Well okay.

I must admit in the case of burgers and pizza and such I tend to go on quality rather than anything.

If I have Burgers, I like them to well, contain meat, so I only tend to buy the very good quality ones.

That being said though, a couple on my george forman can be extremely nice.

Same with pizza. I know lots of generic places, but I've got a local pizza place who are fantastic, not too greasy, and not stingy with the toppings

Actually I had one of those last night to celibrate finishing the second chapter of my thesis.

I'm also a big fan of chilly, provided it has at least some kick (my friend works for a company who make herbal extracts, and that makes a fantastic chilly), and I quite like a good pie, ---- though once again, it has to contain meat.

I do also like a good roas dinner sinse I'm one of these odd people who dislikes salad intensively, but really quite enjoy cooked vegitables, including the things other people don't like such as brockaly and brustles sprouts, even though they're rather out of fashion at the moment.

the two things I tend to rather specialize in, are coffee and  chocolate.

Just to clarrify, I'm talking about propper, high coco content dark, none sweet at least 75 percent chocolate that actually contains coco, not the generic, rubbish, sugar and gelatine filled goop which most companies call chocolate these days.

It's also hugely healthy, sinse coco  itself is actually very good good for you, it's just all the other rubbish thats stuck in so called chocolate that isn't.

then, I do coffee. Ground myself, by hand, stuck in a cafateir, and black as sin with nothing in it, ---- though occasionally for a treat I don't mind a good tot of dark  rum by the side though this is something I don't tend to do too often.

Youch, now your making me hungry! ;D.

Gotta say, the good old chocolate/chocolate chip icecream does it every time. Pizza weighs in there too, and some kinds of pie such as chocolate cream pie. I alos loooooooove chinese food. Especially sweet and sour chicken, and fried rice, and shrimp, and chicken terioki.

my favorite foods:
French fries, ham, chocolate, okra. 
drinks:
cola, milk, tea.

Coffee with sugar? youch!

I must admit my thought on Chinese and such is like anything else, thee's a big difference betwene getting it done properly and the generic stuff.

I really like properly cooked oriental stuff, but it's rather hard to find, most places just serve fairly standard sweet and souer or generic sweet sauce with a chinese name, which is okay but not really what I'm looking for if I want a serious meal.

The couple of times I've had properly done chinese food have been amazing, I once new a wonderful dimsun restaurant who even served chicken feet (though I wasn't keen on their chicken feet they  had some lovely squid dumplings).

Interestingly enough a chinese friend of mine used to say he found things like  burgers, sausages etc really disgusting, sinse without seeing bones he couldn't tell what animal it came from.

He actually preferd roasts with bones, or with heads left on etc.

Sushi is again a case of a thing where I like certain bits if done properly, such as eels, beef sushimi and the hot stuff like peroki.

Can't get tired of good old cheese burgers and fries.  Milkshake?  Yumness! And coffee coffee coffee coffeecoffeecoffeeeeeee!  Dark, you're a bit too picky with your food, sir!  Ah well, more of the stuff you don't eat for me, then.

As far as California rolls, I believe those are the ones packed full of cream chese.  Much more than that, I don't remember.

Can't say I've ever had real Chinese food as I'm not Chinese and don't live with Chinese in China, but I do quite a bit of Mexican, being a Mexican and living with a Mexican family, though I don't live in Mexico, either.

So, if you don't see me eating my favorite Buffalo wings for lunch, huge breakfasts consisting of crispy bacon and sausage and eggs and toast and a tall glass of orange juice and a sweet cinimon roll for kicks, and other such artery clotters, I'll be eating tacos!

Funnily enough, as much as I eat, I don't gain any weight!  No joke!  I'm nearing the five foot ten mark and weight about a hundred and fifty pounds, and the rest of my description is something for another subject.

Going back to the Chinese food though, as Dark previously stated, it's sad that one can't usually have the original stuff as it should be.  I'm not sure if the people who cook these foods are trying to stay as close to the originals as they can or not, and if not, then it's hard to imagine what the real ones taste like, a true bummer when you want to tell your friends you went out and had Chinese or Italian or even Mexican!  I can't begin to tell you how many places I've gone to that claim to sell Mexican and have been disappointed by, not because of the food, but by the fact that it wasn't what I paid for in the sense that it was an imitation of what I was expecting to have.

My mothers cooking!  All the way!  give me her enchiladas, tostadas, and quesadillas any day!  And if you don't know what any of those are, feel free to ask and or chekc them out with your best friend Wickapedia who knows the answer to just about everything.  Happy munching!

Funny, I've drunk coffee from when i was about six consistantly, one reason I now actually have something of a caffein tolerance.

Picky, ---- no, I just tend t like things done properly. I'll have the odd generic chinese or whatever on occasion, but I just like things that have been decently cooked.

nocternus, I'm most jealous! I love proppe mexican, though as you said, finding anyone who does it decently is rather difficult.

I know a restaurant with a fantastic mexican chef who actually does! do the propper thing (it has kick), and makes wonderful enchiladas, chilly etc.

As for breakfasts, well that's a rather interesting cultural thing I noticed when vvisiting the states, ----  over here we tend to prefer bacon to be, mmm, not burnt! ;D.

Alcohol wise, I'm not really a beer drinker at all. I like rum, or a good wisky (scotish ones), or occasionally various coctales, ---- though I prefer the sort where you can actually taste the alcohol.

I also drink martinis occasionally, though really I don't go in for boose too much.

I do admit I like my grub, Then again, sinse I'm a fairly serious tenor, I'm allowd to be a fat git ;d.

Though in truth I'm not actually fat.

Aaaagh! you made me hungry again, I'll have to go and eat people now ;d.

Well made chinese food rocks as Dark said. We have this delightful and cheap oriental buffet right near our home. It serves all manner of chinese delicacices. And the stuff I've eaten there is extremely good. Spare ribs, calamari, chicken teriaki, shrimp cocktails, the lot of it. And they have icecream too! I love icecream so much! My idea of heaven is just a world where no matter how much icecream you ate, you could cram in more and more foreve til you just got tired of it.

Hi,
Yuck. I've always preferred my bacon to be limber,  not so much for the principle of thie thing, but mainly because in that case it's usually not burnt.

Dark, no sugar in your coffee? Yeeeech! Black coffee not my thing. I tried that once; and while cream makes it better it aint no substitute.

I always like hearing "outsider" views of things.  Whether it be someone from outside a community, state, or country, they tend to notice things the insiders don't or even just see things in a different way.  I, for one, would have never in a million years thought there was an american cultural trend to how they cook their bacon!  haha!  I suppose besides my wife, I've never asked anyone how they prefer their bacon, so I've lived blissfully unaware that I am an island of soft bacon in a sea of crispy-preferers.  I had to make up a word to get That! sentence to work, lol.

I'm right with you on Steak.  I go with rare or medium rare depending on where I am.

Actually I've tended to find that even though I can cook, I find it too much bother to do for me.

the most I will do is make a chilly bu chucking things in my slow cooker for about 6 and a half hours (plan to do that tomorrow), or grill something on the george.

My brother however does ridiculously illaborate things with marinades, self maded sources and such, even just for himself.

I need to get married, then I'd have a reason to actallytake time cooking, though sinse the chances of that are about zero I'll just continue as I am ;d.

Yes Aprone, the Bacon thing is something I've very much noticed differs betwene the states and the uk.

Over here serving bacon the way it is usually done over there would be considdered burnt, in fact when I visited florida my first reaction was that  the chef had made a mistake, though when I realized everyone else's was the same I saw why.

I actually stopped ordering Bacon over there for breakfast a couple of days in.

Not sure we even have!crispy cream doughnuts over here nocturnus, ---- what exactly are they?

Oh and btw, coco as in the drink and hot chocolate are two different things.

Coco just tends to be coco beans which have been ground, roasted and treated a litle with heat to make them water soluble, this is why some people add sugar to coco (though I don't).

Hot chocolate is closer to chocolate, and usually far more processed, and often far sweeter unless you buy a very good brand.

Also, hot chocolate is usually made with milk, either a poundered milk in the solution itself or milk used to prepare it.

yes, I admit I'm a chocolate, ---- or rather coco snob.

Hmmmm, not sure what too crispy would be as far as bacon is concerned.  I mean, I eat bacon bits on stuff like baked potatoes, and Dominos Pizza has some rather crispy bacon on their pizza's.  That's always worth a shot if you're in the states.

Sorry about the coco chocolate confusion.  I was told differently, that both were the same thing called different by people with different preferences and in different locations or different cultures, sort of like some people who prefer to call their subway sandwitches subs, and others call them hero sandwitches, or how some people call cough medicine cough cyrrup, which never made sense to me.

Methinks there should be a warning posted upon this particular topic stating clearly that one is likely to suffer the pangs of immense hunger if he/she reads onward.  I'm dying over here!

Dark, that pizza sounds absolutely delicious, and though I've never been one to tamper with many toppings, I'd be more than happy to try your combo.

Even here in the states, Dominos is rather expensive, and never seems to live up to what its prices, so more often than not, its another place called Little Caesars that tends to get my money.

There's other terms for subways as well as hero, I've actually heard such a sandwitch called hoagie by people who live or have lived in parts of Pennsylvania, also called grinder in certain parts of California, although I confess that I have noticed a slight difference which may account for the term, that usually the only thing categorised a grinder is a sub that has been tosted and or heated, also making note of the crusts that are used which are sometimes harder to chew upon than that of a traditional sub.

Potato wedges sound really good right about now, even though here, it's currently 5 in the morning.  MMMMMM!  Smothered in chese and crispy bacon bits, topped with a bit of sour cream!

I need to stay away from you guys!