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Canned smoked oysters. YUMYUMYUM.

Chili Cheese Fritos.

McDonald's French Fries.

peeps, peanut butter ritz sandwich crackers, animal crackers, hot pockets, ice cream sandwhiches, tootsie rolls, and Take 5 McFlurries.

I'm so embarrased, I can barely even bring myself to hit the "Post a Comment!" button. Here goes nothing....

I just ate like 7 peeps....so there's that.

Sugary cereal: especially the Cereal Triumvirate of Boo Berry, Count Chocula and Frankenberry.

Diet Coke (does that count?)

Betty Crocker instant mashed potatoes OR (my real indulgence) Julienne Potatoes

And I have even been known to eat a can of Beanee Weanees or SpaghettiO's with meatballs once in a blue moon!

Lean Cuisine. McGriddles and their Wawa counterpart. Soft pretzels from street vendors. Taco Bell Crunchwraps.

Sloppy Joes made with ground beef, a can of tomato paste and the little envelope of seasonings on cheap hamburger buns and spaghetti made with the same on cheap noodles.

Whipped cream sprayed straight from canister to mouth, need I say more? Also those Little Debbie oatmeal cream pies...I feel faint.

YES SLOPPY JOES
cheeze whiz
cream corn

boxed brownies, Wishbone italian dressing, Jiff, Doritos... not all comsumed together, I promise!

Macaroni made with velveeta.
spaghetti-o's
Campbell's chicken noodle soup (the condensed stuff--but I do get the lower salt stuff)
Dessert burritos (tortilla filled with pie filling, folded like a burrito, fried, then glazed) generally found at doughnut shops.

Forgot one. a big one.
Spam (the reduced fat kind), fried black in a dry pan, with pickles and yellow mustard on whole wheat. Yes, I do realize it's essentially a salt sandwich.

Beth I like spam about twice a year the same way, just not the reduced anything version lol but I have to toast the bread. And just in case my heart doesnt explode immediately from the salt and fat assault, I always add a piece or two of cheese.
The weirdest one is fritos and peanut butter, SO knows when I buy fritos that he should leave the house since just thinking about that combo makes him wretch, but i love the fat, grease and sweetness of it.

ketchup flavored potato chips, cheetos, klondyke bars, lemonheads, sugar frosted flakes, strawberry sour belts, oreo cookies... these are a few of my favorite things, but don't tell anyone.

Zingers! Also, Chick fil A milkshakes (although these are so rich, they make me REALLY sick, but are soooo good it is worth it). I feel like having gone to confession.

these posts are always my favorite...

One of my favorite off beat indulgences: peices of krab (yes, imitation crab, surimi, whatever you want to call it) either dipped in cocktail sauce or thousand island dressing. My coworkers at subway have been seriously grossed out on many occasions when I load up my sandwich with the "seafood sensation" mix.

and I love fruited jello...even if it's made with the generic brand of gelatin.

Lagavulin Scotch and ring dings....... sans the ring dings!

Campbell's Chunky Beef Soup
Turkey and Swiss sandwiches with lettuce, Claussen pickles, mustard, and Doritos (love the crunch!)
Tombstone 3/$10 pepperoni pizzas
...and, for my husband, boxed Chef Boyardee pepperoni pizza kits (he used to make them with his great grandma)
Ranch flavored Pringles
Buffalo Chicken Doritos
Frank's Red Hot sauce (I eat it by the spoonful)

Yea, who doesn't like Sloppy Joe's? Even when you make them from scratch, it's just not the same as that stuff in a can! It's been pretty dry around my house for awhile with hubby dieting but we do have a toddler that loves Salt & Vinegar Pringles, Calbee Shrimp Flavored Chips, 100 Calorie Oreos (she'd eat the regular ones if I let her), any kind of candy, pickles (even the Texas Pete ones!).

I lost my sweet tooth after she was born but lately I've been snacking on melba toast (or Wasa crackers) smothered with cream cheese and honey or blue cheese and honey, or cream cheese and this muscadine pepper jelly we bought at the Farmers Market 2 weeks ago. I never buy the lite of anything. Why bother? Oh and I grilled a PB&J the other day. THAT was good.

Of course, I can always eat a McDonalds cheeseburger.

@dharmon - Look for them at the Asian markets. We picked them up on a whim and the little ones loves them more than we do! They taste kinda weird, at first...then you can't stop eating them! This is what they look like:

http://www.taquitos.net/snacks.php?snack_code=197

french fries
Ben & Jerry's Imagine Whirled Peace ice cream
kettle chips
biscuits n gravy
fried pickles dipped in ranch
whatchamacallit's (candy bar)
Krystal burgers

@lo82070 I use those canned smoked oysters in my oyster dressing at thanksgiving! Soooooo gooood!

green bean fries at TGIFs

all-dressed chips from Canada

and Ribster, the only dish I knew how to make as a kid was ramen soup with a kraft single torn up and melted into it - so strange that you like it that way too!

Mmm... All of the good stuff is listed. Our guilty pleasures include Top Ramen, Fritos Scoops, shells and cheese, gravy packets (because I suck at making cream gravy!), Pringles, frozen waffles, HotPockets, Delimex rolled tacos, and those cheap pizzas that are 4/$5.

Now I'm craving a frozen waffle with sugary peanut butter and hot syrup!

7-11 Cuban sandwiches and taquito's (taquito's just added today thanks to my co-worker who had to make me eat one).

Lays BBQ Kettle cooked chips

Totino's pepperoni party pizza

Taco Bell crunchy tacos with hot sauce

just kill me now - I LOVE KFC, especially when they feature the "extra crispy" - no one else that I know likes it, so it is usually a lonely vigil on a dark night, with collar turned up and toque jammed down over head - hey, and I just read that they are bringing out "broiled chicken" here in Canada, at least! @Pavlov, I bet it would go good with Lagavulin Scotch, although I prefer Dalmore's.

I'm not a canned meat person but Brook29, if you like that other stuff why haven't you tried Spam? It's practically got it's own food group in Polynesian cooking! LOL Get thee to the market!

This thread prompted me to go make a bowl of one of my guilty pleasures - pimiento cheese. Except I hate pimientos, so I use jalapenos. And plenty of hot sauce. I just tossed in some oyster crackers and devoured the whole bowl. Yum!

I also dig all forms of "cheese" sauce/dip, though I'm often too embarassed to buy them.

Totinos pizzas , its like sauce and cheese on a cracker.

Tater tot casserole (best with generic tots instead of name brands)
Canned corned beef hash, fried to extra crispy
Knorr (formerly Lipton) noodle "side dish" in a bag in alfredo, parmesan or stroganoff flavor - except that I never eat it as a side, only as a dinner substitute
Kraft mac 'n' cheese, with jarred salsa mixed in
I have Spaghettios (with calcium, which allows me to think that they have redeeming nutritional value) stashed in my desk for "emergency" lunches
Grilled cheese sandwiches made with Velveeta
That green bean casserole that involves 12 slices of bacon, a box of frozen mushrooms, and a jar of Cheez Wiz

And don't forget strawberry real-fruit slushes from Sonic (during half price drink happy hour, of course!) and slurpees that are half frozen cola, half frozen cherry. Best consumed during a pedicure with an InStyle magazine for reading material.

Good times!

@mizbee and dharmon - I am a sucker for sonic! I could down probably any flavor of slushes...I love the cherry, watermelon and dr pepper or rootbeer...lime is good too. I've never tried the ocean water flavor though...what does that taste like? Is it coconutty?

Ellio's pizza! And just about any Tastykake too, esp. the kreamies.

Spicy Nacho Doritos
Lime shrimp Ramen
Pringles of nearly any variety (except Salt and Vinegar, blech!)
Microwave popcorn
Swiss Cake Rolls - And you get two of them!
generic blue box mac and cheese with soy sauce
Krispy Kreme Hot Fresh glazed donuts
McDonald's fries
McDonald's soft serve sundae with hot fudge AND caramel
cheap ice cream sandwiches
7-11 coffee spiked with a TON of sugar and 2 kinds of flavored creamer

but my absolute favorite is something I can't find down here in the Big Easy: Old Bay seasoned potato chips. Oh. My. Gawd. I can down a whole bag, even though afterward the salt gets to me and my entire mouth burns and I feel a bit bloated. But they're SO good.

When available in Canada, McRib.. I admit it.

Also, Sloppy Joe's with Cheese Whiz. BBQ Fritos, baloney sandwich with a Kraft Single on white bread, Arby's Beef & Cheddar, and even the occasional can of Alphagetti.

okay, really, there are probably too many to mention here.. now I have to go have some Oreo's.

Totino's Party Pizza
McDonald's fries dunked in McD's hot fudge sundae with nuts
Tuna Helper - the cheesy noodle one
Campbell's condensed Tomato soup
Canned corn and green beans
White bread
King's Hawaiian Rolls

Must have a jar of Marshmallow Fluff at all times, so I can mix with my Skippy pb and make my fluffernutter sandwiches on soft, smushy white bread... (that's the biggest guilty pleasure)
Others include:
blueberry poptarts
slim jims
Any snack cake by Hostess or Drakes
any type Boars Head cold cut especially Lebanese Bologna and Olive Loaf.....

I'm always reading about Spam in many of these threads, I
REALLY have to go out and get a can...

taco bell hard chicken supreme, add pico, guac and fire sauce

mickey d's double cheese, no onion, no pickle, medium fry with hot mustard.

Popeyes spicy fried chicken wings with a biscuit covered in honey

chicken lo-mein made extra spicy from my local chinese joint

pizza with red sauce, ham, pineapple and hot pepper.

creme fraiche straight from the container!

I'm chiming in with Taco Bell crunchy tacos, but fresco style. With fire sauce. Perhaps nature's most perfect food.

@gourmetgal-- omg, everyone i know thinks im so gross for liking them, but i LOVE the green bean fries! hafta order them when i go there.

heres a few: well, i ate 3 supreme crunchy tacos from taco bell for dinner... feel like i should order something more "sophisticated" from the menu, and the beef is so NOT real beef, but... yet i like them.
swiss cake rolls, kept in the fridge, yum.
honey bbq twisted fritos [like CRACK]
mozzerella sticks as an appetizer at any crappy place where they're served... such a useless food, but SO GOOD especially after midnight... and drinks.
my friggin boyfriend keeps buying cheetos... i dont even LIKE cheetos on principle but dammit, when they're near me ill eat the whole bag, any variety.
dominos cheesy breadsticks are consumed all in one sitting, by me alone. i tried to share once and got in a fight with said bf.
lastly, "nachos" made with tortilla chips and any kind of shredded cheese, microwaved, sprinkled with hot sauce and dipped in taco sauce and ranch. SO HORRIBLE FOR YOU. mm.

@mayoxqueen - Ocean Water...name says it all...it's like sitting on a beach in Mexico. Sweet and coconutty!

@radish - Taco Bell tacos truly are heaven. I had 3 on the way home yesterday :) And when I go inside to order, I always grab 2 handfuls of Fire sauce to keep in my pantry. They should bottle that stuff and sell it - they do the regular sauce, but not fire :(

hot dogs! preferably grilled, but i'd boil them too. with cheap american cheese and diced onions on top. soooo delicious. i do this on wheat buns though...

although not particularly bad by itself, i'm pretty much obsessed with peanut butter and will make absolutely any interesting recipe with peanut butter as the prime ingredient.

peanut butter and jelly sandwiches - i still end up eating at least one a week

Spam, well done
Oscar Mayer liver sausage (with yellow mustard on white bread)
Chili cheese fritos (alone or dipped in blue cheese dressing)
Slim Jims

So, pretty much anything salty, greasy and cheap...

i....i honestly can't think of anything that would really qualify! except, perhaps, that i like to make two slices of french toast, and smothered a banana with some PB inbetween. i was allowed ONCE i think as a child to have canned pasta. i never took to it mind you.

...i do love burritos. the kind you get in family packs from the freezer in your grocercy. mmm. sodium and fat wrapped in glue.

@thekitchenwitch...that would be me! I swear, I suck those packets down! I take refried beans with ro-tel, shredded mexican cheese, some fajita chicken, and wrap it all in a tortilla with fire sauce.

When I'd swipe the sauce, my granny used to say "do you know whose hands that has been in?" and for some reason I still don't care!

Cap'n Crunch w/ Crunchberries! You have to let them sit for a while, otherwise they'll rip your palate to shreds!
My biggest guilty pleasure isn't so guilty until you calculate the sheer volume I consume-- Jade peanut sauce sold at Williams Sonoma. Oh, Lordy. When I was single I would go buy an armful every-so-often and one time as I approached the cash register the manager popped his head out of the business office and called me over to him. He said he'd "noticed" that I really liked the stuff -- I guess he performed surveillance duty in the back office and was starting to recognize me!--and he said that he would give me a discount on each bottle. My face turned flaming red but I took the discount!!!

Pockypockypockypockypockypockypocky...any Japanese snack food, really. The more implausible the flavor, the more ridiculous the translated description, and the cuter the animal, the better.

That's not so bad. Probably worse is frozen meals. Growing up, my mother always cooked, and it was really rare that we'd get "American" food. So on the infrequent occasions she was too tired, we'd to have Lean Cuisine or some other imitation-real-food meal. I think they had little desserts in them. So fake, so chemical, and so good. Having nothing to compare it to, I never understood why people complained about airline food all the time....

How funny! I just blogged about my guilty food pleasure:

Sugary Cereals with Decadent Mix-ins

I am also crazy about the new Girl Scout Cookie flavor Lemon Chalet Cremes. They are a new take on an old classic, and they are wonderful. Like animal crackers with tart lemon filling. I am addicted to them, and have even mixed them into my sugary cereal concoctions.

Wait, did you say no concoctions...?

Cheers,

~ Paula

parmesan goldfish crackers with raisins and diet coke. yum!

Peanut butter and pickle sandwiches on cheap wheat bread
Black cherry koolaid made with 1.5 packets but the regular amount of sugar
Reese's peanut butter eggs (over the cups)
Peanut butter on a spoon with chocolate chips stuck in
No-bake cookies
Cucumbers in vinegar
Plain tortillas hot off the pan, standing next to the stove
Starbucks frappucino -- just the coffee kind, no fancy stuff
Canned chocolate frosting on graham crackers

I think I'm going to hell.

Totino's Pizza Rolls and Party Pizzas (esp. the Three Meat...mmm)
Old Dutch Dill Pickle chips
Fritos
McDonald's hamburger Happy Meal
And my trashiest eat - open face peanut butter/marshmallow sandwich (1 slice of bread, slathered with peanut butter and topped with mini marshmallows - put under the broiler until the marshmallows are golden, brown and delicious)

When I was pregnant I would go the the gym and work out, shower, then head straight to Taco Bell for a green bean burrioto and 2 crunchy tacos. One must use many packets of hot sauce on each item. Trader Joe's has these great frozen empanadas that I love, with Taco Bell hot sauce. What is it about that hot sauce?

- Kraft Mac n Cheese! Especially the microwave single portions
- $1.19 Krasdale frozen pizzas from C-Town, almost always eat these after waking up in the middle of the night hungry, I pop it in the oven for 15 minutes, then eat in bed
- Pre-packaged frozen cheeseburgers from the deli, usually have the deli microwave it for me then eat it on my way home after a night out
- Cheese puffs or cheese curls
- Lean Pockets and even worse, cringggeee...Hungry Man frozen dinners! particularly the Veal Parmesan

Hershey's Cookies and Cream Bar. Heck, it doesn't even taste like chocolate or cocoa but MAN is it strangely good for that sugar-and-processed-milk-powder flavor :)

And sometimes, just bad soft white rolls. The kind that are a shame to the "baguette" label that they sell in generic grocery store bakeries, but when I want carbs and they're soft and warm...mmmm haha

Grilled cheese made on wonder bread with land o lakes american and lots of butter....sooooo goood

Wow! What a huge list!

Mine is Maruchan Ramen noodles, cooked like it says, but with the water drained off and the packet of chicken seasoning mixed in, with an egg as well, and maybe some leftover chicken if I have it. Pepper and red chili flakes. Let the residual heat of the noodles cook the egg. Add butter. Stir. Sinful but I love it!

Doritos dipped in melted Cheez Whiz!

Oh my goodness. After I hit "post a comment" I will feel either totally liberated or totally ashamed & will retreat to a corner to suck my thumb in a fetal position.
I still like:
1. vienna sausages
2. fried baloney sandwiches
3. kraft mac & cheese in the blue box (with lots of milk, like a soup).
and,
4. tator tots from Sonic.

Chef BoyRD's meat ravioli out of a can (see I don't even know how to spell the brand), just heated in the microwave. They make me feel white trash decadent.
A good piece of bread with a thick layer of salted butter, mmh!
Doritos

McDonald's fries, McRib (haven't seen them around for a while, but I will be there when they came back), sausage McMuffin w/ egg. Nathan's fries (loved them since the original Coney Island days) and franks both with ketchup. McD's and Nathan's - the dual pinnacles of fries-dom.

Let me see, even my my husband doesn't know about some of these. The shame is too great....

StoveTop Stuffing - I can eat a bowlful or more in one sitting
Taco Bell Baja Chicken Chalupa
McDonald's Fries
Pringles - really, any flavor
Jelly Belly jellybeans - Lemon, TuttiFrutti and Orange

Okay, now I will hang my head in embarassment.

McDonalds Filet-O-Fish w/ extra tartar sauce
Cheetos
canned smoked oysters & clams, sardines, kippers, eels, octupus, etc.
peanut butter cups/eggs
glazed donuts w/lemon or raspberry filling (Krispy Kreme), chocolate iced donuts w/custard filling
hot dogs (onions, mustard, cheese, & Tabasco sauce)
fried egg sandwiches w/ mustard and chili pickle
succulent pork products, the fattier the better (bacon, fried pork chops, salt pork, pork belly, head cheese, etc.)
deviled eggs (homemade)
canned emergency lunch stash (in addition to the canned fish -- green beans, spinach, and chili beans; also Chef Boyardee ravioli)

Yes! KFC extra crispy! And peanut butter sandwiches with bread & butter pickles and mustard. YUM!

Hebrew National beef salami, sliced and broiled til it burns and curls in at the ends

stale licorice, peeps, gummi spiders, sour patch kids. some candy has no business being 'fresh'

cookie dough. OMG cookie dough.

bowls of kix cereal the size of a small country (kid tested/mother approved)

frozen cool whip, eaten like ice cream.

Pop-Tarts. Raw.

@thehostess
I can't believe we are the only two who love saltines with margarine or in my case real butter. I also like them with currant jelly. But not butter and jelly at the same time.

Braunschweiger and Vidalia onion sandwiches made with squishy white bread.

How could I forget Cinnamon and Brown Sugar PopTarts, or Apple Cinnamon PopTarts...frosted, of course. Good thing I'm not grocery shopping right now...my cart would be full of sugary goodies.

@nightowl, I am right there with you on the Utz Crab Chip (potato chips seasoned with Old Bay). I could eat the entire bag.
I also love Annie's Mac & Cheese with extra butter mixed in for extra creaminess; Krispy Kreme HOT donuts; McD's quarter pounder & hot salty fries; Ruffles and supermarket french onion dip (the kind in the dairy section, not the jarred kind - blech); Top Ramen with frozen peas added for some nutritional value and most of the water drained before adding the seasoning packet; Pringles Jalapeno chips; Chef Boyardee ravioli; Velveeta dip mixed with a can of Rotel and cooked sausage served with Fritos scoops; Campbell's vegetable soups.
I think it's safe to say I am not a food snob. I like it all!

Mallomars! Though sadly out of season. Also, Carvel Flying Saucers/Fudgie the Whale.

Cheeseburger Hamburger Helper. Now and forevermore.

@fdr1952: Yay! Fellow stale candy lover! Awesome!

Gotta say, I will never understand you Braunschweiger people. My dad ate that and oh lordy, did it stink. But I love stinky cheese of all kinds, so just call me weird.

Tater tots, Oreos, and Peeps. There, I've said it. But how did liverwurst get to be a guilty pleasure? Maybe it was all the years I spent in Milwaukee, but for me a decent liverwurst is just pate with a working class label.

I have a cheese-fried and sausage theme......just realized!
Kraft sharp E-Z cheese from the can. Eat from the can, but prefer to spell out family names as well as make shapes on triscut crackers.
Golden Flake(Southern staple) crunchy AND puff cheese curls
Biscuits and sausage gravy if I make it. Rare to find the good stuff!
Popeyes-everything!
Hot thin french fries loaded on top with sharp cheese
Homemade onion rings
Baked Garlic cheese grits-not instant
Ina Gartens Chicken Pot Pie. The best!!!!
Sausage cheeseballs made with hot sausage, bisquick, and cheese

Crunchy Cheetos
Ritz crackers with real butter
Cookie dough
Extra crunchy peanut butter right out of the jar w/a spoon
Vanilla wafers and canned cake frosting
Cocktail peanuts
Krystal cheeseburgers
Taco Bell Nachos Bell Grande
Chocolate covered peanuts or raisins

In public I have a reputation of being a health-conscious eater with sophisticated tastes. But in private, I'm actually a crap-eating junkie. Here's my list of sinful indulgences:

Chef Boyardee's Beefaroni with mozzarella
Kraft's powdered cheddar cheese
Ikea's Swedish Meatballs
Campbell's Condensed Mushroom Soup mixed with rice (I like to refer to it as a poor man's mushroom risotto, lol)
Hungry Man's Salisbury Steak dinner
McDonald's Sausage McGriddle, Big Mac, fries, and chocolate/vanilla soft serve ice cream
Burger King's deep fried apple pies
KFC's Original Fried Chicken, potato and macaroni salads, and honey roasted chicken (I first tasted it back in the 90s during a trip to Saratoga Springs. OMG, it was the best chicken from a fast food place ever. Are these still available in the U.S.???)
Jell-O Pudding
Pillsbury Chocolate Chip Cookies
any Pizza Hut pizza (love the greasy crust!)
Red Lobster (all the ones in Montreal closed over 20 years ago. I miss those garlic cheese biscuits!)
canned sardines with French's mustard
canned liver pate spread with Miracle Whip on white bread
Cherry Coke
and a Canadian product: McCain's Triple Chill desserts
http://www.mccain.ca/framework/builder.aspx?page=SubCategory&lang=en&partition=1&category=3&category1=5029&selected=5029&marker=CMF_LEVEL_TWO_MARKER:Category;

God, I feel like such a fraud...