What's the hungriest you've ever been and what were you forced to eat as a result?

It's not quite hunger, but i once got really, really bad cramp in the middle of the night. Instead of descending two floors to get salt from the kitchen, I remembered I had a packet of ostrich biltong in my bedroom. Problem solved!

Well, there's that IHOP incident...

This Wednesday. No time/bread/milk for breakfast, feeling faint by lunchtime, so go and buy two packets of crisps, nearly choke eating them, get home, eat half a loaf of bread a massive plate of chips and a big dinner and felt very , very ill aftwerwards.

[Someone with better judgment and less shame than I can decide whether a "Most desperate for the toilet" thread is a good idea]

Actually, right now is the hungriest I have ever been! I will eat all of you

paprika on toast. thats all, no butter or maragrine.

two days on black coffee and nothing else. 22 cups *shudder*. i was studying for my second year exams...

we'd spent the last of our dole on dope, 3 days straight of raw sugar on white bread and black coffee....and dope, of course.

I slept over at this bummy kid's house once.....he pulled the sleepover kiss of death on me: bad sleep provisions.....get this, usually I got seriously vexed if the kid's cheap mom made me use a ratty pillowcase or bedclothes, but this kid made me use a hard, itchy, get-hot-quick-and-stay-hot COUCH CUSHION.....Ramosi don't play that shit, I would have preferred a pillowcase with clothes in it, even......for dinner we had ramen, straight ghetto kind, not the multi-garnishing-pack kind....what he did next was twice as abominable because his mom let it happen....he told me to save the broth......a few hours later we microwaved the broth and mixed cold rice into it. At bedtime, he was very lucky I didn't jump in the air and land full force on this neck and snap it.

weetbix with water (nothing to do with lack of money mind you - i never spend money so i've never been broke).

yesterday I ate a table.

Ketchup sandwich.

Abrakebabra......every fuckin week...

someone with better judgement and less shame than I can decide whether a "most desperate for the toilet" thread is a good idea"

The most desperate I was was after Billy Nasty played here a few weeks ago, the bus went a really long way home and I was literally about to die at the top. Let me tell you I was SO CLOSE to just apologising to the few lunatics upstairs and taking a piss right there. When I eventually got off the bus I went into some bushes and I'd say I was pissing there for about 20 minutes.

What a lovely story. Billy Nasty was shite incidentally.

Should I eat the summer sausage and low-fat Swiss cheese that my parents left in my refrigerator as dog treats when they came to visit with my dog at Christmas? I'm serious. I've been too overworked/drunk/sleepy to shop for food lately and it's either that or more Linzer tort Christmas cookies. I already ate all the Dulce de Leche cookies my friend gave me and I'm starved for protein. If I eat any more sugar I will have a nervous breakdown.

It is people food, technically, but I am having trouble swallowing the fact that it was purchased and brought here as dog rewards. Still, my body cries out for protein . . . argh

Ask yourself, which protein source shall it be: the dog treats or a handful of dead insects? This should put things into perspective.

Some of the hardest inhibitions to overcome are the ones associated with 'taboo' foods. Your qualms about 'dog food' that is actually just swiss cheese and summer sausage is a good illustration of this. The part of our brain that controls this is obviously very rules-bound.

As for the time I was the hungriest, that is easy. When I was 17 I set off on a wilderness hike for 21 days, attempting to carry all the food I would need for that period. I underestimated my need for calories. Like a castaway in a lifeboat, I had to go on short rations and observe them strictly. Believe me, not one crumb was wasted. Literally. I would lick the bowl and look at it sadly, like a dog.

Once I had nothing in my house but tortilla chips and peanut butter, so I ate them. That was pretty bad.

Once I had nothing but coffee (no sugar or milk). I drank 22 cups. That was pretty bad. and I was *still* hungry

Aimless, that does put it in the more accurate ketchup-and-napkin canape perspective.

I don't know who's more mental: me, for even having a moment's qualm about eating the "dog" food, or my parents, for buying low-fat cheese for the dog. (My dog is already freakishly thin.)

ricotta cheese on bread with a little grape jelly. arguably I didn't have to but that's probably the nastiest stuff I ever bothered to finish.

If I'm really hungry, I just smoke cigarettes til the feeling passes. I must stop doing that, or I'll start with the fainting again.

I've eaten mouldy bread before out of desparation. I just picked out the little specks of blue, the rest of the slice seemed fine... toasted it and ate it. Well, a girls gotta eat...

when I was 19 and living in an apartment with two other losers, (one of whom who had spent the last of our money on a new stereo) we spent the better part of a week eating toast with butter and pickles cos it's all we had

tomato ketchup on toast

During a 5am spate of the munchies a bunch of us raided the cupboard and could come up with no better than rich tea biscuits covered in garlic dorito dip and tobasco sauce. Then someone put jelly babies on it and it went horribly wrong!