Forbidden Fruit

I couldn't decide what the better topic title would be: "Forbidden Fruit" or "Guilty Pleasure"

Before you respond, let me remind you this is a Christian forum (yes, I labeled it. Deal with it!)

My wife makes the BEST salsa, hands down. I don't know where she got the recipe; perhaps it's a combination of multiple recipes. In any case, I have never tasted better, store bought or homemade. And I LOVE just eating chips and salsa, a la Mexican Restaurant style.  MMM

Sadly, salsa is a bit on the fattening side.   Not to mention the chips! Oy vey! Eating chips and salsa is probably why my six pack is so well insulated!

But that's not the worst of it. Over the years I have developed either a weak stomach or an ulcer; if I eat too much spicy food, or too many sweets, I get a serious belly ache. 

So now I have a forbidden fruit "growing" in my house, as there is no way my wife won't make her salsa (and I wouldn't want her to). Nor is there much chance I will skip eating it, at least not for long! Oh, it hurts so good!

So what's your "guilty pleasure"?

Hamburgers, pizza, tacos

FOOD

^^ Come on guys. That's too obvious. Er, not that you're fat. I mean, I wouldn't know,  umm ...

Samoa Girl Scout Cookies.

Dr. Pepper...I love it and must have it everyday...The way it taste to me is simply heaven If I miss a day or two I go into withdrawal and get headaches and I have gone out in rain and snow storms to get my fix!!
Also fast food..I love it and I eat a ton of it..makes me no difference what it is ..one day its burgers, the next its burritos, the next is hotdogs and then back to burgers..

Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs.  I love all things Reese's, but there is something extra good about the eggs.  Also, my mother-in-law just sent a whole bunch of Amish cheese that she (no kidding) ordered online.

Christian forum... haha BearDad, I see what you did there...

To answer your question, I have a problem with chips. Doesn't matter what kind. If they're crunchy and salty, I'll eat them till I'm sick. So we don't keep them around the house.

C h o c o l a t e.
My favorite chocolate is dark, the darker the better and with nuts please.
Now, don't say I'm nuts  

C h e e s e.
I love all kinds of cheese, the blue cheeses from France and Italy are the best.

Being a Methodist, I have no problem saying this . . .

Beer

It affects one of my medications (nothing life threatening, mind you) based on the alcohol content.  But there are just so many good ones out there

^^ This.....beer.

Once a month or so, I get together with an old friend and have a beer. We prefer stouts and porters, nothing you can see through.....that's my basic beer rule, if I can see through it, I probably don't want to drink it.

Beer is one that I have to be careful with too. If I have a real heavy dinner, and then have a beer, I'll get indigestion. But like TTDR said, there's so many good ones. A brewer here in St Louis has a Helles Ale that's out seasonally and just hit the shelves... so good. Their mainstays are a pale ale that's good and a Hefeweizan that's amazing.... oh and their subsidiary makes my favorite beer ever - Louis Osterweis Hard Ginger Beer.

Wait, what are we talking about again?

I was going to go with something safe like pizza, but them two ^ are taking the plunge, so might as well:

vodka.

Oh, and Blizzard games (Diablo II/III and World of Warcraft).

...

and pizza.

Deepfriar wrote:

I was going to go with something safe like pizza, but them two ^ are taking the plunge, so might as well:

vodka.

Oh, and Blizzard games (Diablo II/III and World of Warcraft).

...

and pizza.

My daughter has a T-shirt that states on the front in big, bold letters: "I was told there would be pizza"   If I had one it would say "doughnuts."

Ice cream. Love it, but for some reason it makes me feel "bleh". 
Even the low sugar ones.  Perhaps it's the dairy content, idk.

Mine would be ice cream as well but in the last few years my lactose intolerance has gotten worse. Headaches, stomach cramps, diarrhea... not worth ice cream to me.

And Deepfriar, I enjoy the occasional vodka drink. I'm more of a Tom Collins man, which has sloe gin, but a screwdriver every once and a while is pretty good.

One of my worst one is Pizza, (mostly because of the cheese).  But I can't eat cow cheese anymore...so it's goat (or sheep) cheese..which is still amazingly good.  If I make a pizza with mushrooms, pepperoni, sausage, tomatoes and goat cheese I just can't stop at one or two pieces, I usually eat four and then I am horribly sick the next day for it.  Just love the taste so much I just can't seem to stop myself.

Pizza pretty much does me in as well. In fact, it's probably what DID me in! I worked at a pizza place my first year of college, including during the summer, and one of the benefits was a free personal pizza after working X number of hours. Plus I brought home the occasional "oops" at the end of the day.   I ate A LOT of pizza that year, and I have always been pepperoni and mushroom guy. I suspect I pretty much destroyed my stomach.

Pizza:  Enough said.

ishmael81 wrote:

Mine would be ice cream as well but in the last few years my lactose intolerance has gotten worse. Headaches, stomach cramps, diarrhea... not worth ice cream to me.

And Deepfriar, I enjoy the occasional vodka drink. I'm more of a Tom Collins man, which has sloe gin, but a screwdriver every once and a while is pretty good.

I tried something different with a screwdriver the other night: add a little bit of cranberry grape juice (the 100% juice Ocean Spray version, the less sugar the better), and it is fantastic.  I call it a "blood drive" (because it turns the liquid a little reddish lol).

Anyway...  carry on...  >.>

ishmael81 wrote:

Mine would be ice cream as well but in the last few years my lactose intolerance has gotten worse. Headaches, stomach cramps, diarrhea... not worth ice cream to me.

And Deepfriar, I enjoy the occasional vodka drink. I'm more of a Tom Collins man, which has sloe gin, but a screwdriver every once and a while is pretty good.

I'm all over the poor man's vodka sour: 1 oz vodka with 3 oz Squirt (give or take an oz of either ingredient!   )  Also love SoCo on the rocks, drank slow to let the ice melt and lesson any ill effects (or is that "affects" ... someone ask the grammar police please) that straight liquor has on my weak stomach. And I really, really, really like what some call alcopops, but they hurt worse than my wife's salsa!

Effects is the noun, affects is the verb.  

And I try not to do straight liquor anymore either...  unless it's whiskey.  >.>

My weaknesses are:

Chocolate (yes, that dark chocolate is the best)

Pizza

Pancakes

Ice Cream

Mmmm.  Ice cream.  Cookies & Cream please!  Or Chocolate/Peanut Butter.  Or Cherry/Strawberry Cheesecake. Or, or or...

I'm up for some ice cream..