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

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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?

Cheese spread and sliced pickled onions on digestive biscuits is heavenly.

Watermelon last week.
When l got covid the first time before vaccinations were available.. Melon tasted just like eating pure salt.. I've had covid five times ( been vaccinated now) and every few months l tried Melon and was still salty.
Last week it wasn't.. it was like nectar.. pure heaven.
Four years it's taken but my gosh it's the best.

A solero styke ice cream. Brought to me by my sister when she was in her early 20s i mid teens and was in bed with very bad tonsillitis. Never forgotten the soft sensation of coolness and "food" going In to my stomach (If been sick for 3 days couldnt swallow for the previous 2) tasted so good.

A Bloody Mary in a proper pub near Faringdon before gentrification, made by the Landlady who had eyes that had seen everything. It was only 9.30am, we’d gone in for coffees before a meeting, but it had been a long night before. She told us that the BM would be much better than coffee, and she was right.

She put sherry in it as well as vodka. Although you theoretically drank it it seemed like eating, but straight into the bloodstream.

A bowl of plain pasta with grated cheese as the first thing to eat after a stomach bug/major hangover. Food of gods!

Digestive biscuits sandwiched together with Betty Crocker chocolate fudge icing. Try it, you'll thank me!

I think when we went to a wine tasting and I had marmite cheese for the first time. I was more interested in the cheeses than the wine, hence when 4 of us went to a bar afterwards me and my friend (relatively sober) were completely bemused by the 2 women we'd just met, one of the women started crying and went outside and the other didn't know what to do about it.

Think they'd had more wine than we had.

We have a french-run, imported ingredients boulanger near us, their baguettes are so so original. Costs a fortune plus salted butter. Mmmmmmm

The main ones that come to mind
A wally (pickled gherkin from the chipper) wrapped in paper and eaten sat on the wall outside.
Thai tea with lots of ice after training in a small village in northern Thailand (mainly condensed milk)
Hot roasties with lots of salt(the pub used to leave them out for free in bowls on the bar) after the longest wettest bike ride.

A bowl of freshly cooked haricot beans salted and smothered in butter.
I had a huge bag and wanted to use them up.

Dd had a netball match it was an awful day and we both got soaked.
When we got in I lit a fire and made a pan of mash and added lots of cheese.
We sat watching Little House on the Prairie and ate the huge bowlful between us.

When I was little my Dad always took me to his works (Navy) Fireworks do where they always had a jacket potato. Best taste ever.

Yes!

One New Year's Day after a particularly heavy night, I had to go out with friends, meeting in a pub. The Bloody Mary they served was like a miracle in a glass 😋

Mine too - we bought the best butter ever from a small shop in St Malo, which was devoured within a day.

Greggs sausage rolls. I can easily eat 3, would eat the 4th if DH doesn't get to it first. They're my guilty pleasure.

I didn't have it as bad as HG but I had constant nausea and severe heartburn and I was absolutely wiped out (I was due an iron infusion)and miserable on my last pregnancy. Anyway my waters broke spontaneously at 33 weeks and I was admitted to hospital. It was like a miracle I felt amazing. I'll never forget the lunch it was mashed potatoes veg and salmon which I normally hate. I devoured it like someone who hadn't seen food in months. I was even tempted to ask the woman in the bed next to me could I eat hers as she was in early labour so not interested in her food. It was the nicest food I've ever had.

Back on topic my favourite thing is a sourdough baguette from a local bakery with a ton of butter on it. It's absolutely amazing.

Peanut butter and chocolate milkshake from five guys.Like liquid snickers.

Licorice icecream in Australia. Perfectly normal icecream flavour to be found everywhere.

And it makes your lips and teeth pleasingly black.

I opened my eyes from sedation after egg retrieval surgery and there was a plate of Bourbon biscuits balanced on the windowsill next to me, with a kind nurse saying help yourself. I worked my way through them in a sedated haze of love.

@Crochetablanket it’s the only time I’ve had one so not sure if it’s common practice (also this wasn’t in the Uk).
I can still taste that ice lolly now!

Wow, what a lovely person to do that 💞

@67Namechange he's an absolute force

I had to go into hospital for something and a doctor was telling me I was wrong about my diagnosis as "it's rare in children and unheard of in adults"
He rang my consultant who told me after "I told him listen to your patient, she's the one living with it. And I might have yelled a bit"

An egg mayo butty from the hospital.

I had gallstones that went undiagnosed for long enough that I had several complications including adhesions and liver damage. I was too sick for the surgery for quite a long time so by the time I had it out I had been unable to eat anything containing any fat at all for 4 years.

I was first on the list for surgery at 7am but there was a shortage of beds and I was still in the recovery ward at midnight. Since they don't serve meals down there a staff member went and got me an egg mayo butty from the staff canteen and I almost cried eating it. After 4 years of boiled chicken and plain potatoes it was heaven.

Jacobs cream crackers, a little pat of butter and some crappy cheddar after waking from GA following major abdominal surgery. It was over 20 years ago now but still remember the bliss of that snack.

I like this thread but I now have to forage for food.
I will come back and contribute once I have filled my face