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Wow. I can't really think of anything which probably means I don't have any food compulsions. I know I'm prone to addiction so I try to monitor what I get hung up on.
Curious for potatoes are one of my main staples. Do you eat them plain or just with spices?
As my previous post states, any kind and in any form imaginable.
Being of Hispanic/Italian origin corn and flour/pasta were staples I grew up on. Early on in my childhood I got to go to a sleep over at a friend I had made once I started going to school.
They had baked potatoes with butter, sour cream, chives and whole grilled steak for dinner. It was mana from heaven as I had never had a baked potato before like that in my life. Certainly never a whole grilled steak as I'd seen adults in my family up to that point eat them but it was never an option for us kids.
I think that one instance that I vaguely remember set the course for my love of the spud over my life time.
Then there was the time my grand parents took me to San Franciso and introduced me to Chinese food, but that's another story.
ok, so the op used the word compulsive and someone didn't think that was the right word, regardless, I think we all know what she/he meant: I have a compulsion or call it whatever for: blue cheese. Where I got it I have no idea, but I could eat it daily. I also love ham and cheese sandwiches, which I often have for breakfast, but only 1 slice of bread. This probably comes from watching friends have them for lunch growning up and we only had bologna (spelling) or liverwurst in our house. Why I have no idea. Also mom and dad, likeing nothing but quality meats, they never got pre sliced anything. We always got the meat and cheese from the butcher. It was better quality I am sure, but I always wanted to be like the other kids and have the skinny pre sliced lunch meats.
I have a hard time saying 'no' to most potatoes including, mashed, baked, fried and potato chips. I've had to cut back on making them because of how fat I get and the way they affect blood sugar. I don't like rice that much so I usually try to use that as a substitution.
I also love saltine crackers...plain or with a piece of cheese. I'll eat like 3/4 of a sleeve at a time. I can't seem to say 'no." I'll nibble around the edges to make it last and all of a sudden I'm reaching for another one. My kids like them too so I've found myself hoarding them.
Sugar? I think it was because my idiot mother let us put heaping spoonfuls of sugar in our coffee and cereal every morning before grade school. Wish I could slap her upside the head now.
I'm not sure if we have any food compulsions, but we do have what I'd term "comfort foods". Potatoes are pretty high on the list of comfort foods. For me, a big pile of fresh made mashed potatoes topped by home made chicken noodle soup with big fat noodles is probably in the top ten of "comfort" foods. Possibly because my grannie used to make it for us when we were small kids.
In the area I live in, I'd guess rice is much more common as the standard "staple" than potatoes, but it's all what folks grow up on, I'd think.
We do go through phases when we discover a new food or have one we haven't had for awhile. This time of year is good for different soups. Summer we usually go through a salad phase. Sometimes it will be baked goods, where different bread recipes will be tried out. Just lately it's been tortillas made with a tortilla press although next will be soup most likely.
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