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About 5-6 years ago it was Orange Tic Tac Mint Silvers for a couple of months, it was when they came out with these huge plastic containers full of individually wrapped ones, good lord I was obsessed with them.

Not quite the same thing, but I find that I can happily exist without chocolate, without thinking about it, eating it, or cooking with it. But once I eat some, for the next few days or so, I start craving it.

Currently, I'm completely addicted to this:
Layer of yogurt, layer of organic granola, drizzle of honey, topped with whatever berries I have around or a chopped up banana.

I stay up until 5 or 6 a.m. everyday and I get the most hungry in the middle of the night. I know eating late is supposed to be bad for you, but that's the meal I've had at like, 3 a.m. for the past week. At least it's healthy, right? I'm not sick of it yet and I doubt I will become sick of it, it's so damn delicious. I'm addicted!

Post-Hurricane Katrina it was Wildberry Skittles, but I can't stand the reds (cherry). Now I always have to have some good French/sourdough/rustic Italian bread on hand, and I always have some kind of ice cream in the freezer. I'm not a big fan of ice cream sandwiches, but for some reason I have been completely hooked on them lately. I sit at work allll day and dream of coming home and scarfing down an ice cream sandwich the minute I walk in the door. I have a problem, I think.

When I was still in high school, the first year my sister went away, my mother stopped cooking, so I ate goldfish crackers. It was the only thing we never ran out of...miraculously.

I think I may have an obsession with cucumbers. When I lived in Southern California it was the one thing I had to get everytime I hit the store. When I left and spent 2 or so months in South Carolina, I found that the cucumbers there have a way less waxy texture but are just as refreshing and much cheaper (sometimes as little as $0.25 a piece!). Now that I'm finally in Ohio, my obsession has not dwindled. I eat them sliced, in salads, on every kind of sandwich you could imagine (even with fried eggs)...and I could probably eat 3 in a single sitting.

I might have found a new obsession in Honeycrisp apples though. I have found myself drooling about the thought of them.

Coffee in any way, shape, or form, particularly my own drip or my school library's hazelnut lattes. And Orbit gum -- I always, always, always have a pack with me. I think I have some kind of oral fixation; I always have to be chewing or drinking something.

I am completely addicted to coffee. I try to limit myself to 2 cups every morning but usually end up having another cup around lunchtime and one in the evening. I've become resistant to the caffeine and go right to sleep! As far as food, I go through spells, right now it's yogurt. Yoplait's custard style key lime.

Ha Ha Perk! Since I don't drink coffee, this is an easy one. ;-)

@ Chell, P-Mac and Iz...I say we see how many threads she can incorporate her 'ad' into...

Japanese Banana Diet...

'I tried the banana diet but nothing worked until i tried the 100% konacoffe diet...now I am a size ZERO!'
or
Punk Rock Kitchen
'I only listen to bands that drink pure 100% kona coffee cause it ROCKS'

Or, we could start a new thread...........Anyone? Anyone?

I am off to partay with my fellow Eagles fans! Thanks for the soup perk! My peeps will LOVE it!! GO PHILLIES!!!!!!!

@pearl-- the way you wrote that, it sounds like you make your ice cream sandwiches with French bread! Thanks for the laugh!

I went through a couple periods of food addiction in high school. The first one was a baked potato with cheddar cheese and soy sauce (I know, I'm weird). I would eat one of these every single night, no exceptions.
My other addiction was also in high school. I must've eaten about a thousand slices of cinnamon sugar buttered toast.

Come to think of it, maybe that's how I gained so much weight! Funny how, after I moved out of my parents' "eat everything on your plate and most of it is starches" home, I lost it all!

@ Chell, P-Mac and Iz...I say we see how many threads she can incorporate her 'ad' into...

Japanese Banana Diet...

'I tried the banana diet but nothing worked until i tried the 100% konacoffe diet...now I am a size ZERO!'
or
Punk Rock Kitchen
'I only listen to bands that drink pure 100% kona coffee cause it ROCKS'

hammondcheese at 12:08PM on 10/26/08

Ok, what on earth are you guys on about?? Spill, please! In-jokes are rude! By the way, I am addicted to chillies

Haha, nightowl. I totally didn't realize I had written that that way until you pointed it out! If I were eating ice cream sandwiches on actual BREAD, then I'd really have a problem, wouldn't I? :o)

@snowmoonelk & Rhiannon...it wasn't an 'inside joke' until the SE team removed the comments and commenter we were referring to.
sorry.
'dont hate the playa...hate the game' comes to mind

;)

Pancakes

for three months strait

..Aunt Jemima served me good:]

I am addicted to peanut butter and jelly sandwiches! In high school I was mad about the blue raspberry Blow Pops.

ok, hammondcheese, no wonder it didn't make sense - still like to be in on it though! ;)

Blue Bell peppermint ice cream! Luckily they don't make it year round.

@hungrychristel - you're not alone. In fact, I think the same could be said for all of us serious eats members - that's why we're on here!

Anyway, I'm totally addicted to peanut butter...which I realize is somewhat common, but my addiction is probably a little out of control. I will eat it anytime of the day, on something or just straight out of the jar with a spoon, even if I'm not hungry. And if I am hungry and nothing else sounds good, peanut butter ALWAYS sounds good. I really don't think I could live without it. I really don't.

I'm with kimberlymac on the PB....but I don't even have the decency to use a spoon. Once I open that jar, it's all over. Don't even get me started on honey-roasted peanuts, that a whole other disaster waiting to happen.

My longest standing addiction would have to be cereal - any and all kinds, from Fiber1 to Cocoa Puffs, I love them all. I think it started in college - it was a food source that I always had in my dorm; late nights +boredom = mass cereal consumption.

Like you and your grape jolly ranchers, I developed a sudden addiction to Dentyne Fire Sugarless gum. For a year, I chewed two packs a day, and panicked if I ran out. I knew which stores carried the three packs and which didn't. Then one day, gone. I haven't chewed any in the two years since then. Wierd.

Oh gosh, the peanut butter thing--don't get me started. It amazes me how people can chastely keep a huge jar of the stuff, use a bit of it and then forget it is in the refrigerator. I can have an unopened jar around, but once I get in the habit of taking a few nips, forget about it...

I have to eat toast with peanut butter every morning, with a cup of tea, if not I just can't function. About once a week I eat something else for breakfast, usually to be sociable or polite, but my inner self is secretly wishing for toast and peanut butter.

"Great strata/waffles/french toast/quiche/eggs! (Jeez I wish that I was eating toast and PB)

mangoes

i.am.obsessed.

and peanut butter!!

(but not together)
at least not yet... ;)

i'm addicted to eggs in general. fried, scrambled, omelets. my current obsession is the poached egg. i find an excuse to top everything with a poached egg.

Garden of Eatin' Red Hot & Blue chips. If I break down and buy a bag, I will eat them all in one day. I swear I can hear them calling from the top of the fridge if I try to stop.

MMM...Häagen-Dazs coffee ice cream. If I can't have at least one pint each week, I am miserable. You don't want to be around me. And, you never want to ask me to share...LOL!! This has been going on for years and years now. I am truly addicted. Of course, I love all things coffee, including Kahlua, which, BTW, is excellent on aforementioned ice cream!! Aside from this, I get addicted to summer fruits each year, especially watermelon and strawberries, and get SO depressed when the season is over. Ditto asparagus season. I can't get enough asparagus to keep me happy. I eat it daily, preferably roasted, every single day it's in season. Oh, I might as well admit it, I'm just addicted to great food. I, too, manage to turn almost every conversation to the topic of food. My friends can't believe I don't weigh 300 pounds, at least. I am lucky to have kept a fast metabolism at my age. I suppose it still could change, but really, I'd rather be fat and happy than skinny and miserable. And, I WOULD be miserable if I couldn't eat what I wanted when I wanted it. (Of course, if I didn't have SOME self-control, I'd be eating at least a pint of Häagen-Dazs coffee ice cream each and every day.)

I love craisins too!!!! Such a perfect snack and ingredient.
I guess to answer the question (though it's very tough);
I'm with Cassandra on the beef jerkey. If I'm hungry it always satisfies.
But I would also say CUCUMBER. I'm obsessed with'em.

Animal crackers ... it's a sick addiction, particularly when there's peanut butter or Nutella around to dip them in.

I obsess about foods I've never eaten before - what they'd taste like, where I could find them, that kind of thing. Right now, I'm obsessed with the idea of furikake on white rice. It just sounds so good!

And I always, at all times wish I was eating a Totino's Party Pizza. It's a sickness with me.