While I was in Texas a few weeks ago my daughter and I went grocery shopping. And since this was on sale I decided to try it. Here in Louisiana when they put the Jello cups on sale it is always just the regular ones...not the "exotic" ones. I like jello cups of all kinds but this Lemon Meringue Pie one really gave my taste buds a treat. It tasted so much like real Lemon Meringue Pie to me... that I didn't even share any of the four cups with my daughter...I ate the whole thing myself! Have any of you tried something new that you really love lately?
YES! A few months ago, this gal who has gagged on cottage cheese and yogurt her entire life decided to try WalMart's (Great Value) little cup of cottage cheese with pineapple on the bottom. NOW I can't get enough of it! I've tried the peach flavor... nope, not nearly the same. And I tried those little mix-y containers with pineapple and cottage cheese... can't remember the name, red foil cover... but no-go. ONLY the Great value little white cups with pineapple on the bottom. I do believe I could eat it every day. Single serve container, 140 calories. Yum! Go ahead, @Babs Hunt ... tell me I'm weird, I can take it.
When I went to Walgreens this month I found Wyler's mix and I never heard of them. The box said no aspartame...I picked one up and it was peach and iced tea. I bought one box and loved it! I love buying dry mixes to add to water for I catch the bus and don't want to carry heavy drinks on the bus. I like the no aspartame boxes!
This might sound weird: yogurt. Tried it for the first time around a year ago, and love it- especially orange cream.
Come on, "gagging on cottage cheese and yogurt" constitutes, to me anyway, a mental aberration. Like my wife's sister, who "pukes when thinking of green peppers". There are also many more food types which she abhors. Such is the taste of the "upper middle class". Frank
I recently tried sweet potato fries. I know many of you have eaten them already, but I was always a late bloomer. The only time I ate sweet potato' was at Thanksgiving. I baked them in the over and they were very good. Even my son (who dislikes anything health) ate them.......in fact, he ate a LOT of them.
@Frank Sanoica , did you just insult me!? Ever hear of lactose intolerance? Well, good. I don't have that but yogurt makes my tummy physically ill, as does dark chocolate... not a matter of "I don't like this" but rather "I'd rather not be in the bathroom puking for half an hour if I eat that." NOW, Sir, you owe me a pound of MILK chocolate and a cup of coffee. The *nerve!*
One of the foods that I had never heard of before is called a "Haystack", and there was a restaurant in Idaho which servd Haystacks. That is the only place I have seen them, although other restaurants might have a similar thing with a different name. Anyway, a Haystack is a pile of shredded lettuce with a cheeseburger patty on top, some tomato slices and maybe a dill pickle spear, and served with your favorite salad dressing over the top. I make them every now and then , and even had one for lunch today, which iss what reminded me to write about the Haystack. I like mine with either Thousand Island or Ranch dressing, and Bobby likes Bleu Cheese dressing on his. I usually make all of our own dressings, so we always have plenty of each of those, depending on what we want on the Haystack salads.
Haystacks are very popular in the Amish community. They have entire fundraisers with them, and there are many kinds of Haystacks. I like those with the creamy topping... like a mushroom gravy... the ingredients can vary greatly. I like cheese, meat, veggies, etc. I've never had one with salad dressing, though.
Only guessing, but maybe he's referring to topic covered in 'behaviors that give us away' in Vance Packard's book. But vocabulary is covered, too.
@Mari North (gulp). Well, lactose intolerance does not cause gagging, I don't think. (gulp). Ma'am, I simply cannot condone eating of milk chocolate, due to it's high sugar content. Now, 80%+ Cacao chocolate is a different story, with the plusses of antioxidants. Sometimes my efforts "liven" things up beyond expectation. Frank
@Chrissy Page I meant, but failed to say, "Such is the taste of the upper middle class relative." Guess it didn't make much sense, did it? (wonder if I've managed to weasel out of this one?)
We are all weird in our own wonderful ways @Mari North so even though I tasted cottage cheese one time and could take it or leave it, if it makes your taste buds feel like that Lemon Meringue Pie jello made mine feel....then hurrah and enjoy!