PrintThe Hall of Shame honors the worst of our guilty pleasures — unhealthy food. Here are some of our favorites…
Learning to love liverwurst
Everyone in my family knows that my great aunt’s favorite snack was a liverwurst and grape jelly sandwich on white bread. I never tried the combo, but I have learned to love liverwurst!
–Nicole
Marshmallow Madness
I am a peanut butter junkie. It would be hard for me to think of anything made with/from peanut butter that I don’t like. My favorite sandwich when I was growing up (and yes, now as a mom!) is peanut butter and marshmallow creme. YUM!!
–Kathy
Why diet, when you can eat doughnuts?
I think that this deserves an entry into your Hall of Shame. I was appalled by this sign. The convenience store that I work at also has a Krispy Kreme case. Every once in a while, there is a promotion that has to do with coffee and doughnuts. When I got to work today and walked past the case, there was a sticker stuck to the window that read: Start your diet next month…Coffee and 2 donuts for 1.99. The sticker was put on the case by the company that I work for. I can’t believe that they would encourage people to stop dieting just to sell a few more doughnuts.
–Shannon
Sister is strong to the finach, ’cause she eats her…
My sister, who is a peanut-butter freak and in awesome shape by the way, created a new sandwich she swears is fantastic — two slices of whole-wheat bread with peanut butter, bananas, spinach and dipped in chocolate sauce. I guess she needed some way to add iron to her meal.
–Hanna
Cake batter gone wild
I love cake batter (of course, the eggs are mixed in). Grab a chocolate or yellow cake mix from the store, mix it up according to package directions and then, voila, eat to your heart’s content. I must say it is very satisfying, and I can eat the whole thing.
–Melinda
Best ever peanut butter snack? We call it Batch: Mix equal amounts of peanut butter and margarine, then add maple syrup until the mixture is creamy. Spread on bread. Enjoy. Batch is the reason I no longer keep maple syrup in my house! My Mom was a bigger peanut butter person that I am, even eating it from the jar with a spoon, despite choking on it several times.
–Jimmie Jo H.
Not good for me or baby
During my first pregnancy, a few times I would make a batch of chocolate pudding. While it was still hot, I would pour it over heavily salted popcorn. Needless to say it wasn’t a good treat for the baby, and I never did it again but I still dream about it.
–Maxine
Potato-chip sandwiches no longer an option
My cousin Sarah taught me how to make potato-chip sandwiches when I was a kid. Take fresh, soft white bread, pile on as many potato chips as you can, gently balance another piece of bread on top, then push straight down to crush the chips into the bread so you can pick up the sandwich and eat it. Nothing but salt and carbs, but the crunchy/soft contrast was delicious. I rarely have either white bread or potato chips in the house, so it’s not something that ever really is an option any more.
–Kathie
Grandfather’s twist on the Tastee Cake
When I was a kid, my grandfather would make me his favorite sandwich. A chocolate Tastee Cake cup cake, cut in half and filled with at least a quarter inch thick slice of creamery butter. You turn the icing in toward the butter; somehow it just doesn’t taste the same. It still, to this day, tastes great and brings back comforting memories. Although today I talk about it rather than eat it.
–Elaine
Vinegar — good for what ails ya’
As kids, my sister and I had strep throat ALOT. We wanted to eat potato chips, but with a sore throat we didn’t dare. We also LOVED fair fries soaking with vinegar — so much the bottom would fall out of the paper cup! Not sure who came up with the concoction but we still eat it today (some 20 years later). We add a small amount of vinegar to a glass of water (I prefer warm) and then add our chips to that. Then we finish the remainder of the “drink” once our chips are gone. We were able to eat the chips because they softened in the solution and the vinegar felt good on our sore throats!!
–Beth
What’s gross to some ain’t to others
OK, I don’t understand. Bologna and whipped cream cheese isn’t gross at all (it’s the same as taking a laughing cow cheese and wrapping bologna around it), nor is PB & J with chips (I used to smush Doritos in my tuna sandwiches, but that’s not that unheard of either). I thought I had a good one with peanut butter and butter sandwiches, but I guess not and even dipping my pizza in a tub of butter, but nope. Cream cheese and bologna beat me. Blah.
–Dan Gauron
Now that’s dessert
I will admit that I ate this WAY too often once upon a time: I would take a strawberry shortcake cup and fill the center of it with Nutella. Then chopped up frozen strawberries with starberry syrup were piled on and topped with a HUGE mound of whipped cream and chocolate syrup. It’s SO decadent!
–Jolie
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