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Wow! People really get heated up over this subject, huh? There are probably as many different opinions as there are rear ends on people. I make my chiweenie's food and she's healthy with bright eyes and a shiny coat. I mix meat (chicken, beef, pork, liver), brown rice, broccoli, squash, pumpkin, pinto and green beans, bran cereal, cheese, safflower oil, scrambled egg, slivered carrot, and occasionally some fruit (never grapes) and heat it slightly. She LOVES it. I get so angry when I read the ingredients on dog food cans/bags and see that the first ingredient is corn in some form. CORN?????

My favorite? Everything you've got pictured there. Drooling.....

Wrapped around a perfectly ripe, sweet slice of melon. Just slightly warmed....yum.

It's a toss-up between prime rib and T-bone.

It's still my Grandmother's baked ham. She always made one for me when we visited her in Kentucky. My favorite treat was her making me a ham sandwich on soft white bread with mayo - and sliced tomatoes if they were in season. Doesn't get any better than that.

Prime rib, prime rib, prime rib. Followed by a juicy T-bone steak.

Definitely the hams my grandmother always baked for me when she knew I was coming to visit. Nothing like a ham sandwich with mayo and tomato on white bread at Granny's house. RIP Granny, I love you.

Any authentic BBQ joint in Lexington, NC! Unfortunately, I live in New Mexico now so can't enjoy genuine Lexington BBQ.

I've got three and I can't narrow it down. First one - July 4, 1976, my first time in New York City and it's the Bicentennial celebration. Hot day, six million people in the streets and my boyfriend buys me an Italian ice from a street vendor- lemon-flavored. Never tasted anything as good as that. Quite an experience for a southern gal.

Second memory - I'm working in Scotland. Have arrived late and am hungry. Checked into my hotel (Thistle, in Glasgow) and went to the bar for dinner. Ordered sesame chicken, expecting that yummy Asian treat. What I got was a dry chicken breast coated with sesame seeds. Something was definitely lost in translation.

Third one - I'm working in Mexico. At lunch with my clients, I taste real Horchata for the first time and I'm STILL trying to make it like they did.

I don't drink sodas but definitely remember the wonderful taste of grape soda. I LOVED it as a child. And like @jinx35, I loved orange soda - jinx, try Stewart's Orange and Cream Soda in a bottle! Even now, I will drink a Stewart's Diet Orange and Cream Soda if I can find it. And root beer? @twoshoes, I agree. Still remember root beer floats in frosty mugs at A&W Root Beer Stands (whoops, showing my age!).

@soozm32 is spot on about restaurants in Albuquerque. I HIGHLY recommend Sadie's Mexican Restaurant and El Pinto Restaurant if you want genuine, delicious New Mexican cooking. It can be a bit spicy so ask the waiter about the heat. If you want a delicious green chile cheeseburger (a New Mexico specialty), try the Owl Bar and Cafe in Albuquerque. If you come down I-25 for about 1 and 1/2 hours, you'd get the best green chile cheeseburger EVER. It's Manny's Buckhorn in San Antonio, NM and he beat Bobby Flay in a throwdown this spring.

@ashtonsh - Since I live 70 miles from the nearest Indian restaurant, I have had to learn to cook Indian food for myself. I started with Julie Sahni's wonderful cookbook, "Introduction to Indian Cooking." I highly recommend this book. It's a great book, and the recipes are easy to prepare. Once you've mastered the basics, Go for Madhur Jaffrey's "An Invitation to Indian Cooking" and "Indian Cooking" and Sahni's "Classic Indian Cooking."

Southerners have been eating corn for breakfast for years. It's called GRITS. Polenta = yellow corn, grits = white corn. Except we don't sweeten it. Butter, salt, pepper - that's the trick.