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Monolycus
Fanatic   Posts: 580 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 3/5/2007 at 07:53 AM |
When I was wee and feeling puny, I was always given a bowl of Campbell's
cream of tomato soup with saltine crackers. You had to make it by adding
just a little milk at a time in order to avoid nasty red lumps, but it made
me feel cared for. I don't get the same thing from it now, but there are
other foods I no longer have access to that produce a nearly visceral,
emotional response from me. Hostess Ho-Ho's make me think of the times I
laughed with my brothers back in the days before the laughter stopped.
Red-colored sweet and sour shrimp bring me back to the New Year's days I
spent with my beloved when she still was my beloved. German chocolate cake
with the coconut pecan icing puts me right back to that greasy spoon where
I worked right out of high school.
What flavors and textures tickle that primitive part of your brain and what
emotions and memories do you associate with them? Nourish me before I
starve.
[Edited on 5/3/2007 by Monolycus] ____________________
"I believe that woman is planning to shoot me again."
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Starlight
Extreme Fanatic   Posts: 618 Registered: 27/9/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 3/5/2007 at 12:26 PM |
The combination of barq's rootbeer and pizza tends to bring me back to a
time when I was about 15 and had some decent times at Mr. Gatti's pizza
with my parents. For some reason typing that made me remember a video of
Phil Collins and him singing "In the Air Tonight". So, I checked and that
was one of the videos being played on MTV when I was about that age. So,
kinda spooky in a way, I guess.
Vanilla soft-serve ice cream cones dipped in chocolate have, at times, made
me remember summertime as a kid and playing outside. ____________________
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never
tried before." ~Mae West
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Meranda_Jade
Fanatic  Posts: 511 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 3/5/2007 at 12:44 PM |
A lot of my good memories are associated with my Grandma. She was the only
member of my family that I felt ever really cared for me. When I was sick
and had to stay home from school, she'd give me the standard soup and
7up... and when I was feeling better, she made pancakes for me. Pancakes
really aren't a comfort food for me, though. I think that I made too many
of them myself when I was a kid for it to really be a comforting thing.
Recently, when my stepdad passed away, I got a bottle of Jim Beam bourbon,
intending to follow his wishes that we drink one for him. I opened that
bottle and got a good whiff of the sweet, candy-like smell and was
instantly transported back in time to when I was 12 years old and mixed
that drink every night. I looked at Rogue and said, "This smells like
childhood. That is really sad." He said, "That your childhood smells like
bourbon?" I said, "Yeah." I could hardly drink the stuff.
It's not just that I was already thinking of it. The smell of whiskey or
bourbon always does that to me.
I was in my old hometown a while back and noticed that the Sunshine Cafe
where I worked when I was 15 had re-opened. I had to go in and get a
blackberry cobbler ala mode. I used to always get that there. I took my
sister there once, for a cobbler and comfort and planning strategy when we
found out she was pregnant.
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Domkitten
Fanatic  Posts: 470 Registered: 23/9/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 4/5/2007 at 04:19 AM |
French toast covered in syrup makes me think of things both good and bad,
and things I will not go into detail here because they are too private.
Honey makes me think of a very specific person, and licking the sweet
sticky stuff off that person.
The hardest thing to eat in Korea though is biscuits. They always taste
like home. I don't know where home is anymore, so it is both comforting and
extremely unsettling all at the same time. ____________________
It's like kegel exercises for your throat.~Monolycus
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Stille
Occasional Poster   Posts: 42 Registered: 3/10/2003 Status: Offline
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posted on 6/5/2007 at 01:52 AM |
Turkish coffee makes me feel peaceful and safe. During the past (rather
hectic) winter, I started waking up at 5.30 to have a period of calm before
having to get ready for school. I'd make myself a cup of coffee, put on
some music and read some forums and blogs. I had about an hour before the
sun would rise and the rest of my family would wake up and it was the best
hour of the day. The peaceful dark surrounding me, the bitter, refreshing
taste of coffee, the music becoming clearer as the caffeine worked its
magic on my brain and, most of all, the solitude all worked together to
create a place in the day where I could be entirely relaxed and completely
at peace.
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Schizo
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 897 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 6/5/2007 at 05:41 PM |
I have some newly developed comfort foods that make me think of people I
can't be with now but wish I could - there's two varieties of pizza that I
order just to wallow in loneliness... KFC popcorn chicken with ranch
dressing is another one... Sweet Tart jelly beans, fine dark chocolate, a
certain type of alcohol that comes in a dark green bottle (oh my aching
head), filet mignon with wild mushroom sauce... and a kind of chili that I
just can't get now...
Some other foods from further back... my mom's fish chowder, that she used
to make from the fish that Gramps caught (my dad's step grandfather)... a
certain kind of cheap puff-pastry thing that my dad used to get to bring to
work in his lunches - I used to get in all kinds of trouble for stealing
them - I loved them, but they were severely off limits... my mom got a food
dryer, and experimented with various things - she made dried green beans -
they looked like green twist ties, and they were chewy, but surprisingly
good... I don't suppose you could get them anywhere. Maybe I should get
myself a dryer sometime and see if I can make them myself. Toasted Brie
scooped up with slices of French bread makes me think of my first roommate
- who has since moved to Colorado. We never could coordinate our crushes
on each other - I regret that... Buffalo wings and blue cheese dressing
makes me think of last summer with my race team - we would go to Applebees
after races, and they would always order that for an appetizer. Spllit pea
soup and biscuits makes me think of my Bible School days. That was the
traditional Thursday dinner there - don't ask me why - it's a long and
screwed up story.
And when I play Final Fantasy VII, I feel the urge to eat red Jolly
Ranchers. Just forever linked in my mind. ____________________
"You can tell by the scars on my arms and the cracks in my hips and the
dents in my car and the blisters on my lips that I'm not the carefullest of
girls." - Dresden Dolls, "Girl Anachronism"
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Rogue
Member   Posts: 199 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 7/5/2007 at 12:40 AM |
| OMFG, toasted Brie and French Bread is one of my serious comfort or
decadence foods. Also, a filet mignon with mushroom sauce that is the meat
equivalent of a hot fudge sundae, and cream of mushroom soup eaten straight
from the can that reminds me of the woods as a child when things were
simple and Jimmy was alive. (not that these two facts are related) 7-up
was the sick drink, the only thing I could keep down when I was young and
had bronchitis, and still my fave for hangovers or illness or whatever.
Besides that, yeah, there's this pizza place in Rindge that brings back
some memories and I'd order from them if it wasn't so much of a drive. ____________________
Plenty of time, my sweet. Plenty of time.
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Merry_Widow
Fanatic  Posts: 598 Registered: 24/8/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 23/5/2007 at 05:20 PM |
| A bowl of cheerios with lime yogurt on the side. It has to be that really
obnoxios bright green color, too, or it doesn't count. I used to eat it for
dinner all the time when I was a kid and one parent was going out the door
to work while another was coming in. ____________________
Okay, dazzle me.
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MystryssRavynDarque
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 648 Registered: 24/9/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 26/5/2007 at 09:24 PM |
One of my comfort foods really is a discomort food for me. It's a gigantic
bowl of tuna mac and cheese. I'll cook up a bunch of elbow noodles, stick
them in a large Pyrex bowl and put butter, Tillamook cheese (the only one I
can eat and not get sick immediately), and soy milk. I mix that all
together so it's nice and melty (if the heat from the noodles doesn't melt
it all I pop it in the microwave or back in the pan on the stove. Then I
mix in a drained can of tuna. Wala! I sit with it in my lap and watch TV
shows I like and hold onto the bowl like it is my last meal. Mine. It's a
good thing nobody else really likes it.
My other one is the Campbells Tomato soup. My mom used to make that for me
and my sister a lot. I tried making it with water instead of milk (soy milk
these days) and it was awful. The milk is much better. The water version
tasted burnt. I eat it with bread. I dunk pieces of bread in the soup and
eat them or I let them float around a bit and soak up lots of soup then eat
them. Nummy. ____________________
"People always say what we are looking for is a meaning for life…I don't
think that's what we're looking for. I think what we're looking for is the
experience of being alive." -Joseph Campbell
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MystryssRavynDarque
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 648 Registered: 24/9/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 26/5/2007 at 09:28 PM |
Oh, also...
My dad's beef jerky (he mails me some these days), his chicken and
dumplings with the floating bisquick kind of dumplings that were so huge
you could take them out and eat them on a plate with pepper, and his corn
meal mush. Yum.
I also love hot boiled peanuts. I can't seem to find them here. My parents
are mailing me some canned kind. It's just not the same as the convenience
store ones from down the road from my parents' home or the ones from road
side produce stands. We used to eat them in the car and throw the shells
out the window. I loved it. ____________________
"People always say what we are looking for is a meaning for life…I don't
think that's what we're looking for. I think what we're looking for is
the
experience of being alive." -Joseph Campbell
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Schizo
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 897 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 28/5/2007 at 11:50 AM |
| Chilled peach soup and ice water with a twist of lemon in it makes me think
of cemeteries and antique shops. ____________________
"You can tell by the scars on my arms and the cracks in my hips and the
dents in my car and the blisters on my lips that I'm not the carefullest
of
girls." - Dresden Dolls, "Girl Anachronism"
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MystryssRavynDarque
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 648 Registered: 24/9/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 28/5/2007 at 07:00 PM |
quote:
Chilled peach soup and
ice water with a twist of lemon in it makes me think of cemeteries and
antique shops.
Wow that sounds very yummy. Nice and refreshing on a hot summer day.
I had a delicious apple vichyssoise once that was to die for. I've never
had it anywhere else, and I probably never will. I had it on Mother's day
with my mom at her favorite tea room. They were doing a mother's day
brunch.
[Edited on 5/29/2007 by MystryssRavynDarque] ____________________
"People always say what we are looking for is a meaning for life…I
don't
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think that's what we're looking for. I think what we're looking for is
the
experience of being alive." -Joseph Campbell
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gothicmorman
Fanatic  Posts: 233 Registered: 11/7/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 31/5/2007 at 07:19 PM |
A glass of ice (add some cranberry juice, but the idea is ice) and stone
wheat crackers.
It reminds me of being alone in the dark basement watching sitcoms -
seinfeld, cheers, mash, jay leno, SNL.
Some of the most peaceful times of my life were spent alone in the dark
munching on ice.
Oh, and Slushies at 2am - when the best plan we had was to move to a
star.
And later when we were pirates of the street and sailed our boots wild and
free.
Walking home in a pale dawn, back into the daylife. Secrets safe behind the
cover of dark.
[Edited on 6/1/2007 by gothicmorman]
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Rogue
Member Posts: 199 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 6/6/2007 at 06:04 PM |
| Okay, Thai food is one thing I forgot. It's my happy food, since I usually
get it as a reward for a rough day at work and it involves leaving work
instead of eating lunch with a bag of assholes in polo shirts.
Specifically, a dish served in Thailand in bars and as a hangover
cure/prevention called "drunken noodles", or Phad Khee Mao, tofu of course.
Always with a glass of Thai iced tea, it hits the spot. The people at
Lemon Grass know my name and will usually not even bring me a menu, just
ask me if I want spring rolls or not that day and bring me what they know I
want (aside from that one waitress with an ass that would make a fine hat).
Mmm, noooodles. ____________________
Plenty of time, my sweet. Plenty of time.
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Kira
Member  Posts: 149 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 11/6/2007 at 07:27 AM |
Hehe...is that a hint Rogue?
I think we are about due for a corporate decompression lunch date. ____________________
Wind me up and make me crawl to you, tie me up until I call to you.
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Rogue
Member Posts: 199 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 11/6/2007 at 01:58 PM |
| Sure enough, I'm pretty compressed these days. I can never remember the
name of that tasty hippie veggie stuff you ordered either. Dang you,
temptress, now I'm seriously jonesing for Lemon Grass! ____________________
Plenty of time, my sweet. Plenty of time.
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ComteStGermain
Occasional Poster Posts: 21 Registered: 13/6/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 3/7/2007 at 10:06 PM |
Cream of Christian babies, or toasted Jew on a stick are excellent summer
foods, although with the global warming that has happened in the last two
hundred years, perhaps a nice runny peanut brittle would be in order? (Dean
Martin/Tom Hanks Christmas special, anyone? Saturday Night Live?)
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Meranda_Jade
Fanatic Posts: 511 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 3/7/2007 at 10:10 PM |
You're losing your touch, Comte. That was more stupid than witty. I'm
afraid you've just shown your age, dear. 14.8.
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ComteStGermain
Occasional Poster Posts: 21 Registered: 13/6/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 3/7/2007 at 10:23 PM |
My dear, dear Meranda, I apologize, but I also fear that the recent wasted
years of your life have dulled your wit and sensibility in a terrible way.
Please, for the sake of yourself and all who care, wake up to yourself and
breathe the air once again.
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Schizo
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 897 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 4/7/2007 at 04:50 AM |
Comte, as far as comfort foods go, I find great comfort in consuming the
cocks of the undead. Cool thing is, it's true, and not an attempt to sound
spoooooky. So, how much Cream of Christian Baby or Toasted Jew on a Stick
have you actually dined on? Somehow, I fear, if you were actually
confronted with these dishes, you would not be quite so casual about
them.
*sigh* Why can't people come up with anything real to talk about? Is
there really so little of note going on in your life, Comte, that you have
to resort to cheap fabrication and pretending to show concern for someone
who would rather be left alone? I dare you for once to actually say
something you mean, and in words you would actually use, say, in the
workplace, and not what you think seems appropriate for a "goth" site. I
can't say enough how bland and uninspiring I find cheap goth-talk created
for effect.
*yawns and goes in search of some cold peach soup or something else worth
eating* ____________________
"You can tell by the scars on my arms and the cracks in my hips and
the
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dents in my car and the blisters on my lips that I'm not the carefullest
of
girls." - Dresden Dolls, "Girl Anachronism"
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