Top 11 Guilty Pleasures
Top 11 Guilty Pleasures
Guilty? Schmilty!
So long as you're not shoveling these treats down in lieu of your three squares, we say go ahead and indulge in the dangerously delicious end of the food chain. Man cannot live on lettuce alone. Chow down!
Fried Chicken
If you've never had the pleasure of crunching into fried chicken that's not from a bucket or freezer, ditch your dinner plans and click on over to the best fried recipe that's ever been clucked up. It's double-brined in salted sweet tea and buttermilk for max moistness, then fried in bacon-kissed lard and...what are you doing still reading? Get clickin', chicken!
Recipe & Tips: Wedding Fried Chicken
Guilty Pleasures: Fried Chicken
French Fries
As a matter of fact, we do want fries with that -- or even solo, save for a dab of ketchup and a smatter of salt. Mayo, gravy or cheese? That's between you and your cardiologist. Betcha he/she likes fries, too.
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Girly Drinks
Yup, we love our single malts, and have been known to get sippy and swirly with the haute vino, but put an umbrella-decked, rum-laced fruity concoction in front of us, and we're giggling our coladas off. Ya wanna make somethin' of it?
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Dip
Let's get this out of the way straight off; there is nothing remotely healthy or virtuous about dip. Doesn't matter that the buffet table appearance thereof might potentially add the occasional baby carrotor celery stalk to what otherwise would have been a produce-free day. Those veggie slivers are only there to act as a fat globule delivery system from that bowl to your mouth, and that, I'm here to tell you, is okay. It's better than okay. It's AWESOME.
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Movie Popcorn
Yes, we know it's the biggest financial rip-off known to mankind. Yes, we know it's the nutritional equivalent of eating 37 Big Macs and washing them down with an industrial-sized vat of ranch dressing and a 10-liter bottle of bacon grease. We've also been known to sit through cinematic pocket lint like 'Mona Lisa Smiles' and 'The Patriot' just for the butter and salt fix, so clearly we're not rattled.
Burgers
With all due respect to yoga, psychotherapy, and the pharmaceutical industry, some days all we need to achieve inner peace is a great big greasy hamburger. It's a primal experience -- wrapping both hands around a pillow-soft potato roll loaded with a thick, dripping, grill-seared slab of grade-A American beef, opening our mouths, sinking our teeth in and CONSUMING. There's no room left for job angst, calorie fret or relationship woes -- just us, meat, a soft roll, and, if there's some on hand, a hefty slab of cheese -- the sharper the better.
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Candy
We'll admit it, we're suckers for sugar, and we'll get our fix any way we can -- even if we have to go begging from door to door, in disguise if necessary.
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Doughnuts
You've got your dough. You've got your sugar. If you're an extra lucky duck, you've even got some bubbling hot lard. What's not to love? Best of all, they come in decadent, mixable, matchable dozens,so for not a lot of, uh, dough, you can be the office hero.
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Cheese
We cheese fiends owe an awful lot to that very first brave soul to chow down on the milk that had been left out overnight. No doubt he'd be nonplussed by the endless ooey-gooey, sharp 'n shredabble, endlessly edible varieties o' fromage available today, but it would be an awful lot of fun to teach him how to fondue.
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