Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Fight them, without becoming them!

The way to stop violence is to stop manufacturing the hatred that fuels it.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

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So today I got a bag of my favorite gummy bears (Albanese) as a reward because I dropped on the scale to a number that ended in 5.  And I had a deep thought after I started by carefully picking my least favorite colors (orange and grape) so I could save the best flavors for later.  I wondered, does everyone do that?

Whether it’s M&Ms or mixed nuts or fruit flavored gummy bears, do you have a style?  Go for your favorites first? Save your favorites for last?  Or do you truly live on the edge and you just take whatever you get when you grab a handful?

They also had the option of Albanese gummy butterflies – who the hell would want those?  Totally wrong mouth feel! :-)

Another deep question to ponder.  Let’s say you sometimes have before you awesome chocolate chip cookies (or whatever food is a favorite) and sometimes the chocolate chip cookies are just adequate.

So here’s the question.  Do you eat more of the cookies when they are awesome?  Or more when they are just adequate?  Or it makes no difference to you at all?  I may be in the minority on this, but I eat less when they are really awesome, because it takes fewer cookies to satisfy whatever needs to be satisfied.  When they are just adequate, it takes more cookies.  I can eat one incredibly awesome brownie, but if they are just okay, I find myself eating more.  Is that crazy?

Oh, and since it’s already off the front page, here’s the post of the September serenity pics from earlier today in case you missed them.

Taking a Break from the News

Hoping to keep this thread more on the less stressful side since there was so much shitty news today.

 

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  3. 3.

    J. Arthur Crank

    I tend to eat whole bags, boxes, containers, etc. in one sitting, so I try really hard not to have the bags, boxes, containers, etc. around in the first place.

    For things like Trader Joe’s trail mix, I always pick out the chocolate bits first, then tackle the rest later.

  4. 4.

    Craig

    @WaterGirl: the proper amount. Probably depends on what kind of gummies I’m eating. Famous Amos, the whole bag. Fresh baked, probably 2. I’ve never heard your method of more of adequate cookies, but it makes some odd sorta sense.

  7. 7.

    Jackie

    Dark, dark chocolate. So satisfyingly good, I eat less as I’m sated quickly. I don’t have much of a sweet tooth, so a few bites and I’m done. I don’t like store bought cookies, but I love home baked chocolate chip cookies. Again, I do the dark chocolate chunks (rather than chips) so one, maaaybeee two cookies and I’m done.

    Don’t do gummy anything. Don’t care for the texture. I think I was the only kid I knew who didn’t like DOTS candy chews.

  9. 9.

    Fair Economist

    I generally spread out my favorites. Some of the best, some of the others, some of the best. Based on happiness research (we most remember the start and finish) I have some of my favorites first and some last.

    I eat too much whether it’s great or mediocre. Only if it’s disappointing do I muster the willpower to stop.

  10. 10.

    Ruckus

    I buy Nabisco Chips Ahoy.

    About as good as mom made – all those decades ago. Not as thick as hers but I think pretty good nonetheless.

    I could make my own but I just never in the mood any more. Must be my case of old fartitus.

  11. 11.

    RaflW

    I have noticed that if I’m hanging out at my BF’s sister’s house, where Chips Ahoy are often available, yeah I eat more of those than I do fresh home made (or good bakery, fresh) chocolate chip cookies. I think its right that it doesn’t really scratch the itch. Funny how at least for some of us the response is moar, not ‘whelp, that’s not what I wanted.’

    Same sister-out-law gave us jelly beans at easter. They were in plastic eggs, maybe 8 per egg. I’d try yo only eat one egg per day, and I saved any lemon ones for last, they were the best!

  13. 13.

    frosty

    OK, now to the topic. We’re going to talk about potato chips, because in the world of junk food, for me it’s starch, grease and salt. Forget the sugar, blech.

    Choice of Grandma Utz/Kettle/Cape Cod vs. Lays/Martins? I would go for the best first and finish them before anything else.

    Second: More when awesome? Yes, because I like them! The others don’t satisfy and aren’t worth eating. Corollary to the statement above.

    Finally, a shoutout to Hanover, PA, snack food capital of the world!!!

  14. 14.

    dww4

    For those who are in the  FTFNYT coterie you should be watching Lawrence O’Donnell right now. He has been giving them hell for their double standard in covering Dems and The GOP.  Specifically on this 3rd Day of the Disaster-in-Chief The NY Times has been absolutely silent. Do not know how to cover this rapidly destructing CIC. So they’ve said nothing.

  16. 16.

    RaflW

    Also, I’ve had Rufus Wainwright’s Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk in my head on and off in recent days. Italics added.

    cigarettes and chocolate milk
    these are just a couple of my cravings
    everything it seems I like’s
    a little bit stronger
    a little bit thicker
    a little bit harmful for me

    if i should buy jellybeans
    have to eat them all in just one sitting
    everything it seems I like’s
    a little bit sweeter
    a little bit fatter
    a little bit harmful for me

  18. 18.

    BenInNM

    Definitely in the saving the good ones for last camp. I’m a licorice fiend and so will always save the licorice jelly beans or whatever for last.

    Also never thought about eating less of something really good but I think it holds for me. I can eat a few pieces of really good licorice but if I have a bag of twizzlers I tend to just eat the whole thing

  20. 20.

    Jackie

    @dww4:

    you should be watching Lawrence O’Donnell right now.

    I have him recording. I’ll watch him after the game’s over:-)

  26. 26.

    Jackie

    @WaterGirl: It’s the texture. I don’t like squishy chewiness. My kiddos and grandkiddos like chewies. I tried my kids’ chewies when they were actually kids. NOPE. Tried the grandkiddos. NOPE. Plus I’m not a sugar lover. Dark chocolate or nothing LOL

  27. 27.

    Trivia Man

    @frosty: Cape Cod with avocado oil and cracked pepper are their best.

    I also really enjoy Dutch Farms spicy Pickle potato chips.

    I stopped keeping ice cream in the house after I got The Sugars, so I use chips as an evening snack to get a mouth feel itch scratched. Only when they are on sale, full price potato chips are still a sticker shock.

  30. 30.

    Trivia Man

    @BenInNM: In a welcome surprise, I found that I can be satisfied with one spoonful of ice cream in the evening. As a teen I could (Did) finish a half gallon in a sitting and I bet I still could. But perhaps I’ve gained wisdom finally.

    For my birthday I got a Culvers Custard 4 pack of pints and it took me 3 months to finish them all. Proud of my self control. None in the house now, I am sure I’ll pick up another 4 pack soon.

  31. 31.

    schrodingers_cat

    @frosty: Cape Cod chips are the best. There is a small shop in Mumbai that makes chips in ghee and sprinkles them with stoneground black pepper. Its like you have died and gone to the potato chip heaven. They are still around and the chips are just as good!

  33. 33.

    frosty

    @MobiusKlein: The ones she posted from me all came from On The Road submittals. WG can answer but I’d suggest emailing her (link on the upper right) to tell her what you’re submitting and then use that form to send your pix. Then they’ll end in the FYWP library where she can pull them out and use them.

    Emailing them wouldn’t be nearly as easy to use IMHO.

  35. 35.

    Trivia Man

    @WaterGirl: I have always found Oreos to be just meh. Although I have heard from people that eating one warm off the production line is divine. Very rare treat not many get to sample, but if you ever get an invite for a tour – take it!

    On a side note, I saw “Cookies and Cream flavored Oreos”. So… oreo stuffing?

     

    2 more Oreo facts –

    Nobody knows the origin of the name. Best guess, based on very early ad copy is the word CREAM with a round cookie obscuring the the C and AM.

    Oreo is actually the knock off. Hydrox was out for a couple years before the first Oreo hit the shelf.

  36. 36.

    Jackie

    @BenInNM:

    I’m a licorice fiend and so will always save the licorice jelly beans

    I DO like black licorice as in Good n Plenty, but I never go down the candy isle, so I don’t even know if they’re around anymore.

  38. 38.

    Trivia Man

    @Jackie: “The Grateful Dead is like licorice. Not everybody likes it, but the ones who like it really like it a lot.”

    -J Garcia

  39. 39.

    WaterGirl

    @BenInNM: I love good black licorice! I used to love red licorice but now it makes me crabby.  So does cream of tartar in cookies. Or in anything else!

  42. 42.

    MobiusKlein

    @frosty:

      Thanks for the pointers. I’ve had a hankering to share various photo sets, but I suffer from too many pictures. Can never curate them to a useful subset and theme. Plus somebody Ninja’d my Death Valley trip, so I can’t do that one now.

  43. 43.

    Trivia Man

    @WaterGirl: ​
      Word association is a powerful social drive. “That reminds me of…”

    For 30 years I have been trying to make JIC happen online. Just Idly Curious seems like a perfectly cromulent way to pitch any topic or comment. Subject to bad actors FAKING idle curiosity and actually trying to throw shade or something, but the vast majority of my questions are JIC rather than agenda driven.

  44. 44.

    WaterGirl

    @Trivia Man:  decades ago, they had an Oreo hotline where you could call up and suggest different Oreo flavors. I called and suggested no stuff Oreos because I like the cookie, but I don’t like the white stuff or flavored stuff inside. Shudder! Not a big fan of frosting either. And fudge is usually too grainy too. I think it must be a texture thing for me.

  45. 45.

    narya

    I am definitely in the save-my-favorite-for-last camp for all foods. I have learned that often just a little of something is enough to satisfy me; it requires a little mindfulness, but also is less likely to result in feeling gross. Probably age-related, too.

  50. 50.

    BenInNM

    @Jackie: For some reason black licorice is harder to find – if I’m in the airport or something and just looking for some I usually can’t find any

  51. 51.

    WaterGirl

    @Jackie: I have never seen that option with Fritos. Bet I would like that. I much prefer the king size Fritos, which is probably weird because it’s probably the exact same except the size but I think the king size ones are 10 times better

  53. 53.

    Trivia Man

    @WaterGirl: I talked to someone involved with Oreo marketing once upon a time, learned some interesting stuff about grocery shelf space. They obviously don’t want something that NEVER sells, and there are issues with product line glut that harm good cash flow and production scheduling, but there is more than successful sales. Notice the wall of Oreos and think about how many competing brands get overshadowed and lost in the OREO ARMY. Nobody will give that much space to 2 or 3 types or Oreo, but with the wall many people are likely to at least consider… do I want ANY ONE of these? Or even move immediately to, which package should I get?… not Should I get One package?

  55. 55.

    Trivia Man

    @BenInNM: Our local stores have some Australian brand at the checkout. The local chain but also the dollar store, Goodwill, and maybe Aldis. Maybe we are just licorice fiends around here.

  56. 56.

    WaterGirl

    @Jackie: national. just discovered it a few months ago and I’m not sure I would ever buy another brand of ice cream again.

    and the darkest chocolate flavor is like eating essence of chocolate. So good!

  57. 57.

    BenInNM

    @Trivia Man: Yeah – I used to have more of a problem with it too. I’d buy a bag, pretty much eat the whole thing, look at something like 100 calories per serving and think – that’s not too bad. And then see there’s 7 or so servings in the bag. Oops! But now I have a jar of little licorice bits and only have a few a day when I feel like it

  59. 59.

    RevRick

    When eating mixed nuts after grabbing a handful, I go from the fewest to the most. That way I get to savor the flavor of whatever is least so that it’s not overwhelmed by other nut flavors. With M&Ms I often eat by color, even though they all taste the same. But sometimes, I just scarf a bunch. I only get the single “serving” size.

  60. 60.

    Martin

    @frosty: Kettle salt and pepper is my go-to, but I have a lack of Utz here in CA which would mostly be nostalgic. Hanover does indeed punch above their weight. Snyders honey mustard pretzels are very high on my list. And you get Hershey on the other end of the snack spectrum just a short drive away.

  63. 63.

    BenInNM

    For the licorice people, what do you think of the European licorice which is very salty? I personally don’t care for it as I want licorice not salt. I generally prefer a good Australian licorice but Panda is my go to daily licorice

  66. 66.

    WaterGirl

    @BenInNM: love Australia and love that they love black licorice but no, I do not eat that cause I don’t want my licorice to be salty.

  71. 71.

    RaflW

    I’m pretty neural on Oreos. If someone offers them, sure I’ll eat ’em. And can rather tuck in, but it’s mindless eating.

    Oreo lemon thins? Get thee behind me, Satan. (For anyone paying attention, yes, lemon sweets are a fave. Say “Key lime pie” and I’ll follow you almost anywhere.)

  74. 74.

    RaflW

    @WaterGirl: My brother’s wife was given some salty licorice in Estonia. She was game to try it, but as I strongly suspected, she did. not. like! (I don’t either. Some of my Swedish cousins claim to love it. Yuk)

  75. 75.

    WaterGirl

    @RaflW: have you tried the Oreo mint thins? Those are excellent, though I still scrape the insides out, but then the chocolate cookie still  tastes like mint.

    i like to crumble them up and mix them into sweet cream ice cream.

  78. 78.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    Whether it’s M&Ms or mixed nuts or fruit flavored gummy bears, do you have a style? Go for your favorites first? Save your favorites for last? Or do you truly live on the edge and you just take whatever you get when you grab a handful?

    If I have a bag of goldfish crackers in front of me, I probably can eat half the bag in one sitting

  81. 81.

    marklar

    Empirical research suggests that providing a low level of a reinforcer can actually compel higher rates of responding than higher levels. This has been seen with drug dosage (e.g., smokers take more drags AND longer drags on light cigarettes than regular cigarettes, rats press levels more often for lower doses of cocaine than higher doses of cocaine) and with Doritoes (personal experience…when there isn’t much Nacho cheesiness I stuff my face with them, but give me a bright orange Dorito and I’ll just need one, placed flatly on my tongue to maximize the surface area so as to activate as many taste buds as possible).

  83. 83.

    Ruckus

    @WaterGirl:

    And it’s how I don’t go hungry. We all have different tastes and concepts of foods and on and on and on. I like chocolate but it’s not my gotta have food item. The other side may be my age and my lack of a working sense of smell. Because a sense of smell is a part of the appraisal of food. Take it away (take my word for this…) and you take away some of the concept of what you like. For me Chips Ahoy is pretty good. Once upon a time it might not have satisfied me. That was then and this is now. I really don’t care to cook as much as I used to do, which was a lot. I learned to be pretty good at it over time because mom was a fantastic cook, and I actually learned. We all have our food likes and dislikes, our loves and hates. Some is learned, some is experience and some is something like being in the military and finding out how bad food can get – even if you normally like food items with the same name, military food might just put you off. That might is doing a lot of work.

  86. 86.

    WaterGirl

    The most decadent food I item I like has to be crunchy Cheetos. They are like crack.

    I hardly ever let myself get them.

  87. 87.

    Benno

    @Craig: I’m with Watergirl on this. A less good cookie, or the chips that I didn’t eat because I chose some walnuts or something…I eat more or go back for the thing I really wanted in the first place. I’m assuming it’s the endorphins or whatever gets released from the pleasure centers of the brain. A bad cookie doesn’t do it as efficiently as a good one. I’m a doctor (of South Asian studies), so you can trust me!

  88. 88.

    Omnes Omnibus

    M&Ms should be sorted by color, evened up as to number, and then you eat one of each color until they are gone.

    Doing something like that with Skittles would be silly.

  89. 89.

    Benno

    @WaterGirl:

    The most decadent food I item I like has to be crunchy Cheetos. They are like crack.

    I hardly ever let myself get them.

    In Pakistan they have a Cheeto-like snack flavored like acchar (Indian pickle). What’s one step above crack? omgnomnomnom

  91. 91.

    Craig

    So, probably over sharing here. When I was a kid we would get Pringles, back when they had a corrugated liner. I used to make a ‘dip’ by shoving 4 Pringles into my mouth, chewing, and then transferring that premasticated blob onto a double Pringles, then eat that. Gross, yeah. In 7th grade a friend of a cute girl came up to me and said, ‘ my friend thinks you’re cute, but that Pringles thing is gross.’ I stopped doing the dip thing.

  92. 92.

    Melancholy Jaques

    I’m sure I engaged in ordered snacking when younger, but I lost my taste for sweets in my old age. I don’t eat candy, the exception being that I occasionally grab a bag of M&Ms peanuts while in the checkout line. But when I eat them, I don’t even look at them.

  94. 94.

    WaterGirl

    @Craig: I had forgotten, but I had a ritual thing with Pringles too. I used to always take two of them at once I never, however, chewed it up and spit it out. Lol.

    edit: yeah I’ll bet that did get you to stop!

  98. 98.

    J. Arthur Crank

    @Craig:

    In 7th grade a friend of a cute girl came up to me and said, ‘ my friend thinks you’re cute, but that Pringles thing is gross.’ I stopped doing the dip thing.

    It is good to see that you had your priorities straight as a young man.

  99. 99.

    pieceofpeace

    @WaterGirl:  Have you tried Lakrids(sp?) licorce with a chocolate coating, from Amazon?  Divine, and expensive enough to not eat many at once.

    I also like dark chocolate, which must be over 70% for the nutritional value.  Trader Joes has a nice selection.

    Recently, I’ve switched to Nicciolatta with cocoa which is very yummy, and a mini scoop or 1 teaspoon of it satisfies a need for sweet comfort.

    When applicable, I choose the best (of anything) for last, except for music.

  100. 100.

    cain

    I got a problem. See, I thought I had a bit of a drinking problem meaning that while I never drink till I get drunk I do seem to have a problem stopping after 1.  The thing is, I don’t have a natural inclination to have a drink. I just get bored. At the same time, I thought I should do something else..
    Now I have a new problem. I’m addicted to lemonheads. I’m sorry. I think I just have a thing where I’ll just over do anything. But sugar.. lawd.​
     

    eta – oooh.. #100

  102. 102.

    mvr

    @WaterGirl: So if we’re not just talking about food, here’s a related phenomenon involving the order one takes one’s pleasures: I tend to put my semi-obligatory reading (refereeing, editing, grading, commenting on drafts) before my own work – reading papers I want to read or writing.  This leads to me not being as productive as a lot of other academics in my field.  Some of that just because there is always more where that kind of obligatory work comes from but also because the lack of fun of that work leads to more procrastination.  It hasn’t hurt my career (much), but I do think it has sometimes made work less fun.

  103. 103.

    Kayla Rudbek

    @WaterGirl: the local pizza chain &pizza is doing a limited time of Oreo dippers (taking their base pizza dough, stuffing it with ground up Oreos, baking it and dusting it with powdered sugar andpizza.com/menu-listing/)

    I ordered some for the Tuesday night bike riding club and they vanished in a few minutes, along with the vegan knots and the pina colada knots.  Next time I won’t bother with ordering a pizza, and I will just get knots (maybe two orders of vegan knots and then try some of the other dessert knots)

  104. 104.

    randy khan

    For nuts, I try to avoid picking the ones I like best (cashews, almonds), but do not always succeed.

    On the really good/mediocre question, I am more likely to stop sooner if it’s not a great cookie or whatever.  I get uninterested pretty fast if something isn’t good.

  105. 105.

    mvr

    @marklar: Iffy reward schedules also are harder to quit.  Which explains lots of long lasting bad relationships and why I keep fly fishing.

  106. 106.

    Kayla Rudbek

    @RevRick: I prefer to alternate type of nut and the side of my mouth that I use for chewing on the nut.  I do the same thing with mixed candy flavors like Skittles or M&Ms.

  108. 108.

    Eolirin

    Albanese gummies are like crack. How do you not eat them all at once? That being said, they’re still only the second best gummies I’ve ever had.

    Kasugai’s stuff is in a completely different universe than everything else. But it’s import only.

  113. 113.

    piratedan

    binge items for me, vary from candy to savory, you just never know when the hankering is going to hit and what it may be for…. for moi, it can be anything like the old caramel cremes or root beer barrels to something like ruffles with Laura Scudder green onion dip mix that has been made and refrigerated overnight.  I’ve gone thru ritual phases with hot pork rinds, BBQ potato chips, Bugles, UTZ bar snacks, Gardetto’s assortments to flavored rice  crackers…. in short, my taste buds are a hot mess.

    I’ve learned to not be judgemental, you like what you like.

    just happy that we live in times where you don’t HAVE to eat the same thing every day courtesy of globalism….

  114. 114.

    Jackie

    @dww4:

    For those who are in the  FTFNYT coterie you should be watching Lawrence O’Donnell right now. He has been giving them hell for their double standard in covering Dems and The GOP.  Specifically on this 3rd Day of the Disaster-in-Chief The NY Times has been absolutely silent.

    WHOA! Watching now. O’Donnell is almost spitting – he’s so angry and disgusted with the NYT! Thanks for the heads up.

  116. 116.

    Jackie

    @iKropoclast:

    @Jackie: I can’t stand the cheesy fingers mess

    Pour them directly from the bag into your mouth. Problem solved.

    LOL! I think using chopsticks would be a better option than having to pick up all the puffs missing my mouth and hitting the carpet – which I’d have to pick up – thus defeating the purpose…

  118. 118.

    Jackie

    @eclare: Alas, I don’t have a dog – which would solve the mess from dumping Cheetos directly into my mouth from the bag as @iKropoclast so helpfully suggested!

  123. 123.

    WTFGhost

    @eclare: Oh, the honey-BBQ fritos! I remember the night I was stoned, and a bit drunk, and I knew I was gobbling them, and the next morning whole bag was gone! I was horrified by my piggishness, its effects on my blood sugar, and so forth.

    It was only much later, the next day, when I tried to pour myself some water, and I realized what had happened to them.

    I’d realized I was gobbling them too fast. To keep from gobbling the bag, I’d dumped them all in my water pitcher!

    I’d rarely felt so good to realize I’d wasted a bunch of food.

  125. 125.

    WTFGhost

    @WaterGirl:maybe I’m not crazy!

    Frankly, I’ve never taken comfort in any singular similar example. Isn’t there an internet rule to the effect of, there’s never just *one* person who is into Vulcan-Klingon-Hobbit fanfic involving the Star Blazer’s Star Force?

    If you have to think “maybe (you are) not crazy,” you really are thinking too much about the question.

  127. 127.

    Ruckus

    @WaterGirl:

    This is what makes humanity.

    We are different in so many ways, with some having the concept that they are the top of the heap, it’s just that often that it’s either a heap of money or a heap of something very smelly that you want nothing to do with. And sometimes it’s difficult to tell the difference. We are different than other animals, in that we can communicate in many ways and can leave public records and stories, to delight, enlighten and inform others. Or not. We generally live a fairly long life, often having rather surprising bits and pieces, sometimes rather far out of average. And yet some seemingly never actually grow the hell up – over decades. Oh well it is humanity, in all it’s bits, pieces, sides, intelligence, and stupidity.

  129. 129.

    p.a.

    BBQ chips of any style; regular, but especially kettle, even baked.  Not so much honey-q.

    Peanut, cashew, pecan brittles oh boy!

  130. 130.

    lowtechcyclist

    Another deep question to ponder. Let’s say you sometimes have before you awesome chocolate chip cookies (or whatever food is a favorite) and sometimes the chocolate chip cookies are just adequate.

    So here’s the question. Do you eat more of the cookies when they are awesome? Or more when they are just adequate? Or it makes no difference to you at all?

    It very much makes a difference to me.  When it comes to goodies and snack foods and whatnot, as a middle-aged person trying to watch his weight, the question implicit in how much of such stuff I eat (or whether I eat it at all) is, is this food yummy enough to be worth the price in calories?

    So if that cookie is just kinda ‘meh’ I might just eat that one bite and throw the rest of the cookie away. I’ll save that opportunity to consume a bunch of extra calories for some food that’s really worth those calories.  But if it’s really good, OTOH, I might have a few of them: this is what I’ve saved those calories for, and I’m going to indulge.

    Last night I ate one-third of a pumpkin pie I’d baked last year and froze, that I’d pulled out of the freezer the day before.  It was just so good, and every bite was worth it.  That’ll be reflected in this morning’s scale number, I’m sure, but I’m OK with that.  But I’m not happy with myself if the food that made the numbers go up was something that I didn’t really enjoy that much – I’ll be thinking, that was dumb.

  131. 131.

    pluky

    Pepperidge Farms Double Dark Chocolate Milano cookies smeared with Teddy’s peanut butter. To die for!

    And, as a kid, a highlight of visits to my NYC cousins was Wise potato chips. The scorched bits were the best.

  132. 132.

    marklar

    @mvr: “Iffy reward schedules also are harder to quit.”

    Ah, but these studies are based on altering the magnitude of the reinforcer, not the reinforcement schedule!

  134. 134.

    Chris T.

    I try to avoid treat-collections where there are some I don’t like. But if there are some I do like more, I will often try to save at least one for the end.

    With M&Ms, they all taste exactly the same, but my CDO (“OCD but with the letters put in alphabetical order”) often compels me to make a small collection of all-different-colors and eat those together. If I do that consistently, I find out which colors are more common and which are rarer.

    (It’s usually random per container)

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    WaterGirl

    @Mart: LOL

    the other gummies :-)

    I did specify gummy bears up top, with the assumption that the other gummies do not come in bear shapes.  Is that a fair guess

    edit: thanks to all for making this a fun late night thread!

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    dnfree

    I absolutely eat any mixed food in order from least favorite to most favorite.  That’s also why I eat the crust of my sandwich first and the middle second.  Save the best for last!

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    pieceofpeace

    This was totally fun, WaterGirl.

    We’ll probably want more of a similar nature as we traverse the rocky terrain ahead of us.

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    JaneE

    Hard candies by preference not gummies. Favorites last, but I try to buy single flavors if they are available.  No crunching,  they last longer.  Really good cookies get rationed.

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