Guilty pleasures

[den_the_cat]

a couple of threads recently have made me think how nice horrible things can occasionally be...if you see what I mean.

for example - nasty white cotton wool bread is revolting - but I love it for fishfinger sandwiches or peanut butter sandwiches (I know - but its so awful it transcends the boundries of poor taste and becomes nice again)

And tinned carrots, not actually like carrots with a meal, but cold out of the tin with a bit of salad cream. Yummy.

[Chickpea]

I know what you mean. I was at a children's party a while ago and ate a jam sandwich made with white sliced bread, margarine and raspberry jam, and it was delicious. I think because it took me back to my own childhood. I also occasionally get a hankering for horrible things like:
Bird's Custard
Ambrosia Creamed Rice
Angel Delight
Battenburg Cake
Vesta Curry
all of which were treat foods from my childhood. I wonder did you used to eat tinned carrots and salad cream as a child? Because that sounds disgusting to me in so many different ways.

[Masco&Bongo]

Angel Delight..... mmmmmmm

I used to adore the stuff!

Also, lime or lemon jelly....

[Mancblue]

Well my guilty pleasure is dressing up in my partners knick......ooops wrong site

The one food (meal) I could eat everyday, but I will never allow myself too! is a Donna kebab with lettuce, onion and chili sauce with chips and onion rings..mmmmmmmmmm but I will only have maybe 1 a month unless I'm feeling really naughty

[Martin]

evaporated milk! - love the stuff! - I use it in chai, and infinitely prefer it over strawberries to cream!
Never understood cream - ghastly stuff that tastes like wallpaper paste, and as for yoghourt - yuchhh, just slime!

[Andy Hamilton]

butterscotch angels delight with bannanas in it now you are talking.

Cheese is something I can't live without and will spend up to £10 a week on the stuff sometimes.

I must admit I used to eat a lot of junk food when I was younger but the closest I get now is a bag of chips. I just can't stomach junk food now it makes me feel sluggish.

[den_the_cat]

ah but cheese is only a guilty pleasure if its that plastic stuff you get in burgers.

Chickpea no I never really had them as a kid, but I quite like tinned peas as well and they're both in the tins of vegetable salad my granny used to get for sunday tea, so perhaps it is something to do with it

[Millymollymandy]

I also occasionally get a hankering for horrible things like:
Bird's Custard
Ambrosia Creamed Rice
Angel Delight
Battenburg Cake
Vesta Curry
all of which were treat foods from my childhood. I wonder did you used to eat tinned carrots and salad cream as a child? Because that sounds disgusting to me in so many different ways.

When you live abroad, then discover a shop selling English/British products like the above, they all become very exotic and just have to be bought and tasted (again). I had quite a thing for Vesta Chow Mein (the one with the crispy noodles) when I was a teenager and when I discovered that again 20 odd years later in France I just had to eat it again. And again and again!

Yet in England I wouldn't have given any of the above a second glance (apart from Ambrosia creamed rice!).

[Millymollymandy]

And last night was a real treat. Sausage, beans and chips! My husband calls it real healthfood!

Lincolnshire sausages from England and Heinz beans from England. (Chips from my own home grown spuds).

It is a real treat because the sausage supplies are dwindling.

[hedgewizard]

I got caught hiding in a cupboard eating amobrosia creamed rice once. It's a long story.

[PurpleDragon]

I got caught hiding in a cupboard eating amobrosia creamed rice once. It's a long story.

We have time ...

[Mancblue]

There are indeed some funny character's on the forum.

Hiding in a cupboards eat ambrosia creamed rice

Chaffing insides of mouths with biscuits (likely)

Where will it all end?

[the.fee.fairy]

Haribo...

Coca cola.

Both at the same time...

[multiveg]

Whenever I go to C.A.T., I have to buy a bar of Divine - absolutely gorgeous choccie. I only like the milk chocolate one - it's not one of the popular flavours of Divine sold in my local health food shop, but I can get it in Oxfam.

[The Chili Monster]

Bird's Custard ... Ambrosia Creamed Rice ... Evaporated Milk (Carnation's) ....yyyuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmyy!

However, my list includes:

Radox Bath Foam
Ovaltine
Marmite