A friend once asked me, "If you were stuck on a desert island with only one kind of food, what would that food be?" My answer was immediate and simple. It would be this:
My love for these golden pieces of cheesy, salty goodness runs skin deep. It started when I was about 12 years old when I was waiting by the salad bar at Hardee's waiting for my dad to order our dinner. I was looking at all of the stuff that could make a salad fit to eat when I noticed a bowl full of these funny looking crackers shaped like fish. What I did next was wrong. Against the law, even. I stole one. But I'll never regret it. I was hooked forever and I'm still not sorry I did it.
At the time, these little babies were kind of hard to find. And, because they were hard to find, I thought they must have been very expensive. So I didn't even dare ask my parents to buy them for me. Over the years, however, they have become a food staple the world over. Well, maybe not the WORLD, but definitely in MY house.
Now they come in all sorts of flavors:
And all sorts of sizes. This one is my favorite:
It's the Costco sized 3 pack, no less.
Now I will tell you how to eat them correctly. I promise, I've got this down to an art form. You'll get the maximum amount of satisfaction if you eat them this way: Put them in the right side of your mouth with the salt side against your tongue. Hold it between your teeth vertically and gently bite down--slicing the fish into two whole pieces. Now you have TWO goldfish! What could be better? Now that you have two goldfish, you can go ahead and chomp away at the both of them. Wasn't that great? You can thank me later.
I'm so proud to announce that my soon-to-be 23 year old son has inherited my passion for goldfish. He takes a little baggie of them to work with him every single day. He works at an investment firm in Seattle and must look so cute eating them at his desk, wearing a dress shirt and a tie. His co-workers are jealous, I know.
Thank you for listening to me go on about my food obsession. I will write about my second favorite food soon enough. Here's a hint:
