moominmolly | (no subject)

Foods I can no longer eat: Orange juice, grapefruit juice, corn syrup. The first two give me heartburn, and the third makes me feel crappy AND gives me heartburn. Does anyone know of a sugar-sweetened ginger ale?

Foods I find myself eating more than I used to: Cheese, dairy products. Especially, and this is the big turnaround, low-fat dairy products. Rich cheeses are nice, but I prefer things I can eat in slightly larger quantities, like low-fat yogurt or cottage cheese or even string cheese.

Foods I now adore: bananas, Fuji apples. Oh my god, Fuji apples. Every so often, I hear someone say, "wow! I'm not an apple person, but those Fujis sure are good!" and I'm like, "yeah, whatever. Get over it. It's still a goddamn apple". I mean, I like Granny Smiths when

dilletante is willing to patiently slice them up thin for me, and I like baking apples, but I've never been big on just tossing one in my bag and going. That's not a snack, it's an ingredient. But Fuji, oh, bless you Fuji, I'm sorry I doubted you for so long.

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Thank you! But actually, I bought myself a 20-oz sugar-sweetened Coke on my recent day-trip to Canada, and I've been carrying it with me ever since in case I ever feel like drinking it despite the caffeine (which I haven't, so far, in a week). But that's really sweet and stuff. :)

But that’s really sweet and stuff.

indeed - i am given to understand that that is rather the point.

Whole Foods, btw, tends to have organic Fujis that are generally even better than the conventional ones. i am not by any stretch of the imagination an organic-foods nut, but this is one occasion in which the extra twenty cents or so is utterly worth it.

-steve