There is discussion in the media section about the number of calories Olympians (namely Michael Phelps) need each day. GolfGirl said she wouldn't know how to eat that many calories each day, but that it would include pancakes.
So, if you were required to eat 8,000-10,000 calories every day, what would you eat?
Personally, there would be incredible amounts of pasta and breakfast food in my diet.
My brother and I went through so much cereal as kids, that we were rarely treated to name brand boxed cereal. Most of ours came in bags that were then dumped into a big air tight plastic container. When we did get "good" cereal, we loved Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch. We still give my parents a hard time when we go to their house and see they have multiple boxes of name brand cereal in the cabinet. Usually with disbelief, "What? We never got Cocoa Puffs as kids! We had to eat Oat Oh's!"
Even though we coveted name brand cereals, we were smart enough to think Cookie Crisp was the most disgusting thing ever invented.
Was I the only one who thought the "balanced breakfast" that commercials always showed was incredibly large? All I needed before school was a bowl of cereal or 2 pieces of toast.
Dark chocolate rum cheesecake with white chocolate drizzled over the top and my "famous" double chocolate chunk cookies crushed for the crust.
And a giant glass of milk.
Bologna... There's no way to class that up. As kids, my brother and I would make sandwiches using the cheap store-brand white bread, one slice of American cheese between two slices of turkey bologna (it was "healthier") with potato chips or, for a treat, generic cheetos, and if my dad made the sandwich, ketchup. Thinking about it makes my stomach turn. I distinctly remember getting mad at my dad in 1st grade for putting ketchup on my bologna and cheese sandwich because it made the bread soggy and pink. After that, I made my own lunches.
Of course this came from the man who still, at nearly 50, prefers to drink Tang in the morning. No wonder my brother and I don't really like orange juice - we were being brought up to be Astronauts!
We didn't use many "baby words" when I was a kid. The big exception was the use of the word "jammies" for pajamas. We were pretty good about food words, too, but a few stick in my mind.
When my brother was in preschool, they had a tasting day. He came home saying they ate "pino peppers and they were really hot". These were, of course, jalapeno peppers. Little Brother also gave us the word "porp" one night while wrestling with my uncle while we ordered pizza. He claims he was trying to tell uncle that he was going to "barf", but it came out "porp". From that moment on, we always ask if he wants porp or Italian sausage on his pizza.
The big one in our family is "Sketti Yo-yo". Apparently this is something my grandparents started with my mom when she and her siblings were kids. To get them to eat a very basic aioli (just oil & garlic) they started calling it "yo-yo". To this day, my mom & I still make "Sketti Yo-yo" for nights when dinner is just for 1.
I like how eatorama thinks. When I was in college, my mom would bring me brownies every time she came down - which was every home football game since I was in the Marching Illini, and she had season tickets. Despite that, and as much as I love cookies, brownies will forever be my dessert of choice.
While you're in San Diego, you must have some fish tacos. There's a fast food Fresh-Mex chain called Rubio's that has a pretty decent fish taco. If you're looking for something a little more substantial, a lot of the restaurants offer them as well. I've had some great ones made with mahi-mahi at a pub in the Gaslamp - unfortunately I can't remember the name of the place. Have fun though, San Diego is probably my favorite city ever.
I once saw someone open a microwave popcorn bag for their child during Mass. Cheerios and other non-pungent finger foods don't bother me, but microwave popcorn? Not only is it distracting to open the bag, but the aroma is not something most people want to smell during church services. Also, if your child is old enough to eat microwave popcorn without you having to remove all the crunchier pieces, then they're probably old enough that they shouldn't be eating snacks during Mass. That could just be how I was raised, but I think there's merit to it.
Rick Otta
Cherry (pronounced "Cherié") Jello (pronounced "Zsa-low")
Also, Lemont (silent T) Jello and Aaron (like Orange) Jello
I'm into cake baking and decorating right now. I always have to level them quite a bit before decorating, so I'm left with lots of perfectly good cake bits that have no immediate use. Obviously roommates and the boyfriend will eat them if I let them, but there are times when there is just too much cake in the house! I take the cake scraps, break them up in a bowl, add some thinned butter cream (I never make the butter cream especially for this part. I always use whatever leftover colors I have in the fridge), roll them into balls and freeze them. Once they're set, I dip them in melted chocolate. Viola! Cake truffles. I have one friend who would rather me make her cake truffles than an actual decorated cake for her birthday. It is a bit time-consuming, but they are quite delicious!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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?
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!
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.
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...:-)
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