@Tyranexx that chocolate and s'mores ice cream would likly be the death of me... though we did have some tasty frozen yoghurt the other day (added almonds and chocolate sauce that hardened up nicely) that threatened to burst my stomach.
We've been on a food journey here too, I've eaten Malay, Thai, Japanese, Korean BBQ, Chinese, and of course, my favourite, Italian. Had quite possibly my favourite lasagna of all time yesterday at this Italian bistro, served in a delicious tomato sauce. The base was particularly delicious because of how the pasta sheets absorbed just enough of the sauce.
@Yousef- I did enjoy the chocolate. It was Hersheys, and I bought a giant chocolate bar with 25 pieces that I shared with my mom and brother. My mom recommended I buy another giant chocolate bar, which I did with the intention of sharing it with them again since it sounded like they wanted more, but they are both over it, which I can understand, so I am stuck with a giant bar of chocolate that I’ll have to destroy myself for a few days lol. I didn’t feel sick luckily. I like both natural and artificial sugars, but I am deciding that after I finish the chocolate that I’ll try to lay off on artificial sugars, plus a few days ago I was gulping down on zero sugar sodas as well, so I don’t want my health to get out of control. Zero sugar sodas aren’t healthy despite their name. Sometimes I’m in the mood for sugar but when I have a lot I get so sick of it.
I do also like to eat healthy or eat less junk food and I also think exercise is important (plus I have been doing it more recently), but I wouldn’t also call myself a health nut either. Stores here in America have baked goods too, but they are full of artificial sugars and are way more fatty as well. I have a high metabolism so I don’t really have to worry about it, but I still don’t like shoving a lot of fatty foods and sugar down my stomach and then feeling sick afterward, so I mostly avoid buying sweets when I’m at the store with my family. Only when I do feel like it. I remember years ago my mom was at a restaurant and came back with a chocolate and peanut butter cheesecake slice that me and my sister tried, and even though we both have sweet tooths, we thought it was too sugary and gross, and I think it made me feel slightly sick.
@Pastellioli I will not lie, I’d gobble up that giant bar like it’s monody’s business. I trust my unhealthy iron stomach too much to already know I’d swallow that with ease.
Zero sugar sodos will still not convince me to drink soda. Soda with a burger? Sign me up! Soda on its own? Never in my life! I got a few cans of Pepsi sitting in my bridge awaiting the day a food delivery guy forgets my soda drink. Yes. I do prepare for still like that.
My titanium stomach has nulled me to the concept of stomach sickness. Two decades of unhealthy eating will train your body to prepare for the worst. I’d tell people to toughen up, but how I “toughened up” isn’t something I’m particularly proud of.
Chocolate and peanut butter cheesecake? That sounds like a food for a psychopath, and you’re talking to one.
Like it says in the book, we are blessed… and we are cursed.
@Yousef- Yeah, my mom said she and my brother will probably steal a few pieces of the bar later lol. I don’t think I’d be able to finish the chocolate bar on my own in a single day. Maybe in small pieces and gradually, but I’d probably feel so bad after eating it all!
Zero sugar sodas are still unhealthy than regular sodas, since they use a lot more artificial sweeteners and that increases more heart diseases and issues and still erode teeth. They may not increase the possibilities of obesity or diabetes by much, but they are still unhealthy. I don’t really drink sodas, and I only do on occasions. I just stick to water, but I have also been drinking some tea recently. It is good that I don’t drink soda or juice a lot, since when I do drink those on special occasions, I feel less regretful over drinking them.
I used to eat super unhealthy years ago and I can remember eating so much ice cream and frozen yogurt this one time for my birthday in the 2010s, but it seems that it didn’t grant me immunity to eating lots of ice cream and desserts made of dairy despite being an unhealthy eater for too many years lol.
The baked goods sold in American stores I believe are mostly made by companies rather than a single person, so they are unsurprisingly loaded with saturated fats, so much sugar and processed ingredients since we all like sugar a bunch. Baked goods are better when you make them at home instead, plus you can modify the recipe to make them more healthier. I usually don’t like buying already made stuff.
I love peanut butter and chocolate a lot, but if it is a super loaded dessert, then I get sick of it. That drink I mentioned was from a fairly popular milk tea and beverage teahouse. The teahouse’s sweet drinks with whipped cream I believe are their more popular drinks alongside milk tea with boba pearls since it’s basically dessert. The drink I had was loaded with milk, cream and was Oreo flavored. I drank it all before me and family went to eat somewhere, so I felt really AWFUL before we started ordering and getting our food, but luckily the feeling went away eventually and I was able to enjoy the food after. I have a bad tendency to want to eat so much food at times even if it means I’ll get sick or get a bad stomachache, or when it’s something sweet, I get carried away with eating it and want to eat so much of it. That is something I need to improve on.
@Pastellioli
Water is banger. Tea is banger. You’re making the correct life choices. (Source: me)
“ but it seems that it didn’t grant me immunity to eating lots of ice cream and desserts ”
Nah you’re not missing out. Ice cream is a little overrated in my opinion.
“ Baked goods are better when you make them at home instead, plus you can modify the recipe to make them more healthier. I usually don’t like buying already made stuff”
True, I don’t like the factory stuff. In Kuwait, we have a Kuwaiti company that distributes baked goods nationally in local bakeries and everything is baked daily and has in-home flavor. Barely anything artificial.
“ I love peanut butter and chocolate a lot, but if it is a super loaded dessert, then I get sick of it.”
If it’s from Cheesecake Factory I agree. Cheesecake Factory sucks. I dunno what Detroit was smoking when coming up with it. Can’t have shyte in Detroit.
“ The drink I had was loaded with milk, cream and was Oreo flavored. I drank it all before me and family went to eat somewhere, so I felt really AWFUL ”
That sounds terrible. Oreo is overrated anyways. It’s an overprice biscuit. In Kuwait we have better biscuit packs with better values and better flavors. Although the “American” brands dominate hypermarkets, but I already dislike hypermarkets to begin with. I prefer smaller markets and co-op centers when shopping for groceries and snacks. I also typically prefer biscuits without any cream. Or wafer biscuits.
“ I have a bad tendency to want to eat so much food at times even if it means I’ll get sick or get a bad stomachache,”
Know that feeling all too well. Overconfidence is an A-hole when you’re hungry af.
Hope your stomach gets better. All these experiences sound awful.
@Yousef- Thank you. I don’t think I’ve had ice cream in a few weeks. Sometimes it’s worth it but sometimes it isn’t. Eat a full cup of that or frozen yogurt and your stomach is in for a bad time, especially mine. I combined two ice cream flavors and ate it before bed a few months ago and it slightly hurt my stomach, but it wasn’t anything bad. The cheesecake was actually from the Cheesecake Factory. I have eaten their plain cheesecake they sell in stores and I do like it, but that cheesecake with peanut butter and chocolate was too much…so gross. Although I like chocolate, some chocolate flavored foods can taste off to me, like chocolate flavored ice cream.
My sister really likes to bake sweets at home with more authentic ingredients, and my family members (like my grandma) tend to make lots of homemade food and bake desserts at home, which make me less sick when I eat them, plus they also like making their food nutritious too. Me and my sister made brownies a few months ago, and they turned out more like unfrosted chocolate-flavored cake and didn’t have any chocolate chips in them, but I still liked it, and I do think less sugar is better since I don’t feel so sick after eating them. My sister liked to make cookies a ton, and I think those tasted good. More authentic and less processed than store cookies. I don’t bake desserts anymore since I haven’t really wanted to make anything, I don’t have the time for it and we don’t have the ingredients for them, but I’d probably do that if I wanted something sweet but simple like banana bread or maybe cookies. The only time we really buy storemade desserts is for birthdays. We don’t buy them randomly for ordinary days, it seems like a small waste of money too.
Oreos I don’t hate and I wouldn’t mind eating them on occasion, but they aren’t a dessert I go crazy over or want to eat so badly. I loved them a lot when I was smaller, but after that experience I had with the Oreo milk drink, I’m probably not going to get anything Oreo flavored soon. They also get stuck in my teeth too and I have to brush real hard to get them out.
I do also think wafer and biscuit cookies are pretty good even though I haven’t had any as of late. I remember buying these flaky ones with lemon-flavored cream sandwiched in-between that were sold at this Asian store and I didn’t think it was bad, but they were small and tasted like Froot Loops cereal instead of lemon. I dislike sweets or foods that are advertised as tasting like something such as a specific fruit but they taste like something else entirely. We also got these butterscotch flavored morsels years ago when me and my family were baking cookies, and we were pretty hyped but the morsels were so NASTY. They tasted more like fruit and not what they were advertising, so we tossed them out after as the disappointment was immense. I can also recall having butterscotch pudding and that tasted bad too. Anything that tries to taste like actual butterscotch I think always manages to taste bad.
@Pastellioli I hope I convinced you that I am a psychic.
Yeah CF somehow effs even their basic plain cheesecakes. get your act together, Detroit!
Funny. We’re opposites. I rarely eat chocolate on its own but love chocolate flavor products.
Chocolate chips are kinda overrated (yeah I’m calling a lot of things overrated. What’s next? Oxygen?)
My issue with Oreos is that I cannot enjoy them on a boring evening. They’re always a little too much and are a little overpriced.
Oreo in your teeth? Now that’s even more reason to head up to Oreo HQ and kick their behinds.
Lemon? I freaking love them. Anything lemon flavored is also good.
Funnily enough I was surprised to learn the Americans have this thing called “Asian store”, considering a lot of Arab countries are in west Asia and as such tiptoe other countries like Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, “Asian” products” are normal everyday grocery items. I mean we’re literally in the contentinet, what was I expecting? A cheesecake? Well hopefully not from CF.
Froot Loops? I get whatchu mean actually. Artificial flavors can be like that. Also had to look up morsels. Interesting.
Like it says in the book, we are blessed… and we are cursed.
@Yousef- You have convinced me lol. I absolutely hate getting candies in my teeth, which gives me another reason to not eat Oreos again anytime soon, it also damages my toothbrush bristles a ton! Caramel candies similarly do the same too. I am starting to realize how overrated some popular American desserts here are. Americans love cookies a lot, and I don’t really see wafers and sweet biscuits in commercials or really seeing anyone buy them. They seem to be popular in other countries like Mexico and other Hispanic states in the world. Mexican grocery stores are more common in America, and there are maybe two nearby. They have so many wafer cookies, sweets and pan dulce. A popular Mexican store here has this part with pan dulce and baked goods, and there is no limit to how much you can put in a bag and buy, so it is like a candy store sometimes.
Asian items are sold in American stores here, but most of the time it’s just a few snacks and sweet desserts like Pocky and ramen from brands like Maruchan and Buldak, but there is a grocery store that is dedicated to selling Asian foods and products from places like Japan and China, and I love going there, plus the snacks I think are priced really well there. Some of the stuff they sell there is interesting. I bought this drink called Calpico, and it’s supposed to be a citrus and fruit flavored carbonated soft drink that is popular in Japan. Fruit flavored soda does sound like it tastes bad, but I didn’t mind it and thought it was something super interesting.
I love pudding too, and my brother and dad love it too, but it’s mostly rice pudding with cinnamon that we love a lot. Plain pudding is good too, especially vanilla or chocolate, but stuff like the butterscotch flavor just ruined the pudding so much. I also love lemon or lime flavored stuff. I do like key lime pie a lot too and it’s maybe one of my favorite desserts alongside cheesecake, but I don’t know if you like it or not. I pretty much love any dessert, but they can still manage to taste nasty or overloaded and gross.
@Pastellioli funny enough, the issue with things getting stuck in your teeth is exactly why I can’t eat nuts. Which I know what you’re thinking, that sounds nuts! Don’t lie, I know you’re thinking that. Don’t confuse it with like, chicken getting stuck in my teeth. That’s a real inconvenience. No, nuts getting stuck in my teeth is more of a mild annoyance. It’s manageable in smaller quantities, but I don’t wanna eat small quantities, I wanna eat a lot of nuts but I can’t, which drives me nuts, I tell ya!
Damaging toothbrushes? Nasty. Another reason to call Oreos lameos!
I’m not surprised Americans don’t buy wafers much. Aussies have good taste though, the tim-tam slam is good. Look it up.
Mexico know what’s up. Hispanic and Arabs are like long lost siblings.
Man, I’m kinda in the mood for soft ice cream.
Like it says in the book, we are blessed… and we are cursed.
@Yousef- Oooh, I love eating nuts and they are one of my favorite snacks, and I love getting them in trail mixes and bags, and I am a fan of Japanese-style nuts, but they too also get stuck real bad in my teeth when I do so, especially the sweet ones like pralines. I absolutely hate it when I’m eating an apple and the skin gets stuck in between my teeth. It happens way too often.
Mexico has such great taste with their food. I have eaten a good amount of Hispanic dishes and baked goods. I do think the baked goods sold in the Mexican stores here in America (the pan dulce specifically) are more authentic. The concha pan dulce is sweet but not overly sweet because the sweetness comes from the topping, and the bread underneath is usually plain and unflavored, which makes it really good. Tastes good with milk! In Kuwait, do they have any stores that carry Mexican and Hispanic food and bread?
If you do get soft serve ice cream, what flavor are you getting? Curious. I’m not gonna get any ice cream today, and I’m just gonna focus on eating that giant chocolate bar.
@Pastellioli your apple rant sums how I feel about both the fruit and the company!
Mexicans obsession with tortillas is exactly like ours with pita/khubz. Lovely folks. Need a Mexican cookin friend. We would be homies. I cook him arab food and he/she/they cook me Mexican food. Or do fusions. We’d be besties.
Yeah in Kuwait tortillas are extremely easy to get and fairly cheap. Come in big packs. Other styff like guacamole’s easy to get and my mom often makes it at home.
There’s other stuff I can mention like chili but it’s safer to categorize that as more cultural overlap. I can’t say exclusively arab or Mexican. It’s pretty much both.
There’s other stuff that can be labeled as such. Although I do associate jalapeño with being more Hispanic but that’s also extremely common here and I love it. You have no idea how much I freakin adore adding so much jalapeños to this “fries with cheese” dish we have.
Soft ice cream flavors? Huh, I’m not really sure. Despite it being one of the most popular snacks in Kuwait I can’t say we’re quite creative with our choices. Flavor is what matters because the choices are:
vanilla
chocolate
vanilla/chocolate mix
Hope that satisfies your curiosity. I’m likely to get the last option.
@Yousef- Tortillas are so good when you cook them into a tostada. Guacamole and beans are so good when you put them on there, but with the beans you got to eat it fast so it doesn’t get soggy.
Cheese with fries is a good one. I sometimes get chili cheese fries and they are so amazing. I don’t really put jalapeños in food like that but it probably is super good.
Plain vanilla is so tasty. A lot of people think plain is bad, but I think plain flavors are good. For non-soft serve ice cream, my favorite flavor is mint chocolate chip, though that’s a pretty hated flavor since a lot of people think it tastes like toothpaste with chocolate. I like it and so do my siblings, but it’s universally hated it seems. I did get a vanilla and chocolate mix of soft serve ice cream not too long ago but surprisingly my stomach didn’t give me issues that time.
“Woah-shi! It’s a double Yoshi explo-shi!” - Yoshi’s Woolly World ad, 2015
If you’re curious, the character in my PFP is Flaky from Happy Tree Friends.
@Yousef- maybe my second favorite flavor is jamoca almond fudge. Baskin-Robbins has so many great flavors. I also loved their bubblegum ice cream with real bubblegum pieces in there, but I think they removed it. I also do like to eat mint and chocolate candy like Junior Mints, but I do understand why a lot of people hate chocolate and mint. It does sound disgusting sometimes.
“Woah-shi! It’s a double Yoshi explo-shi!” - Yoshi’s Woolly World ad, 2015
If you’re curious, the character in my PFP is Flaky from Happy Tree Friends.
@Pastellioli cotton candy is a close second for me, baskin Robin wise.
Although I no longer go to BR for the ice cream, I go there for the milkshakes now. Well, like once a year. They’re pretty fatty. Sometimes on my bday.
Donuts are another thing I rarely have but, enjoy nonetheless.
@Yousef- I never do get milkshakes from Baskin-Robbins, but I have had cake from there.
I love donuts but haven’t had any in a while. Maybe it was a year ago on the same day of the 2023 Super Bowl? My memory is a bit too fuzzy. I remember a small donut shop that me and my family would go to on the way home, and I’d always get a sprinkled donut there. I have very good memories of that. Never got jelly filled ones, I was always discouraged from doing so since they are messy. It is nice to get sweets and junk food for a few special occasions and not all the time.
Had a nice couple of days. After the heatwave ended, finally was able to go out. Did some errands, went out with my friend, and treated myself to some new Trolls Mineez. I've been collecting these, so here are some new ones I picked up.
Also, been enjoying my Saturday evenings which usually consists of some chocolate milk and playing a classic PC game (anything from the 90's to mid 2000's). Even went out for ice cream today. Nice couple of days.
@Tyranexx Yup, they're pretty much like Gyoza, except the dough is a bit thicker. They do come out good either fried or steamed, mom and I usually get the steamed ones from the local Chinese restaurant. We use to be able to buy them from the Asian market where we use to live, and cook them ourselves. Alrighty, will admit, I do have a fear of flying.
BTW, the food from your trip look great. Also, I see some Gyoza there.
@Yousef- I don’t eat cake donuts or any donuts that are loaded, but again, simple can be better and still good. Simple desserts I do think tend to be better than fancy ones, and you are likely to get less sick.
Also, bad segue, but how has your day been going? It’s pretty much the early morning here. Sleepy but still managing to stay awake, but I’m still going to sleep soon. Listening to Japanese music again. I want to change my avatar already so much, but I think I should wait lol. I was able to draw and I am almost done with a sketch that I’m going to color later, though I got so indecisive with the pose and although I already stated what the drawing was going to be in an earlier post in the thread, I already changed it. I plan to post it to the artists thread, maybe later tomorrow! Pretty excited. I already showed a few older artworks there, and I have always wanted to show my art to others here.
With drawing, I have a bad tendency to have too many ideas in my head that I flip flop between them and can’t choose, and my vision changes repeatedly, so I can waste most time drawing a pose for a character and not getting onto the fun stuff fast. Since I haven’t made a finished picture in a month, I used a reference picture as a basis for my picture. I wasn’t able to draw as much as I wanted to today, but I guess that’s life; you get busy and you find yourself having less time to do fun hobbies and always finding yourself occupied doing boring stuff.
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