If anyone were to ever ask me my favorite food, I don’t know that I could answer that question. You see, I enjoy a great many foods, but there is no food that I love so much, I would forsake all other foods on behalf of that one single food.

There are, however, three foods that I love to an extent that I believe that most people would consider unnatural in relation to what those foods are. I consider these my three peculiar food loves. This is not my opinion. I get this impression from the looks that I get when people either a) see me eating them –or- b) engage in a conversation with me that leads to the revelation of my love for them.

Food One (the cereal entry): Cheerios – These represent the closest thing I have to a food obsession. I could eat dry Cheerios like ten times a day, and there have been periods in my life when they have constituted about this much of my diet.

The best thing about Cheerios: You can’t find many foods with more good things in them than Cheerios. They are all kinds of healthy.
The worst thing about Cheerios: People look at me like a toddler in church whenever I eat them.

Food Two (the dried fruit entry): Raisins – Let me start by saying, there are two kinds of raisins. There are the dried out, nasty kind, and the plump, moist and delicious kind. Obviously I’m talking about the kind that sounds appealing.

With raisins, this love isn’t an ongoing thing. It’s more of a recurring problem. I’ll go months where raisins don’t appeal to me all that much, and then I’ll go through phases where every time I walk by the pantry, I feel absolutely compelled to stop in and come away with a fist full of raisins. Even I think this is bizarre.

The best thing about raisins: Again with the health factor.
The worst thing about raisins: They stick in your teeth. Bad! Sometimes they have stems in them.
Gross out factor: Whenever I accidentally drop one on the floor without realizing it and then happen upon it later, I always think it’s a bug from a distance. This always makes me squeamish for some time after.

Food Three: Marshmallows – Big fat ones, not little nipple-sized ones. I eat them plain without an issue. I also eat them in two fairly revolting ways. Way one, I dip them straight into a jar of peanut butter. Ooh, healthy… Way two, I melt butter and dip them in that, which ends up being like the concoction that you get while making rice krispie treats before you add the rice krispies. And you thought the peanut butter was unhealthy…

The best thing about marshmallows: Let’s not pretend here. There is nothing redeeming about marshmallows. They are basically like soda in solid form.
The worst thing about marshmallows: See above.

So, now you know my deep dark food secrets. Anybody else wanna share?