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Thank you all SO much for your comments--I am so thankful for all your suggestions! I will test it out today by making dog biscuits, using it as all-purpose, and even try the playdough.

people who love food and drink and refuse canned domestic beer are lame. wtf is with you guys? what are you doing, just sustaining yourselves on some thick brown ale imported shit? get it together and drink some american lager every once and a while.

for me, mcdonald's french fries dipped in ranch dressing. just thinking about it makes me feel sleazy.

it usually comes at 1... i'll totter downstairs barefoot and pretend i'm gonna be nice with a couple of leftover brussel sprouts and asparagus but then the next thing you know i'm head first into a jar of hellman's mayonnaise trying to wedge a piece of french bread down far enough to get a good goop and then tabasco is flying and 15 minutes later i have my tail between my legs for what i've just done.

By a normal measure, I suppose I'm a food snob, but not because I think I'm better! It's just everyone else, being most of america, doesn't care...

When I moved in with my family after I graduated college last summer, I tried to purge the house of nasty canned goods like heinz "gravy", 100 calorie packs of cheap cookies, Prego, and canned peas... i was going to give them to charity but my family discovered the loot in their car trunk before I could take it. damn! my dad drinks sunny delight and about two gallon of skim milk a week which is embarrassing... he can't tell the difference between organic milk and reg (i don't drink reg milk anymore, i'm soy milk/organic milk now) and every time i go to the store he says "just get me some frickin plain milk and don't you dare buy those expensive eggs! i'm not paying for that crap!" so it's kind of funny because he probably thinks i'm nuts.

but i do have to say: i LOVE LOVE LOVE ranch dressing and, actually, Olive Garden. my boyfriend and i went there as a joke when we were on vacation in florida (it seemed very culture-appropriate to do so, actually, where we were... there weren't any independent places, so what the f?!) and we secretly loved it... at least the breadsticks and salad, which is AMAZING. obviously the pasta is shitty but who cares? sometimes it's not worth fighting it. just submit.

i do have to say, i am totally with most of the people on this, except for a couple of you which i think are freaks. not once you'd have canned spaghetti sauce? "olive oil is the only oil"? you clearly have some things to learn... peanut, grapeseed, walnut, sesame, vegetable, etc etc etc... they all serve their own rightful purpose in the kitchen and you'd be a fool to assert otherwise. unless of course, you're talking out of your ass because you don't know that because you never bake, or make Chinese food, or don't know how to fry. you can't deep fry in olive oil.

ok sorry i just crossed the line... i guess i'm a snob! i'm sorry...
i love this site, i feel so at home. please don't think i'm obnoxious, i was just answering the question...
PS BREAKSTONE SOUR CREAM IS *NOT* the best, try daisy... it must be "all natural"!!!! next time you're at the store, check out the ingredients list! breakstones has a milliion and daisy has like, two.