Unhealthy foods – love me chocolate, cheese, and Pepsi. None of this Coke nonsense. ;P Which is a real problem when I go to Europe, as Coke seems to have a monopoly there.

Ketchup sandwiches. Which is exactly as it sounds- ketchup squeezed between 2 slices of bread.

A bowl of pasta heaped with nothing but fresh mozzarella – yum.

Chocolate and peanut butter ice cream -to die for.

My food dislikes: olives, capers, mushrooms, corn, peas, greenbeans, and eggplant.

I really don’t like salty foods, except once every few months I have an overwhelming craving for salt and vinegar potato chips, which I always give into.

For “bad foods” that I can’t stand, there are things like twinkies, snoballs, hohos- anything super processed and sweet that has a shelf life of more than a week is nauseating for me. I don’t like chocolate alone- but I do like it when paired with nuts, fruit, ice cream, etc. Something about the richness as texture that’s just too much for me. I hate normal soda (but do like the diet), and I don’t like smores, or anything else made with grahm crackers, gingerbread, nutmeg, or cloves.

As for the good stuff that I don’t like… I suppose you could say water. I don’t drink it unless there are no other possible options around. However, I don’t tend to drink anything that is tremendously calorie dense, unless you count freshly squeezed juice. I can’t stand radishes, beans (it’s the texture), and pears. I also hate whole grain pastas- the texture is just…. all wrong there.

Now for the goods stuff, I love blue cheese, pickles and tiramisu. Actually, I love almost all stinky cheeses with my favorites being aged roquefort, alsacian (super sharp) meunster, and tomme fermier. Oh, and morbier. I also love my boyfriend’s flakey, crispy backlava, freshly squeezed oj, and all berries and cherries. Freshly baked whole grain breads, over easy eggs with provolone and tomato, goat cheese tatins, avocados/ guacamole, and red meats- esp lamb and duck. I can’t get enough of tartars. I love baked pumpkin, zucchini, eggplant, and all mushrooms (king oysters and portebellos= so good) In the snack category, I love macadamia nuts. cashews, mozzerella sticks, fried calamari, gummy haribu coke bottles, and ferrer rocher chocolates.

From reading everyone else’s preferences, it seems like most people have a well mixed list of good and bad foods. I have no trouble using those value laden terms, because I think healthy foods and not so healthy foods are a reality, and I think that the fa community’s to such usages are rather knee jerk. However, food and the consumption of, has no morality to me. As you can see, most of my favorite foods are rather fat laden and calorie dense. yet I am borderline underweight, have high cholesterol, and low blood pressure. Hmm.

OMG! That was my favorite thing as a kid, too! When I tell people that, it usually gets what I call the “you-must-be-an-alien-face.” It’s good to know I’m not alone on the planet.

Healthy Foods I Love: pineapple, dry curd cottage cheese, bananas, everything that goes in salsa, beans of all varieties, soy in most of its incarnations, Kashi Go Lean Crunch cereal, spinach (especially in a salad with some dried cranberries, almonds, and feta cheese), all berries, dark leaf lettuces, peas, lentils, garlic (yum!!!), whole wheat anything, yes, even the pasta, and cheese (which is def. healthy for me if I can manage to not eat the entire pound in the space of a few hours).

Healthy Foods I Don’t Love: broccoli, cucumber, fancy lettuces (raddichio and aruglula ick me out — too bitter), most raw, dense veggies (a texture thing – if I chew too many times, there’s this point of unplesantness), kumquats, pears, fish (boy, I wish I liked fish, but the smell squicks me out every time when I try to prepare it at home – don’t have this problem in restaurants for some reason, lol).

Unhealthy Foods I Don’t Like: plain potato chips, fried chicken (oh-so-strange being from the U.S. South), frosting made with lard, pizza with a lot of processed meats, processed meats (salami, pepperoni, etc.). I like McDonald’s and other fast food burgers, but they don’t like me. Wow. I had to think about this one a lot. There aren’t a lot of unhealthy foods I don’t like, lol.

Unhealthy Foods I Want To Be Stranded With On A Deserted Island: DIP! Yet to meet a dip I didn’t like, whether it be sour cream based, cream cheese based, mayonnaise based, oil based, whatevah! If I have something that can be dipped, I will find something to dip it in. For example, Doritos of any flavor, french fries from any place, fresh baked bread (not in and of itself unhealthy, but the entire loaf in a sitting probably not so good for me). Real salted butter, Snickers and Skor bars, Marble Slab Lemon Custard ice cream, lemon bars, cookies, cakes, tarts, jalapeno poppers (can’t bring most of this stuff in the house cause it speaks to me, probably in that alien language I repressed to maintain my secret identity), Chili’s southwest egg rolls with that damn avocado ranch dip… and full circle back to dip — everything that dips are made of like sour cream, mayo and cream cheese.

God, that was fun. Thanks!

My all-time favourite dessert, or breakfast, for that matter, is a broken-up muffin topped with a compatibly-flavoured yogurt, preferably a fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt. Yum-o. Don’t mind strawberry shortcake, either.

Foods I consider not fit for human consumption are dill pickles, beer, whiskey, and sauerkraut. Gaaa.

“Bad” Food I hate, um, margarine. Chinese Food. Mountain Dew. Hot Pockets.

Food I love–

The Good: Kifer, Eggs (they are good for You), kiwi, chicken, salmon.

The Bad: Nachos, Quesedilla, Cocktails, Ice Cream, Chocolate, Imperial Rolls, Pie, Cake, Pastry, Pizza, Potstickers, Cheeseburgers,

As for the “bad” foods: my big downfall is french fries and fried chicken, especially Popeye’s. I do like chocolate and ice cream and cake. I’m not a big fan of pies, but I do like coconut cream. I can also live without donuts too, but I will occasionally go for a glazed or a Krispy Kreme chocolate glazed and 2 is my limit.

I’ve also cut back on soda, but not for weight reasons. But I love, love, LOVE Mountain Dew, and it’s even better in Slurpee form. Slurpees make the world a better place.

Also loves but in moderation: nutella, creme filled donuts, potato chips, bbq prk rinds, oreos, suzy qs, whtachmacallit candy bars, charlston chews