Carrots.
The tiny conversation we had around our favourite foods changed everything for me. I realised that being fat or thin is actually genetic after all. The act of eating a carrot sets off a feel-good, love-my-life, endorphin rush in my mate's brain, and only the sanctimonious one in mine.
"What's your favourite food?" I asked her.
"Carrots," she replied.
"Carrots?" I said, my brow crinkling in disbelief.
"Yep, carrots."
"Roasted with honey? Carrot cake? In, what, like a pie? A carrot pie?"
"No, just raw. Crunchy. Why?" she said, noticing that my lip was curled in something approximating distaste. "What's wrong with carrots?"
"Nothing!" I said, in my best reassuring voice. "I really like carrots. It's just that...well..."
"What? What's wrong with carrots? They're a good food, I absolutely love them."
"More than green chicken curry?"
"Yes!"
"More than chocolate mousse?"
"Yes!"
"Pasta? Steak? Cheese? Oh my god, more than cheese?"
"Yes, Bron, more even than cheese. For gods sake, can't I just have my favourite food and not be judged so harshly? I won't judge yours, I promise. What's your favourite food?"
Oh, let me see... in no particular order (and I apologise for omissions), my favourite foods are:
- Cheese
- Cashew nuts (but also walnuts, almonds, macadamia nuts, brazil... any nuts)
- Butter
- Yoghurt (but not those thin wimpy yoghurts, I like those greek-style yoghurts that are really desserts)
- Porridge with (lots of) brown sugar
- Anything that comes encased in flaky pastry
- Chocolate
- Noodles
Cheese, nuts, buttter... You can see what I'm up against here. No wonder I'm a fattyboomsticks and my friend looks like carrots are her favourite food.
What's your honest-to-goodness-or-badness-we-won't-judge favourite food?
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Chocolate. I just passed a very sanctimonious sugar-free month. Realising after the shops had closed last night that it had been 28 whole days since I last tasted it I rushed out to the servo and came home with a packet of double coat Tim Tams and a block of Cadbury's Hazelnut. Heaven. Life is so much more fun with sugar.
My 4yo niece is a major carrot lover too.
So much so that on the weekend we wandered up the road to feed the little pony who lives two doors up with two large, unpeeled carrots in hand.
The pony only managed to get one stick of orange though, Sahara sheepishly crunched her way through the other!
As for my favourite food? Well this weekend gone by we had a family fiesta of birthday fun where we indulged in all sorts of fabulous food - my favourite? Margy B's cheese ball, closely followed by Beth McDonald's deconstructed pumpkin salad - seriously you have to try it!
A scrummy big hug for you my friend,'x'.
I don't really have a favourite food but if I was given a spoon and told to dig in, I'd hope it was - get ready for it - condensed milk. Yes that's right!
When I was a kid, deep fried ice-cream at the Chinese Restaurant. Now I have a passionfruit melting moment obsession, yep obsession. 2 every single day, they are homemade, so I think thats ok.
I love you love butter, butter is my friend too.
ha fattyboomsticks...I havent heard this for a while...I highly doubt you are anyways. I downed 3 carrots yesterday..there is a new baby variety that a chock for of flavour yum!
I am with you on the cashews though, dangerous stuff!x
Ummmm... No, not carrots. I do love chocolate and cheese and jars of salted caramel and croissants and macarons and bacon and Christmas ham and sweet potato fries and Victor Churchill t bone steaks and brownies and lemon slice and carrot cake with cream cheese icing...
So the diet is going really well...
K xx
Love this.
I made carrot cake today. Cake is a whole food group in my house. It's becoming a bit of an issue.
And yes, you are what you eat. I am cake. x
Oh, this post is SO funny! I'm giggling and can just see your face looking like a giant question mark. And I must admit, I don't understand it either. Carrot in soup, cake and curries is awesome. Just not on its own.
Hmm... if I was what I ate, I would be pastry. Kind of oily, flaky and melt in your mouth.
(Not a bad likeness actually. I'm known to be flaky sometimes.)
Or carbs. Take away chocolate, but don't take away the carbs!
Thanks for the giggle. I'll be looking at carrots in a whole new way now!
xx
Carrots?! That is hilarious. Most of my favourite foods are on your list. I'm a total sucker for pastry. Oh and cold custard!
Chocolate cheesecake, combining cake, cheese and chocolate!
I don't mind carrots but definitely wuldn't class them as a favourite.
Your list is really not that bad, I mean at least half of them can be classed as half-healthy! I'm happy with half-healthy these days. Cake for me. Any kind. Must have icing. xx
Oh dear. I'm kind of with Miss Kitty Cat.
Actually, I'm thinking she's a soul sister.
THOUGH, when I was carrying my son I ate my way through about a kilo of carrots a day, and he adores them even now and regularly snacks on carrots and even has them for dessert.
Strange kid.
me, I love hot chips with lots of salt. yeap.
as for my healthy daughter, she prefers carrots and corn on the cob. Her first lunch order was fried rice and a corn cobbet, I thought she was slightly strange.
Your friend is frankly a freak. My list is EXACTLY the same as yours topped only by creme brulee in the number one spot. Surely creme brulee could be classed as a food. maybe even a whole food group or two. and cashews.... gosh I think i am hungry again. Can highly recommend a good dose of giardia followed by 18 months of severe resultant lactose intolerance as an excellent strategy for counteracting the above list. Sadly I do think it's genetic, my 3 yo daughter can sniff out a kfc chip from a good block away. melx
Well, I must say I don't mind a good carrot.
But I love, love, looove fancy cheese, ham on the bone (proper style), salami (i could eat a stick a day!), anchovies... I could be here all night.
Potatoes.
Anyway, anyhow, you can never get potatoes wrong. Sliced and cooked with a massive tub of cream...those babies can fix anything.
Belgian chocolates for me. And i just may indulge myself with a box this Easter.
I am just making carrot cake! There's not much I don't like but cheesecake was the first thing I thought of!
Cheese.
Cheese.
Cheese.
Cheese.
And that crumbed camembert dish they serve at restaurants.
Top of the list is Chocolate!
Coffee - that's a food group isn't it ;)
Cheese
oh yes potatoes - chips, crisps, roasted, potato bake, rosti, hash browns, potato salad, soup, gnocchi.
Yumm
Carrot - well carrot cake with heaps of cream cheese icing is wonderful :)
Chocolate
Hot chips
Nachos
Ice cream
Gelati
Chocolate
Pizza
Tikka masala
Chocolate
Baked potatoes, with cheese and sour cream and beans
Croissants
Chocolate croissants
Chocolate mousse
Chocolate chip cookies
Chocolate brownies
Chocolate...
..really my only saving grace is that I also love salad. I really do. (Ok, salad with lots of dressing. That's the best bit!)
there is just so much good stuff out there, most of which likes to stick to my tummy and bum. We have some delicious home grown carrots and I do love them, but favourite, naaaa not by a long shot. Give me one of those little fruit and custard tarts with the chocolate hiding on the buttery crust any day.
Cheese and Bacon Balls.
Truly. Or Twisties. ANYTHING with orange fake cheese crack dust.
Carrots are also my favorite after everything on your list plus lobster, steak, chicken, lamb, and pork mmmmm bacon.
Cranky Old Man
Currently? Toy Story Ice Poles.. lime Sorbet please x
I'm with you, no carrots on my list! Although I must admit to a bit of fruit..
Cheese and hot chips are about a draw at the top of the list.
Then..
steak
berries of any variety
plums
raw cake batter (so much better than the actual cake)
roast potato and parsnip
cherry tomatoes
ultra fresh bread, butter and vegemite
vanilla cannoli
chocolate eclairs / profiteroles
friands
mmm, I'm hungry now and I just ate a Huge awesome dinner which included roast potatoes and parsnips.
Hot salty chips.....DROOOOOOL....
Pancakes with so much butter and syrup it could clog a drain!
We just had this conversation at our house! My sons were doing Mad Libs and they stumped me when they asked for favorite food. I thought about it and decided on broccoli and then my sons, my husband, my sister and my mother in law all unleashed their disdain on me. I realized later that I probably should have said cheesecake, I just have it so rarely that I forget how much I adore it.
The only realy problem I have is that I dont look like my favorite food is broccoli I look like a cheesecake lover and then some!! It might be because I am too lazy to chop and cook broccoli so I only eat copious amounts hwne someone else prepares it.
Oh chocolate. Always chocolate. That's why Easter is one of my favourite times of the year!
Hahha!! You crack me up! From one fattyboomsticks to another (though from the extremely limited blog photos of you I think you look lovely and not fattybooms at all) here's my list:
bananas - they are my favourite food. I couldn't live without bananas in the world. It nearly killed me having to miss out on them last year when they were 12 bux a kilo and I was really poor.
cheese - I've become addicted to brie or camembert or something oozy like that, with quince paste and freshly baked sourdough bread. With a glass of champers, of course.
sourdough - fresh out of the oven, lots and lots of butter and honey.
indian food
pizza
potato bake
grapes, watermelon, mangoes, lychees
Yep, well apart from the fruit, you can see why I'm a boomba!
Ooh, I'm feeling hungry right now!!!
I'll have the Rib Fillet on the Bone thanks, medium rare ... hold the carrots.
Such a fun post, Bron - but I have to admit, how awesome would it be to have carrots as your favourite food, and to indulge in them whenever you want? With no guilt attached (and the only side effect from overindulgence a slight orange/yellow tinge in your skin)?
My favourite?
Lemon tart. Fresh, just made, gorgeous and tart.
Delish.
x
How many can I post :-P
Sushi, broccoli, dark chocolate, carrot cake with frosting, almond croissants, Wagyu steak, salmon...
SSG xxx
Potatoes cooked any which way - probably my 2 fav potato dishes are hot chips with lashings of salt and potatoes baked in duck fat.Yum!x
Cheeeeeeeeeeeese!
I'll pass on anything sweet, just give me cheese...and butter, and chips, and mashed potato. Hmph, I wish my favourite food was carrots, too!
Lol I wish I loved carrots that much too ...and exercise for that matter. Unfortunately, chocolate, nuts, potatoes in all forms, pasta etc are on my list of favourites!
Raw cookie dough!!!!!
I often suggest to Ella {aged 4} "Oh let's bake cookies!" Not only does she love the baking process, and I look like a FABULOUS hands-on, creative Mummy {lol} but I get to eat the dough! All round a winner :)
LOVE LOVE LOVE it!
And carrots? Really?
I wish carrots were my favourite....maybe this baby weight would shift ;o)
x
cut the porridge, add more cheese and a side of hot chips and that's my list too!
Accompanied, where possible, with a lovely glass of wine :)
Chocolate...what else is there?
It calls out to me whenever I go shopping and think, no I'm not buying any chocolate today.
It's there when I've had a loong day with the kids, it's there when I'm up late watching the latest shows we've recorded once the girls are in bed...what can I say we are the best of friends :)
If we don't count chocolate, then it is grapes. Crispy, juice grapes. Mmmm....
If we do count chocolate, then it is chocolate. Dairy Milk Chocolate.
I've eaten a whole block in two days.
At the moment I can't get enough of ham (Pregnancy craving and yes I know you shouldn't eat it when your pregnant) and grapes.
Before pregnancy it was chocolate.
Lemon Butter (homemade) on butternut snap biscuits.
Brandy snaps
Raspberry sorbet
Pavlova
Dark chocolate
chocolate mousse
Passionfruit flummery
Mango & nut salad
Mango with bacon
Raspberry lemonade (Charlie's, from Coles) sooo good.
Hasselback potatoes
Roast dinner smothered with gravy
Twisties and lemonade. Together.
Chocolate dipped errr carrots !
I like cheese. And chocolate. And sushi. I like carrots too. But like in a I can tolerate you but I won't invite you in my house to play wii fit with me kinda way.
SALT!!! I think I may be slightly addicted to the stuff. I dip my (already salted) fries into little piles of salt and I always add extra salt to all of my baking.
My daughter seems to be following in my footsteps; I caught her licking her finger and dipping it into a bag of salt the other day.
Salt doesn't really count as a food though, does it? In that case I choose caramel.
*cheesecake
*lobster
*caviar
*Maggie Beer pate
No carrots for me.
My friend's fave food is cold boiled white rice!!!!!!!!!!
*cheesecake
*lobster
*caviar
*Maggie Beer pate
No carrots for me.
My friend's fave food is cold boiled white rice!!!!!!!!!!
I can relate to the carrot love - When I was in primary school my snack when I got home was a carrot dipped in the mayo jar. These were no small carrots either they were the 5kg bags we bought for the horses and I'd nick them from our own pets! Ahhhh memories.
My favourite food now would have to be cheese and wine :)
Good quality mint gelato tiramisu would be my last meals on earth. However my nephew LOVES broccoli - forget chocolate or chips, this 4 year old will bust into the freezer to eat it frozen if you don't watch him.
Good quality mint gelato tiramisu would be my last meals on earth. However my nephew LOVES broccoli - forget chocolate or chips, this 4 year old will bust into the freezer to eat it frozen if you don't watch him.
Oh god, cheese, pate, anything that is cooked with cream, particularly pasta, packets of chips, mint slice...I could just keep on going!!
Funny! :)
My favourites would be:
Peanutbutter and honey toast & tea
Cookies & tea
Chocolate & tea
Cake & tea
so funny! yes with what..?only so you can scoop big blobs of hummus or peanut butter into your mouth!
We worship the piggy in our house. Such a giving animal; roast pork, ham, bacon, pork belly & crackling ... mmmm crackling!!!
Saying that though, I do understand the carrot thing. There is a new no peel small variety of carrot that is really crunchy & very flavoursome. So convenient & handy.
But with trying to watch what I eat these past 2 weeks, I am craving some good cheese & I've been dreaming of fresh cream apple turnovers (I understand the flakey pastry thing too).
Yep I'm with you with the thick Greek full fat yoghurt that I buy in 1kg tub and squeeze more lemon juice on it to make it even more sour!!! I do love carrots too but sadly I can't consider them a favourite. I love cashews, fresh gnocchi, soft cheese and dark chocolate and of course lemons
Xx
I love the packets of frozen mixed berries you buy. I eat the straight out of the packet, still frozen. I really cannot imagine liking carrots that much.
Mango - fresh or dried. Not the dried sugary type from Asian supermarkets either. The best dried mango I've tasted is from the Harvest Box selection. Your friend was funny, I know someone just like that.
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