What foods do you crave?

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I have recently been craving oily fish like a man possessed. I've been working my way through all the tinned fishies on the supermarket shelf - mackerel, herring, sardines, sild, skipper, tuna - and it's not going away. Yum! I am salivating thinking about them. It is lunchtime, though.

I also have been craving pork pies, which signifies the start of my spiralling into a festive binge of lard and more lard and booze and some lard. I am just managing to stave off my craving for green vegetables, but I'm sure my current diet means it's just around the corner.

So what about you? What do you crave?

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

wine gums

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

sushi, fish & chips, lamb curry

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

chocolate, chocolate, choccie, choccie, arrrggh, mmmmm, yum yum indiefood CHOCOLATE!!!

oh, you mean, like, actual FOOD? I crave eggs a lot. and kale. mmmm, kale, i just bought some at sainsburys today, cannot wait to steam it up, dump it in my stir fry and CONSUME. i know this is a symptom of anaemia, and i'm probably just craving the iron.

― kate, Monday, 2 December 2002 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha! Yes! I craved (and bought and ate at the bus stop) a pork pie on Thursday. Mmm, spicy pink pork and gelatine and fatty pastry, yum.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

japanese, italian and indian food. hence us going to those types of restaurants every week or preparing italian/japanese food.

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

People crave foods other than chocolate???

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The only food I have regular pangs for but can't normally get hold of is beef jerky. I finally found a shop (at Victoria Coach Station) that sells it. Brazilian, but nice and peppery.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

PRAWNS

― alix (alix), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

PRAWNS

― alix (alix), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

thai, vietnamese and korean all of which tragically are unavailable in addis. this explains the binges i go on when abroad.

― H (Heruy), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Lucy, my local butcher has beef jerky. And biltong. Is that enough to persuade you to come down South-west over Xmas?

I forgot about oil. I have a *need* to slaver olive oil over almost everything I eat (except pork pies. I mean, you can go too far...). Are my joints trying to tell me something?

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Cod liver oil's what you need, Mark. Yum yum, fishy burps. I am down south from 22-29 December.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i've had a craving for nice steamed chicken with ginger, spring onions and garlic. GOT SOME LAST NIGHT it was great. mmm aromatic

Fancy a snog?

― k chu, Monday, 2 December 2002 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

ooh i had some home-made biltong t'other week (my boss is south african), tasted a bit like leather and a bit like beef and also spicy. i don't think i'll be craving it somehow...

i do occasionally crave cowley road kebab kid chicken donner naans as all the chicken kebabs in london are so-called "proper" and don't have nice tikka-y bits on the edges and aren't served in NAANS...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

mark C, get yourself some real oily fish. Get some nice mackerel roll them in some oats and fry them with cubed bits of bacon. Or go for the king of oily fish and get some kippers. Grill them and smear them with butter.

I'm craving christmas cake having made some yesterday but It can't be had yet.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

CHIPS!!! i also seem to be putting tomato ketchup on a lot of my foods these days, despite the fakt that it drives me up the WALL when b/f does it.

― katie (katie), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

CAKE!

(it really doesn't matter what kind. as long as it's not carrot cake. Keep your damn vegetables out of my cake, fool!)

(and pork pies are good as long as they don't have lots of jelly between the meat and the pastry. Pork pie jelly mings.)

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

a pork pie is not a pork pie unless it contains jelly. (because I and the good pie making folk of melton mowbray say so)

― Ed (dali), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Pizza! Deep pan, stuffed crust hawaiian if you please.

And pasta.

And healthy things.

Not fried egg sandwiches. I had TWO of them on Sunday and I still feel really gross about it and ph34r I haf been put off eggs for a while. *shudder*

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Pickled onions - i could easily eat a whole jar in one sitting. And i wonder why i'm still single.

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I want a pork pie now,

― Ed (dali), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I go on occaisonal ramen noodle binges.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I have been chocolate-free for about 6 days now, since a RikWalleresque epiphany on those callous scales at Boots that tell you your 'ideal weight' as well as your actual weight. I am not craving it yet, but plan to fall from grace spectacularly round about December 23rd.

I often crave curry.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

how could i forget pizza? i don't count it as a craving, really. i crave pizza like i crave, erm, oxygen, really.

― kate, Monday, 2 December 2002 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Pork pie jelly is the best bit!

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i often crave MARMITE as well, and crisps. but not together (salt overload!) i have a PORKLESS PIE (with ketchup) for lunch. it was greasy!

― katie (katie), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Cheesy Findus Crispy Pancakes, what they don't sell in any local supermakets.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I often crave olives, hummous and taramasalata. And, for some reason, tomato juice.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

beef jerky = dog chew, shurely?

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

findus crispy pancakes - food of the 80s

― Ed (dali), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

right now, food in general, because it's two hours away from lunch. french toast, linguine, ravioli, a hot roast beef sandwich, clam chowder, lentil soup, very crispy-crusted pizza or bread...not cravings, though, just longings. my stomach's growling is nonspecific.

what am i going to get? probably a cold turkey sandwich because there's nachos and tacos in the hot line, two of the schools most outstandingly disgusting meals (outdone by stir fry, the single worst offering). grouse mutter mutter.

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

beef jerky = dog chew, shurely?

oooh! cross-thread MONOBRANE w/ Madchen!

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Mm pickled onions. And mm carrot cake (you are SO wrong Caitlin). But not together, probably.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Dill Pickles. mmm...

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

aaah this book just mentioned turkish coffee and baklava. I WANT SOME!

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

anyone who confuses baklava with balaclava is in for a shock.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

PICKLED ONIONS mmmm! i drink the vinegar straight from the jar = i am hardcore!

― katie (katie), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

pickled shallots in hot and spicy vinegar from sainsbury's

― Ed (dali), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Pork pie too. Better still gala pie, mmmmm, crispy pastry, hard-boiled egg, fatty pork filling & BEST OF ALL the gelatine! The tastiest bit in some pies because they add the seasoning to it. Actually I have been contemplating writing to the Pork Pie Bakers Association as hardly any pork pies contain enough jelly nowadays.

Not like when I were a lad.

Pork pies must be very comforting. A very lapsed vegetarian I know very well enjoys them almost as much as she does bacon.

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Gala pie is great because of LONG EGG!

My Uncle Gil in Oxford used to grow super strong onions in his allotment, then Auntie Gwen (she of the pigeons' milk) would pickle them in super strong vinegar. And they were nearly as good as jerky.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh Madchen, I am so disappointed that my father has moved back here from South Africa (temporarily, he's off to Bangladesh in January), as this means he can no longer make and send me biltong - proper beef jerky FOR MEN. With added spices as you wish. Phwoarrgh. And very good for jaw muscles, although nearly as bad for weak teeth as hard toffee.

However, 'pigeons' milk'? What fresh hell is this?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got a tremendous hankering for smoked salmon and salmon caviar -- look out Trader Joe. Also celery and pumpkin cheesecake.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh my, where to begin. Any number of brilliant cheeses, thin crisp crackers, good riojas, dark chocolates, the best chorizo ever created, Ethiopian food in general (with Ethiopian beer of course)...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Pigeons Milk

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Six DAYS without chocolate, Archel? It's a long time since I've gone six waking hours without chocolate!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 2 December 2002 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

now i want beef stew, because it's in the oven and smells beautiful and we just have to wait for dad to get home (GET HOME ALREADY)

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 2 December 2002 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Right now I want NACHOS with all the fixin's. NACHOS!

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Everytime I take a nap, I wake up wanting candy. The other night, I wanted a hot milkshake (if there were such a thing). I would never crave anything as disgusting as oily fish. BLECH!

― Mandee, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

All I want today is lamingtons. This is very rare. Usually it's cake with pink icing and fresh cream.

― toraneko (toraneko), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 01:29 (twenty-two years ago)

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Uhh I DO make a black bean soup that way, more or less! First brown up bacon in pan, then add the beans & veg & seasonings. Mash 'em up a bit at the end, stir in sour cream and/or shredded jack cheese.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Oh but food processors? Not for soups. Soup goes in the BLENDER, which has a lid that can be SEALED AGAINST LIQUID.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

I use chicken stock and/or the liquid from the canned beans, btw, to keep the consistency at "soupy".

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

Food processors are for the SOFRITO not for the SOUP, but really if you want to go that way what you really need is an immersion blender so you don't even have to go through the bother of pouring things back and forth. Yeah bitches, I pimped my kitchen, that's right!

now I'm craving duck of all things.

xpost oh I never use the liquid from the canned beans but I actually can't even tell you what I would use because I change it constantly.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just sayin' about the blender because I learned the hard way. FYI: the hard way involves sponging dried black bean soup off the wall behind the fridge some 4 months later.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Allyzay - Don't eat rice 'cause it makes me sluggish, bloated. I feel lots better since I stopped. Basmati's ok, though. It's funny how I've given up certain things this year that I used to love ingesting, mainly because they didn't treat me as well as they used to: rice, coffee, cigarettes. Haven't lost much weight, though, but I do feel better. I hope I never have to give up pizza.

― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

hahahaha yeah that's no good. The other thing to think about though is that I always put together my blender incorrectly and end up with liquids spilling out the bottom like crazy. This is because I'm an idiot.

xpost I would rather give up my left hand than give up pizza forever. I just got a pizza stone so that reminds me I have to make some pizza. YIKES I have a lot on my list this week cos I was also going to make ravioli.

OK I'm starting to worry about the eating I've been doing lately right about now on this thread, yeah.

I want coffee now too!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

i do not really crave anything right now, but i'd sorta like a starbucks croissant. those aren't very authentic, i suppose, but they're pretty good, amirite? actually, i want an almond croissant. have to go elsewhere for that. like the Boulangerie in Wallingford.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

I want shrimp.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Craving alcohol, tea and coffee (none of which I've had for about a fortnight). Mm, beer.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

I would really like some middle eastern dessert with pistachio and almonds and honey. how do I shot in dc area?

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

DC Cafe?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

i am craving some really disgusting flavor of pringles, but i don't want to leave my cave to go get them

― dell (del), Thursday, 3 March 2011 01:54 (fourteen years ago)

Paneer cheese.

― gnarly gnarlingtons in my life (Trayce), Thursday, 3 March 2011 02:02 (fourteen years ago)

i crave salt n vinegar chips pretty much all the time

― dynamicinterface, Thursday, 3 March 2011 02:05 (fourteen years ago)

Seafood salad

― blank, Thursday, 3 March 2011 02:16 (fourteen years ago)

Things with coconut milk, because I have Indian neighbors now and smell it in the hall all the time.

― go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Thursday, 3 March 2011 02:28 (fourteen years ago)

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― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 3 March 2011 02:40 (fourteen years ago)

I was going to start a thread for this but I found this one but seriously

guys

I cannot stop drinking orange juice. Like, ever.

― plax (ico ico) (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 3 March 2011 04:04 (fourteen years ago)

I think I have some sort of genetically-coded citrus craving.

― plax (ico ico) (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 3 March 2011 04:06 (fourteen years ago)

When in doubt, it's time to make breakfast, always. Grits, eggs, bacon or sausage, toast or biscuits. Sometimes an omelette. Sometimes hot cereal (oatmeal or cream of wheat) with dried fruit in it.

― WmC, Thursday, 3 March 2011 04:10 (fourteen years ago)

This amazing chicken dish I used to get at an Indian place in NJ. It was sort of like Chicken Tikka, chicken breast rubbed in spices and stuff, but I think they used cilantro and mint because it was neon green on the outside. So good.

― Aquarian Necromancer Octopus (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 3 March 2011 04:31 (fourteen years ago)

Janssen's temptation, anything with anchovies, cheese as I rarely eat it due to migraines. Chocolate for the same reason. Chips, roast potatoes, lamb chops. Smoked haddock and smoked meat or fish generally, Irish sausages, soda bread. Deboned chicken which I grill myself with few different ways of seasoning. Tinned fish or shellfish in all its forms. Rocket with everything.

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 3 March 2011 07:08 (fourteen years ago)

all i ever want to eat is baguette and cheese. or bread in general. when i was a kid i used to tell my parents that i "wanted to go to jail" because my conception of jail came from pulp fantasy novels and i thought they just like tossed A RUDE HUNK OF BREAD through the bars.

― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 3 March 2011 07:15 (fourteen years ago)

i had a delicious beer bratwurst over the weekend and now i want german food. like, potato DUMPLINGS! and red cabbage and brown bread.

xpost janssen's temptation! i declined to try that once! not really my thing.

― hauntological-hysteric theater (get bent), Thursday, 3 March 2011 07:15 (fourteen years ago)

i have no idea how DUMPLINGS!! got capitalized and exclamation-pointed there. i didn't type it that way.

― hauntological-hysteric theater (get bent), Thursday, 3 March 2011 07:17 (fourteen years ago)

Miso soup, raw oysters, and queso. The problem is, I'm getting more and more lactose intolerant, and cheese makes me ill. I can't stop craving it though.

― JacobSanders, Thursday, 3 March 2011 08:19 (fourteen years ago)

lol jbr, DUMPLINGS! has been autoreplacing for a while now!

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Thursday, 3 March 2011 08:26 (fourteen years ago)

sushi, rare steak, a simple arugula salad, scrambled eggs

― tbf explicitly gay albums aren't quite as cultural (the table is the table), Thursday, 3 March 2011 08:42 (fourteen years ago)

DUMPLINGS!

― hauntological-hysteric theater (get bent), Thursday, 3 March 2011 08:46 (fourteen years ago)

haha, i had no idea, but i love it!

― hauntological-hysteric theater (get bent), Thursday, 3 March 2011 08:46 (fourteen years ago)

smoked salmon
pink lady apples
oatmeal w/blackberries
the sandwich at the sandwich place down the street from me that has grilled rye, grilled chicken, bacon, avocado, tarragon mayonnaise – which I will eat in spite of my general anti-mayo stance
bloody Marys

― wizards of wonder are the keepers of knowledge (Abbbottt), Thursday, 3 March 2011 13:23 (fourteen years ago)

spicy food
campari

― just sayin, Thursday, 3 March 2011 13:54 (fourteen years ago)

the rye bagels from western bagel, which have caraway seeds and are dusted with cornmeal, like jewish rye bread!

― hauntological-hysteric theater (get bent), Thursday, 3 March 2011 17:25 (fourteen years ago)

starbar starbar starbar starbar starbar starbar starbar starbar starbar starbar starbar starbar starbar

― Madchen, Thursday, 3 March 2011 17:26 (fourteen years ago)

Jaffa Cakes

― a murder rap to keep ya dancin, with a crime record like Keith Chegwin (snoball), Thursday, 3 March 2011 17:32 (fourteen years ago)

Keema peas. Good thing I'm making it today or tomorrow.

― anna sui generis (suzy), Thursday, 3 March 2011 17:37 (fourteen years ago)

― difficult listening hour, Thursday, March 3, 2011 2:15 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

really feeling this post^^ bread is one of the great accomplishments of human civilization. its so simple and perfect. bread is a miracle.

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 3 March 2011 17:48 (fourteen years ago)

Pickled turnips, Arab-style.

― Le mépris vient de la tête, la haine vient du cœur (Michael White), Thursday, 3 March 2011 17:50 (fourteen years ago)

pizza, always

― OLD MAN YELLS AT SHOUT RAP (chrisv2010), Thursday, 3 March 2011 17:55 (fourteen years ago)

yeah

I think pizza is pretty much the perfect food because both bread and cheese are involved.

― ENBB, Thursday, 3 March 2011 17:58 (fourteen years ago)

One word: Carbonara.
Carbonara in my two versions. You'd never get tired of it, i assure you. My carbonara is where carbonaras go when they die.

― mike_i_truly_love_you, Thursday, 3 March 2011 23:14 (fourteen years ago)

ps. end everybody who eats fish should be hung. seriously. t h e r e i s n o f i s h.

― mike_i_truly_love_you, Thursday, 3 March 2011 23:30 (fourteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

is that still the case? thought steps had been made to counteract all the overfishing?

― NI, Friday, 18 March 2011 00:41 (fourteen years ago)

Aside from that

Had a fierce cravin for butter shortbread with tea tonight but shops had closed

― the '' key on my keybord is not working (darraghmac), Friday, 18 March 2011 00:47 (fourteen years ago)

Poutine! To me, it's pretty much the epitome of the deliciousness=non-nutritiousness axiom. I'd happily eat it three days a week if it wasn't so unhealthy for me. As it is, I rationalize that "once a week is fine", but I suspect that even that's too often.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 18 March 2011 08:33 (fourteen years ago)

movie-theater popcorn. the worst kind, drenched in whatever that yellow non-butter substance is. my favorite part of the tim burton 'alice in wonderland' movie was the part where my popcorn was so fucking delicious i forgot to pay attention to the screen.

― accredited butter grader and dairy technologist (reddening), Friday, 18 March 2011 09:04 (fourteen years ago)

that's p much the best review i've seen for that particular shitbomb

― the '' key on my keybord is not working (darraghmac), Friday, 18 March 2011 09:39 (fourteen years ago)

You can eat some fish - see the MCS website - http://www.mcsuk.org/ - this was the case even 2 weeks ago.

― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Friday, 18 March 2011 10:32 (fourteen years ago)

So now I'm craving potato and smoked mackerel dauphinoise.

― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Friday, 18 March 2011 10:33 (fourteen years ago)

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