Triple-Double Happiness

Sorry Manning brothers, but I have a bone to pick with you.  Payton and Eli commit a horrible crime when competing in the DSRL.  I give them bonus points for having a cup of milk on hand because you can't get a much more classic combination than cookies and milk.  That said...they're licking the icing off of the Oreo!!!!  This isn't let's find out how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie pop (I never did have the patience for that).  It's an Oreo for pete's sake!  Everybody knows the icing is the best part, and you save if for last.  Or else, what do you do once the icing is gone, and you're just left with the cookie part?  Ok, ok.  I have met a few people who actually prefer the cookie over the icing.  That's just odd to me though.

Remember the joy of trying to pry the two ends of the Oreo off and the rush of intense exhilaration when one cookie comes off clean and the entire piece of icing is left sticking to the other half?  It's not weird that I get excited by that, is it?  There are also mega bonus points for getting the cookies to come apart without breaking!  I know some avid backers of the twist-and-pull method while others, myself included, make use of the classic thumbs-as-a-wedge (man that's nerdy) approach to separate the cookies.

In the era before double-stuffed, I'd make my own by combining the two halves - I was so ahead of my time.  And then Nabisco made possible the world of the quadruple icing Oreo combination when they rolled out the double stuffed!  Wow was that good.  Tip top godbite material right there.

And now they've given us...the Triple-Double Oreo.

Not only is it twice the icing, but it's double the flavors.

Just like those double-decker PB&J sandwiches that all the cool kids ate at lunch.

Almost like a vanilla, chocolate, twist soft-serve cone...but not.

Using the thumbs-as-a-wedge approach.

 

Clean off both sides...

...and then combine...

...for one awesome cookie.  Consuming this cookie in anything more than one bite will place you in direct violation of the godbite.  It also almost reminds me of a double patty hamburger slapped between two pieces of fried chicken.  I actually haven't eaten anything like that, but I'd like to.  

How do you separate an Oreo? Weigh in on the poll on the right side of the page.

It's Just The Icing On The (Carrot) Cake

Friday was my birthday, and my friends surprised me at Ben and Jerry's!  They're awesome!

I got a waffle cone with their two newest flavors: Pumpkin Pie & Schweddy Balls.  Pumpkin Pie was soooooooo good!  Schweddy Balls not so much, though I should've been able to guess that from the name.

Then my parents came to visit my brothers and me at the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday to celebrate....and brought carrot cake!!!

My dad's birthday is two days after mine (today!) so we made it a joint celebration.

Happy Birthday Dad! 

And believe it or not, there is a proper way to eat a cake.  All headin' for the godbite of course.

First the bottom is carved out...

...followed by an excavation of the top leaving the perfect icing to cake ratio...

...eaten from bottom to top leaving just the top corner of the cake and all that walnut, carrot, rich cream cheesy goodness for the godbite.  Yes, that whole piece did go into my mouth.  I'm not ashamed to say that it did.

And that's my brother's work.  On his journey to the godbite, he prefers more icing, less cake (I can't criticize).  So he goes at it like a surgeon...

...and enjoys it like a pro.

Which leaves me wondering where the phrase "It's just the icing on the cake" came from.  Both the cake and the icing are most definitely required for ultimate enjoyment.  I love cake, but would I eat it without icing?  Nope.  Could I sit down with a tub of icing and eat it?  Yup.  Together though?  Even better.  It's not just the icing on the cake.  It's the critical element for an extreme godbite.

Fat Sandwich godbite

So when do you start a blog?  When you get a good idea?  When you have some down time?  When there's nothing better to do?  How about during one of the busiest times to date in your life?  College...senior year...applying to medical schools...traveling for interviews....yada yada yada.  Why not though?

So many years ago my brother and I were eating lunch and he stops and turns to speak to me.  This in and of itself is highly unusual because it's become almost an unwritten law in our house that when there's eating to do, everything else must wait (also because if you take your eyes off your food someone might steal it.  I'm one of three boys).  So he says, "You know that last bite of any sandwich?...that last one that you want to be slightly bigger and better than all of the others?  It's my favorite part of the sandwich."

I couldn't contain myself with the excitement I was feeling and shouted, "Yes!!!! It's the godbite!"  It's the last little piece of heaven of almost any food.  From ice cream, french fries, and cake to pasta, fish or even fillet mignon.  Turns out, the more people I've talked to, the more people I've found who know exactly what I'm talking about!

So back to my original question - with my passion for the godbite, my love for eating food, and the fact that every single background on my desktop is a picture of food (except for the few pictures of my dog an cat) it was time to start talking about it.  Who doesn't like talking and listening to people talk about food?


And what better place to start than the R U Hungry food truck at Rutgers University in New Jersey.  It's so good! You gotta go there!  They make these awesome creations called Fat Sandwiches.

Yeah, that's a fat sandwich.  Almost anything an everything you could want goes on one.  This one is called the Fat Beach (a polite phonetic substitute for its original name).  It has cheese steak, chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks, ketchup, lettuce and french fries (a given on any or their sandwiches).  Could you ask for anything more?

My brother, Logan (right), and I (left) thought we could because we decided it needed a bit more ketchup - personal preference though.  We also think synchronized food eating is the newest up-and-coming sport.

Big bites are definitely the way to go.

Like I said...big bites.  No foolin'.

Even if you end up not being able to chew said big bite.  Hey, it happens.

And sometimes you just need to pull a french fry out and eat it on its own.

That just leaves the matter of the Fat Sandwich godbite.  Of course it all comes down to personal preference, but the middle of this sandwich is where at the good stuff is at.  You get a bit of everything.  So you have to eat from each end until left with a perfect, somewhat too big to chew piece that you stuff into your mouth and hope no one is watching until you have time to wipe off all the ketchup from your nose, chin, and back of your arm (hey! how'd that get there?).  Is eating a sandwich that way difficult?  Yup.  Sometimes it'll shoot out the opposite end if you're not watching, but in the end, the godbite makes all the effort worth it.