Food Meme

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What's the last thing you ate?
Cheeze-its

What's your favorite cheese?
Chedder. Sharp.

What's your favorite fish?
Tuna.

What's your favorite fruit?
Apples. No, watermellon. Um, peaches? Definitely bananas. wait, apples! darn, what was the question?

When, if ever, did you start liking olives?
Black olives for as long as I can remember. Green (with pimento) and Greek olives took a little longer, maybe when I was 10 or 12?

When, if ever, did you start liking beer?
18.

When, if ever, did you start liking shellfish?
Never had shellfish until I was in college, and I liked it then.

What was the best thing your mum/dad/guardian used to make?
Tabooley! (Greek/Lebonese wheat/tomato/parsley salad)

What's the native specialty of your home town?
baseball foods, you know, like hot dogs and burgers.

What's your comfort food(s)?
Peanut butter sandwich, cheese doodles or cheese-its, Snickers, Dr. Pepper.

What's your favorite type of chocolate?
A simple Hershey's bar.

How do you like your steak?
Medium.

How do you like your burger?
Medium well, with all the fixins. 'Cept onions.

How do you like your eggs?
Sunny-side up, eaten by pinching it with toast, instead of using a fork!

How do you like your potatoes?
mashed, mixed with corn or peas and gravey.

How do you take your coffee?
Often. with milk and sugar.

How do you take your tea?
iced, sweetened or unsweetened, with lemon.

How do you take your hot chocolate?
with marshmallows.

What's your favorite mug?
Currently a Mickey Mouse mug, pseudo-souvenir from honeymoon.

What's your biscuit or cookie of choice?
Mom's chocolate chip cookies.

What's your ideal breakfast?
eggs & bacon with toast, coffee, gravey and biscuits, and the Sunday comics.

What's your ideal sandwich?
Peanut butter and jelley (or PB and banana).

What's your ideal pizza (topping and base)?
heavy on the sauce, olives, green peppers, tomato chunks.

What's your ideal pie (sweet or savory)?
Strawberry with whipped cream in the summer, hot berry cobler a la mode in winter.

What's your ideal salad?
Tabooley.

What food(s) do you always like to have in the fridge?
Milk, orange juice, butter, jelley, bread.

What food do you always like to have in the freezer?
ice cream, frozen pizza

What food do you always like to have in the cupboard?
canned soup, tuna, chips, crackers, rice

What spices can you not live without?
cinnamon, black pepper, salt (yes, I know it's a seasoning, not a spice), oregano (an herb)

What sauces can you not live without?
tomato sauce, heavy on the oregano and peppers.

Where do you buy most of your food?
Giant

How often do you go food shopping?
Once a week.

What's the most you've spent on a single food item?
really not sure.

What's the most expensive piece of kitchen equipment you own?
Stand mixer

What's the last piece of equipment you bought for your kitchen?
at the same time: stand mixer, food processor, chopper, milkshake mixer

What piece of kitchen equipment could you not live without?
Large knife and cutting board. Used 'em for years before we got the toys.

How many times a week/month do you cook from raw ingredients?
Does cereal count as raw? No? Oh well. Probably 10 to 15 times a month, if pancake mixes count.

What's the last thing you cooked from raw ingredients?
Lentils and rice, with salad.

What meats have you eaten besides cow, pig and poultry (chicken, turkey, duck, cornish game hens)?
seafood (fish and shellfish, including raw oyster shooters and sushi), lamb, froglegs.

What's the last time you ate something that had fallen on the floor?
Not sure. Maybe a few days ago?

What's the last time you ate something you'd picked in the wild?
Never, that I remember.

Place in order of preference (greatest to least):
Italian, Chinese, Thai, Indian, Sushi, Mexican, French, Moroccan

Place in order of preference:
mint, caramel, ginger, basil, anise, garlic

Place in order of preference:
apple, cherry, orange, banana, watermelon, strawberry

Place in order of preference: food, movies, the internet, fashion, sports

Bread and spread?
white, peanut butter

What's your fast food restaurant of choice, and what do you usually order?
Wendy's, Taco salad

Pick a city. What are the best dining experiences you've had in that city?
Orlando, FL - the meal at Cinderella's castle in Disney World.

What's your choice of tipple at the end of a long day?
triple latte with amaretto

What's the next thing you'll eat?
more cheese-ites