Either you are reading this because you are very bored, I paid you, You like food as much as I do, You have a huge crush on me :-),or you really are that good of friend to actually want to read this crap! Any case... let me start by telling you about things I hate:
(not in any order.. I hate them all equally)
meat (any and all kinds)
any animal byproduct (anything made with animal parts... ei: gelatin, meat flavored items)
weird white creamy things such as, but not limited to: ranch, mayo (that includes mayonnaise/miracle whip) pre- melted cheese (like the cheese sauce), and yogurt (which I used to like until I ate too much of it once)
tofu... unless it is ground up and made to make something sort of creamy.. then it MIGHT be okay.
I think that is basically it for the big NOs in my food life. now on to a story! (yay! story time! Everyone gather around!)
So the last comic con I went to with Amanda, Jenna, and their boyfriends.... we all got some free ramen. (the con ALWAYS has free ramen and soda) I knew I wouldn't eat the cups of ramen because the seasoning packages were already in it (see animal byproduct if you don't understand why) BUT they usually have rice! (yay! go rice!) Alas! the rice cookers weren't working. :-( (boo!) Then out of no where I was assured that this one cup of ramen did not contain the seasoning and it was separate so I could leave mine out! (Huzzah!) I asked over and over "This does not contain meat right?" and over and over again people were assuring me that no it did not have meat in it. Let me just stop you all right there, in no way shape or form do I blame what I am about to tell you on my friends. They had no knowledge of what was actually in this cup of ramen.
Ot of the 5 of us, 4 got this cup of ramen. (if you must know it is the spicy ones) we were all happily chowing down when.... (que startling music) Amanda saw a funny shaped noodle in hers. She quickly ate it and said that it must have been a mistake in the factory. Haha! not so! Soon someone else found one. Then another! This whole time, Jenna (who was the only one who did NOT get this type of ramen) was saying "Maybe you shouldn't eat that! Oh God! You could die!" I should have listened to her......
Soon I too found my mysterious "noodle"
After some peer pressure from the others to join the mystery noodle group, I ate it. It tasted funny... very funny. Flash forward to about a month ago: My lovely friends all found out what this "noodle" really was... and made a pact not to tell me. Jenna spilled the beans... That so call "noodle" really was fish ground up and pressed in to that shape. (gag! Gag! gag!) I will NOT be enjoying ANY ramen this next time at the con! Instead I have told myself I will pack delightful snacks that will keep my hunger at bay.
It is because of things like this, why I have a love/hate relationship with food. I so desperately want to love it. But then things like this happen and I don't want to eat anything for a week. Once I found out how many bug parts are in chocolate... I refused to eat chocolate for quite awhile! I am only now able to tell people the story above without actually gagging. Have you ever seen some one gag? it isn't pretty!
Anyways, I really wanted to share with you the top few foods I have been in love with this last week or two. Also can I say that if you are still reading this... You really are a great friend! Thank you!
Food number one:
If you live in America, then you are aware of the amazing and sometimes disgusting chip flavors Lay's comes out with. Coffee flavored ones... really Lay's?! Come on!
But as I said before there are sometimes that they get it right. Oh sooooo right!
One of these flavors (which is back for a limited time) is the Mango Salsa ones. Oh my goodness! It is heaven! Pure Heaven! I cant even begin to tell you why these are so good. They just have the right amount of sweet vs salty and an added spice that makes me want to finish a bag in record time!
But moving on....
Food number two: The Mc D's Shamrock Shake.....
*sigh* I simply hate the food at Mc D's. BUT their shamrock shakes have me in their greasy, gross clutches. That sweet mint flavor with the cherry on top is one thing I look forward to each spring. In fact if I am going to be honest here, I drank one already today. I can only handle a small though. My stomach after even that much milk product is screaming at me to stop. But I cant stop! I must have more! Or at least until they quit selling it again.
Food number three: Chili cheese fries
Being a vegetarian I don't get all of the same choices people who eat meat do. That being said one of the things I have missed out on my whole life has been Chili cheese fries.
That is until this last week when I came home and thought to myself, Hey! Laura! You have fries in the freezer and leftover chili in the fridge. You should make a vegetarian version of chili cheese fries!
And so a monster was born. The first couple of bites I wasn't that impressed. I even told Amanda "ehh they are good but not as amazing as everyone says they are" And NOooooo it wasn't because there wasn't any meat on them! *eye roll*
Then about halfway through the bowl of fries, cheese, and chili I had an epiphany. These things are F-ing amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (there isn't enough "!" to describe how "!" they are!) I have since then craved them and I have all my meat eaters to blame. Yes! you heard me! I blame you! If you all hadn't told me how great they are anytime you saw them on a menu at a restaurant I never would have thought to try them.
This is literally me when I eat them:
No joke! my hair even gets all crazy on me! ;-)
I am like the hulk only I don't turn green and I just want to eat my food.
I mean! look at it! oh gosh! I want some now!
So that's my ramble about food in my life. well at least the food in my life for this last week... It is Monday so...... hmmm speaking about food... I have to eat yet today. Maybe I should make a pizza. That seems like a safe choice. Yeah and a spinach salad. Hey! A girl has to counter act the badness in the pizza with something! and I sure as hell am not going to go work out!
Happy eating everyone! Peace!
