GTKY: Food

[vvvvvfee]

Because I'm crazy-bored at work and because I'm having ones of those weeks where I feel like I can't stop eating...

Flavor/filling of your wedding cake (or describe your wedding dessert if not cake)?
Favorite fast food item and from which chain?
Favorite apple variety?
Favorite ice cream flavor?
Pregnancy cravings for this and previous pregnancies?
Iced coffee or iced tea?
Dishes/categories of food you never order out because you make it better at home?
Do you have any die-hard brand loyalties for particular foods?

[goldenbird]

Flavor/filling of your wedding cake (or describe your wedding dessert if not cake)?
Chocolate with a salted caramel filling, almond with buttercream filling, and one other layer I don't remember.

Favorite fast food item and from which chain?
Cheeseburger from Whataburger, or a Five Guys burger.

Favorite apple variety?
Gala

Favorite ice cream flavor?
Cookies & creme in general, Phish Food from Ben & Jerry's, Rocky Mountain Road from Bluebell

Pregnancy cravings for this and previous pregnancies?
Really I've just wanted things I always want. Pizza, burgers, ice cream, cookies

Iced coffee or iced tea?
Iced tea

Dishes/categories of food you never order out because you make it better at home?
Lol none. I love eating out. I'm an ok cook but nothing comes to mind that I make better.

Do you have any die-hard brand loyalties for particular foods?
Butterbread by Nature's Own, Sweet Baby Ray's bbq sauce, Whataburger mustard

[vvvvvfee]

Flavor/filling of your wedding cake (or describe your wedding dessert if not cake)? Chocolate cake with cannoli cream filling

Favorite fast food item and from which chain? The fried chicken sandwich from Shake Shack- omg. It's everything a Wendy's chicken sandwich wishes it could be when it grows up. From a national chain, I like Frostys (Frosties? what is the plural?) from Wendy's (with fries to dip in it, if possible).

Favorite apple variety? I really like the new (at least it's new to me) variety, Ruby Frost. I also like Jazz and Mutsu. It's got to be something with some tartness- can't get on board with Honeycrisp.

Favorite ice cream flavor? If I'm at a fancier ice cream shop, something fruit- or tea-based. I love soft-serve, so if we're at a regular ice cream shop, I'll usually get vanilla soft serve with rainbow sprinkles or a chocolate or cherry dip. From the supermarket, I'd prefer something vanilla-based. I've been pissed at Ben and Jerry's since they reformulated their Coffee Heath Bar Crunch (it is now inedible), but I do like their new Urban Bourbon flavor. And I still like Cherry Garcia. I refuse to buy Haagen Dasz on principle since their container is now less than a pint.

Pregnancy cravings for this and previous pregnancies? DS1- fruit, I was obsessed. Also late in third trimester, crackers with butter. DS2- bacon (weird because I don't usually eat red meat). LO3- nothing has really stood out, strangely. There have been things I've had a hankering for, but nothing that I've wanted consistently for the long-term.

Iced coffee or iced tea? If I'm out in the world, iced tea- either unsweetened or diet. I find iced coffee from chains to be really disgusting. I do like iced coffee, but only if I make it myself.

Dishes/categories of food you never order out because you make it better at home? Italian-American food- any kind of pasta dish, eggplant or chicken parm, meatballs, sausage and peppers, etc. etc. We do get pizza out, but never Italian food. I make Korean BBQ at home with some frequency, too, because it's so expensive for the quantity you get in a restaurant.

Do you have any die-hard brand loyalties for particular foods? My two big accept-no-substitutes items are Heinz ketchup and Martin's potato rolls for hamburger/hot dog buns

[westiemom]

Flavor/filling of your wedding cake (or describe your wedding dessert if not cake)? It was vanilla cake with lemon filling.

Favorite fast food item and from which chain? Hmmmm tough! McDonalds fries!

Favorite apple variety? Honey crisp

Favorite ice cream flavor? Chocolate
Chip!

Pregnancy cravings for this and previous pregnancies? This one has been cheese enchiladas and ice cream and DD was lemonade, cake, spaghetti

Iced coffee or iced tea? Tea!

Dishes/categories of food you never order out because you make it better at home? Spaghetti hands down.

Do you have any die-hard brand loyalties for particular foods? I can’t think of anything!

[pbandjelly]

Flavor/filling of your wedding cake (or describe your wedding dessert if not cake)? Our cake was a tiramisu flavor: white almond cake lightly soaked with rum, marscapone filling, chocolate buttercream frosting, cupcakes were red velvet with vanilla buttercream frosting, and white almond cake with chocolate buttercream (I don't remember what either cupcakes were filled with, but they were ah-mazing)

Favorite fast food item and from which chain? Five guys burger and fries

Favorite apple variety? Honey crisp or pink lady

Favorite ice cream flavor? Anything with chocolate or peanut butter

Pregnancy cravings for this and previous pregnancies? Frozen tv dinner mac and cheese, pb&j, grapes, chocolate

Iced coffee or iced tea? Iced coffee, but I love some southern sweet tea

Dishes/categories of food you never order out because you make it better at home? Spaghetti and lasagna- not because I make them better, but to me, they're so basic. When I go out to eat, I want something I can't or don't make often at home.

Do you have any die-hard brand loyalties for particular foods? Pop has to be on brand, ice cream has to be blue bell, blue bunny, or the 'loyal' brand made in the neighboring state.

[catladymeow]

How fun!



Flavor/filling of your wedding cake (or describe your wedding dessert if not cake)? I think one tier was vanilla and two tiers were chocolate

Favorite fast food item and from which chain? Chipotle sofritas bowl! But we don't have Chipotle here

Favorite apple variety? Macintosh!

Favorite ice cream flavor? There's this coconut caramel flavour that is my new fave

Pregnancy cravings for this and previous pregnancies? Fries. Bread. All of the carbs. Oh and (veggie) hot dogs.

Iced coffee or iced tea? I like iced tea in the US because it isn't sweet. Here iced tea is sooooo sugary. I guess you guys call that sweet tea?

Dishes/categories of food you never order out because you make it better at home? Pasta but it's my H that makes it at home

Do you have any die-hard brand loyalties for particular foods? Not really. I much prefer Pepsi over coke but I don't drink pop that often.

[PennyCandy]

Flavor/filling of your wedding cake (or describe your wedding dessert if not cake)? Marble with chocolate filling, red velvet with cream cheese, and vanilla with raspberry.

Favorite fast food item and from which chain? Smash burger classic smash, smash fries, and salted caramel shake.

Favorite apple variety? Honey crisp

Favorite ice cream flavor? B&J non dairy coconut seven layer bar

Pregnancy cravings for this and previous pregnancies? All of the sweets and Starbucks

Iced coffee or iced tea? Coffee

Dishes/categories of food you never order out because you make it better at home? I can't think of anything off the top of my head.

Do you have any die-hard brand loyalties for particular foods? Noosa yogurt. It's local and amazing, but I have to limit my dairy intake so it's a once in a while treat.

[sasam]

Flavor/filling of your wedding cake (or describe your wedding dessert if not cake)?
Our cake was butter almond flavor with lemon custard and raspberry filling.

Favorite fast food item and from which chain?
Chipotle barbacoa burrito or burrito bowl.

Favorite apple variety?
Gala

Favorite ice cream flavor?
Key lime pie flavor

Pregnancy cravings for this and previous pregnancies?
Sauteed veggies, grapes, and lemonade

Iced coffee or iced tea?
Sweet iced tea

Dishes/categories of food you never order out because you make it better at home?
I can't think of anything. I don't really like to cook.

Do you have any die-hard brand loyalties for particular foods?
Can't think of any

[notmoose]

Flavor/filling of your wedding cake (or describe your wedding dessert if not cake)?
The main cake was carrot cake with buttercream unfortunately it had nuts which I don't like but wasnt aware it'd have them before hand (the sample didn't have nuts).
We also had hot fudge cupcakes, banana cream pie cupcakes, caramel cupcakes, and Oreo cupcakes. The cupcakes were AMAZING.

Favorite fast food item and from which chain?
This is hard and really depends on my mood. Five Guys: burger with raw onions, keychup, mustard, lettuce, mayo, and jalapeno
Wendys: single with everything on it. McDonald's: fries

Favorite apple variety? Gala

Favorite ice cream flavor? Has to be chocolate with chunks of something in it (cookies, brownies, cheesecake, etc) I don't care for plain ice cream.

Pregnancy cravings for this and previous pregnancies?
DD: DQ cheeseburgers, Papa John's thin crust cheese pizza with extra spice packets, and tacos.
DS: Taco salad
This one: Cheeseburgers and McDonald's fries

Iced coffee or iced tea? I love both. But only if the coffee has flavor in it and milk and only if the tea is unsweet.

Dishes/categories of food you never order out because you make it better at home?
Spaghetti. I mean, I just use jar sauce but I never like restaurant spaghetti.
Ribs. Mine are always better and all the ribs I've had out were dry or too fatty.

Do you have any die-hard brand loyalties for particular foods?
Prego spaghetti sauce
Dean's cottage cheese
Townhouse crackers

[pickles]

Flavor/filling of your wedding cake (or describe your wedding dessert if not cake)? S’mores Cupcakes after our cake people flaked (same people who later refused to make a wedding cake for a same sex couple and lost epically. I was so happy on many accounts!)
Favorite fast food item and from which chain? Guilty pleasure - Arby’s Roast Beef. It’s so bad, but so good.
Favorite apple variety? Golden delicious
Favorite ice cream flavor? Tillamook Salted Caramel Ice Cream Sandwich
Pregnancy cravings for this and previous pregnancies? Sugar for this one, salt and carbs for my daughter, sugar for my first
Iced coffee or iced tea? Iced caramel latte plz
Dishes/categories of food you never order out because you make it better at home? I’ll have takeout from anywhere if that means I don’t have to cook or clean!
Do you have any die-hard brand loyalties for particular foods? I didn’t think I did but I’m very particular of what milk I buy. So yes, Umpqua Whole Milk!

[frecklesnbrains]

Flavor/filling of your wedding cake (or describe your wedding dessert if not cake)?
Lemon with raspberry filling and buttercream icing.

Favorite fast food item and from which chain?
Sausage egg and cheese muffins from McD’s

Favorite apple variety?
Honey crisp

Favorite ice cream flavor?
Coffeeeeeeee

Pregnancy cravings for this and previous pregnancies?
No specific cravings really. Aversions though - eggs for all of first trimester both pregnancies.

Iced coffee or iced tea?
Coffeeeeeeeeee

Dishes/categories of food you never order out because you make it better at home?
Pasta of almost any type
Fruit pies

Do you have any die-hard brand loyalties for particular foods?
Hellman’s mayonnaise
Heinz ketchup
Pepperidge Farm seeded rye bread

[bananas22]

Flavor/filling of your wedding cake (or describe your wedding dessert if not cake)? I don't really remember anymore, maybe raspberry?

Favorite fast food item and from which chain? Pasta Fresca from
Noodles and Co

Favorite apple variety? Granny Smith

Favorite ice cream flavor? Anything chocolate but especially the Tillamook chocolate

Pregnancy cravings for this and previous pregnancies? Not really any this pregnancy but I was obsessed with ice cream with DS. I couldn't stomach chicken or any smoked food with DS or my second pregnancy

Iced coffee or iced tea? Neither

Dishes/categories of food you never order out because you make it better at home? Can't really think of anything, maybe DH's smoked ribs?

Do you have any die-hard brand loyalties for particular foods? Heinz ketchup, JIF peanut butter, no off brand soda

[bananas22]

frecklesnbrains, I should have added fruit pies to my never store bought list. My sister makes the most amazing pies and I can't stand any from the store anymore.

[frecklesnbrains]

May 19, 2018 14:47:34 GMT -6 bananas22 said:

frecklesnbrains, I should have added fruit pies to my never store bought list. My sister makes the most amazing pies and I can't stand any from the store anymore.

I am spoiled because my mom and my stepmom both always made homemade pies and I learned from them. I dislike goopy overly-sweet pie filling and I’m super picky about my crust. I only make pie like 3 times a year so it’s a special treat.

[bananas22]

May 19, 2018 17:25:43 GMT -6 frecklesnbrains said:

May 19, 2018 14:47:34 GMT -6 bananas22 said:

frecklesnbrains, I should have added fruit pies to my never store bought list. My sister makes the most amazing pies and I can't stand any from the store anymore.

I am spoiled because my mom and my stepmom both always made homemade pies and I learned from them. I dislike goopy overly-sweet pie filling and I’m super picky about my crust. I only make pie like 3 times a year so it’s a special treat.

In my opinion, the crust makes the pie. We have a family recipe that makes a light, flaky crust and it's the only crust I like.

[kaeguri]

Flavor/filling of your wedding cake (or describe your wedding dessert if not cake)? Oh jeez I barely remember. It was a light, whitish yellow cake with strawberry filling on one tier, raspberry on another. I think the icing was amaretto buttercream? Or something. It was delicious.

Favorite fast food item and from which chain? In n Out burgers are good. Also, Chick fil A cookies and cream milkshakes. And if I go back to SC, Rush's BBQ sandwiches and strawberry milkshakes. Ugh. I want a milkshake now.

Favorite apple variety? Probably honeycrisp. I buy whatever looks good since our store rotates them a lot.

Favorite ice cream flavor? It varies based on my mood, but pralines and cream, strawberry, and cookie dough are at the top. If frozen yogurt, I get french vanilla and rainbow sprinkles, forever and always. And then eat around the pink sprinkles, so those are saved for last. Pink sprinkles are my favorite shade of pink.

Pregnancy cravings for this and previous pregnancies? Fruit. And cupcakes. All the sugar. Maybe it's a good thing I have GD this time around lol.

Iced coffee or iced tea? Sweet tea.

Dishes/categories of food you never order out because you make it better at home? tteokbokki. It's a Korean spicy rice cake dish that restaurants always make too spicy and too salty/saucy. Mine is so much better. Also, japchae. And I never order things like spaghetti, just because it's so much cheaper to make it at home.

Do you have any die-hard brand loyalties for particular foods? Not particularly. Except cereal, like Golden Grahams or Cheerios. I always buy name brand because the generic tastes weird. And Barq's root beer.

[vvvvvfee]

kaeguri, i've had japchae on my mind for a while-- i think i will make it this weekend. i can't order it in restaurants because they always make it soooo oily and it upsets my stomach. :/

[potatocakes]

Flavor/filling of your wedding cake (or describe your wedding dessert if not cake)?
Three flavors, each a different layer - Lemon with Raspberry Filling, Chocolate with Buttercream, and Funfetti. All with Almond buttercream frosting. The top layer that we saved for our anniversary had a layer of each inside!
Favorite fast food item and from which chain?
Peach milkshake from CFA (only available in the spring/summer) I like their frosted lemonade when peach is out of season. Curly fries from Jack in the Box, and Taco Bell burritos.
Favorite apple variety?
I was a fuji girl for a long time, but I recently discovered Cameo, and they're lovely.
Favorite ice cream flavor?
To buy for our house, we get Blue Bunny Bunny Tracks. Fro-yo, I get the most custardy vanilla I can find (or chocolate) with sno-caps. I basically like something chocolate and really hard/crunchy in my ice cream. Otherwise, something in the chocolate/coffee/caramel/coconut/almond family.
Pregnancy cravings for this and previous pregnancies?
Both I've had more aversions than cravings, and I'll have very short term cravings (brownie sundae, for instance). I am much more willing to eat meat this time than I was last time. I couldn't even look at chicken basically my whole pregnancy with DD.
Iced coffee or iced tea?
Iced coffee unless it's after about noon and I want to sleep that night!
Dishes/categories of food you never order out because you make it better at home?
Interestingly, I don't think there are any. I cook a ton (and love to), but I'll order anything in a restaurant. I try to stay away from more basic pasta dishes, I guess.
Do you have any die-hard brand loyalties for particular foods?
We have a regional tri tip BBQ seasoning, and I significantly prefer a smaller, lesser known brand (Jockos) to the familiar brand (Susie-Q)

[kaeguri]

May 21, 2018 8:16:23 GMT -6 vvvvvfee said:

kaeguri, i've had japchae on my mind for a while-- i think i will make it this weekend. i can't order it in restaurants because they always make it soooo oily and it upsets my stomach. :/

It's so time consuming to make since you have to cook everything separate but yeah. The restaurant's is always too oily for me too.

[klw]

Flavor/filling of your wedding cake (or describe your wedding dessert if not cake)? I think it was just vanilla cake with a buttercream frosting. But the best part was the cannolis, eclairs and other bite size pastries that were on the table as part of the centerpieces.

Favorite fast food item and from which chain? Fries and fountain drink from McDonalds

Favorite apple variety? Pink Lady or Honey Crisp. I love Granny Smith apples with PB.

Favorite ice cream flavor? Anything chocolate and PB. Although lately, I have been loving the Haagen Daaz cookie squares.

Pregnancy cravings for this and previous pregnancies? Nothing really. But if someone mentions a food, I'll think that it sounds good. Last pregnancy, I wanted a cinnabon, so H drove me to the mall the weekend before Christmas to get one.

Iced coffee or iced tea? Iced tea. Not a coffee drinker

Dishes/categories of food you never order out because you make it better at home? . H makes an amazing steak on the grill

Do you have any die-hard brand loyalties for particular foods? Hellmanns mayo.

[klw]

pickles, H worked at Arbys for years through high school and college. We met while I worked there too. I only lasted a few months.

[goldenbird]

klw we just got the Haagen cookie squares here. I need to try them!

[klw]

May 22, 2018 6:16:38 GMT -6 goldenbird said:

klw we just got the Haagen cookie squares here. I need to try them!

Our store had them on sale. Something crazy like $3.20 off a box. So dangerous. Haha