you know you were hungry when _____ tasted amazing!
So, I have been over the turkey thing since 8pm last Thursday night. I have shopped my ass off since 4am Friday morning, up to and including 6 hours of it tonight.
My blood sugar has dropped to far beyond safe levels in the last 5 days because I refused to leave my place in line. That being said, I scarfed a Wendys Double Stack (no onion, add lettuce and tomato) in 13 seconds flat and it was AMAZING! 4 hours later, I came home and whipped out some sharp NY cheddar, an almost too ripe pear, whole grain bread, butter and some cranberry compote. I thought I invented electricity!
Anyone else out there eat something so unusual for you but tasted so great because you were just that hungry????
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23 Comments:
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5starfoodie at 12:03AM on 12/03/08
McDonalds.
PumpkinBear at 12:24AM on 12/03/08
Oh! And Jack-in-the-Box at 4 a.m. after a long night of drinking.
PumpkinBear at 12:25AM on 12/03/08
school lunch (sometimes)
my mother's chili
ham and cheese hot pockets
smile at 12:37AM on 12/03/08
A bowl of iceberg lettuce with miso dressing. I love greens in general, including other types of lettuce, but I happen to detest iceberg lettuce. I don't ever eat it or use it in my salads, normally. Other than that one time. It came with our sushi as I recall. Before our sushi, actually, and I was so famished that I devoured the whole bloody thing as my OH watched with that "who are you and what have you done with Brooke?" look on his face. At that moment, I seriously thought it was delicious. I haven't eaten iceberg lettuce again since then though.
@Chelley - hope you got what you wanted!
brooke29 at 1:02AM on 12/03/08
anything at waffle house
delilah at 1:20AM on 12/03/08
Chef Boyardee ravioli. Why did I even have that in my cupboard?
mikaque at 2:49AM on 12/03/08
@pumpkinbear~Jack in the box... ummmm the tacos, while not being tacos, are THE most amazing 3 o'clock food - in - the - world!
carolrsfMISSESTEXAS at 2:53AM on 12/03/08
I can't think of anything in quite that category, but I CAN think of at least one occasion that I was so hungry that I was able to eat something that would normally have (literally) made me vomit.
My boyfriend and I were motorcycling in the Italian Alps, and I'd spent several hours on the pillion seat, certain that death lay around the next hairpin turn, and trying to not look down into the stunning, but horrifyingly far-down valley below. Our destination for the night a town called 'Foxi di Vallarsa', which turned out to be a tiny cluster of houses, a church, and an inn that specially catered to motorcyclists. Like everything else in the immediate area, the scenery was breathtaking. The food was... Tyrolean.
I'm certain that there is good Tyrolean food, but this wasn't it. Dinner centred around a permutation of a gratin of elbow maccheroni, in a cheese and tomato sauce. Normally, even thinking about taking a bite of a savoury dish that includes dairy brings my stomach up to my ears, but what with the hours fatigue, cold, and unreasoning fear, I was ravenous, possibly from sheer relief. I tucked right in. My boyfriend was stunned. Frankly so was I was, afterwards, when I considered what I'd done.
mongoose at 3:49AM on 12/03/08
As I said in another thread I have not eaten in weaks so my taste buds are insane right now well the the other night I got super hungry, it was 6a and in a sleepy hunger rage got up and took dressing, gravy, my BF's lefterover Mexican refried beans, chicken stock, salsa, a little rice (don't like rice too much but at this point it was my best friend) mixed it all in a pot and ate that along with crackers with that deviled ham spread on top. It was so good, I was rabid and blind with hunger and wolfed the whole thing down with 4 minutes, it was crazy.
pjracz10 at 5:10AM on 12/03/08
I've been craving Jack in the Box tacos since I moved to Cleveland where there are no JitB. I was overjoyed when Burger King made their tacos for those fleeting few months. :(
To answer the question, I'd have to say, pizza and fried rice.
Cassaendra at 7:40AM on 12/03/08
I'm not one for hotdogs, but after setting up camp (tents and all the cooking supplies), a hike through the woods and a canoe ride, a hotdog seems to take on a magical quality cooked over the campfire with my stomach rumbling. Scrambled eggs the next morning hit a new height also. The next few days I'll cook other things that seem to taste remarkably better than ususal, but none rise quite so high as that hotdog the first night. Maybe it has do with camping in the woods.
dhorst at 9:10AM on 12/03/08
@PumpkinBear - I definitely hear you on the ridiculous deliciousness of Jack-in-the-Box after a night of drinking! Nothing has ever tasted as good as one of their burgers and some jalapeno poppers in the wee hours of the morning.
Junie at 9:48AM on 12/03/08
When on diets, things like egg white omelets were tasty--heaven knows why.
Hunger is the best season for ANYTHING, truth be told. Although when I'm super hungry, really, junk food doesn't cut it, it just makes me hungrier.
HeartofGlass at 9:58AM on 12/03/08
Taco Bell Gordita.
I think my taste-buds were seriously skewed that day.
juliebugsmama at 10:19AM on 12/03/08
a couple weeks ago a friend and I were out all day running errands and stopped at McDonald's... I got a crispy chicken sandwich and at the time it was the delicious.... which terrifies me.
Alm25 at 10:20AM on 12/03/08
Scrambled eggs. Blech, but when I'm hungry, a good scramble with Tabascco REALLY hits the spot!
TheCheapChick at 10:22AM on 12/03/08
An entire bag of the Malt-O-Meal version of Honey Nut Cheerios.
An entire economy-size box of Lucky Charms
Campbell's condensed soup - straight from the tin.
Can you tell that I have been in graduate school and stressed a lot?
Traveller at 11:34AM on 12/03/08
This isn't so much about the awesomespice that is hunger, but I was once at an airport and starving, so I grabbed some spicy Popeye's chicken strips. They were pretty tasty, but as I was eating I ran into someone I knew, and she offered me a satsuma. They're a type of orange or tangerine or something like that. When I bit into the first section, I literally almost cried. I had been so stressed, and it just tasted so GOOD.
nightowl at 2:04PM on 12/03/08
When I'm that hungry, seriously anything tastes good...
Hillary
Chew on That
Chew on That at 3:32PM on 12/03/08
celery with pb.. can only eat it drunk.
dearrie at 6:58PM on 12/03/08
A Big Mac. I ate the thing in four bites.
Dominoes Pizza. It's actually cardboard with tomato splat and rubber cheese.
Anything on the menu at Olive Garden. (Ok... the soup, salad and breadsticks actually are good in a junk food sort of way.)
therealchiffonade at 6:33AM on 12/04/08
If by "hungry" you mean "drunk," then I've definitely eaten my share of street-food hamburgers and rubbery fried calamari...shudder.
embolini9 at 9:39AM on 12/04/08