Food Meme

From Byzantium's Shores, I take!

1. How do you like your eggs?
Just about any way, but scrambled is my favorite. It's what I eat for breakfast most mornings. Sometimes with a little cheese or some veg, but I don't get those people who put hot sauce or ketchup or anything on them. I notice most diners and family restaurants are just bringing those over with your egg order now in case you're some kind of freak.

2. How do you take your coffee/tea?
I'm not a big tea drinker. I take my coffee with two creams and a buttload of sugar, which is why I don't drink coffee anymore.

3. Favorite breakfast food?
Eggs and bacon. I love pancakes and waffles, but I've cut back on them a lot. And French toast... Yeah, there's been none of that for some time. I prefer orange juice in the mornings, too, since coffee is out of the question (it was making me jittery, anyway).

4. Peanut butter - smooth or crunchy?
SMOOTH! Actually, I don't know if I'd like crunchy or not, I just hated it when I was little and have been, when the mood takes me, indulging in Jif creamy ever since.

5. What kind of dressing on your salad?
I haven't found a dressing I'm happy with. I like Caesar dressing, but that's awfully rich. And I like olive oil. My taste in a salad usually runs toward something more traditional and simpler.

6. Coke or Pepsi?
Both, since I'm not supposed to have either. Coke tastes best in a glass bottle, of course. I've been a little too lax with my vow not to have HFCS soda lately, and am dumping them as of now. It's not as bad as last time (preferring soda with sugar instead of HFCS helps), but I can't get in the habit again.

7. You’re feeling lazy, what do you make?
Make? You can make food without a phone and a credit card? I should really be better about that.

8. You’re feeling really lazy. What kind of pizza do you order?
I like this new Papa John's six-cheese Tuscan pizza. I used to only eat cheese, but it turns out I also like pepperoni and black olives and jalapenos. And green peppers and onions, to a lesser extent. I'm still not sure about mushrooms, though. They intimidate me.

9. You feel like cooking. What do you make?
I'm so bad with the cooking. I used to be really good, and then I stopped cooking for myself. That's another thing I want to start doing again. These days it's basic--eggs, burgers, etc.

10. Do any foods bring back good memories?
No. There's part of me that thinks eating in itself is kind of gross and I almost wish I didn't have to do it. The only food that brings back good memories is one I never eat anymore--chocolate cream pie. And that's just because it reminds me of an old cat. I had a chocolate cream pie instead of a cake for my thirteenth birthday, and that was a very lonely year (my parents got divorced that year, plus that was just after all the kids at school decided I was the outcast because I'd gotten fat, so I didn't really have many friends). When the chocolate cream pie was down to one slice, I pulled it out in the middle of the day and sat on the floor watching Batman and eating it slowly. My cat, Bourbon, decided he liked the way it smelled, so we kind of shared it. I ate my piece and he licked the tin.

11. Do any foods bring back bad memories?
Don't make me tell the beef stew story again.

12. Do any foods remind you of someone?
Not really that I can think of. I remember the time my mom tried to force me to eat a kiwi and I puked. Weird. Brussels sprouts and peas also remind me of my mom, just because she thinks I still like them because I liked them when I was four.

13. Is there a food you refuse to eat?
Well, I'm in a period of rediscovering foods. There are a lot of foods I always thought I hated that, it turns out, I don't. In fact, I now love fish and greens, which is something I never would have even tried a year or so ago. Still, there are still foods like broccoli that no one should ever eat. And Brussels sprouts, which look like something a cabbage sneezed up. Ooh, and squash. What the fuck is up with squash? It looks like pumpkin vomit.

14. What was your favorite food as a child?
Pizza, my evil mistress. Pizza and Pepsi.

15. Is there a food that you hated as a child but now like?
Well, fish. And greens. And all manner of vegetables. Jalapenos.

16. Is there a food that you liked as a child but now hate?
There's food I'm just tired of eating. I thought ham was pretty savory as a kid, but now it just grosses me out--it really tastes like what you imagine a pig would taste like when you look at it.

17. Favorite fruit and vegetable:
Bananas and green beans.

18. Favorite junk food:
Chocolate.

19. Favorite between meal snack:
I'm trying not to do that anymore...

20. Do you have any weird food habits?
I'm not sure. I still do that thing I did when I was a kid, where I put some butter on the mashed potatoes and then wait for it to melt down the sides. Becca eats everything--even French fries--with a fork and knife, which seems to me more bizarre. I'm just childish.

21. You’re on a diet. What food(s) do you fill up on?
I don't consider it a diet so much as learning to eat better and more responsibly so I can fit into clothes. I don't know what I should fill up on, but I do like bananas. Bananas are good.

22. You’re off your diet. Now what would you like?
Is anyone putting chocolate fudge sundae topping on pizza yet?

23. How spicy do you order Indian/Thai?
I've never eaten Indian or Thai food. We had one Indian place in town that I thought about eating at, but it got closed down. It was a popular place, too, but I heard from someone that used to work for the health inspector that they went down into the basement and put their hand on the wall to find the light switch. They thought they were touching some kind of fuzzy wall-covering, but apparently it was crawling with rats. They said it was someplace "Eastern," so I just stopped eating Chinese for a while and never went into the Indian place.

24. Can I get you a drink?
I'm not a fan of alcohol, but I'll do the occasional rum-and-coke, or White Russian. Maybe a Bass Ale.

25. Red wine or white?
Neither, thank you.

26. Favorite dessert?
Cheesecake, but this time of year I prefer a slice of pumpkin pie. It's not fall for me until I have one, and I ain't had one yet.

27. The perfect nightcap?
I don't have one, really. I don't like to drink anything before going to bed. Is that boring?