What’s the best thing you’ve eaten that wasn’t a real meal?

[BlueberryGreenTea]

Mine is a can of Coke and an American Milky Way Bar(Like a Mars Bars) and a mini can of plain Pringles when we were on holiday in the Dominican Republic and the malaria tablets made us extremely ill. We couldn’t keep anything down but that worked and it tasted incredible after days of barely eating.

Another would be vending machine oxtail soup after swimming.

What’s yours?

Had a house in France for years... Disagree about the baguette... If you weren't first in the SuperU you'd be left with the rock hard over baked one! The boulangerie was too expensive for daily living. But long the odd occasion it equalled Waitrose.

Hot chocolate after swimming.

Chinese curry sauce in a pot, Chinese chips scooped in on the way home from takeaway on a cold night.

Ribena and Snickers 7.30am at work desk. Pre kids, usually post night out.

Some chocolate biscuits

When Covid happened, I was missed off the shielding list at first. So no supermarket slots, no delivered box, and I couldn't go out to get food
I had food but... no cordial, crisps, chocolate, fruit, yoghurt, cereal, meat, cheese anything nice
Just pasta, tinned tomatoes and milk mostly

I rang my consultant to see if there was anything he could do, he produced a shielding letter within an hour, managed to get me a supermarket slot and sent a courier with a box of food from his own money
The chocolate biscuits in the box were a massive treat after so many weeks with pasta!

I’m imagining him marching in with an unwrapped cooked chicken sticking out of his armpit 😬
He’s a legend though. Total legend.
I wish it was understood that postpartum women need serious nutrition, not nutrient-free hospital sandwiches! We’ve just done the hardest work a human body can do, and need a ton of protein to repair our torn up bodies AND make milk to nourish a new human.

@shadyboots2024 Your consultant joins @User19792 ’s dad on the legend list.

A crab, eaten out of its shell somewhere along Spurn Point where a couple of women were boiling them in a big pot.

When I was pregnant with DS I was constantly starving. One day on the commute home I tried popping to the shop by the train station and it was shut. I literally burst into tears.
However, the chippy was open. True to my northern roots I got a chip barm (I live in the SE) with lots of S&V and Ketchup.
There were no benches free on the station so I sat on the ground on the platform and INHALED it.
There may have been honking noises. In my quite pregnant state I DNGAF

Churros at the coffee shop Spain
Doughnuts on the beach Portugal
Dole whip in Disney Florida

So obviously holiday food is my fave 😎

Custard tarts in Lisbon. Not the same in England
Mangosteens in Bali and in Bangkok. You can get them here these days, but they don't travel well.

A chimichanga from a gas station in Monroe Utah. I've googled it and it's closed for good, I'm gutted. I was never going to be travelling through there again but just knowing its gone has stolen some of my happiness.

A chocolate and hazelnut gelato cone in Florence. I've never had it before or since so it was really unexpected how delicious it was!

Liverpool Women's Hospital 2009. Three days back to back agony and forceps delivery. I'd not eaten properly in days.

Went back to the ward to be presented with some celebrity chef hospital menu and a green vegetable soup that resembled a stagnant pond and one of those part baked rolls..the soup was the most incredible soup I've ever eaten. Savoury, nourishing, perfectly seasoned and tasted like it had a block of butter melted in it (without it being greasy). Incredible.

My local independent doughnut bakery make enormous cinnamon twists.

Dear god they're good

Lukewarm tea and cold toast after giving birth

Cup of colombian coffee pared with guylians seashells

Or my lunch today - banana yogurt and coconut wafers

I worked in a restaurant/cafe in Greece one summer. It was a village just off the main tourist strip so it did full Englishes and things like that but it also did decent Greek food. They were rubbish at desserts but they did do this most amazing chocolate mousse type cake thing. It was probably Aunt Bessie or a Costco pie or something, but at the time it was absolutely incredible.

The first time I had a Portuguese tart, in a local café at a birthday party.

A few friends and I rented a holiday cottage years ago.

I woke very early one morning and sat in the garden with a mug of tea. I noticed that the people next door arrived home about ten minutes later with fishing rods, we waved to each other.
About 30 ish minutes later they landed out with a plate of mackerel fried in butter with toast for me and had breakfast over the fence before they headed to bed. Lovely lovely meal.

One night when I was very hungry and a bit drunk the only food in the house was petit pois. This with a load of butter, salt, and cracked pepper was life -changingly good.

Chicken butter.

I mean, wtf? Sounds awful, right? No. Food of the bloody gods. Could have eaten it with a spoon.

I suppose it counts as a meal, but I still remember being served chicory coffee with cream and the best-I-have-ever-had freshly baked croissants on the balcony of our hotel in the New Orleans French Quarter.

A cup of tomato soup in a tomato growing greenhouse in Iceland. It was minus temps and thick snow outside and toasty tomato scented inside. I've never tasted soup like it.

Does it count eating revels in bed ?

Millionaires shortbread bought from a farmer's market in Hyde Park in London about 30 years ago. It was so mind blowingly delicious that I've never forgotten it

That cup of tea after you've just given birth, nothing like it.