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Risqué Orangina Ads Stir Controversy

Um. Someone at Orangina's ad agency just needs to join a Furry fetish group, methinks. Much better outlet for that sort of thing.

elizabells at 8:33PM on 08/26/08

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Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults

Kraft Mac & Cheese. It was a naughty treat in my tofu/brown rice household growing up. I still eat it once in a while now, because it's fast and cheap, but every single time it just makes my mouth sad.

elizabells at 8:31PM on 08/26/08

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Sourdough Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'

To echo the above: no good bread in the bay? Are you high? I've missed nothing more since moving to NY as the bread from back home, particularly the sourdough. I finally found a decent loaf at the Union Square GM and ate half of it in one sitting.

Hell, I grew up eating french toast made with sourdough. If you love it, you get it. I wouldn't eat rye bread on a bet. Doesn't mean I'm going to tell someone who likes it that they have no taste and don't know anything about good bread. And like someone upthread said, not everything labeled "sourdough" is actually sourdough.

elizabells at 2:18AM on 06/28/08

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Eating for Two: 'Laborade'

@ PeanutButter: "Oh yeah, and the nurses at work have a saying: "The longer the birth plan, the higher the chance of a Cesarean" "

Sooooo very true. This nurse's theory is that the stress of trying to control every detail stresses you out so hard that you can't focus on your actual job, which is delivering a healthy baby. My mom had both of us without even an IV and was home in six hours. My cousin was induced, they pushed her too hard and she had an emergency C section. Every birth is different.

My best advice as a NICU nurse who's been to lots of births is make your wishes (food related or not) known to your nurses and doctor, but be realistic that sometimes stuff just happens and the plan may not be feasible. And know that since OB/L&D is the most sued specialty in medicine, MDs and RNs get reaaaally twitchy about deviating from hospital protocol, because that can be their only defense if something goes awry. The best thing is to check in with your doc BEFORE something comes up during the labor process, when you're not in pain or overwhelmed by emotions. And if your doc says "NO. All women at X hospital must be on their backs/confined to bedrest/totally without food or drink no matter what" then maybe think about another hospital.

elizabells at 9:28AM on 06/11/08

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Risqué Orangina Ads Stir Controversy

Um. Someone at Orangina's ad agency just needs to join a Furry fetish group, methinks. Much better outlet for that sort of thing.

elizabells at 8:33PM on 08/26/08

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Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults

Kraft Mac & Cheese. It was a naughty treat in my tofu/brown rice household growing up. I still eat it once in a while now, because it's fast and cheap, but every single time it just makes my mouth sad.

elizabells at 8:31PM on 08/26/08

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Sourdough Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'

To echo the above: no good bread in the bay? Are you high? I've missed nothing more since moving to NY as the bread from back home, particularly the sourdough. I finally found a decent loaf at the Union Square GM and ate half of it in one sitting.

Hell, I grew up eating french toast made with sourdough. If you love it, you get it. I wouldn't eat rye bread on a bet. Doesn't mean I'm going to tell someone who likes it that they have no taste and don't know anything about good bread. And like someone upthread said, not everything labeled "sourdough" is actually sourdough.

elizabells at 2:18AM on 06/28/08

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Eating for Two: 'Laborade'

@ PeanutButter: "Oh yeah, and the nurses at work have a saying: "The longer the birth plan, the higher the chance of a Cesarean" "

Sooooo very true. This nurse's theory is that the stress of trying to control every detail stresses you out so hard that you can't focus on your actual job, which is delivering a healthy baby. My mom had both of us without even an IV and was home in six hours. My cousin was induced, they pushed her too hard and she had an emergency C section. Every birth is different.

My best advice as a NICU nurse who's been to lots of births is make your wishes (food related or not) known to your nurses and doctor, but be realistic that sometimes stuff just happens and the plan may not be feasible. And know that since OB/L&D is the most sued specialty in medicine, MDs and RNs get reaaaally twitchy about deviating from hospital protocol, because that can be their only defense if something goes awry. The best thing is to check in with your doc BEFORE something comes up during the labor process, when you're not in pain or overwhelmed by emotions. And if your doc says "NO. All women at X hospital must be on their backs/confined to bedrest/totally without food or drink no matter what" then maybe think about another hospital.

elizabells at 9:28AM on 06/11/08

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Salmonella Scare Halts Tomato Sales

A coworker of mine went to Wendy's for dinner last night and her sammich was tomato-less. Of course, with this particular Wendy's it could have just been their classic inability to get anything right, but I'm assuming since McD's is doing without right now, the rest of fast-foodlandia might be as well.

elizabells at 9:22AM on 06/10/08

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Sourdough Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'

For centuries, the only breads available were sourdough breads. Commercial yeast is a rather new invention in relation to the history of bread. Why anyone would bad mouth sourdoughs,shows that they have no knowledge or respect for the art and science of bread baking.

dmcavanagh at 11:55PM on 03/07/09

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Sourdough Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'

OK, this is the thing with sourdough. The regular yeast thats used in regular bread, such as back on the east coast and many other parts of the country (and the world) wouldnt raise the bread out in california. ( back when california was first being settled) so they had to use a different type of bacteria (yeast) to make the bread rise. It has to do with whats in the water. This yeast made the bread taste sour. Hence the name sourdough. This also made cooks make totally different recipes for Pizza etc. I love breads and pasts. So for my own taste I like pizza and breads back east like in Pennsylvania, or new york. I live in Utah now and they dont have any breads or pizzas that I like. So Im not happy (but I'll live)

danielh0917 at 2:59AM on 11/01/08

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Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults

I still love Fig Newtons, too but will enjoy any Fig Newton 'knockoff". I did like popscicles but today find them too sweet and lacking in flavour. I even ate them through my university years but their allure was probably their cheapness... I was a pretty eager eater - loved all vegetables except parsnips which I now adore. I steam them lightly and caramelize them in butter and brown sugar - one of my many fave vegetables. I liked meat in my childhood but eat it rarely today. I loved hotdogs but don't enjoy them today. I'll eat one at a barbecue but I'd rather have something else. Foods are so nostalgic. We travel back in our minds to the very moment of tasting. I love the evocative nature of food as well as the taste.

Raki5 at 11:35PM on 09/05/08

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Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults

I wonder if today's kids, 15 years from now, will be getting nostalgic about the same nasty kids foods. Definitely not Bourdain's kid unless she swears off game birds!

Allison Hemler at 6:58PM on 09/03/08

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Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults

Captain Crunch!

reader110 at 1:54PM on 09/03/08

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Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults

If I get a craving for a childhood food I have to cuccumb to it no questions asked. The only thing that I will not eat now (thank God for no craving) is lamb and liverwurst that THEN i liked, now I won't touch it.

pjracz10 at 3:48AM on 09/03/08

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Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults

Snowballs (yeah the pink things), Candy Corn, those stupid orange peanut shaped marshmellow things (what were they supposed to taste like anyway?), anything marshmellow including Mallow Mars, But for some strange reason I like a smores (only made over an outside fire) maybe once a year.
I always hated bologna, didn't like hotdogs (unless drowning in ketchup) until I was a teenager (and discovered really good mustard, not that yucky yellow stuff) and now I only eat them at the "game" or grilled crispy from The Blarney Stone. Guilty pleasure - and then I am sorry, Big Mac, Chocolate Shake and fries (only once a year) considering you can get a sublime burger with MacDonalds quality fries in so many places in NYC. Must be that special sauce. Always hated any cold cereal and still eat oatmeal (from scratch) the way my mom made it with milk, butter, sugar and cinnamon - a true comfort food on a crisp cold winter morning.
Love:
Snickers
Reeses Peanut Butter Cups
but Lindt Chocolate is the adult thing, oh those truffles!

Boo on who said Girl Scout Cookies, support a good cause, eat the thin mints and tagalongs (another guilty pleasure that I insist on sharing with my entire family).

I am a New York food snob and a former restaurant professional so I crave the stuff I can't make myself. Never got into frosting in a can or brownies from a mix. I can make it faster and better.

DISTROY ALL PEEPS! Must try blowing them up in the microwave, thanks for the idea.

quaxo at 10:34PM on 09/02/08

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Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults

Am I the only person who cannot eat Captain Crunch cereal as an adult? OMG the stuff shreds the roof of your mouth and put you into insulin shock. What was I not thinking?

RI Swampyankee at 7:30PM on 09/02/08

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Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults

Ramen Noodles. That pure salt seasoning packet and those waxy noodles. My friends and I used to LOVE them for an after school snack. They are the one food I absolutely can't stomach anymore.

I loves me some Skettios, though!

Calidaho at 7:25PM on 09/02/08

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Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults

Gad! You execute Peeps -- for fun! (Gulp!) I adore Peeps, and I'm probably old enough to be your grandmother. I also still like Moon Pies, but I nuke them so they become s'mores-like. I also have learned to love exceedingly dark rich chocolate, assorted organ meats and all the other frou-frou foods favored by self-proclaimed gourmands. The difference, I believe, is that in childhood we only THOUGHT we could have eaten Peeps for breakfast, lunch and dinner; we couldn't have then anymore than we could now. All things in moderation -- even Peeps.

expat39520 at 11:43AM on 09/02/08

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Risqué Orangina Ads Stir Controversy

Strange maybe, but that makes it a great advertisement.
"Is that a bottle of Orangina in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"

Toasty at 10:24AM on 09/02/08

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Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults

PEEPS...my stepmom sends me a package each Easter specifically so I may have the thrill of microwaving those neon-colored chicks of sugar death. I am not a violent lady by nature but watching those things expand and explode is FUN! Just a suggestion...spray the inside of the microwave oven with a very thin coat of cooking spray or something like it, because you'll be using every ounce of elbow grease you possess to clean it! LOL Although cleaning it up would be good exercise...:-)

skyeyes at 10:22AM on 09/02/08

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Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults

sloppy joe from the lunch truck that provided lunch to my school (you know, the kind that goes to construction sites?) with strawberry milk. i might eat the sloppy joe now if i wasn't vegetarian, but the combination of the two. ew.

al oof at 1:02PM on 09/01/08

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Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults

Ugghhh... bologna sandwiches with mayo on white bread (crusts trimmed off). Even the thought of it now makes me shudder. And I'd have it with a glass of Hawaiian Punch - even worse!

Oh, and my mom used to make this disgusting casserole with hot dog chunks, elbow macaroni, and canned tomato soup that for some unknown reason, I loved as a child. (By the way, my mom really is a great cook - don't know what was going on with this recipe...)

kimberlymac at 2:14PM on 08/31/08

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Risqué Orangina Ads Stir Controversy

it is odd but I still liked it, very sexual

negtiveEclipse at 12:38PM on 08/31/08

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Risqué Orangina Ads Stir Controversy

this objectifies animals as sex crazy beasts, i am offended!

xavierporraz at 11:50AM on 08/31/08

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Yep, definitely creepy and strange, but I pick animated shimmying zebras in ads over real shimmying women in music videos any day.

Sanna at 12:16PM on 08/30/08

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Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults

Apple Jacks. With the best milk afterwards. I used to live on the stuff. I can maybe do it once a year now but only one bowl (used to do at least three each morning) and then I have to chuck the rest of the box. But the milk is still awesome.

I'm surprised by the Doritors haters. Was never a nacho cheese fan, but the cool ranch???? Can eat a bag of those in one sitting to this day. And the habanero ones they had recently were really good. Though I think I lost a layer of stomach lining because of them.

tkln at 11:51AM on 08/30/08

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Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults

Things that are pink.

Sanna at 11:18AM on 08/30/08

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Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults

Growing up in Nebraska, one of the most popular dips for potato chips was bacon horseradish, I used to love it as a kid. I tried some a few years ago and it was nothing like I remembered, I couldn't even eat it! Also, my grandparents always have Braunschweiger, I used to love it as a kid, but I tried it a few years ago and nearly gagged. Maybe I was a weird kid.
I love fig newtons, when I want a quick store bought snack.
Like most of the above, all those tooth-achingly sweet things that are marketed to kids (pop-tarts, sugar cereals, twinkies) are impossible to swallow now, though I do occassionally like a Little Debbie Swiss Cake Roll or Peanut Butter bar (the layered one). I tried both twinkies and ding-dongs again in grad school and couldn't finish them.
I never cared for any of those Chef Boyardee products, canned meats, and I only like hot dogs cooked over a fire when camping.

aprille at 2:58PM on 08/29/08

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Risqué Orangina Ads Stir Controversy

I don't think there's actually anything wrong with this ad, but it's definitely pretty creepy and strange.

linkblue at 1:16PM on 08/29/08

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Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults

What the hell happened to Icees? You know, the snowy-textured slush with the polar bear logo? Or did I change? Anyway, I used to live for them; I had one at a movie theater recently for fun and I gave it away to my friend because I found the taste so strangely un-cherrylike.

andywho, you are my hero. I still love the ravioli, too.

BangieB at 11:29AM on 08/29/08

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OMG! I love the comment about slim jims tasting like ass and tires. LOL! Okay, and to all the fig newton haters out there...what are you thinking?? Newtons are the best! I can eat a whole sleeve with a pot of tea. Comfort!!!
However, I'm 100% on board with the Chef Boyardee Meat Raviolis...BLECH. I used to LOVE LOVE LOVE when my mom would serve me them...and now the mere smell sends me lurching from the room gagging.
I also used to eat a Hostess apple pie in high school every day for lunch, with a bag of Doritos and a nutty bar. And I weighed 98 pounds soaking wet! Now of course, I cannot imagine how I have any teeth left in my head at all.

juliebugsmama at 11:26AM on 08/29/08

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um, Warheads--anyone remember those things?
looking back on them i have to ask, just what was their appeal?
"this candy will kick your ass!"
has the "painful candy" fad passed? i don't really see any of that kind of crap in gas stations and grocery stores anymore, so i guess so?

rasellers0 at 12:49AM on 08/29/08

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I live in new orleans, and we have Hubig's Pies, which are so good! I tried the hostess variety once-cherry- it was cough syrup goop inside surrounded by a thin greasy pie crust. but I can't say I don's love the fried pie things, Hubigs are the bomb!

delilah at 12:37AM on 08/29/08

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