Jim Ball wrote:
It's pure redneck white trash food, but I love Chicken Fried Steak sandwiches.  In fact, I'm eating my home cooked version of this  for supper right now.

That looks a lot tastier than the slathered-in-wtf-sauce Texas version.

Amadea T wrote:
Anything in the food group of Chocolate.

I <3 you

Koryn wrote:
Tater tots baked until they're just on the verge of burning, with cheesy grits poured over them.

Biscuits and gravy.

Biscuits & gravy?  My kinda gal!   I'm making biscuits & sausage gravy for breakfast tomorrow morning.

Eugenya Donald Images wrote:
Potatoes.  Cooked any style.  Potatoes are my favourite food, and I could eat them for breakfast, lunch, and supper.  And snacks.  When it comes right down to it, in terms of food, I really just want potatoes.

I'm a 'ho for starchy, carby stuff too.

I get shit online from people on fitness/health forums because I'm not an anti-grain nazi. It's like, if you're a fitness enthusiast now, and admit to eating grains or white potatoes, you might as well be hanging a sign on yourself that says, "I'm currently obese and will die a slow, painful death," because that's what everyone thinks.There's still a lot more evidence that suggests you're more likely to die, or get too big, from over-consuming bacon and hamburgers (yes, even without the bun) than you are from chowing down on taters.

Jim Ball wrote:
It's pure redneck white trash food, but I love Chicken Fried Steak sandwiches.  In fact, I'm eating my home cooked version of this  for supper right now.

Leave off all of the healthy stuff, smother the rest with sausage gravy and copious amounts of Tapitio sauce, and I'm all in!

Jim Ball wrote:

Biscuits & gravy?  My kinda gal!   I'm making biscuits & sausage gravy for breakfast tomorrow morning.

I grew up in NC, and lived there until I was 26. Nothing will ever compare to a big, greasy southern breakfast.

People up here tend to eat more stuff like bagels, oatmeal and pastries. I don't really care for any of those choices. I do kind of like oatmeal when I'm in the mood for it,, but its gives me raging heartburn.

Koryn wrote:
I'm a 'ho for starchy, carby stuff too.

I get shit online from people on fitness/health forums because I'm not an anti-grain nazi. It's like, if you're a fitness enthusiast now, and admit to eating grains or white potatoes, you might as well be hanging a sign on yourself that says, "I'm currently obese and will die a slow, painful death," because that's what everyone thinks.There's still a lot more evidence that suggests you're more likely to die, or get too big, from over-consuming bacon and hamburgers (yes, even without the bun) than you are from chowing down on taters.

Is it the quality of life or the quantity of life that is more important? Gimme bacon and burgers instead of old age and diapers any day. No one gets off this planet alive, so you might as well enjoy whatever time you have.

** Lohkee has been officially disavowed by, well, you know who **

Model Sarah wrote:
Like...what does this even mean? Food that is bad for you that you shouldn't have all the time?

I don't really like sweet food. I mean I do, sometimes but it isn't something I crave. I guess maybe cheese. A good aged cheddar or a nice soft Brie. Nom nom. Cheese > chocolate.

A guilty pleasure food is one that tastes great, but may not be the healthiest choice.  Or, it could be a food considered "low class" but you enjoy it anyway.

If it's healthy, good for you, and it's anything sold in a health food store or whole food store, by definition it is not a guilty pleasure.

Jim Ball wrote:

A guilty pleasure food is one that tastes great, but may not be the healthiest choice.  Or, it could be a food considered "low class" but you enjoy it anyway.

If it's healthy, good for you, and it's anything sold in a health food store or whole food store, by definition it is not a guilty pleasure.

They have tater tots at Whole Foods but they're still bad for you. There's a lot of shitty food and guilty pleasures at natural food stores.

The whole hot bar at Whole Foods is a guilty pleasure. They have some of the creamiest richest macaroni and cheese that I've ever had.

Jim Ball wrote:

A guilty pleasure food is one that tastes great, but may not be the healthiest choice.  Or, it could be a food considered "low class" but you enjoy it anyway.

If it's healthy, good for you, and it's anything sold in a health food store or whole food store, by definition it is not a guilty pleasure.

I don't eat a whole lot of unhealthy food. I really have to think about this. Does Foie Gras count? I had that once and wanted to eat the whole fucking thing.

Koryn wrote:

I'm a 'ho for starchy, carby stuff too.

I get shit online from people on fitness/health forums because I'm not an anti-grain nazi. It's like, if you're a fitness enthusiast now, and admit to eating grains or white potatoes, you might as well be hanging a sign on yourself that says, "I'm currently obese and will die a slow, painful death," because that's what everyone thinks.There's still a lot more evidence that suggests you're more likely to die, or get too big, from over-consuming bacon and hamburgers (yes, even without the bun) than you are from chowing down on taters.

I find that attitude towards potatoes to be very strange.  A baked potato with cheese sauce, and maybe a bit of chili, makes a fine meal.  I also just love plain, boiled potatoes with melted butter, salt, and pepper.  Mmmmmm................

Jim Ball wrote:
It's pure redneck white trash food, but I love Chicken Fried Steak sandwiches.  In fact, I'm eating my home cooked version of this  for supper right now.

The waffle chips should be on the Sandwich, add slaw.



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The eg is Fish from Primanti Brothers but a Chicken fried Steak would work really well imo

bon appetit!

kickfight wrote:
Puebla-style Mole over roasted turkey with plenty of tortillas is my go-to comfort-food dish, but I don't have a particular "guilty" pleasure.

OK, the Chicharrones from Sabritas very likely qualify. I'm gonna go with those.

Chicharrones definitely qualify!

Jules NYC wrote:
In season...

Cook me

The only thing to feel guilty about is that you can afford them.

r T p wrote:

I call bullshit - unless you eat a bushel at a time!

Jim Ball wrote:

I call bullshit - unless you eat a bushel at a time!

Well, unless it is smothered in sausage gravy

Lohkee wrote:

Well, unless it is smothered in sausage gravy

What a waste of good sausage gravy!

A doctor friend of mine, Hamish, tells me of how once while lecturing to medical students in Edinburgh -- the theme of this lecture is not entirely clear to me and may not have been to him either -- he digressed and began speaking of the virtues of drinking alcohol. Scotch whisky, he told his audience, is good for the health and amongst other things is an excellent tranquillizer. Why are doctors, he wondered, not allowed to prescribe a good dram every night for their patients? It would be much better for the patients than all the sedatives and sleeping pills which are now being dispensed to those who find difficulty in sleeping and a good deal less expensive for the Health Service.

In question-time after his talk, he was immediately confronted by a student who was clearly a convinced teetotaller -- yes, we have them in Scotland, too. Surely, the student demanded, the lecturer was not suggesting that whisky could be beneficial to health? Hamish replied mildly that yes, research showed that a modest amount of alcohol every day helped to protect against coronary artery disease. The student, annoyed, refused to accept the reply.

'Surely, Sir, you are not saying that all of us here,' the student gestured to encompass everyone in the lecture theatre, 'would not be better off if we gave up drinking? Would we not be healthier, live longer and better lives?'

Hamish looked at the student sadly.

'Aye, give up whisky if you've a mind to. Give up sex, too, and animal fat and cookies and ice cream. Give up all the wee pleasures of life and go jogging every day. Maybe you will be healthier. You'll not live forever, of course, but by God it will feel like it.'

--Richard Grindal, "Return to the Glen, Adventures on the Scotch Whisky Trail," 1989.

Koryn wrote:
Tater tots baked until they're just on the verge of burning, with cheesy grits poured over them.

Biscuits and gravy.

How about a little of both...a crispy tater tot waffle, with sausage gravy.

BeatnikDiva wrote:

How about a little of both...a crispy tater tot waffle, with sausage gravy.

Ooh, yeah Baby!

BeatnikDiva wrote:

How about a little of both...a crispy tater tot waffle, with sausage gravy.

Oh my, if only there were two eggs over-easy instead of the "other" stuff, this would have indeed been a masterpiece.

Lohkee wrote:

Oh my, if only there were two eggs over-easy instead of the "other" stuff, this would have indeed been a masterpiece.

Yeah.  WTF is up with the effing fruit?  No how, no way is fruit a guilty pleasure.