This Tastes As Good As Thin Feels
Yes, it’s “nothing tastes as good as thin feels,” my least favorite saying ever. This came up yesterday because, according to my husband, the saying was proven wrong by the bacon chocolate bar I bought him at the gourmet store in Los Angeles. BACON CHOCOLATE BAR.
Rub your thumb over the chocolate bar to release the aromas of smoked applewood bacon flirting with deep milk chocolate. Snap off just a tiny piece and place it in your mouth, let the lust of salt and sweet coat your tongue.
It is ridiculous, but it’s my nomination for something that tastes… well, “as good as thin feels” is insulting by itself. Right there is the crux of my problem. Like thin feels so good? Like thin feels better than fat? Well screw you, I feel good being fat, and I feel good with BACON CHOCOLATE in my mouth, so there. Anyway, let’s say it tastes as good as… something else feels. A jacuzzi tub bubble bath. A sunrise. Self-confidence. A new episode of The Office. The feel-good item of your choice.
Anyway, my nomination is the bacon chocolate bar. How about you? It’s American Thanksgiving, so let’s talk food. What is the epitome of tastyness?
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Speaking of dumb sayings, I’ve just been reminded of the old “You are what you eat” My favourite rebuttal of this was, so when you die what do you want on your gravestone to tell you who you are – you were a beloved/ sister/ mother/daughter, a poet, a lover of beauty etc., or do you want them to put your staple diet on it?
I find it hard to feel genuine enthusiaism about food but since you’ve mentioned chocolate covered stuff, I still remember fondly the faddish, chocolate covered pretzels, are they still around? They are one of the few snacks where the last one tastes as good as the first!
I’ve just got this commercial running in my head..”hey, watch it, you got bacon in my chocolate..hey you got chocolate in my bacon!…mmmm…”
It sounds gross, but I’ll take your word for it :-) I’m a big fan of sweet and salty, like choc. covered pretzels (still around, btw!) or choc. covered cashews. I wonder if people actually want “rice cakes and celery” on their tombstone, or a bouquet of flowers wrapped in a measuring tape. Personally I’d take “philosopher, reader, thinker” over “dieter” as a life summary any day.
Today, Ben will be combining two of my favorite things: a corned beef brisket and maple-smoked bacon.
When you cook maple-smoked bacon, the whole house smells like a combination of bacon and maple syrup. And that’s what the bacon tastes like. It’s SO NOM.
As far as tombstones go? I don’t think i’ll bother having one. It’s a bit of a family tradition to leave one’s body to donations/science.
I have a hunch that the “feeling of thin” could not possible hold a candle to my brother-in-law’s homemade pumpkin cheesecake.
But just to be sure, I’ll be testing my theory out later today, by enjoying a delicious piece of that awe-inspiring dessert.
I think there are about a million and one things that taste better than “thin” feels! I think dirt might be included in the list.
Yeah, I hate that saying too. :)
On Thanksgiving, for me and my cousins it has to be simple sage stuffing with lots of onions, no fruit, no nuts. Hands have been stabbed with forks in the past.
The rest of the time? I can cast another vote for maple bacon (on a sourdough roll with fresh tomato, OMG), mushrooms sauteed in butter and deglazed with port (sometimes with a dab of cream and tossed with pasta, sometimes with some herbes de provence seasoned sausauge and served with roasted squash), beef stew made with lots of potatoes, thyme, and guinness, a fresh pear with really good blue cheese, honey, and walnuts, the orange cardamom creme brulee at Luka’s…
I think I’m hungry now.
My mother’s dumb saying was “If you aren’t hungry, you aren’t losing weight.” We aren’t celebrating Thanksgiving until Sunday so I will add to the list icecream made with a sauce composed of bittersweet chocolate melted with some heavy cream.
I don’t actually think that thin feels like anything. Because judging by photographs, I was slim as a child, but I didn’t think “I am thin”. So it can’t have particularly felt good of itself.
Maybe thin is one of those concepts – like “sober” – that only exists with reference to other states? If we were all thin, we wouldn’t need a word for it, maybe?
You can keep your bacon-flavoured chocolate! The nearest I’ve ever come to that was chocolate-covered potato crisps, and they were… odd.
I will vote for Lidl Bourbon vanilla ice cream, which is the best ice cream ever, or possibly crêpe belle Hélène (with pears, vanilla ice cream and dark chocolate sauce).
I can’t get over the idea of bacon and chocolate…
My nomination is Myer Lemon Cake at Chow in SF. I don’t know why, but I imagine that the feeling I get eating it is a little like heroine (I’ve never done heroine though, so it probably isn’t like that at all).
Dude. I woke up this morning, had sex with my husband, and I just ate a slice of amazing apple pie while reading this blog IN THE NUDE. “Thin” ain’t got nothin’ on this!!!!!
Best blog comment ever? I think so!
And I love Chow’s gingerbread cake with caramel sauce. In the nude.
Oh, damn. That gingerbread cake.
I just asked the guy at the grocery store if the tangerines I was buying were seedless, and he was all, “Well, let’s check,” and he opened one up and we shared it, and, jesus, it was the most perfect tangerine I’ve ever had. Perfectly ripe and sweet and awesome. (Also, seedless! Score!)
But I’m not sure that could compete with bacon chocolate. Or that gingerbread cake.
Let’s see . . . bacon-wrapped filet mignon with bernaise sauce. Blackberry pie. That cream cheese ball where you roll it in chipped dried ham. Another piece of blackberry pie. Homemade spaghetti and meatballs. Oooh, with rosemary foccacia bread.
Jaddette…
Whooo you and me both Sister!
Nothing like sex, pie and nude internet surfing to make a whole lot of better than thin.
Nope, still can’t imagine what bacon chocolate would taste like. If I knew it would get past the sniffer dogs, I’d ask you to mail a square to Australia. ;-)
Cheesecake. Especially with varieties that include both chocolate and caramel, like the one at Max and Erma’s.
Oh, soy cheesecake! Either (best!) my mom’s, or (still really good) the stuff from Le Commensal (local veg/vegan place), or even (in a pinch) my own. I’ve never tried eating it naked, but I totally should!
I eat at Chow all the fricking time, and would you believe I’ve NEVER ordered dessert? What the heck is wrong with me?
Chow Lafayette used to be a regular breakfast spot for me. They, hands down, make the best bacon ever. I think they bake it.
oooh cheesecake definately! although since i my lactose intolerance got alot worse last year eating it isnt so pleasant anymore.. : (
I’ve always said that bacon and chocolate are the two things that improve everything…except each other. I could be wrong, though.
For me? Scallops wrapped in thick bacon.
bacon and chocolate, sounds weird, but I’m big on salty and sweet so I’d probably give it a go…
for me pretty much everything tastes better than thin feels, because that is the most ridiculous saying ever.
BUt, I will say that spinach artichoke dip is a favorite, or boneless buffalo wings, or chocolate and maybe ice cream…
who am I kidding, that list could go on forever.
There are about a hundred things in my book that I can’t imagine anything tasting better than. I mean, I want to be thinner just so I’m not constantly hurting, but you know what? If it’s between that and never being able to taste the foods I love then I guess I’m doomed.
But I guess I also feel that you don’t necessarily need to give up food that tastes good. There’s more to good-tasting food than the traditional “junk” yanno?
I’ve had the bacon and chocolate bar and you doubters should know she’s right about it. It’s about the best damn thing I ever ate. Really. It’s salty and sweet and smoky and rich and chocolatey. When you’re eating it, you don’t think “bacon” really. It’s not huge chunks, just little crumbles of it. If only they weren’t like seven bucks each.
one thing is for sure, i dont feel good being fat.
Bacon chocolate??!! I dunno about that ….
I tried chocolate mint gum today … didn’t dig it :(
That saying has always pissed me off. I’ve been both fat and skinny and when I was skinny it was never this wonderful, picnic-and-pony-rides thing that people seem to imagine it as. I couldn’t sit in movie theatre seats for the length of a movie because the bones in my butt and back would ache. Forget about going to a sporting events with their barely-padded seats. Browning out whenever you stood up? Also not that fun. Granted, some people are genetically thin and probably didn’t have the problems that I did. But those aren’t the people making that ridiculous claim.
Israel, that is your personal problem. Don’t assume all us fatties share that opinion.
Wriggles: you’re talking about Nestle Flipz! Which were the most brilliant invention ever! The best was mixing both kinds – milk chocolate and white chocolate pretzels – into one bowl. Mmmmm.
The comment about nestle flipz made me think of those chocolate pringles-shaped things. Those are fun, though not particularly tasty.
It’s nice to see that there are fellow Bay Area people here. Hi, there!
What tastes better than being thin? My dinner, which my mom and dad made- prime rib, twice-backed potatoes with sour cream, chives, bacon, and cheese, whole wheat roll, butter lettuce salad, and a beer. Mmmmmmmm.
Bacon & chocolate? Hey – I’ll try anything once! Exactly WHERE in L.A. (my home town) did you find this yummy treat? Please post a quick reply, as I’d love to try this. Everyone in my office is a crazed foodie & I’m sure they’d all want a nibble of something eliciting so much comment.
Few things feel better than the taste of my mom’s lamb curry. The recipe is 2 pages (single spaced) & takes her who knows how long to prepare, but that tantalizing aroma, the basmahti rice & the sprinkling of chopped jalapeno over top with a really good Merlot – it’s what I KNOW heaven will be!
My spouse took me to chichi sushi restaurant for my birthday. The Alaskan Smoked Salmon rolls — with shavings of avacado, an atom’s tip of wasabi and whipped, fresh cream cheese — made me cry they were so good.
I won’t even try to explain the wonders of the green tea tiramisu.
They still make Nestle Flipz. I’m rather partial to the white chocolate ones.
I have been fat and I have been thin, and I have to say, I do think thin feels better. It felt great when I could shop wherever I wanted, clothes shopping was fun, and I had more energy and felt more attractive. Unfortunately I have put it back on over the years but I fully intend to be thin again.
Then this probably isn’t the place for you to hang out.
Do you think blogging just has to be about writing? Reason I ask is I want to start a photography blog, but I feel I am better at expressing myself with photos rather than write. Should I even start it? With your experience could it work, more pictures, less words?