I have to count each one as I eat them (thanks, OCD) I have to eat one nuggets without sauce, and there has to be one nugget sacrificed to the ritual of me nibbling off all the breading without dipping in sauce, then eat half the naked nugget without sauce and the other half with.
I think mine might have been a habit Inpicked up as a kid, of trying to decide what flavor I liked best for them - with sauce or without, so I found every way to eat them so I could taste every flavor profile in a chicken mcnugget that there was, but then I never decided how I liked them best and just kept the ritual up.
I also shove the little candy pieces into the brownie when I eat Cosmic Brownies but that's about it for 'rituals'. I think. Unless you count dipping meat into either applesauce or mashed potatoes.
The dipping meat in applesauce or mashed potatoes I think is more a flavor thing that's just...kind of common? It's using those like a sauce. I know I had kids do that constantly with chicken nuggets during lunch in public school.
Yup! And when I eat Twix I eat the caramel off first, then go for the cookie. (NGL if I could just buy the Twix cookies themselves without the caramel - even though I love caramel! - I totally would.)
Oh yeah, it definitely does. They're definitely a unique type of shortbread. Probably full of all sorts of chemicals and preservatives, but they wouldn't be candy bars otherwise, lbh. XD
True! I don't eat them often because they can be hit or miss with me (the ones in the vending machine at work can either be really good or taste like they were sitting at the warehouse too long, and not in that 'perfectly aged chocolate' way) but I still wish that they would sell the cookies by themselves lol
You might be able to find a mockup online somewhere. I know someone did that for chick-fil-a chicken. it involves lots of powdered sugar and a pressure cooker, apparently.
We once got an entire box of the Cadbury caramel eggs that someone had gotten from Costco and left in their pantry for like, a year and a half. They gave it to us as thanks for helping them pack up to move. And let me tell you. That chocolate had been aged p e r f e c t l y. It took us six months to make it through the box.
I think we finished it up that summer (before they could melt in our cooled by window unit ACs only house) after getting it the fall of the previous year.
Oh, I'm sure it did. Cadbury, even the stuff manufactured in the US for US markets, is a higher-quality chocolate then a lot of the stuff we get. It's apparently not as good as actual legit English Cadbury, but eh, what can you do? Chocolate barons are strangely a thing here.
Yeah I rarely get the creme eggs because they are too sweet for me. The downside of the caramel eggs and the caramel bars is that the caramel gets fucking everywhere.
Also, it just doesn't taste as good as the creme! XD But maybe that's just me. I tried one once, and was like "Nooo, disappointed!" especially since caramel is one of y favorite flavors.
Ohh, I think I might have heard of people doing that before. :U and interesting flavor concept and I don't know that I'd try it, but hey, salty and sweet together are good combos!
I tried that once! I remember that it tasted pretty good, not sure why I haven't done it since I was a kid. Probably because I don't get milkshakes often, because they tend to make me more thirsty.
Yeah, makes sense. The only time I get something shakelike, usually, is when I'm getting coffee, but they're "cleaning the machine" for the macchiatos and only have frapes. :T
I always get every cup of hot coffee from home/work with a glass of water. Then I drink the water first, and by the time I'm done, the coffee has cooled down enough to drink.
See, that's usually what I do with coffee if it's cold outside? Because when I eat hot foods, I want something cold to drink ,and if I'm eating cold foods, I want to drink hot stuff? So if I want hot coffee, I'll get a cold drink to go with my meal so i can drink that while I wait for the coffee to cool.
I don't have any food allergies that I know about, but there will be, from time to time, things that I eat that will give my throat an allergic-reaction-swelling type of thing, and it happens so infrequently that I really can't tell what it is that's causing it.
not sure it fits, on account of it not being a ritual without current dietary purpose, but "odd" things I do that I didn't realize were out of the ordinary until someone remarked on it:
- drained instant ramen noodles, with either butter and salt, chicken flavor and ranch dressing, McD's bbq sauce, or creamy chicken flavor with grated parmesean
See, that's not weird, that's just using the noodles for a new type of dish! :V My family does that, too! butter in drained ramen noodles is one of the ways my family got through the 6mos my mom was on unemployment and we were Very very close to losing our apartment.
- folding romaine and green/red leaf lettuce in half, so they'll fit inside the sandwich, and then alternating how the leaves are laid down, so they have roughly equal stem-to-leaf distribution throughout the sandwich
the banana is an excellent substitute for a hot dog, in terms of shape! though the curved end tends to be a little problematic.... ....and pb + bananas go so well together it's almost a crime not to make a pb-banana sandwich like that sometimes, imho
but! you need more banana for a proper pb-b sandwich, than you'd need of jelly, if you were to make a pbj. because bananas are less gooey and sugary... so the sandwich could end up feeling a tad... thick.
my thing to do was to cover both bread pieces in crunchy pb, then chop a banana into thick coins, and layer those over one of the slices, then turn the other one over onto it, just so the pb would help cement it all into place... and I'd use a whole banana that way, too.
because that's another odd variable: banana ripeness matters. less ripe, more pb. more ripe, less pb... because it's closer, then, to how jelly would be, in some senses....
I have a weird layering system whenever I make sandwiches. Sometimes the meat is cut very oddly so I fold it and layer it so that one side isn't too thick compared to the other. XD I also totally get not liking fat on meat. Its texture is definitely less appealing, for sure.
Yeah, i totally do that, too. I try to keep things even like that so that you get equal amounts in each bite. Sometimes it's hard to do, but I get as close as I can.
oh, I'm an absolute sucker for their beef&cheddars. but that meat distribution is an oxymoron. it's always just one giant clump of meat in the center. pokes out on the sides a little... but it's always like twice as thick in the middle, at least, as it is on the outer parts.
and good luck just opening it up to rearrange it a bit. the cheese sauce is already trying to escape, by virtue of it being crowded out from the middle by such a high pile of meat, and the other side has the same exact problem, but with their red ranch sauce.
See, the buns on the beef and cheddars has onions on it, and I'm not fond of those, but just the straight up roast beef sandwiches? Yes, put it in my face!
- drained instant ramen noodles, with either butter and salt, chicken flavor and ranch dressing, McD's bbq sauce, or creamy chicken flavor with grated parmesean
- eating popcorn, Cheetos, and most chip and cheese crackers (Cheezits and such) with chopsticks
- dissecting meat. do not want to eat fat. hate steak especially for this reason. stupid freaking marbling. (I think it's a texture issue for me...?)
- must not have the banana's ends poking out
- eat down M&Ms until there's an equal number of each color, more or less, and then eat them in turn (R, Y, Br, Bl, G, R, Y, Br, Bl, G, etc)
- will play tetragrams with cheese slices to get them to cover the apple slices exactly sometimes, cut their corners, etc
but oh man, did I end up thirsty after that. milk is a great compliment for it.I also totally get not liking fat on meat. Its texture is definitely less appealing, for sure.
just... ARBY'S.