Have you ever gotten the craving for a certain type of food, and had absolutely no idea what it is?

Right now, I just got the craving for something ... but I can't figure out what.

Does this happen to anyone else, or am I just an idiot with weird personal problems?

Happens some nights around 9pm. The Mrs sends me out to buy her a M&M McFlurry from McDonald's. Of course, I get one for my trouble too. :D

Happens to me all the time, and (of course) when I finally figure out what it is I want, it's not to be found in the house.

Originally posted by webworkz
.....or am I just an idiot with weird personal problems?
I don't think anyone else's oddities will have any bearing on this, sorry to say....:D

It happens to me sometimes. Like a food I haven't eaten in a long time. Like I had a craving for some Jell-O the other day so I went out to the store and got some :D. Boy oh boy was it good :)

The worst is those food network stations... you're flipping through late one night (checking for sports of course :rolleyes: ) and then you hit one of these shows where they're making exotic beef wraps... you run to the kitchen, to only be eating cereal 5 minutes later.

Originally posted by webworkz
Have you ever gotten the craving for a certain type of food, and had absolutely no idea what it is?

Right now, I just got the craving for something ... but I can't figure out what.

Does this happen to anyone else, or am I just an idiot with weird personal problems?

Don't tell me your run out of cat food again. :eek:

Doctors often say cravings are part of your body needing a certain vitamin or mineral that the food contatins. Like if you crave hamburgers you need more iron in your diet. I personally think my cravings for Starbucks Frappocinos(sp) are just an addiction.

Cravings yes, but I usually know what it's for - and more often than not it's for some kind of fast food that doesn't exist in the country I'm in at the time... regardless of what country I'm in.

Australia - Quiznos, Arby's.
USA - good meat pies.

Originally posted by TheDoctor
Don't tell me your run out of cat food again. :eek:


Haha, actually I did ... and had to get more from the grocery store yesterday.

I did figure out my craving though ... garlic roasted chicken breast.

Guess how many I had? 0.

Need to start keeping those in the freezer [the Healthy Choice nuke-and-eat series].


Wait a minute ... Who the heck gets the craving for microwaved, low-fat chicken? WTF?



PS: Blue, cook me food ... I am a lowly apartment dweller who knows not how to work with the stove/oven.

Happens to me all the time... I just end up grabbing a pack of chips or something like that.,..

all the time, usually right around midnight when I am lying in bed watching X-Files. I search the house for what it is I crave ad always end up emtpy handed (or stomach in this case) Funny, I catch my self going back to teh refridge even after I know that there is nothing there that peaks my interest, must be jsut some instinctual thing to double check the ice box.


@webworks, try the Schwans chicken Garlic Breast sandwiches...they are awesome :)

Originally posted by NewtSys
@webworks, try the Schwans chicken Garlic Breast sandwiches...they are awesome :)


Noted. I ended up eating half a bag of baby carrots with low-fat Ranch dressing. Not as pleasing a garlic chicken, but it did the job and put me to sleep [promptly at 4AM :rolleyes:]

Originally posted by akashik
Cravings yes, but I usually know what it's for - and more often than not it's for some kind of fast food that doesn't exist in the country I'm in at the time... regardless of what country I'm in.

Australia - Quiznos, Arby's.
USA - good meat pies.

Greg ... "What's Quiznos and Arby's ? they sound interesting.

http://www.quiznos.com/ - Subway but better
http://www.arbys.com/ - good burgers

Originally posted by Aussie Bob
Happens some nights around 9pm. The Mrs sends me out to buy her a M&M McFlurry from McDonald's. Of course, I get one for my trouble too. :D

:eek: That's just exactly what my mum does to my dad! It's usually around 9PM too! She just 'demands' a McFlurry and after about 17 minutes of annoying my dad, she finally gets him, and he goes to get the ice cream :D. Needless to say I get some to ;).

So I suppose my mum has McFlurry cravings. I have the craving for salt and vineger crisps (chips in USA) sometimes :eek:

And sometimes chocolate :cartman:

Arby's has nothing on Wendy's.

I do agree on Quizno's though ... damn those are some good subs.


Alright, I'm headed back to my apartment to make something to eat [read: sandwich]. Thanks a lot akashik. :angry:

Thanks for the info.

Seems quiznos make "chicken rolls" and
arby's is a hamburger joint.

Could anybody explain to me while we call them

Hamburgers

I mean to say they have all sort of things in them, meat salad fruit etc but

NO HAM so why call them a HAMburger

Quizno's makes sub-sandwiches with toasted bread ... very good.

Originally posted by webworkz
Quizno's makes sub-sandwiches with toasted bread ... very good.

Isn't a "sub-sandwiches" just a fancy name for a large "roll".

A sandwich is two pieces of bread with some filling in the centre.
A roll is a bread roll that is cut through the centre and filling placed inside.

Doc

A roll in the USA is a little-round piece of bread [like a hamburger bun].

A "sub" looks like a submarine.

Dang Aussies and your crooked ways.

Originally posted by TheDoctor
arby's is a hamburger joint.

Arby's is not a hamburger joint. Their claim to fame is roast beef sandwiches. You add Arby's Sauce (a thin BBQ sauce) and Horsey Sauce (a horseradish sauce) to them and they are awesome.

Their roast beef is actually a processed beef roll much like a lot of sliced turkey breast is sold, but the way they slow roast it makes it great. One of my favorite fast food restaurants. I remember growing up in Tucson AZ and my dad driving us across town to the only Arby's in town. Now I have one about a half mile from my house.

we have round rolls as you put it and we also have long rolls.. We have had long rolls for decades probably 80 years or 100 years or more whereas the word "sub' is a fancy word that has only existed a few years.

Get it right America. :cool:

Hoagies? :confused:

Could anybody explain to me while we call them

Hamburgers

I mean to say they have all sort of things in them, meat salad fruit etc but

NO HAM so why call them a HAMburger


http://www.whatscookingamerica.net/History/HamburgerHistory.htm


Isn't a "sub-sandwiches" just a fancy name for a large "roll".

A sandwich is two pieces of bread with some filling in the centre.
A roll is a bread roll that is cut through the centre and filling placed inside.

The name of the sandwich in a long roll is a regional thing in the US. In some places they call them a submarine sandwich, name because of it's resemblence to the shape of a sub.
In other places the same sandwich is called a grinder or a hoagie or a Hero sandwich. It depends on where you are.

PS: Blue, cook me food ... I am a lowly apartment dweller who knows not how to work with the stove/oven.


I cooked the food for you but you didn't show so I ate it. It wasn't much. Herb crusted rack of lamb with a rosemary port reduction, creamy gorganzola potatoes and butter braised corn.
You probably wouldn't have liked it anyway.

Originally posted by blue27
I cooked the food for you but you didn't show so I ate it. It wasn't much. Herb crusted rack of lamb with a rosemary port reduction, creamy gorganzola potatoes and butter braised corn.
You probably wouldn't have liked it anyway.



You are an evil, appetizing man.

This is the second time I've gotten hungry reading this thread.

I hate you guys. ;)

happens to me.. ALL THE TIME!

the only stuff i normally crave for are dark chocolate and sushi.

I haven't eaten Quizno's in a long time, after reading through this thread....I'm headed that way.

Originally posted by Giaguara
the only stuff i normally crave for are dark chocolate and sushi.


:homer: Mmmmm. Chocolate covered sushi.

webworkz it happens to me a lot too...

I know what you want... even if you don't think you want it, next time you get a craving get yourself a nice big slice of pizza. ;)

Originally posted by blue27
:homer: Mmmmm. Chocolate covered sushi.



I'm not a big fan of chocolate or sushi ... but this has peaked my interest.

Geez, I hate threads like this. I just had supper a couple of hours ago, and now I'm starving again. :mad:

[*...off to fire up the BBQ and raid the freezer...*]

Vito

Originally posted by vito
Geez, I hate threads like this. I just had supper a couple of hours ago, and now I'm starving again. :mad:

[*...off to fire up the BBQ and raid the freezer...*]

Vito


Blue's fault.

I'm now sitting on my patio with my laptop. On the BBQ I have a salmon fillet with a nice dry-rub of spices, onion, mushroom, asparagus tips and a splash of white wine (all wrapped in foil). And in another foil wrap, I have 2 full garlic cloves, tops chopped off, drizzled on top with olive oil (they're sooooo good).

As I'm typing this, a neighbor just walked over. I guess I'm going back in to prep one for him too. :)

Thanks, blue. You bring out the culinary monster in me. :D

Vito

Vito .. wasn't it you that went out into the desert and starved yourself for 40 days and 40 night .. or something like that just a few weeks back. :confused:

Heh, it was a little more than a few weeks back. And it was the lemonaid diet. Now you've made me crave lemonaid!

[*...off to squeeze a few...*]

Vito

God be with you my son ...

Vito obviously missed the biblical reference ... i.e. 40 days 40 nights desert etc.. although in that story I don't remember anything about oranges .. there was something about bread and fish and turning water into wine... :D

Did you mention something about dessert and oranges?

:homer: Mmmmmm, crepes suzette...

Vito

Not the dessert you eat ... the dessert you crawl through ... you know .. the arabian nights .. mirages ... camels ... geogeous women in long flowing see thru wrap arounds .. Bing Crosby and Bob Hope 's road to morocca type dessert ...,. where all those WOMD aren't hidden.

Hmm... just thinking about the possible night around the BBQ with me, Vito, and Blue27. Naturally as an Aussie we'll have plenty of drinks, and we'll all bring our love of food to the party.

Outdoors with the smells of gas and burning meat coupled with a few spilt beers (as any good party has) during a hot summer night with a stereo inside playing 'old favorites'. Naturally there's a slight hint of mosquito coils to keep the bugs away , and a large group of friends with their families - the kids are playing inside, or near a pool.

It's a quiet night elsewhere, but at this party you hear laughing and people having good times with a few comments about the heat and how everyone should hit the pool.

Originally posted by akashik
Hmm... just thinking about the possible night around the BBQ with me, Vito, and Blue27. Naturally as an Aussie we'll have plenty of drinks, and we'll all bring our love of food to the party.

Outdoors with the smells of gas and burning meat coupled with a few spilt beers (as any good party has) during a hot summer night with a stereo inside playing 'old favorites'. Naturally there's a slight hint of mosquito coils to keep the bugs away , and a large group of friends with their families - the kids are playing inside, or near a pool.

It's a quiet night elsewhere, but at this party you hear laughing and people having good times with a few comments about the heat and how everyone should hit the pool.

Pass us a nother tinnie while your up please.

Heh, actually let's scrap the BBQ and invite some Islander's (Hawaiians for the US guys). One's bound to bring a guitar and strum all night and sing some happy peaceful tunes.

We start at daybreak by digging a pit and lighting a fire with heavy logs. Get some nice coals up then place rocks in the pit to heat for a few hours (6+ hours). By mid afternoon a full pig goes in wrapped in banana leafs along with pineapples and vegetables (potatoes mainly, wrapped in tinfoil, flavored with butter and garlic). The whole thing is buried in dirt and left to steam for another 5-6 hours.

Finally when everyone has had a few drinks and sung for a while, we all pull out a few shovels and carefully dig up what's been cooked - everyone's hungry now as the 'flavors' have been steaming out of the ground for a few hours.

The end results are steamed vegetables, and pork that falls off the bone - no knives needed as a fork will do, it's so tender.

The pit's still warm so everyone sits around it for any warmth they need, salads appear, and the guitar starts up again to keep everyone entertained.

For Blue as he's a chef here:
In New Zealand restaurants you'll find little or no representation of Maori or Polynesian cuisines, but you can sample traditional cooking methods at a hangi (pronounced nasally as "hungi"), where meat and vegetables are steamed for hours in an earth oven then served to the assembled masses. The ideal way to experience a hangi is as a guest at a private gathering of extended families, but most people have to settle for one of the commercial affairs in Rotorua or Christchurch. Though you'll be a paying customer rather than a guest, the hangi will be no less authentic.

First the men light a fire and place river stones in the embers. While these are heating, they dig a suitably large pit, place the hot stones in the bottom and cover them with wet sacking. Meanwhile the women prepare lamb, pork, chicken, fish, shellfish and vegetables (particularly kumara), wrapping the morsels in leaves then arranging them in baskets (originally of flax, but now most often of steel mesh). The baskets are lowered into the cooking pit and covered with earth so that the steam and the flavours are sealed in. A couple of hours later, the baskets are disinterred, revealing fabulously tender steam-smoked meat and vegetables with a faintly earth flavour. A suitably reverential silence, broken only by munching and appreciative murmurs, descends.

http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-825001-new_zealand_the_hangi-i

You've really never tasted food till a Hangi. ;)

Wow, that sounds amazing, Greg. I'm drooling.

It's great to hear others with a passion for food. And I am referring to good food. Not Big Macs or fries.

Lemme know when this feast is scheduled. I'll bring a few gallons of home made wine. :D

Vito

i've had this major craving for eel sushi dripping with wasabi and soy sauce. 4 times this past week i've had to indulge.

i just had that for lunch today.... and now i need it again....

Originally posted by Mekhu
The worst is those food network stations... you're flipping through late one night (checking for sports of course :rolleyes: ) and then you hit one of these shows where they're making exotic beef wraps... you run to the kitchen, to only be eating cereal 5 minutes later.

Ha ha . . So true :)

mmmm . . . cereal . . . :homer: .:Homer drool:. Awwwgghhh

Lol i had that tonight...
Its chocolate I want :D
have ONE choc chip cookie here and a cuppa, trying to keep the cookie until I cant keep myself away :)

UPDATE: I ate half my cookie :D
Anyone feel like ordering me a chocolate takeaway?
(Im in Ireland)

What is a chocolate takeaway?

Originally posted by akashik
For Blue as he's a chef here:

http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-825001-new_zealand_the_hangi-i

You've really never tasted food till a Hangi. ;)

When I was in the Cayman Islands we would throw a monthly bash feature food and music from a different country each time.
One month we had a Hakari so of course there was a Hangi involved. Also a whole roasted pig, many salads and many more tropical beverages.

Originally posted by blue27
Also a whole roasted pig, many salads and many more tropical beverages.

mmmmm . . . roast pig :homer: Awwwgghhh

Tropical beverage roast pig salad . . . Awwwgghhh x 10.

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What's Hakari?

A google search on Hakari Cayman islands

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Hakari+Cayman+islands

Showed this:

'These include sheep's head jelly, ram testicles pickled in sour whey and the infamous, and some say indigestible, rotten shark meat (hakari) - buried in sand and gravel for three to six months to give it that special 'died a long while ago' taste.'

:eek2:

Blue27 what was in those tropical beverages?

Actually a Hakari is a Maori word for a feast or party.

Originally posted by blue27
Actually a Hakari is a Maori word for a feast or party.

:) 10 - 4

I though it was the tropical beverages ;)