taken from my sister's journal. This is one of the hardest internet survey's I've ever completed. blank survey in my posted comments section...

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Favorite food to crunch:

To my detriment, the "On the Border" chips that you buy at the store. Mix it with "Lime and Garlic Paces Picante Sauce" and a can of black beans.

Favorite comfort food:

Fruit. I love oranges when they're in season.

Food that makes the best noise:

Biting into a crisp apple.

Favorite picnic lunch:

Turkey with all the fixings (lettuce, tomato, onions, mayonaise), either Granny Smith apples or California oranges. Potato chips.

Favorite food scene in movie:

If my mom isn't reading this, "9 1/2 Weeks". ;-) No, my favorite food scene is candy based, and revolves around Violet turning Violet. That whole scene with the everlasting gobstoppers, and that machine with the different color fabric draped over it.

Favorite food lyrics:

"Cream tangerine and montelimar/A ginger sling with a pineapple heart/A coffee dessert, yes you know it’s good news/But you’ll have to have them all pulled out after the savoy truffle/Cool cherry cream and nice apple tart/I feel your taste all the time we’re apart/Coconut fudge really blows down those blues/But you’ll have to have them all pulled out after the savoy truffle." - Savoy Truffle by the Beatles

Least favorite food lyrics:

"She's My Cherry Pie," by whatever bullshit hair rock band that wrote it.

Best food smell memory:

It's a tie. The first one is the smell of BBQ. I've never met anyone who could make a backyard smell the way my dad made it smell. He was a great BBQ chef.

The second was after coming back from a long, cold, rain drenched hike through the hills of Camp Pendleton, the Instructors arranged for the cooks to bring out BARRELLS upon BARRELLS of warm baked beans. I couldn't get to the front of that line quick enough.

Favorite summer snack:

Plums. I like eating the skin off first, and eating the fleshy part last.

Food that reminds me of the ocean:

Salt Water Taffee. Not so much the ocean, but of the Strand in Galveston. Second by the slimmest of margins is Sunkist soda.

Favorite winter snack:

The muffins that my Uncle Ted makes for Christmas.

Most likely to eat for lunch:

Campbells Chicken Noodle Soup mixed with white rice. Cheap and surprisingly tasty and filling.

Makes me gag:

Few things do. I'd imagine that eating animal testicles would do the trick.

Food tradition I hate:

If eating out at a restaurant, I don't like to pray before the meal. I don't really pray before meals anyway, but I can definitely see the value in doing it over a home cooked meal with my friends and family around. It's overkill at a restaurant. I'd assume just go and thank the chef personally. If only I wasn't a chicken-shit.

Saturday night food:

I'm assuming that this means what I like to indulge on over the weekends. I tend to eat healthy, so on Saturday I love to eat Fried Oysters and Fried Crawfish. Is it Saturday yet?

Favorite wild foods:

I used to pick Blackberries with my brother near our house. Those were good times.

Favorite medicinal food:

Hot cider made from apple juice, orange slices, and cinnamon.

Food that reflects my heritage:

I tend to see my heritage as being very WASP'y. So it doesn't get any more Protestant, than Oat Bran or Granola. Those Protestant health reformers were definitely ahead of their time.

Food most like me:

BBQ. BBQ. BBQ. and BBQ. If I'm eating in, my dad was the best. If I'm going out, Marshalls and Goode Company steal my taste buds.

Favorite raw food smell:

I'm in the minority here, but I love the smell of raw beef.
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matt out