Basically anything bacon.

It seems to me that all the members in BBQ,/smokers/grilling forums are man,

dcarch

The only examples I can think of are horrible, but I am reminded of a camping trip that Bernard (ex-roommate from when we lived in Venice) and I took to King's Canyon National Park. I allowed Bernard to make sandwiches for the lunch one day, and I ended up with peanut butter and jelly on olive bread. I did not eat it, but that is another story altogether, which I have already told here before.
Lars

I thought "guy" food was anything eaten out of the pan in which it was cooked.

Sally

In our home it's called 'boy food'. By the end of the work week, thurs friday, i am often late getting home. Often 2-3am. The kitchen in disarray. From the simplest of dishes. Always penne pasta with a tin of anchovies and stinky cheese, usually gorgonzola...the sauce is shiracha. And the bread baking prep has started. So flour is everywhere, the pasta has boiled over onto the stovetop...

i clean up and add olives, roasted red pepper, artichoke hearts, capers, cilantro or basil, lots of veggies on hand, beans, etc to the leftover pasta. The next day he says, "you made 'girl food' out of my boy food". (and he thanks me)

....repeat next week

I don't eat that much pasta but his basic boy meal is a good base for lots of veg. And makes a great adult mac-n-cheese.

I thought "guy" food was anything eaten out of the pan in which it was cooked.

That's just being environmentally responsible. No point in using water to wash two things when one will do. It's even more effective if you use the cooking utensil(s) to eat too.

Waste not, want not! <lol>

Ann, I'm with you on the garlic powder, but it was surprisingly good. :) The whole thing heated and with sautéed garlic (in some good olive oil), would likely have been better, though I don't know at what point the quinoa puffs would have gone soggy. Probably best to get the sauce good and hot and let the puffs take the heat from it. But that wouldn't be guy food, anymore, it would just be weird. Because if you're going to sauté the garlic, you might as well boil some pasta. Whereas the whole rationale of this was that quinoa puffs (organic pure quinoa (no other ingredients)) don't taste like anything, and still don't taste like anything if they're in milk or yoghurt, so take the most flavorful thing in the fridge, add some more flavor, and voilà, yummy cereal. The crunchy bubbles added something to the sauce too, and cut the heat some. Ordinarily, I couldn't eat half a cup of arrabbiata sauce straight. :) Sometimes guy food is delicious. :)

Sally and Mike, you have a point. But it really only counts if the guy's behind is propped on the edge of the sink. :)

Haha - all that comes to mind are the 'guy' foods (made by those near & dear) that are just gross! My dad, rest his soul, used to take a can of Campbell's vegetable soup & add bran, oregano & stir a beaten egg into it a la egg drop soup {{shudder}}

& he also had a penchant for Limburger cheese - which my mom would insist he put in a tight-lidded jar to keep the smell from permeating the fridge, but he would take it out & cut some & then proceed to put his cheesy hands on the kitchen cabinets & drawers & sink faucet & refrigerator door, etc.! You could follow the stink trail all around the house. I guess Limburger could count as actually tasting good, but I could never get past the odor to prove that personally.

Totally off topic, but Carol's story about her dad reminded me that on the last day of school for seniors, when my sister was a senior, someone spread limburger cheese all over the hallways of the school.

You're right, Mike. It's an environmentally sound practice.

Sally

It was one of my concoctions, not the Dh's. Spaghetti with meatloaf sauce! I wanted spaghetti but didn't have any ground beef to add to the sauce or make meatballs. I did have leftover meatloaf in the freezer. So I crumbled that up and added it to the sauce!

Slice of Wonder bread. Smear with margarine. Sprinkle with white sugar. Eat. It actually is tasty, even if you can actually see the fat cells bursting from your thighs as you swallow.

I used to date a guy that could make exactly one meal -- it was odd (to me) but very good! It was a western egg sandwich (egg w/ onions) on a huge grilled bun and he always served it with his father's homemade dill pickles. His father's pickles had the most unusual flavor.... thinking about it makes me want some! I wish I could get the recipe he used, but he'd never tell. lol!

My dad would cook hot dogs sliced up, and then stirred with soy sauce and a little sugar until slightly browned and sticky.

Johnliu,

That brings back memories my grandmother used to make that
for me when I was a little girl a long time ago probably in the late 1940’s.
She told me never to tell my mother or she would have to stop making them and
yes it was good. She always had little boxes of marshmallows, 6 to a box, in
her pantry just for me that was also our secret.

Claudia