Possibly an insightful guide to good girls who are maybe not that good.

Let’s start off with a little backstory. I have loved hotdog pie for several years now. Sometimes I go months without eating it and sometimes I frequent the recipe once a week or so. Hotdog pie fills me in a way that other dishes don’t. It’s just light enough, a little sweet, touches on all the food groups that my body needs to survive and curbs my appetite for anything else. Hotdog pie is like an old friend, reliable, nourishing and just good for my soul.

However, it isn’t always accessible to me. Sometimes the ingredients are hard to find, and the recipe goes a little wonky. Sometimes I try to hard to alter the recipe to fit with what I have within my cupboards. Sometimes it is just pure stubborn and burns like a tray of biscuits, but at the end of the day… it is always like a safe space kind of comfort food. Just not always secure.

Then I have ice cream. I’m actually not a huge fan of the cold treat but there is always that one flavor that manages to hook you. The problem with ice cream is it’s a great snack for curling up on the couch and watching reruns. It definitely hits the spot when I’m feeling down and just need a pick me up. However, I like to eat it out of the carton and the integrity of the ice cream changes from the perfect consistency to a river of disappointment and dissatisfaction. It starts out good but always ends up with me throwing away the carton, still half full. However, it is what is in my house currently and without it, I would have no food and would probably die of starvation.

I understand that many frown upon the hotdog pie.. it is a child’s food. It is something unusual and therefore people think I only enjoy it because of how infrequently it is available to me. Where as ice cream is readily available. If you knew the whole story, though, the ice cream is a lie. Yes it feeds me, but without any nourishment or anything remotely healthy for my body and still leaves me hungry.

So my conundrum is this… which do I choose as a long term solution? Or do I scrap both foods and find a new favorite treat?

Truly yours while forever chewing the fat,

CR