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Favorite foods eaten at the 'wrong' temperatures?

Hi Eaters,

I am sitting at my kitchen table, arms stretched around a bowl of leftover chicken noodle soup to reach the keyboard, realizing that, besides the fact that it's only 10am--I really best love my homemade soup when it is cold. It's a weird quirk.

As a child, I'd often put coke in the microwave--just preferred it that way.

What about you? Any food you prefer at a temperature that's all wrong?

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I bring cottage cheese to work for a snack, but I don't put it in the fridge. Other cheeses are best at room temp, so why not cottage? It has a nicer texture at room temp.

i've raised many eyebrows w/ my preference to cold leftovers... just this morning i had left over cold chinese food (cashew chicken). i sometimes buy chinese food just to have it cold the next day.

Cold fried chicken is one of the most amazing things in the world.

Cold pizza, cold tuna casserole. I don't prefer them cold, but I still ike them cold.

Cold chinese leftovers are great. I hate to admit how much i love how gloopy things get. I am referring of course to cruddy N. AMerican chinese.

I like all leftovers cold - even mashed potatoes. As I kid I had swim practice every night and always came home to dinner leftovers, and too hungry to heat them up! (pre-microwave...)

Chipotle burritos. I can only eat half at a time anyway and the next day right out of the fridge.

Cold egg rolls are my favorite breakfast.

I prefer my coffee to be room temperature.

cold, leftover Chinese food & pizza are my two favorite breakfasts : )

Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pies must be frozen. Unless there's a road trip involved and then at least chilled in the cooler.

I eat cold eggrolls, too, but it's never really intentional...I'll be looking through the fridge and once I spot an eggroll, I will either take a bite or cut a piece off. yadda yadda yadda, i eat the whole thing.

but, it's a secret.

Room temperature cheddar. Frozen Charleston Chews. Microwaved cookies.

Cold salmon cakes and meatloaf are even better the next day.

How about cookie dough, uncooked? Is that considered the wrong temperature? :)

I know I'm not alone in this, but I like my brie warm and gooey...
I also like a cold meatball sandwich...

I will eat almost any hot food cold, from soup to steak. I also like my yoghurt and pudding and other simliar items slightly warmer - I find that I get more flavor that way, actually. Room temperature is good for me for almost anything, really. I also like day-old stale popcorn....but that's a whole different issue right there. :)

Oh, and I forgot! I *love* cookies, cake, candy bars and other simliar things right from the freezer! There is just nothing like a frozen chocolate chip cookie, I tell ya!

@Traveller, I love cold chocolate chip cookies too! preferably from a fridge, but frozen ones are fine too. I just like the chocolate chips to be very solid.

I prefer to eat my food at room temperature, e.g., soup, cereal, pasta, ...barring ice cream, and other stuff that completely changes if brought down/up to room temp.

Pizza! Also, eggrolls - straight from the fridge with lots of hot mustard, preferably eaten over the sink!

This has come up in another post, but... cold Spaghettios are way better than warm.

@lizaj
Yuk. Spaghettios warm or cold are gross...... Yuk

Warm peanut butter is soooooooo good on a piece of toast or a bagel

@banana monkey - whoa man: cola in the microwave? thats so weird. No offense! ahaha to each their own I guess.


I actually have a thing for hating things NOT cold. haha coffee has to be hot, so does soup...otherwise I just dont want it. I'm really not a picky eater either I don't think. I HATE cold pizza man. I just hate the solidified grease. eeeew

Emril's oreos in the freezer alwyas looked good.
I like to freeze my yogurt? not that weird tho.

I'm a big fan of all things cold...shepard's pie, tuna casserole, pasta, potato, cooked veggies, pizza, the list goes on.

I like frozen peas while they are still frozen.

Bahn Xeo (Vietnamese crepes) - I like them room temp or cold which my mom and sister think is absolutely nuts. I will of course eat them hot, but don't care if they are not. To me, this makes them the perfect bring from home snack.

Oreos in the freezer, string cheese room temp, dill pickles room temp or warm.

I always make a extra bacon cheeseburger to eat cold the next day at my desk. Cold fried chicken when fishing and frozen mint cookies anytime.

Frozen Milkey Way candy bars, left over mac and cheese, canned baked beans from a just-opened can and, I'm ashamed to admit to this, but ravioli from a just-opened can.

I don't buy candy very often, but on the random occasion that I pick up a pack of gummy worms or "happy colas" (my favorite!) I always freeze them.
I dont know why, but I love gummy candy frozen. You kinda have to chew it and warm it up with your mouth before it goes gummy on you.

frozen grapes are great. so are frozen candy bars like a 3 muskateers. i also put quartered apples in the freezer for about 20-30 minutes before eating them. I've also done really mixed combo of milk fully incorporated into kashi or raisin bran crunch cereal with lots of cinnamon frozen solid and then letting it cool just enough to eat with a spoon again.

Frozen Tastycakes are amazing,especially the cupcakes with the cream in the middle. You just eat the cake and save all that wonderful filling for the last bite, sooo good. Warm peanut butter and apple butter on a piece of toasted sunflower bread. mmmm good.

Don't know if this counts as "temperature", but my daughter waits for peeps to get stale and hard as a rock before she eats them

Corn on the cob, straight from the refrigerator the next morning, no butter or other condiments.

Cold next day (homemade) baked bean sandwich with ketchup! Any frozen candybar! When I was a boy scout out camping I loved dinty moore beef stew cold in a can, except while winter camping. And I don't care what anyone says, I. second spaghettios being tasty cold... Don't be hatin bitches!

Love room temp Dr Pepper. It's also good served hot in a teacup.

Ditto on the cold burritos. And cold fried rice.

Also, frozen grapes taste like candy.

cold cereal hot
i put it in the microwave

I only like my egg salad sandwiches warm. I make the egg salad and eat it within minutes, so it's not like I leave it out to get it to room temp or anything dangerous. Eggs in cold egg salad just make me gag.

@ProfessorChaos: Me too! I prefer my coffee close to room temp or cold. Everyone else I know microwaves their coffee when it isn't hot enough, and complains it doesn't taste the same.

I've been known to eat cold french fries (my sister eats them frozen out of the bag), cold chow mein (the stir fried noodles with sauce, not the bean sprout stuff at Americanized Chinese places), and of course cold fried chicken.

i totally agree with anyone who says cold fried chicken...sooooo good! I also have a thing for grossly over-heated lasagna, left overs that have been zapped to death in the microwave the next day...mostly happens because i have a wonkey microwave and forget about the food after i cook it. I've really come to love the crunchy dried edges and room temp ricotta in the middle

when the meal is done and you finished doing dishes or hanging out a bit, i like picking at cold leftovers. next day, when i eat them as a meal, i reheat.

Cold roast parsnips with plenty of salt so, so good

Cold chinese and pizza leftovers!
and cold oatmeal, kinda disgusting but I love it.
And I always let my icecream melt.


And my little sister used to only drink Sunny Delight if it was warm & had hot water added to it...gross.

Baked potato sweet or white cold out of the fridge!!!

My mom would always make an extra meatloaf so that we could have cold meatloaf sandwiches the next day...My SO thinks it's the nastiest thing ever--I think he's missing out. I also like cold pizza and frozen green grapes, they turn into sorbet after sucking on them for a bit--so good in the summer.

Frozen peas and frozen corn make a great snack! And frozen blueberries too. Pretty much anything small and frozen. My boyfriend thinks I'm strange...

Cold sausage & cold sausage rolls. I love nothing better than a nice sandwich made with cut up cold sausage and fathers favourite sauce. Though finding a nice English style sausage and FF sauce now I'm living in Indiana is a bit of a stretch. I also love cold steak in sandwiches the next day. Oh face it any cold leftover meat in a sandwich is my idea of a great lunch.

fried bologna

On chilly mornings, my mom used to microwave orange juice, which we had to finish before we could leave for the bus stop. The metamorphosis made me gag.

These days I sometimes eat canned Indian food (Jyoti's Punjab Chhole—cue Homer Simpson-like "ohhhhh") at room temperature, right out of the can. And I eat yogurt out of the freezer. It's like nutritious popsicles without sticks.

I love pulling meat out of the red sauce from fridge in the middle of the night and eating it cold with my hands - meatballs and especially sausage.

Microwaved Marshmallows with a sprinkle of rock salt! Extravagance: add a bit of chocolate (S'mores-style) or a piece of a 3 Musketeers Bar, then zap! Melty, yumm...

Eating cold leftover spaghetti as I read this!

I LOVE eating canned vegetable soup straight from the tin. Somehow it just isn't as heavy, and tastes waaay better.
Frozen beans and peas are aways good. Pieces of raw potato are good too. Don't know if that counts as the wrong 'temperature' but I know it counts as yummy!

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