Blogs about regional junk food and snacks? [more inside]
posted by doift on Aug 31, 2009 - 12 answers

Should I listen to my cravings for high-calorie food? If weight loss is not a concern, and I eat healthy food and still want bacon, should I have the bacon, too? [more inside]
posted by slow graffiti on Mar 31, 2008 - 16 answers

My neighbor is very generous - too generous! Her young son and my kids play together fairly often, and each time my kids go to their house to visit, my neighbor sends my kids home with several gifts. Sometimes if she sees my kids playing in the back yard she just hands gifts over the fence. Last time it was a large tin of cookies, a box of Whoppers candies, and a Vitamin Water style drink. In the past gifts have included a hand-knit scarf, brand new clothes, a doll, a box of donuts, and a large plate of homemade fried chicken. At Lunar New Year she gave each of my kids ten bucks plus a box of sweet rolls. I don’t know this woman well at all. We’ve said ‘hi’ a few times but her English is limited and I don’t speak her language which I believe is Thai. I get the sense that our different expectations around gift giving are related to cultural differences (she’s an immigrant from SE Asia, I’m white, born and raised in California), and maybe also that she is just a particularly (or maybe compulsively) gift-giving person. [more inside]
posted by serazin on Mar 20, 2008 - 24 answers

Brits: is there any American junk food which you covet? [more inside]
posted by dong_resin on Oct 5, 2006 - 53 answers

Do my food cravings mean anything? Or, rather, how can I satisfy that feeling without reaching for the junk food? (Way too much more inside). [more inside]
posted by synecdoche on Mar 2, 2006 - 19 answers