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Your guilty pleasure/secret meal

What do you eat that you'd be embarrassed to share with others?

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by Anonymousreply 92July 30, 2024 5:13 AM

I did the spaghetti sandwich thing on this list when I was super poor. It was filling. But some of these.....ugh.

by Anonymousreply 1July 27, 2024 11:09 PM

I get a large, microwave-safe container and add layers of spinach, kale, arugula, sundried tomatoes, pesto, asiago, mozzarella, parmesan, and garlic croutons. I microwave it for around four minutes and eat.

It's AMAZING.

by Anonymousreply 2July 27, 2024 11:12 PM

Loxs & Bagels

by Anonymousreply 3July 27, 2024 11:17 PM

A ribeye steak from Ponderosa, with a baked Idaho potato on the side.

by Anonymousreply 4July 27, 2024 11:18 PM

[quote] I get a large, microwave-safe container and add layers of spinach, kale, arugula, sundried tomatoes, pesto, asiago, mozzarella, parmesan, and garlic croutons. I microwave it for around four minutes and eat.

How the hell is this a guilty pleasure

by Anonymousreply 5July 27, 2024 11:21 PM

When I was about 5 I announced I wanted a spaghetti sandwich. Surprisingly, my parents obliged. I remember it was fantastic.

by Anonymousreply 6July 27, 2024 11:22 PM

r5 lots of cheese!

by Anonymousreply 7July 27, 2024 11:40 PM

Liver and onions.... extra onions, please!

by Anonymousreply 8July 27, 2024 11:41 PM

R7, Sorry, sounds more like a humble brag with all of those dark green leafy vegetables.

by Anonymousreply 9July 27, 2024 11:41 PM

Trust me, r9. It's not healthy.

by Anonymousreply 10July 27, 2024 11:43 PM

My guilty pleasure is chipotle, or texas roadhouse ribs with a baked potato on the side.

by Anonymousreply 11July 28, 2024 12:21 AM

Earrings

Caftans

Gin

Regret

by Anonymousreply 12July 28, 2024 12:30 AM

5 Guys.

The burger joint and the bath house.

by Anonymousreply 13July 28, 2024 12:35 AM

Pancakes Barbara!

by Anonymousreply 14July 28, 2024 12:38 AM

Kraft macaroni & cheese - a huge portion.

Or scrambled egg toast sandwiches, with ketchup.

Or sandwiches filled with tinned salmon which is mashed up with a liberaly dose of white vinegar.

by Anonymousreply 15July 28, 2024 12:43 AM

Carvel ice cream

by Anonymousreply 16July 28, 2024 12:44 AM

Oreo sandwiches.

Pulverize a dozen Oreos in a food processor with a handful of walnuts and a dash of simple syrup.

Butter two slices of smooshy white bread and dust them with sugar.

Spread the walnut/Oreo mixture on the bread.

Eat alone while crying uncontrollably because everything sucks and life is shit.

Brandy Alexander is a good accompaniment. Line up four of the fuckers and pretend you're Anthony Blanche.

by Anonymousreply 17July 28, 2024 12:48 AM

Fried chicken livers

by Anonymousreply 18July 28, 2024 1:37 AM

Crispy Bacon on wheat toast with Butter...a lot of Bacon.

1 of those white trash sandwiches that I have to have, every now and them.

BTW it is delicious!!

by Anonymousreply 19July 28, 2024 1:53 AM

Fried bologna and swansons or banquet salisbury steak tv dinner

by Anonymousreply 20July 28, 2024 2:04 AM

Red Baron singles deep dish style pepperoni pizzas. There are 2 in a box and I eat both. Salty and delicious. I need to put that on my shopping list.

by Anonymousreply 21July 28, 2024 2:11 AM

when I was A Poor I used to make ramen noodles, drain them, add the seasoning in, and then throw in any veggies or anything in the fridge I had left, along with a spoonful of mayo, and made a little pasta salad.

by Anonymousreply 22July 28, 2024 2:14 AM

r21 I used to get Totino's for that reason.

They were, as the cashier would remind me, 99 CENT. And it was super salty. Yum!

by Anonymousreply 23July 28, 2024 2:14 AM

Tortillas with peanut butter.

by Anonymousreply 24July 28, 2024 2:15 AM

A good duck liver pate, Gorgonzola, good caviar, a selection of water crackers, toast points; soft-shell crab Vietnamese style; Salmorejo soup; chocolate mousse served with whipped cream in a gallon bowl.

by Anonymousreply 25July 28, 2024 2:19 AM

I do the scrambled eggs and tomato thing but that’s not weird.

My struggle food was baked potato with the Concord Foods Potato Topping and lots of butter. I’m not struggling as much these days but I still like the same baked potato, this time with pickled onions thrown on top as well.

by Anonymousreply 26July 28, 2024 2:29 AM

Oh i change my answer, my guilty pleasure is def a the hungry man classic fried chicken tv dinner, with the corn, potatoes, and brownie. It's like 1,000 calories and so much sodium but a def tasty (once in a while)

by Anonymousreply 27July 28, 2024 2:33 AM

Bow tie noodles with cottage cheese, a little butter and salt. My mother used to make it for me when I was a kid. Calorically dense and very comforting. A little goes a long way.

by Anonymousreply 28July 28, 2024 2:38 AM

I guess I’m not as disgusting as I thought my worst guilty pleasure meal is probably pizza rolls or making hamburger helper with lentils instead of meat.

by Anonymousreply 29July 28, 2024 2:38 AM

I haven’t had peanut butter in the house for years but you bitches have me craving a pb&j (Jif chunky, Welch’s grape, wheat bread) with a half inch of crushed potato chips right on the jelly.

by Anonymousreply 30July 28, 2024 2:57 AM

PB$J sandwiches at midnight

Stale bread and beans. You'll have to work with me on this. You tear up pieces of stale Italian bread in a bowl. Smash a clove of garlic and throw it in. Then ladle in hot cannelloni, navy, or pinto beans and it's salted water over making sure the bread is hydrated. It's better if you cook the beans rather than use canned, but I often use canned and heat with additional water and salt. I like it on the wet side. Add chopped Italian parsley and a good deal of olive oil and mix. My Italian immigrant mother would make this for lunch to use up the stale bread (because it never got thrown away) and I love it to this day.

by Anonymousreply 31July 28, 2024 3:13 AM

I still eat PB&J sandwiches for lunch or a late snack sometimes. IJ have never stopped eating PB&J and my other childhood pleasure that I still eat is Cheerios.

by Anonymousreply 32July 28, 2024 3:17 AM

Potato sandwiches. Slice a potato (or two) fairly thin (around 1/8"). Fry until golden brown. Butter both sides of some basic white bread. Put potatoes on bread, salt and pepper liberally, and go to carb heaven.

by Anonymousreply 33July 28, 2024 3:20 AM

My mom's Thanksgiving stuffing was pretty good. One of my cousins would make stuffing sandwiches with the leftovers.

by Anonymousreply 34July 28, 2024 3:30 AM

The other white trash meal is PB&J crackers, lots of them, with a tall glass of milk.

Large jar of Skippy extra chunky, jelly or jam. When it's too hot to eat, it's my meal.

by Anonymousreply 35July 28, 2024 3:37 AM

When the cupboard and refrigerator were bare, cooked spaghetti, salt, pepper, an egg, and ketchup. Once or twice a year, I make it on purpose.

by Anonymousreply 36July 28, 2024 3:49 AM

Chicken roll.

If you know, you know.

by Anonymousreply 37July 28, 2024 4:06 AM

R28, Slavic by chance?

by Anonymousreply 38July 28, 2024 4:13 AM

Sometimes, my dinner or lunch will be an entire bag of chips.

by Anonymousreply 39July 28, 2024 5:41 AM

Hot buttered noodles with Lawry salt.

Macaroni and cheese with ketchup

by Anonymousreply 40July 28, 2024 5:56 AM

Adult female genitalia.

by Anonymousreply 41July 28, 2024 6:31 AM

A hot salad r2?!? Gross! 🤢🤮🤮🤮

by Anonymousreply 42July 28, 2024 6:32 AM

30 days aged dry filet mignon paired with Parmesan garlic zucchini and caviar.

by Anonymousreply 43July 28, 2024 6:41 AM

Macaroni cheese.

by Anonymousreply 44July 28, 2024 6:46 AM

I adore the Hemingway sandwich:

Two slices of Rosen's white country sandwich bread

A rough tablespoon of salted butter

Thinly sliced white onion

Creamy peanut butter

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by Anonymousreply 45July 28, 2024 1:37 PM

Like somebody above, my "secret" mean, i.e., the one I make when I really want something comforting, is pelmeni – Russian meat dumplings.

I make them myself, as they are extremely easy to make. I boil them in chicken broth, ladle them into a bowl and eat them with salt, pepper, vinegar, and sour cream. If I weren't a fat cow, I would freeze leftovers, but there never are any left over.

by Anonymousreply 46July 29, 2024 1:22 AM

A breakfast sandwich, which I'll eat at any time of the day, when I'm tired, in a particular mood, and need some basic comfort food to pick me up: Canadian bacon, mayonnaise with some added maple syrup, cheddar, all in an English muffin.

by Anonymousreply 47July 29, 2024 1:29 AM

meatball something or other

by Anonymousreply 48July 29, 2024 1:34 AM

Peanut butter and jelly sandwich with popcorn smooshed in between.

by Anonymousreply 49July 29, 2024 1:38 AM

To R43, that sounds like an awesome meal, not a secret meal!!

by Anonymousreply 50July 29, 2024 1:59 AM

A semi-healthy yet trash-tastic meal that I used to eat: Campbell's cream of chicken soup (undiluted) with a bit of milk and some fresh broccoli (cooked in the soup), poured over white rice.

by Anonymousreply 51July 29, 2024 3:41 AM

I keep a bag of Doritos on my nightstand in case I wake up in the middle of the night.

by Anonymousreply 52July 29, 2024 3:54 AM

2 filet o fish and a Diet Coke

by Anonymousreply 53July 29, 2024 3:58 AM

R52, emergency Doritos? Nacho cheese or Cool Ranch?

by Anonymousreply 54July 29, 2024 4:03 AM

To R51...I've done that with Cream of Chicken, Mushroom or Turkey with fresh spinach, mushrooms white rice or egg noodles.

Chop up some garlic, a little milk, grated cheese. It's delicious!!

by Anonymousreply 55July 29, 2024 4:08 AM

If you shred a decent cheddar cheese into Kraft Mac & Cheese dinner and stir in some red pepper flakes, dried basil, butter and whole milk until you have a creamy consistency you can eat it without 100% hating yourself.

Maybe 97% hating yourself.

by Anonymousreply 56July 29, 2024 8:54 PM

A whole Edwards key lime pie.

by Anonymousreply 57July 29, 2024 9:01 PM

Worcestershire sauce makes Mac and cheese better.

by Anonymousreply 58July 29, 2024 9:02 PM

A toasted sweetbread in cream, an oyster soufflé, caviar sandwiches, White House spinach, morels in champagne sauce and blackberry junket.

by Anonymousreply 59July 29, 2024 9:09 PM

Get a brick of ramen (Top Ramen) boil it with an egg in there for the amount of time it takes to cook the ramen (around 3mins) and add some cut up onion in the boiling water. Drain the noodles and onions. Add butter to the ramen and some real bacon bits or a piece of cooked crumbled bacon. Use 1/2 of the seasoning packet only. It like a cheap version of cab

by Anonymousreply 60July 29, 2024 9:11 PM

Strong cheddar cheese broiled on bread heavily slathered with mango chutney. I binge. Then I stop when behind my ears gets that cheese smell.

by Anonymousreply 61July 29, 2024 9:12 PM

The fuck is "White House" spinach, r59?

by Anonymousreply 62July 29, 2024 9:32 PM

And WTF is "cab" R60?

by Anonymousreply 63July 29, 2024 9:36 PM

r47 A breakfast sandwich with no egg?

by Anonymousreply 64July 29, 2024 9:37 PM

Yeah, when you eat it at a random time of the day, you don't really need an egg. Just a guilty pleasure sandwich.

by Anonymousreply 65July 29, 2024 9:39 PM

R62, its fucking spinach creamed with fucking olive oil instead of fucking cream. It's thought to be fucking healthier but some people find it bitter.

by Anonymousreply 66July 29, 2024 9:40 PM

It's not really secret but my partner hates the look of it and texture, so he'll leave the kitchen when I have it. It's a package of natto (Japanese fermented soy beans) with seasonings that come with it (Japanese mustard and shoyu sauce), some chopped kimchi, sesame oil, and toasted sesame seeds. Then serve it over a toast or a bowl of rice.

by Anonymousreply 67July 29, 2024 9:44 PM

Microwave a can of corned beef hash (in a bowl of course), add ketchup and stir.

Cook a cup of rice (saffron if you can afford it) in a can of veggie beef soup (poured into a small pot, of course.

by Anonymousreply 68July 29, 2024 9:52 PM

R63 carbonara. Sorry for the typo

by Anonymousreply 69July 29, 2024 9:57 PM

R67 I’m a big mustard fan and curious what does Japanese mustard taste like?

by Anonymousreply 70July 29, 2024 10:03 PM

"When the cupboard and refrigerator were bare, cooked spaghetti, salt, pepper, an egg, and ketchup."

Does that feed five?

by Anonymousreply 71July 29, 2024 10:13 PM

A toasted bagel with scallion cream cheese and 2 slices of crispy bacon.

by Anonymousreply 72July 29, 2024 10:34 PM

R72. Yum!!

by Anonymousreply 73July 29, 2024 10:36 PM

Microwaved hotdog in a bun loaded with cheese, sauerkraut and sriracha.

by Anonymousreply 74July 30, 2024 2:28 AM

[quote] I’m a big mustard fan and curious what does Japanese mustard taste like?

It's a bit like hot English mustard, quite yellow and it has a bit of a bite. My local Japanese grocery store carries this brand and little pouches of it are packaged with fermented soy beans they sell.

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by Anonymousreply 75July 30, 2024 2:36 AM

A can of black beans or garbanzo beans with Tapatio on top.

Sweet potato, olive oil, kale, a cut up hot dog, microwaved with Frank’s Red Hot and diced apple mixed in.

Baked potato with a tablespoon of mayo, tablespoon of mustard salt and paprika.

Guilty pleasure dessert is oatmeal mixed with peanut butter and chocolate sauce.

by Anonymousreply 76July 30, 2024 2:47 AM

Peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwich with potato chips.

by Anonymousreply 77July 30, 2024 4:09 AM

R77 your gross.

by Anonymousreply 78July 30, 2024 4:12 AM

MARY!

by Anonymousreply 79July 30, 2024 4:14 AM

Another vote for Red Baron individual deep dish pizza — pepperoni or cheese.

by Anonymousreply 80July 30, 2024 4:34 AM

[quote][R77] your gross.

No, R78, YOU'RE gross.

by Anonymousreply 81July 30, 2024 4:40 AM

Hard salami and cream cheese on a bagel.

Salami and grape jelly on soft white bread, dill pickle on the side.

by Anonymousreply 82July 30, 2024 4:41 AM

OK, when I lived in Japan, I used to buy thick-sliced, soft, white bread. They sold pizza sauce in a squeeze bottle in Japan, so I always bought that. Then, pre-shredded (in a bag) mozzarella cheese. In Japan, most people have what's called a "fish cooker," which is a broiler that you can cook anything in, really, heating element on top. There's a drawer. You put your food in the drawer and push it in under the broiler.

ANYWAY, that bogus Japanese pizza was on my regular rotation and I thought it was delicious, back then.

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by Anonymousreply 83July 30, 2024 4:44 AM

R83 That looks and sounds delicious.

by Anonymousreply 84July 30, 2024 4:45 AM

R84, it was pretty good. That Japanese bread was so good, soft and chewy. It also had an amazing shelf life.

Back then, I wasn't even into hot sauces, but I can see putting some Tabasco on those little pizzas.

by Anonymousreply 85July 30, 2024 4:49 AM

Hot dogs and baked beans.

by Anonymousreply 86July 30, 2024 4:54 AM

Peanut butter and mayonnaise together. That’s just nasty. And then some salty ass potato chips. 😷

by Anonymousreply 87July 30, 2024 4:58 AM

R86 Yes, with a big dollop of ketchup.

by Anonymousreply 88July 30, 2024 5:01 AM

R83 Looks a lot better than the make-your-own-pizza kits I see on the shelf.

by Anonymousreply 89July 30, 2024 5:03 AM

When we (siblings and I) were young and there was no dip in the house, we'd (I'd) put ketchup on Ruffles potato chips. Looking back, we were lucky to even have Ruffles.

by Anonymousreply 90July 30, 2024 5:05 AM

R86 yea same here actually. Nathan’s franks and some bush baked beans. Once they’re both cooked I sautéed some onions mixed with ketchup and butter. Dogs on the bun topped with the onion sauce. A teaspoon of sugar in the beans. And then devour it with some UTZ potato chips and pickle.

by Anonymousreply 91July 30, 2024 5:08 AM

R90 I have a nephew who dips potato chips in ketchup. I thought it was weird but we dip potato fries in ketchup so what's the difference except one is hot and one is cold.

by Anonymousreply 92July 30, 2024 5:13 AM
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