I’ve been thinking about “guilty pleasures” lately. Not sure what sparked it. I Googled the phrase and came up with these MSNBC articles which are amusing in that Reader’s Digest humor sort of way. My favorite guilty pleasure from an MSNBC reader:

Milli Vanilli
I love those songs! And no matter who actually sang them, they still sound good and are great to sing along to. Plus those guys were gorgeous even if they weren’t singing! I have a framed poster of them (in my laundry room) — everyone in the line at Big Lots laughed at me when I was buying it. But I still say they were great.
–Mary, Eastpointe, Mich.

So, in lieu of resolutions on this New Years Eve, here are a few of my guilty and not-so-guilty pleasures:

• Kraft Macaroni and Cheese — cheap, quick and great with hot sauce
• Fast food, especially White Castle hamburgers. They’re chewable french onion soup! Think about it — beefy flavor, cooked onion, soggy bread and gooey cheese all in a single cardboard box.
• Video games. Especially anything that Sid Meier has touched.
• Cloves cigarettes and shisha (flavored tobacco for hookah). I can count the number of times I’ve smoked tobacco on my fingers and toes, and when I do, I lose the taste for it, but on rare occassion I have enjoyed a dandy smoke.
• Movie popcorn. Yes, it’s not “butter” but that doesn’t make it bad!

And some not-so-guilty pleasures:

• Quality whisky (scotch, bourbon, Irish whisky, mmmmm). Well whisky is gross.
• Real, dark chocoloate. Just a little piece is 100 times more satisfying than a case of Hershey’s. And can cost the same.
• Coffee. Ligher roasts, from whole-beans only. When at home, a simple Melita pour-over style brew from an electric kettle. Black. Cream and sugar only ruin it.

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