Ten Questions, Broken Down: What is Your Favorite Food?

Hey Everyone,

The title is a reference to Lady In Waiting's awesome thread, "10 Questions." I am slowly trying to make my way through them, looking for which of the 10 questions can be split up into individual discussions.

Let's see if we can take one of the most commonly-asked questions and turn it into a conversation.

And so, here it is, THE BIG QUESTION: What is your favorite food? (Maybe you have more than one?)

Now let's take it a few steps further:

1. Do you remember when you first tried this food, and/or when you knew you really liked it?

2. Do you have any special memories or associations with this food? For example, if your answer is pizza, what kinds of favorite memories do you have of eating pizza with family and friends?

For example, the first time I ever had Chinese food was when I was in about 7th grade and spending the night at a friend's house. I still remember the atmosphere--warming, welcoming, and full of laughs--and sometimes I still associate Chinese food with that warm fuzzy family feeling.

3. Does food have any kind of special ties to other people in your life? Are there any special foods you associate with people or special occasions? (Does your family get together and make a special food or dessert for the holidays, etc.?) What food reminds you of home?

4. Finish this sentence: "NO ONE can make (insert name of food here) like (insert name of person here) because.... (give reason here.)"

I'm really looking forward to hearing your answers and hope this will help people get to know each other a little better.

My favorite food is pizza from Papa John's - Better Ingredients, Better Pizza.

No one could make chili like my estranged, because homegrown tomatoes, herbs and peppers in conjunction
with beef straight from the ranch, just cant be beat.

If anyone see's her, let her know I'm still taking care of the herb garden. lol?

My favorite is pizza, too, but it is best I avoid it. I guess a second favorite would be a rare ribeye.

Pizza was one of my soothing foods when I learned my disordered way of eating. It was usually good most of the way through when I needed to binge and stuff my feelings. When I first started working and had money, I would treat the family with pizza. I guess there are a number of ways pizza was special. Nowadays, I feel sick and hungover after eating it, which is probably for the best.

Steak is like the opposite. I think that might be the first time I had ever noticed being satisfied before being full. I guess this is one of those foods that was helpful in retraining how I thought about food. I don't have one very often, but I always love them when I do have them. As long as they are cooked correctly. If not cooked correctly, I add sauce.

I like having breakfast for dinner. My favorite would be egg sandwich, fried potatoes, and Turkey sausage. .. with coffee.

Ice cream, cheesecake, mounds of whipped cream with a little sliver of pumpkin pie underneath..... oh wait you said food not dessert.

How about lobster and shrimp (granted I live inland so we don't get the really good stuff here, just the frozen grocery store variety)?

I do remember my introduction to shrimp, it went something like I was pretty little (much littler than you want your child developing expensive tastes) and we were having family dinner at a restaurant, parents had probably gotten me a frank n cheese (a bacon wrapped cheese stuffed hot dog, that's what they got us there when we were little) and mom had the shrimp and I got to try one of hers and I was like, ooo that's good I like that.

And although I like pizza, my strongest memory of pizza is a negative one. Basically we were at my grandparents and I was told they were getting pizza for dinner. And that made me happy and excited because even though my grandparents usually had some weird food that didn't look good to me, I figured they couldn't mess up pizza. Well when the pizzas arrived, I found out I was wrong and I was not a very happy camper (though I think I was old enough that I'd been taught we were guests and so I couldn't throw a fit about how yucky the food was). Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how you look at it) there were many more times when pizza was good and part of some event where you were having fun so pizza has mostly good associations in my mind.

And no one makes biscuits and gravy like my dad, he makes the best biscuits and gravy. There's that and then mom's egg cheese souffle (really more of a casserole, no danger of poofing and then deflating) and that's about it for family specialty meals.

fave are fruits. Fond memries of climbing fruit trees. I esp like young coconut, even in pies and salads, but like most of them: (philippine) mangoes, saba bnanas, apples, chikos..

Where to begin... God created so many wonderful things to munch!

Mom's apple-blackberry pie
My lasagne
Breakfast
Dark chocolate
Roast beef (rare) with Yorkshire pudding and gravy
Homegrown tomatoes, sun-warmed
...

I almost left off bacon. Bacon is life.

Beside medium rare prime rib, I discovered Ethiopian food on the way back from the LA County Museum of Art. We came across a block long string of Ethiopian restaurants and I convinced my friend to go there instead of a burger place.
I tried the lamb w/Injera flatbread you eat w/hands and sop in the sauce. The spices they use are delectable, very different than other cuisines I've had. If it wasn't 60 miles away (thank God) I'd be there at least once a month.
It made the day.

Food (or hunger) is mostly an inconvenience for me, so I like simple stuff like sandwiches or chicken and rice. Every once in a while I'll eat at a restaurant and try to pick something new each time.

I dunno... trying to pick a favorite food is like trying to pick a favorite note on the piano. You need three or more to make a chord or a meal. You need the whole piano to make every song and you need all foods to make a good life.

I'm an omnivore. My mother's tagline at supper was "I am not running a restaurant." We ate what she made or we didn't, but we weren't placing orders for what we preferred. So I grew up eating just about everything.

That doesn't by any stretch mean I don't care about food. I care a lot! But there is so much good food I can't pick one as my favorite. And they are good in different ways so I can't really compare this to that and say this is better.

Quote from Wendy Bagwell:

My favorite food is deer meat, with elk meat being a close second, and buffalo meat being a close third. I'm sure I was only a few years old when I first ate venison. I know that my people were poor, so we ate more venison than any kind of meat from a store. A breakfast of eggs, fried potatoes, deer meat, and pan bread is the best meal in the world! Some of my best memories are of butchering a deer and packaging it so we could give it out to the hungry. No one can cook der meat like a native woman.

Glad im not the only one who thinks of Coffee as a 24/7 thing lol

Maybe thats why im not doing well I hate bacon 😂

Chips & salsa! I'm fanatical about the stuff. Hmm, not sure exactly when my love for it started. 20 years ago when I was in college, I would eat nacho cheese Doritos with salsa. Is that weird? Eventually, I switched to tortilla chips. I can blow through a big of chips & salsa in about 20 minutes. I have it down to a science where the chips and salsa run out together. I also love Starbursts. So, it's chips & salsa until they're gone and then Starbursts. They must be purchased and eaten together!!!

Oops! I forgot the coffee!

Nacho cheese doritos with salsa definitely isn't weird for college! I lived on popcorn and top ramen in school.