How do you get your midnight snack on?

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What tender victuals do you ingest before rest? My absolute favorite, post-pub, pre-bed is welsh rarebit, made simply with good cheshire, ale, butter, s&p. When sober, I'll just sip warm milk and honey.

What is your favorite snack to sleep on, savoury or sweet?

― Lewis Carnelian (Grandin), Sunday, 21 September 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

whatever's in the fridge, unfortunately I've thrown the remainder of today's gravy in the stock otherwise it would be gravy on buttered toast, gentleman's relish or anchovy ketchup on toast makes a fine midnight snack.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 21 September 2003 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Please explain "gentleman's relish." Is there such a thing as "hoodlum relish" as well? Cheers.

― Lewis Carnelian (Grandin), Sunday, 21 September 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

gentleman's relish is a paste made from anchovies and is excellent on buttered toast.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 21 September 2003 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

see here

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 21 September 2003 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you, Ed. Now to try and find it stateside. Any other such treats you might recommend? Especially ones that might be offensive to sensitive American palates? Those are my favorite.

― Lewis Carnelian (Grandin), Sunday, 21 September 2003 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.bpib.com/coolbook/mccay5.gif

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 21 September 2003 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Henderson's Relish

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 21 September 2003 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I need a stronger cheese for that desired effect, Slutsky. Psychoactive mushrooms are one thing, psychoactive cheese sauce another. You read that book, btw? It's damn near impossible to find a complete Nemo for less than $100. Dern.

― Lewis Carnelian (Grandin), Sunday, 21 September 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

No, I haven't! I want McCay stuff but I don't have the money, sadly.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 21 September 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Sad that it takes so much money to get such quality, more like. Same problem with moebius. Alas.

― Lewis Carnelian (Grandin), Sunday, 21 September 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Welsh rarebit? Warm milk and honey? Anchovy ketchup? Gravy on toast? What the hell are you guys talking about?

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 22 September 2003 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh I forgot one: gentleman's relish. I have never ever heard this term before in my life.

A good it's midnight i'm stoned i need a snack for me: Ben & Jerry's ice cream.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 22 September 2003 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Gentleman's relish is such a great weird name.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 22 September 2003 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

It sounds just awful. Actually I just looked up what Welsh Rarebit is (beer stirred into melted cheese and baked on bread). It sounds ok I guess as a snack, but it's not something I'm aware of anyone making. The closest thing American stylee would be a grilled cheese sandwich.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 22 September 2003 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Rarebit is awesome. But seriously, as a midnight snack?

Last night I had a huge craving for banana cake. In particular, Entenmann's, but I would have settled for... well, no, I really wanted Entenmann's.

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 22 September 2003 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Kielbasa and strub's half-sours

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 22 September 2003 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm enjoying massive slices of peanut-butter toast right now.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 22 September 2003 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

usually I end up having a midnight meal, but if I'm up for a late night kinda-drunk snack, it's probably the beef jerky w/ mozzerella stick they sell for about a buck fifty at the local convenience store near my homestead.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 22 September 2003 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

actually, it ain't beef jerky. It's a sausage stick. forgot.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 22 September 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

That's like my secret evil little drunk treat.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 22 September 2003 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember the first time I went there looking for beef jerky I grabbed one and thought "damn for some reason I want some mozzarella with this" and then saw the pair together. I can't tell if I subconsciously already knew they made that or if drunks just think alike. Either way it filled my heart with glee. They're filling too.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 22 September 2003 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

If it's a late-night drunk thing, then there's only one answer: BURRITOS. If I'm at home and watching TV, it's more like chips or cereal or peanut butter & jelly.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 September 2003 01:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, can I say though that I'm getting sick of the expression "Get your _____ on"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 September 2003 01:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Anthony that was exactly what I was thinking the first time I had one!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 22 September 2003 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i totally read this thread title as "how do you get your midnight smack on?"

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 22 September 2003 02:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I reach for that great illusory comforter, soy milk.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 22 September 2003 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

A slice of wheat bread, extra crunchy peanut butter and honey.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 22 September 2003 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Vodka.

― kirsten (kirsten), Monday, 22 September 2003 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Funny thing, Jay. "Get your snack on" is actually the name of a song by Amon Tobin. I agree, though, getting various things on has become tiresome. My groove, my swerve, my man, getting all these things on. It's like layering up for cold whether.

beef stick + mozzarella = me at 15 walking to the 7-11 at 3 am baked with the buds

Eventually it evolved into:

tabasco slim jim + $.49 extra sharp cracker barrell cheddar stick = me at 16, etc.

It's like an orgy of fat. The roof of your mouth gets coated, like a well seasoned cast iron skillet.Sadly, this combo has become rather hard to assemble.

Peanut butter and honey takes me all the way back to 3rd grade. Has anyone crushed graham crackers into milk lately?

― Lewis Carnelian (Grandin), Monday, 22 September 2003 03:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm eating a Cadbury Dream bar. I do know this is a dumb idea right now.

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 22 September 2003 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Wheat Thins and Kaukauna cheese
yogurt
Steak-N-Shake

― oops (Oops), Monday, 22 September 2003 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

If it's midnight and I'm craving anything at all, it'd usually be watermelon or grapes or a nice, crisp red apple or a juicy peach or nectarine. My body somehow becomes this Healthier Foods Craver at that time of night. Oh yes, and on occasion I'll crave Twinkies, so yeah, not all of the food will be healthy, but still, it's a heck of a lot of fruit. And damn, now I want watermelon. Good thing I'm too sleepy to do anything about it or else I'd be downstairs by now cutting up the watermelon and holding back the drool.

― Legendary Nothingness (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 22 September 2003 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

What is this "Steak-N-Shake?" Is it for real, or have you finally articulated a food-combo-craving I have left unnamed for years, fearing its power?

― Lewis Carnelian (Grandin), Monday, 22 September 2003 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.steaknshake.com/

― oops (Oops), Monday, 22 September 2003 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

TS: Steak-n-Shake vs. gentlemen's relish

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 22 September 2003 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

They're the only drive-thru place that's open all night.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 22 September 2003 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

They're the only drive-thru place that's open all night.

The Jack-in-the-Box places around me have drive-thrus that are open 24 hours, and Whataburger is open, period, 24 hours.

So maybe you're talking about that being the only drive-thru place around you that's open all night. ;)

*collapses for the night*

― Legendary Nothingness (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 22 September 2003 04:47 (twenty-two years ago)

*rises up*

Correction: The two aforementioned places are open (well, with one of them it's the drive-thru, but anyway) 24 hours a day. You know, never closing, that sort of thing.

*collapses again, eyelids transformed into heavy leaden doors*

― Legendary Nothingness (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 22 September 2003 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn. I had envisioned something along the lines of ground sirloin suspended in a thick, tasty, dairy-based sauce, drunk through a straw, preferably with your sweetheart. At the soda fountain. Er, steak fountain.

― Lewis Carnelian (Grandin), Monday, 22 September 2003 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think there are any JITBs or Whataburgers east of the Mississippi.

Follow that dream, Lewis.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 22 September 2003 04:50 (twenty-two years ago)

It would be like...like...Beefy Bubble Tea! Wait, no, must be shake-like. I'm thinking stroganoff in a blender. Or maybe "chili-no chunk." Wait. I think I'll have some chili on toast for midnight snack. Dammit! No toast. Mmmm. Chili.

― Lewis Carnelian (Grandin), Monday, 22 September 2003 04:58 (twenty-two years ago)

It is midnight; I am eating sesame sticks.

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 22 September 2003 06:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Anchovies. On their own.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 22 September 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i got really huingry last night and ate malt loaf and really strong canadian cheddar. i later had a dream about momus

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 22 September 2003 10:49 (twenty-two years ago)

oooh, I haven't had malt loaf in ages...

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 22 September 2003 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)

malt loaf is classic - i bought a pack of two for £1.30. i also think this is the first time i have been able to eat anything less than an entire malt loaf in one sitting

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 22 September 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

malt loaf is yummy. now where was that thread about ready buttered malt loaf & people's objections to it?
I like cereal before bed, or maybe a big mug of tea & hot chocolate.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 22 September 2003 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

ready buttered malt loaf is a total crime against taste

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 22 September 2003 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Aww come one, you know you just dig it the most! ;-)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 22 September 2003 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

gingerbread and bovril!!

it the gentleman's relish of fay mentalists!!

actual real name for gentleman's relish = PATUM PEPERIUM (=it wz invented by caligula)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 22 September 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

ready bovriled nutella!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 22 September 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

*runs to find a bucket*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 22 September 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

caligula ate a foetus - i will not eat anything invented by roman nutball cannibals

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 22 September 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

bovril is good in gravy... nowhere else!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 22 September 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Late last night I had some tomato soup with crackers and fresh-grated parmesan. Mm.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 September 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

That Amon Tobin song was the first thing that came to my mind when I read the thread title! It's fucking gnarly!

One of my late-night faves = putting stuff in a tortilla/pita, occasionally cooking it in some form or other. Last night it was leftover huevos con chorizo and rice I had leftover from brunch shoved into a corn tortilla and hotified via skillet.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 22 September 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"Malt loaf"?

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 22 September 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

A german just told me about "hawaiian toast". It's bread with canned pineapple slices and cheese singles melted over the top. I guess I'd eat that if I were drunk.

― Octothorpe (Octothorpe), Monday, 22 September 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

cheese fries at the snack bar! the fries are really hot oily and crunchy (they can burn your tongue) and there's plenty of gooey cheese. Best thing EVER. Financially and healthfully I shouldn't eat them three times a week like I am though.

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Anchovies. On their own.

What kind of anchovies do you like, Mark? I've had a low batting average in finding anchovies that ... do that thing that anchovies I like do, instead of just reminding me of cat food and Heathcliff comic strips.

My midnight snacks ... hrm. If I'm up and don't need to be anywhere in the morning, I'm as likely to cook as anything else, but that doesn't mean I necessarily eat what I cook -- I might fridge it for the next day's dinner. Snacks ... pretzels with sriracha (fuck, not for two weeks, this household is a South Beach household), frozen potato product with ketchup and hot sauce (fuck ditto!), or a microwave burrito (... aw man!)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Tonight's ten to eleven snack was cottage cheese with grapes and blackberries.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

need snacks now

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Nothing like a banana and a few choice grubs! Love,

H. B-C

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― Helena Bohnam-Carter, Tuesday, 23 September 2003 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Cookies and milk!

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

chunk of salami.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

past my bedtime, enjoying brie on rosemary cibatta bread and wine!

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

at home lately: peanut butter on flour tortilla

when out and drunk: papas con huevos. mmmm

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

What I discovered this evening: Spiced Apple Brew Ginger Beer does **not** go with garlic bread. It was pretty good garlic bread that I made myself, but... yeah, the taste sensations kind of clash.

― lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

That actually gave me a food-clash flashback. That garlic-bread-in-the-foil-thing-in-the-freezer used to be a post-Denny's-4a.m. snack for me in high school, and in the fall, apple cider was my default beverage if I didn't want caffeine ... so I kept rediscovering over and over again, they really shouldn't be at the same meal together.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/media/plainchochobnobs.jpg

http://www.wilkinsonplus.com/content/ebiz/wilkinsonplus/invt/0241253/0241253_m.jpg

― G00blar, Monday, 14 January 2008 23:37 (seventeen years ago)

Ugh, no late snacks. Heartburn City, no sleep. Maybe an apple (with my Metamucil).

― Rock Hardy, Monday, 14 January 2008 23:46 (seventeen years ago)

;_;

― G00blar, Monday, 14 January 2008 23:46 (seventeen years ago)

Oh boy sometimes I like to eat candy in bed, although it is an embarrassment. I like leftovers, esp. of something you put on rice: stroganoff, curry, stir fry, chicken ala king, etc. (I know some of these things are usually served on noodles of various type but I am way into the rices.)

If I'm out: Jack in the Box, usually some breakfast thing.

― Abbott, Monday, 14 January 2008 23:56 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

fuck's sake why did I eat this late

― acoleuthic, Friday, 20 August 2010 01:19 (fifteen years ago)

because you are blest with the opportunity to get a good curry any time you want and it's always time for curry

― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, 20 August 2010 01:23 (fifteen years ago)

it wasn't even curry :( it was cold spaghetti bolognese and marinated olives and marshmallows :D but heaviness on the stomach before bed isn't 2010's hot new look :( but I can run it off tomorrow :D

― acoleuthic, Friday, 20 August 2010 01:31 (fifteen years ago)

wait - you put marshmallows on spaghetti?

― sarahel, Friday, 20 August 2010 01:32 (fifteen years ago)

GOODNIGHT AND DON'T ALL BAN ME AT ONCE

― acoleuthic, Thursday, 19 August 2010 03:10 (Yesterday)

― acoleuthic, Friday, 20 August 2010 01:32 (fifteen years ago)

wait - you put marshmallows on spaghetti?

who knew London had weed that good

― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, 20 August 2010 01:35 (fifteen years ago)

gotta know if the marshmallows were marinated as well

― ? (dyao), Friday, 20 August 2010 01:36 (fifteen years ago)

I'm picturing LJ dropping a marshmallow into a jar of olive brine, the marshmallow expanding and soaking up all the brine, then LJ sucking the marshmallow out and giving the camera a thumbs up

― ? (dyao), Friday, 20 August 2010 01:36 (fifteen years ago)

never post those words between 'then' and 'and' in that order again

seriously though each instalment was consumed separately and I think the last two marshmallows pushed me over the edge into bloatedness

― acoleuthic, Friday, 20 August 2010 01:38 (fifteen years ago)

mind you this is still happening at some point Attention, gourmands - which of the food polls should renowned kitchen maestro Louis J4gger turn into an 8-part dish?

― acoleuthic, Friday, 20 August 2010 01:39 (fifteen years ago)

People please let's not forget that LJ is the gourmet who tried to pair fish (tilapia iirc?)with a chocolate based sauce. Nothing should surprise you when it comes to Mr. Jagger and, well, anything really.

― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Friday, 20 August 2010 01:40 (fifteen years ago)

it's ok the tilapia didn't know - I was playing loud music and it was lost in a world of faraway magic and merriment

― acoleuthic, Friday, 20 August 2010 01:41 (fifteen years ago)

or just asleep

― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Friday, 20 August 2010 01:42 (fifteen years ago)

you prepared the tilapia doggy style?

― sarahel, Friday, 20 August 2010 01:42 (fifteen years ago)

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― ('_') (omar little), Friday, 20 August 2010 01:45 (fifteen years ago)

little balls of supermarket mozzarella forevs

― A B C, Friday, 20 August 2010 02:00 (fifteen years ago)

i don't even picture lou jags posts being made by a real person, just one of those david koechner/mark mckinney spats/powdered wig-wearing dandy characters from mid nineties snl

― A B C, Friday, 20 August 2010 02:01 (fifteen years ago)

that dish LJ is describing is similar to one that almost made Gordon Ramsay retch on Kitchen Nightmares

― michangelo wuz a party d00d (San Te), Friday, 20 August 2010 02:04 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.passportmagazine.com/blog/uploads/4.jpg

― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 20 August 2010 02:06 (fifteen years ago)

it's not a fucking dish you clowns, I ate them apart - the spag bol was on a plate, the olives in a tub and the marshmallows in a bag, dear christ

― acoleuthic, Friday, 20 August 2010 02:06 (fifteen years ago)

DON'T FUCKIGN BLAME JESUS FOR THIS SHIT

― michangelo wuz a party d00d (San Te), Friday, 20 August 2010 02:06 (fifteen years ago)

or was the spagbol in a tub, the olives in a bag and the marshmallows on a plate

― ? (dyao), Friday, 20 August 2010 02:07 (fifteen years ago)

and was lj inside a pred ship

― michangelo wuz a party d00d (San Te), Friday, 20 August 2010 02:07 (fifteen years ago)

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