Guilty Food Pleasure...

You can pry it from my cold dead hand.

As far as the thread goes, I don't even know where to begin. My list is going to require footnotes.

 

Never touched that stuff, went off all of it.

Like PC's wife, I showed my wife the research regarding diet pop and she stopped drinking it too. Her father drank so much of it that they had three recycling boxes - most houses, like ours, could make do with one - for all the cans. He'd pop one and chug it back like a freshman frat boy at a kegger then grab another. Fucking disgusting.

 

Last year, on the first pass at the local buffet, I piled the plate with 11 types of prepared chicken.

 

The On-Cor salisbury steaks are my food version of Viagra. Cook up a box of those and put it over mashed potatoes or white rice and my night is made.

Re: scrapple, I remember when my now-wife and I were dating, I went with her to visit her grandmother and extended family outside of Baltimore one year. I was trying to be polite, but they put a brick of scrapple in front of me and I asked what it was. Someone said it was "processed pork parts pressed together. If you drench it in maple syrup, it tastes pretty good."

No thanks.

 

That's why I call it a "guilty pleasure." I know it's a chemical shitstorm. I know it's bad for me. And I certainly drink less pop than I used to -- maybe a couple times a week.

But for some reason I think it tastes great — Coca-Cola, that is. Not Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper, or other stuff I used to drink. Certainly not diet versions, like Diet Coke or Coke Zero ... if you're going to have a guilty pleasure, go all-in. If it's horrible for your health, it should at least taste good.

If only I enjoyed a huge metal tray of OnCor dinners instead ...

 

I honestly don’t think diet pop is bad for you at all.

 

The tray is light plastic.

 

Must be thinking of the old-school Swanson's TV dinners. Definitely NOT a guilty (or innocent) pleasure from my youth.

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, this was a great and awful and terrible and awesome video.

 

Such a bad period for ZZ Top.

 

I grew up eating peanut butter, mayonnaise and pickle sandwiches.

I don't admit that publicly.