We all eat things we shouldn't at some point
Guilty pleasures. “Guilty pleasures”, which is better. Guilty pleasures like listening to ' Call me maybe ' by Carly Rae Jepsen, watching The Expendables or peeing in the shower . Those little pranks encapsulated in small doses of transgression that make our day to day a little more bearable. Guilty pleasures are also gossiping the photos (in bikini) of your best friend's girlfriend on Facebook, forgetting your underwear at home or stealing the chocolate bar from the cafe. You are bad, but little. Oh, and the karaoke. Karaoke as a concept is already a huge temple of guilty pleasure but here we are. Giving it all.
There is also (and if not, there should be) GastroGuilty Pleasures. gastronomic guilty pleasures . You know it's wrong, you know you shouldn't put that in your mouth (oops) but wow, it's "so yummy"... Mind you, I'm not saying some of them aren't great foods (some down there are, actually ) but something inside you says you shouldn't. You shouldn't buy that Comté log, you shouldn't order another gin and tonic (it's Tuesday), you shouldn't put the large tub of Häagen-Dazs macadamia in the shopping cart much less you should have opened the bag of chips of 150 gr. Only for you. But you did it.
Pleasures. Guilty. The worst of all is that For every important moment of your life, there is a guilty gastropleasure that fits like a glove . A break up? Promotion? A new Paul Thomas Anderson movie? There you have an evil yanta to celebrate it. In short, that each stick hold its candle (my grandmother used to say, so nice) because I suppose there are as many “Gastro Guilty Pleasures” as there are readers of this magazine, but this is my column, friends. And these are my (gastronomic) guilty pleasures:
1) POTATO FRENCH FRIES
Undisputed number one. I can eat potato chips, and unfortunately for 'Operación chulazo 2013' it is practically impossible to watch a good movie at home without its corresponding plate of potatoes. My favourites? Next week we will publish here The 10 best potato chips in Spain.
**2) CHEESES **
Did I say film without potato chips? I wanted to say movie without potato chips or cheese board. The cheese presides over the sacred cusp of my food pyramid (fuck you, personal trainer) and that is to see a wooden board with rich cheeses and saliva like a mongrel before a leg of lamb. My three favorite cheeses? These .
3) AIRPORT SNACKS
Traveling is spending idle hours in a terminal and spending idle hours in a terminal translates into reading and eating. That we could eat a veggie sandwich from the cafeteria (yes, we could) but who the hell wants a veggie sandwich wrapped in cold cling film when they can? rob a vending machine ? (yes, those that the devil invented) We could spend hours talking about airport snacks but **there is one above all of them, Oreo. Damn your stamp, William A. Turnie **.
Damn your stamp, William A. Turnie.
**4)CHAMPAGNE **
Cheese and champagne. Friends and champagne. Dinner and champagne. Tasting menu and champagne. believe me, even I would have champagne for breakfast every day. I don't do it because I have a mother and because I would end my days alone with ten cats, hundreds of Coltrane vinyls, and a collection of Brunschwig & Fils patterned silk dressing gowns. And it's not plan. Here, my three header champagnes.
5) MAXIBON COOKIE
And always, always, always starting with the chocolate part. Leaving the cookie for last.
6) PINK PANTHER
That industrial hogwash has been burned into our gastronomic nostalgia and there is no way to get it out of there . The point is that I haven't tried it for years, but every time I step foot in a gas station I feel a pang in my heart. A little chubby devil that peeks out of my left shoulder (no one on the right) and insults me. He yells at me “pusillanimous!”, “Soso!”, “Chicken!”, “McFly”, “Co co cocoocococo” and plants a Pink Panther on the counter. Just as I tell it.
7) PEANUTS
I have friends who are authentic pistachio Taliban (they border on sectarianism); also the olives and the tramusos have their northern bottom. The world of the aperitif, which is unfathomable. But peanuts have several characteristics that make them unbeatable: **you have to peel them (so much conversation), they are relatively chewy (this one is for you, pistachio) ** and in the Canary Islands they are said to have effects aphrodisiacs . Take care with the peanuts.
8) QUARTER POUNDER WITH CHEESE
With large Diet Coke (yes, what's up), large fries, McNuggets and sweet and sour sauce. Four years ago I swore with a high fist and with a very loud voice that I would never set foot in a McDonalds again. . Seriously, it was. Well, there I was on January 3 (guilty!) gobbling up a giant menu before the afternoon session of Wreck-It Ralph! Popcorn session, of course.
9) POPCORN
I said. Cinema is cinema with popcorn and this point is not debatable . That it is also possible that the Kinepolis nachos with cheese should be in this Top 9 (very possible, in fact) but cinema is popcorn. Always. And despite the fact that in the last two movies I suffered a nasty cultural corner (in both The Master and Zero Dark Thirty I was the only one with popcorn) I was there, wrong. Yum.
Thank God, I'm not very chocolate. What I intuit (what's more, I know) is the Gastro Gluilty Pleasure of more than one reader. And more than two, too. In any case, do not cut yourselves:
What are yours?
Popcorn: the snack of 2013