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Carla

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Just asking. Do you have a sweet tooth, or are salty things more your thing?

10 years ago

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Louise

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Ooo tricky one crisps or chocolate? I think I'll have to go salty on the basis that as much as I adore chocolate I always want a bag of crisps after x

10 years ago

Caro in Oz

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Salty all the way for me. I'd always swap chocolate for cheese )

10 years ago

doubleh

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Probably sweet, but sweet with salty is the absolute best. (Salted caramels in dark chocolate....signing off now. )

10 years ago

Diana

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Ooh tough one. In an ideal world, both (and of course in that world they'd be calorie free too!) but if I had to choose I'd go for salty. I like sweets but too much or too sweet is overwhelming (and I require coffee or tea with serious sweets) but I could eat bag after bag of salty snacks and blocks of cheese.

Ok, now I want cheese.

10 years ago

Deborah

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Bench me.. I don't mind either.

10 years ago

Ruth M

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Tough. But if I've got to choose, then sweet.

Ooh doubleh, salted caramels in dark chocolate, yum.

10 years ago

Thistle

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Dark chocolate will get me every. Single. Time.

10 years ago

Aziraphale

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Salty! By far. I'm the cheese and meat type. I do have a passion for expensive chocolate, though. But if you told me I had to do without dessert forever, or else do without meat and cheese, I'd for sure choose the former.

10 years ago

amiable

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I'm firmly on team sweet. But I've been trying to lose my sugar addiction recently, and so definitely hear team salty calling me. It surprises me, actually, how much I crave them when I don't have sugar. If it's not one, it's the other. I can't win

10 years ago

Anonymous

Salty definitely, but I do love dark dark chocolate.,90%or higher.

10 years ago

Echo

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Hmm, this very much depends on my state of mind. If I am tired or feeling sad, I very much prefer sweet carbs (like cake minus the frosting). If I am nervous or angry, then salty and crunchy snacks win. But I tend to agree that in an ideal world, treats would be both - chocolate covered pretzels, salted caramel, or even french fries dipped into a chocolate malt.

10 years ago

anne

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Team Sweet. Although I do love anchovies and cheese, I have some funny aversion to an ingredient used in salted items like potato crisp, cheezles etc. Even rice cakes, which I probably eat more of that I should, I prefer plain (or with butter on - that's my gluten free junk food)

Butter and added sugar are both off the menu for me at the moment though, with a few exceptions for eating out of the home.

10 years ago

annagybe

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Both!
In Seattle we have two amazing chocolatiers that make salted caramel chocolates. Theo and Fran's.

10 years ago

deb

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Very dark chocolate, almost bitter, here. Not real big on salty.

10 years ago

anne

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My daughter has requested salted caramel icecream for her birthday (In July; she's planning ahead) dessert - we have a tradition where the birthday girl gets to choose her meals for the entire day and it can include things I don't normally buy for them.

I'll probably make it myself as caramel flavoured stuff isn't usually gluten free. I tried a few recipes last year in the icecream maker but is anyone has made it and has a recommendation I'd love to read it.

Thread hijack Carla - Sorry

10 years ago

Janet

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Both, depending on my mood. I have a terrible sweet tooth.

10 years ago

rachylou

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Bad bad sweet tooth... so bad it fell out

10 years ago

Inge

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Moderator

Both!-)
And oooh Anna, now I am craving those delicious chocolates. They were so good.

10 years ago

Anonymous

I'm almost benched, but I think I'm wavering towards sweet. For me it's cake over chocolate too. Love, love, love cake!!

10 years ago

Summer

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Once, I would have said sweet, but my tastebuds seem to be changing. I have no idea why.

10 years ago

Day Vies

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SWEET - icecream cake cookies and mocha -- sans the whipped cream. The reverse was true through when I was pregnant. I could not tolerate the thought of a cookie but give me a potato buttered salted with cheese and broccoli and I was in heaven.

10 years ago

K.M.

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I'm like Summer. When I was younger it was sweet all the way. I started to transition in my mid-thirties and now that I'm 40, I'd say salty if I had to choose.

If I didn't have to choose, then I'd say mostly salty but always with a little sweet to finish.

Also, if it's PMS, then it's back to sweets.

10 years ago

Staysfit

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SALTY! CRUNCHY!

10 years ago

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Sit a cheese plate in front of me and I am a happy girl. We've had fun finding our favorite cheeses. I think this is my cooler weather savory treat. In summer, give me chips, quac, and a margarita. Team savory all the way. Sweets don't do much for me.

10 years ago

jackiec

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Salty sweet. My homemade cookies always have a good pinch of sea salt...mmmm.

Bench me.

10 years ago

Anonymous

Team salty, I guess. It's much harder for me to stop eating chips than it is to limit something sweet, and I'm perfectly content eating plain fruit for dessert instead of ice cream or whatever. I usually have an apple after dinner.

10 years ago