Sweet or Savory?
Maybe it's just me... but, when I eat, I CANNOT end on sweet. I have to end on savory.
I had a friend once who ate some ice cream and was so bothered by the sweetness left, she squirted a pack of mustard into her mouth just to be rid of it.
How about you?
Sweet? Savory? Or, Elisabeth, you're crazy?
(It's the last one. I know.)
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29 Comments:
No. You are NOT crazy. I do not eat sugar. No sweet snacks. No desserts. All savory, all the time!
izatryt at 8:47PM on 01/09/09
i have to disagree. sweet is best.
blizcheetah at 9:07PM on 01/09/09
While I occasionally like to end on sweet, my heart will always live in savory territory.
Kerosena at 9:16PM on 01/09/09
I don't really care much for sweets. I've noticed that other people, perhaps more normal, LOVE dessert. I get so much crap from my boyfriend and family because I'm always baking. I bake some kind of cake or sweet thing at least twice a week and I NEVER eat it. I always bring it over to my great uncle or make it for my dad so he has something sweet with his coffee.
I think savory is definitely the way to go.
PumpkinBear at 9:22PM on 01/09/09
I have to end on a savory note. Even if I have a dessert or even just a cookie, I sometimes open the fridge and have some lettuce with mustard, just to cut the sweet taste from my mouth. I thought that I was the only one that couldn't end on a sweet note. :)
Traveller at 9:23PM on 01/09/09
Go right down the middle: Good Stilton, with honey drizzled on top and some chopped glazed pecans sprinkled on there, too. Served with some little crackers or some bread its an AC/DC dessert that pleases everybody--except those benighted souls who don't like stinky cheese.
Deb Harkness at 9:34PM on 01/09/09
oh, yes, and blue cheese with a good pear.
caramels with fleur de sel.
apple pie with cheddar
chocolate and peanuts
sweet and savory together...
they go so well together....
Nonny at 9:58PM on 01/09/09
Ice cream and mustard? I think your friend was pregnant.
I love both savory and sweet, but I'd never put mustard in my mouth without a hot dog or some appropriate delivery system. That's too funny. I'd love to end a dinner or a day with a piece of minty chocolate.
PerkyMac at 10:10PM on 01/09/09
Sweet all the way. I would live on sugar alone if it didn't mean I'd balloon out of all proportion. I will sometimes eat candy for dinner like a five year old. But oh, creamy is what I crave. I love to end on creamy, be it peanut butter or goat cheese. Mmmm....
Aynsl156 at 10:25PM on 01/09/09
I like a good dessert if I have dinner out and I really LOVE it if someone brings a cheesecake or french silk pie for a birthday at work. but usually I don't eat much in the way of cookies and cakes. I most often crave sweets in the afternoon at work but can easily quench the craving with a Coke. And even then, I usually have some crackers after to rid myself of the sweet taste.
My problem is that I buy sweets because they sound good at the time. Then I eat one from the package and the rest go stale. I still have four boxes of girl scout cookies from last year that I'll pawn off on my co-workers before I buy some more. They get all my leftover sweets. :-)
CooksForOne at 10:47PM on 01/09/09
I love both so it depends on how I'm feeling but more often than not, I feel the need to have something sweet after food unless I'm having a starter in which case I try to skip the sweet...I'll have dessert maybe two to three times a week and the rest of the time, a piece of fruit or a bit of fromage frais with Splenda to satisfy my craving without overindulging!
HappyMuncher at 10:49PM on 01/09/09
I prefer to end my meals with citrus. It feels redeeming, like all the fat and calories are whisked away with a turn of a magic wand.
I enjoy living in denial.
Cassaendra at 11:12PM on 01/09/09
I just made those thousands of cookies (felt like thousands) and didn't eat even one. I ate lots of dough, though. I was asked tonight if I had any kind of a sweet tooth at all. My tea and coffee have enough sugar in them to make the average person diabetic. We ordered 4 different desserts tonight and I had a bit or 2 of each. That's what I really want; the taste.
Meggy~you're in Europe, parmigiano reggiano with balsamico... YUM YUM.
Breakfast is really the sweets time isn't it?
carolrsfMISSESTEXAS at 1:06AM on 01/10/09
I love my sweet something at the end of the day...but the very end has to be savoury - usually, cheese. That's why, much as I love crème brûlée, fruit and cheese would probably be my favourite dessert ever. So I reckon I love the combination of both (not surprising I guess, considering that my father used to sprinkle sea salt over all his dessert 30 something years ago - caramel, chocolate cake, biscuits, you name it).
Now, breakfast...is a whole different story! (@carol - it's your fault, now you got me thinking about breakfast!) Although, as I've said before - I love my pancakes or waffles with sour cream, salt and blueberry syrup or preserves -- sweet & savoury again, so there you go. It's both for me, after all.
brooke29 at 1:43AM on 01/10/09
I'm not a huge sweet person, I love salty savory foods...Once in a while, though, I have the urge for a small sweet bite of something..something.. currently a tin of Rose's chocolates I received for Christmas.
lamora at 1:45AM on 01/10/09
I really don't mind one way or the other, if I have sweet stuff in the house I will eat it, if I don't then I end with savory.
pjracz10 at 5:38AM on 01/10/09
I prefer sweets over salty,savory foods. Although it's really a matter of the mood I happen to be in at the moment. Lately I find that sweet and savory are mixed together in combo snacks. I just made a batch of potato chip -pecan cookies that were a huge success...talk about your salty/sweet combo--they sounded interesting and thought, "why not?"..Good gamble--I'm asked by co-workers & family when I'm making them again!!
Italiancupcake at 7:14AM on 01/10/09
my usual end to the day is three saltines smeared with chinese hot mustard.
huneybumper at 8:07AM on 01/10/09
I was going to shout out 'sweet!' But I realized that I don't have a fondness for very sweet things--my father's side of the family, for example, adores orange sherbet, fruit-flavored ice cream, and some of my friends who are younger (like in their 20s) squeal over Skittles and Swedish fish. But I am very salt-sensitive--I don't like salty snacks like potato chips or pretzels, or even salty soups, cheeses and so forth.
I guess my big 'end of the day' comfort food would be things like dark chocolate, coffee-tasting things, carby-but not sweet things like bread (with really good butter...yum!), plain fruit, honey, oatmeal--more of that flavor profile.
HeartofGlass at 8:42AM on 01/10/09
I'm more of a savory person. Even my candy. I eat mostly ume candy which is sour/salt/sweet. While every once in a while I eat dessert, for the most part, my closure to a meal is the meal itself. My snack food for later tends to be cheese, popcorn, crackers.
That said, I do love a good creme brulee
chisai at 9:18AM on 01/10/09
It all depends how I feel. We like to have dessert about an hour after dinner. When we eat at one of our fav spots we often order dessert to go. I don't like to rush. We go home fire up the cappuccino and eat dessert later.
If I am craving sweet I often just eat light. Soup and salad.
When I was a kid my mom would only made cake/desserts on holidays/special occasions. We ate pudding and jello. For a snack I used to eat a hunk of italian bread, some provo and pepperoni, that was my go to snack.
JerzeeTomato at 11:08AM on 01/10/09
When I was a kid, I was notorious for my voracious appetite for sweets--I guess it must have been amusing to watch a beanpole of a girl devour heaping plates of desserts. And I'm still known for my dessert-making skills. But in college, I stopped eating desserts very often simply because I was on a limited grocery budget and figured I should make "real food" my priority. In relatively short order, I lost my desire for sweets almost entirely. Now I would much rather have more cheese or vegetables or whatever; I don't even remember the last time I voluntarily ate a serving of dessert. Which is all to say, I'm quite convinced that the palate simply becomes habituated to crave the things one regularly gives it.
By the way, I don't think it's weird at all to eat mustard straight! I do it all the time. Same with hot sauce, wasabi, and so on. I find a little heat can really brighten one's mood and make the synapses fire a bit faster.
annatr at 2:23PM on 01/10/09
Oh so savory! Snacky food for me consists of chips, salted nuts, and deli meat over cookies or candy. Even after enjoying a nice dessert I simply have to eat a saltine or nab a bite of roast chicken or whatever the entree was to end on a savory note. Heh! Glad to know I'm not alone!
A friend suggested t-shirts for me and my SO. "Sweet" for his, and "Savory" for mine. We're such polar opposites on this one.
hungryinhouston at 2:43PM on 01/10/09
Sweet! I have to end every meal (yup, even breakfast) with a bite of something sweet. Doesn't have to be a lot, but I do like to have it within just a few minutes of finishing the meal, too...
kimberlymac at 2:49PM on 01/10/09
Savory for sure. I really don't do sweets, although I do like a refreshing sorbet from time to time.
dhorst at 5:33PM on 01/10/09
Sweet. I don't know why. Maybe I'm just programmed to understand that a mouthful of sweet = the end of the meal.
therealchiffonade at 5:41PM on 01/10/09
SAV--OR-Y ALL --- THE WAY
I really have to be in a strange mood to even enjoy sweets most of the time :p I enjoy fruit like apples, berries, bananas especially in the mornin'
I cringe watching my OT eat chocolate or fudge or rich desserts --eeew!
I'll just have a couple pickles and some cheese with my end-of-meal beer thanks!
hungrychristel at 7:01PM on 01/11/09
Don't get me wrong, every so often I will crave something savory but for the most part my cravings tend to gravitate towards the sweet side. Because I am usually a very healthy eater and watch what I eat all the time I think about savory things a little bit differently and don't have as much of a fondness for them. They are more of an ends to a means type of thing.
FrostyGhost at 1:34PM on 01/12/09
I lean more towards the sugary end of the pool, although if I overindulge, I need to have a little bit of something savory to sort my tongue out. It also goes the other way, like when I crave something sweet after eating a savory meal.
Remarkably, although I still have a healthy sweet tooth now, when I was a child I thrived on sugar. I would eat bags of hard candy like Jolly Ranchers, and I'd attach myself to gigantic jawbreakers the size of mini-asteroids (2 inches across!) like a leech. My Halloween candy would be gone in a couple of days.
Now, though, I don't often go for candy at all. Beloved sweets as a theoretical adult include Dagoba Chai chocolate bars, dense coconut tea cakes (no icing, but a sugar-rum drizzle would be fine), apple crumble, snickerdoodles, blueberry scones, Asian pears (aka pear-apples), pan au chocolat, banana pancakes with peanut butter, dried cherries, lime cookies, mango and sticky rice, Philippine sweet rice....
tastyfever at 11:43PM on 01/17/09