
3. The only spice mom ever used is in pumpkin pie; I have a few dozen spices and dessert is a couple times a month.
4. I grew up on white bread and cheez whiz, tea biscuits, cookies, chicken gravy dumplings, ice cream, cold cuts, fish n chips, candies, puddings, whipped potatoes and apples.
5. As hubby says, “the apples saved you”.
6. I don’t see why I’m not already diabetic.
7. I’ve been vegetarian on and off since primary school since any of the meat which wasn’t abstract (mac and cheese loaf, mock chicken, fried bologna or pork rinds) was formerly Bessie or Baaaaby or Miss Cluck or whoever.
8. I eat meat occasionally, especially the abstract kinds like pepperoni hot sticks, or even a meat dish in a restaurant since I don’t have to touch the carcass and see the clear anatomical matches to my own body.
9. Chocolate is a vice, or a tightened C-clamp. I rarely go more than a day without some. It’s my coffee or tea or beer, or what have you. Generally 65%-100% cocoa square.
10. I’m a cocoa snob liking only high density, high intensity, not caramelized, not burnt-note…and like only over 40% cocoa. Anything else is like kool-aid.