When no one is looking....

[HotMelly]

Drink milk out of the gallon jug ?
Squirt the aerosol can of cheese in your mouth ?
Ditto with the whipped cream ?
Drop that fillet of fish on the floor and fry it?

What have you done hoping no one was watching ????

[jboeke]

...I add butter to my food. DH & family are health-nuts, which means no fat , low sodium, overcooked everything. So when no one is around to notice, I add these things to my cooking, which they love so much!

[Canthespam]

My husband hates mayo and celery ,along with a lot of other really good veggies. When recipes call for mayo or celery (soups, stews etc..) and mayo in a sauce ....in they go. He 'thinks' that I might do that, but isn't sure, so he eats and usually enjoys the finished product. If he was allergic, of course I wouldn't do it ... but who hates may, celery, cucumbers, squash, cantelope, watermellon etc....

[Manybears]

SIS: Did you use grandma's recipe for this shortbread?
ME: Yepper.
SIS: Did you half it? How come there are only 3 dozen? Isn't it supposed to make 8?
ME: [guilty pause]................it is truly one of the mysteries of science. Maybe the recipe didn't age well.

[Canthespam]

When I was first going with my husband, I slipped into the dark kitchen one night and took a huge spoonful from the ice carton while standing in front of the open freezer. (I don't double dip). My husband to be walked past the kitchen, and from the light in the hallway, saw me shoving the ice cream into my mouth. He just stood there in amazement.... .he had never seen anyone do that. He said that I looked like a deer caught in the headlights. I tried to convince him that ice cream has no calories if you eat it standing up!

I still do that occasionally, but even after 22 yrs. together, he refuses to do it, thinking it is so uncivilized.

[Canthespam]

When my brother was in the Army, he was assigned kitchen duty. On Thanksgiving, when the cook pulled the turkey out of the oven, it fell on the floor. He immediately picked it up and said 'thank G-d that clean piece of paper was there". I have used that expression many many times over the years.

Of course I will only pick it up to use it - if:

1. The floor is absoutely/almost/pretty clean

2. And no one is watching

[turqmut]

My 12 year old son has a friend who lives on chicken nuggets and pizza, and will eat hardly anything I make. One day this kid left HOMEMADE COOKIES on his plate, and I'm ashamed to admit I snarfed them right up.

[Dax]

Make and eat tuna casserole.. I would never serve it to someone but I actually like it about once a year.

[Bill Hunt]

Gosh, I'm thinking. Since we have two Bulldogs, who "hoover" the kitchen, even the 05 sec. rule does not play here.

OK, I've got one. When I'm at home and on the laptop (as I am now) on the lower deck, I will often put my dinner in a bowl, and actually cut my meat into bite-sized pieces. I would never, think of doing anything like that, when dining upstairs, or out. However, "no one is looking... " Hey, it's hard to type, cut the meat, one piece at a time, and from a plate, all at once!

There are bound to be others, but I've already bared my sould with the cutting of the meat, and the bowl, so maybe I ought to shut up - for now.

Hunt

[melly]

Eating olives off of my fingers. It reminds me of my childhood..and I like it.

[Lewes17266]

stuff my sandwich with potato chips with no one is looking

[Caroline1]

Come onna my house. We do that in front of God and everybody!

[purple goddess]

for all my "localvore/organic/ethical" righteousness, I does love me a chip buttie. Hot chips, gravy on a soft white scottish bap bun. Carbo-licious!

[purple goddess]

It's posts like this that call for a variation in font size, so I could post this teeny weeny small.

When it's just Furry and I at home I like to eat with my fingers. Chops, sausage, veggies, mashed tatties... curry, stir fry.. you name it. And I like to share it with him, using my fingers. Although long pasta, I'll use a fork and a spoon, but a pasta bake, or a short spirali.. yeah!

It just seems to taste better that way!

[umbushi plum]

i do this weird thing with frozen spinach and brussel sprouts which i don't tell anybody about, -
place frozen spinach portions or brussels on a shallow bowl, heat in microwave until overcooked then put back in freezer to make it icy cold again. i never do this around people.

[maple99]

ditto on the maple syrup shots
also dulce de leche straight from the jar

here in Ontario one of the ways to buy milk is in 1L plastic bags, which go in a plastic pitcher and then you snip the corner off the bag - drinking straight from those is a way more guilty experience than from a carton, by far!!! (You have to get your mouth around it just right so as not to spill.)

[Mattkn]

I used to sneak swigs or squirts of various things all of the time. But then I read a post on here about what saliva does to food molecules. I haven't been the same since! Anytime I've done it since reading that post I am overcome with guilt. Never ever would I drop something on the floor and then cook it...same with dropping it in the sink.

[meg944]

When no one can see, I have been known to cut up all my food so I can eat with one hand while sitting on the couch and holding a book with the other.

[Ruth Lafler]

Oh, I've done that! In fact, I wonder why I don't think to do it more often.

[fresnohotspot]

When I'm on the road and eating alone at a restaurant, I will try to cut up as much of my meal when no one is looking, then I can read a book and eat one handed.

I pick up bacon or sausage from the plate with my fingers.
I love to eat peaches right out of the can.
I regularly take a swig of OJ from the bottle.
I stab the potstickers with my chopsticks to pick them up.

I feel I should have started this reply with "bless me father for I have sinned". Yikes.

[Bill Hunt]

I replied with similar, concerning the "cutting," beforehand. (See below)

As for the bacon, I've worked with this one for a long time. Going back a bit, we had a protocol coach (long story, but it involved the Queen), and this came up. Her dad (our protocol coach) had been the ambassador to the UK, and her husband was in the State Department. We talked at length, and all determined that:

1.) it was not likely to be served at a State Dinner
2..) if it was not crispy, cutting and using the fork (Continental, or US) was best
3.) if it was crispy, fingers were the only way to do it

Now, would this play with President Obama and Her Majesty? Hey, who would serve bacon at a State Dinner? Besides, bacon in the UK is a bit different than what we, in the US, think of, when that word is used. It's a great deal easier to eat with knife and fork (Continental, or US).

Hey, so long as "no one is looking... " who would know?

For the potstickers, I have the worst chopstick technique that you have ever seen. Still, I can get most things easily to my mouth, but the technique is poor. Wife is perfect with hers, but cannot pick up one grain of rice, as I can. Still, I know how ugly my technique is - but it works for me. Rather a strong-arm sort of approach, but it gets me by. Should our host/hostess be of Asian descent, then I display my method, and let them laugh (in good will), and I then attempt to duplicate their gracious instructions. Usually, they give up, give me "special dispensation" and get on with the meal. Still, I grin at my wife, of the lovely chopstick techniques - so refined and it makes our Asian hosts happy, as I lift one grain of rice to my mouth, or pick up the most slippery potsticker and deftly (actually, the veins on the back of my hand are buldging) place it between my lips. Even thinly sliced pickled ginger is not match for me. Still, if no one was looking, I might "spear" it too!

Hunt

[RevImmigrant]

Take the shrimp away from the cat, wipe it off with a paper towel and eat it. You don't get poisoned eating after your cat!

[kattyeyes]

Good luck trying to take away shrimp from MY cat! ;) She is absolutely crazy for it.

[Ruth Lafler]

Plus cats have no qualms about biting you. I can take something out of my dog's mouth, but something as small as a shrimp would be swallowed before I could. I'm trying to remember if I've ever eaten anything that was in my dog's mouth. I'm pretty sure I've taken stuff away from her, cut off the part that had tooth marks and eaten it. Oh, I know. I rescued some cheese from the dog and ate it. It was expensive cheese and I was d***ed if I was going to let her have it. Fortunately, cheese washes well.

[kattyeyes]

Luckily, the real kattyeyes is a good girl and only bites in play. Still, I wouldn't get between her and a shrimp. That is her very favorite...second favorite is steak. She, too, is a chowhound. ;)

That's funny about your cheese! But that's where, for sure, I'd have gotten a good chomp if I tried to rescue ANY food from our dog's mouth (RIP, Carly). Take it from someone who had to chase her around the yard trying to get a stolen turkey away from her.

[Glencora]

One of my cats climbs up my leg when I peel shrimp. It can be quite painful. A couple of times she's nosed around and maybe licked a piece of raw fish left on the counter. I cooked and ate it. Cooking kills germs, right?

[Ruth Lafler]

Hmmm. I was going to say that Kelpie is a good girl who will let me take anything out of her mouth. But if she was really a good girl, I wouldn't have to take anything out of her mouth!

[Sooeygun]

My friend was just telling me about her cat that dragged a raw beef roast out to the sink where it was thawing. She caught him after he had managed to get the wrapping almost open. He loved ram meat, especially liver.

[kattyeyes]

LOL, I can totally visualize this!

[BaltoPhilFood]

Does this mean that no one has ever taken anything out of the trash...off the top? When you KNOW it hasn't touched anything else? and is only being considered as one regrets the decision immediately after tossing it? No? Me either.

[lbs]

That is just crazy talk, George Costanza. I have never grabbed that last crust of pizza from the garbage a couple of minutes after rueing the intial toss.

[mpjmph]

Within the past few months I caught a clip of the View... One of the ladies was saying it's not enough to throw the junk food out when you're starting a diet and cleaning out the pantry - you have to dump it in the trash, then pour dish soap on top... To be completely honest though, my trick when cleaning out the pantry at the start of a diet is to just go ahead and eat the food.

[Caroline1]

My mother used to go on a diet once or twice a year to trim off the ten to fifteen pounds she had gained. She was always so "holier than thou" with her diet successes. One year I was home visiting and we went out shopping (San Diego area, Chula Vista to be exact), and when we had finished shopping, she pulled up in front of a See's Candies shop and said, "I'll be right back." She returned with a white See's bag, tossed it in the backseat, then drove to a McDonald's and got two large black coffees. Then she drove to the beach and parked facing the surf. She retrieved the See's bag and handed me a one pound box of assorted chocolates and kept the other one for herself. I was puzzled. "Mom, what's this all about?" "Well, I'm starting a diet tomorrow and I ALWAYS do this the day before. If I get absolutely nauseous from eating too many chocolates, it stops me from cheating on the diet." She has been dead over a decade now, but I can't help but think of her every time I see or hear anything about See's chocolates!

[kattyeyes]

Funny! I keep thinking I need to work in a chocolate store to get over my chocoholic tendencies...like maybe being surrounded by the stuff would make me want it less instead of MORE! ;)

[Axalady]

Love this story!

Kattyeyes, when we were kids we went on a tour of the Hershey Chocolate Factory. It was summer, and it was hot. The heat and the smell of the chocolate was quite overwhelming. I'll never forget it. It put me off chocolate for a short time... but luckily I bounced back!

[kattyeyes]

HA HA, I get the distinct feeling mine would be a very quick recovery from any short-term "chocolate malaise," too! ;)

[Ruth Lafler]

I've had that happen when I'm doing a lot of baking/cooking with chocolate. When the kitchen smells like melted chocolate for hours, it does make me feel kind of sickly. It's temporary, very temporary, though.

[Caroline1]

I empathize with your Hershey's chocolate story. I think I was in the fifth grade when I came home to a houseful of freshly baked peanut butter cookies. My mother was upstairs. "Mom, can I have a cookie?" "Help yourself!" I must have put away a couple of dozen of them, along with at least a pint of cold fresh raw milk. Couldn't handle even nibbling the edge of another peanut butter cookie until I was well past forty! Now, if I could just do that to myself with everything that's edible, I wouldn't need a diet!

[lbs]

I can't keep pure maple syrup in the house because I always end up doing shots of it.

[mels88]

I once put sugar on this really rude customer's hash browns back when I worked at a restaurant =)

[Caroline1]

LOL! This is the first time I've heard of anyone being sweetly hostile! '-)

[Axalady]

When I was in England last year I bought a hot chocolate drink - Liquid Chocolat from Hotel Chocolat. I chose Aztec Chilli, it's very dark and spicy. It's chocolate flakes.

While I've enjoyed it as hot chocolate I've actually found that I enjoy it best by the spoonful right from the jar. It's really handy when I'm jonzing for chocolate and don't have any in the house. Luckily my husband didn't care for it so he hasn't noticed....

http://www.hotelchocolat.co.uk/hot-ch...

[Ruth Lafler]

Sounds good. But I'm struggling with the concept of not having any chocolate in the house.

[Caitlin McGrath]

This arises when one has eaten all the chocolate that was in the house.

[Ruth Lafler]

Sounds like poor planning to me. I don't know how long it would take me to eat all the chocolate in the house. You open half the cupboards of drawers in the house and there's chocolate inside.

[Axalady]

Ruth, my aforementioned husband is the main reason I don't keep chocolate in the house all the time. He thinks any and all chocolate must be consumed "ASAP" and acts on it. I learned very quickly after we were married that if I want chocolate it has to be hidden. I do usually have a bar of dark stashed in my night stand. Apparently he's been like this for many years. I couldn't believe it when I learned his mother hides the chocolate in her home too!

[Ruth Lafler]

LOL! My mom always hid the chocolate from us kids and it got to be a habit: she still hides the chocolate many years after we left home.

[lucygoosey]

I'm pretty big on presentation at home. Nothing fancy, but I don't mind washing a few dishes to have my food look lovely. Maybe I'm a geek, but I choose a plate, bowl, glass, whatever that I think goes w/ whatever I'm eating. It adds to the whole experience for me.

Since this does seem to be a place for confessions, I will admit that while camping, I have let my dogs lick my plate, rinsed it in the river and used it for my own breakfast. Many many times. Probably will happen again.

[free sample addict aka Tracy L]

If I use a utensil and it barely gets dirty then I usually wipe it off and put it away rather than put in the dishwasher. I only do this with foods that I can't cross contaminate other foods like bread, undressed all vegetable salads I usually end up using the utensil again for more messy work and put it in the d/w.

[L_W]

Pretty much everything listed and then some...I lived alone for almost 10 years so I didn't really care about whose fingers found their way into containers (since those fingers were always MINE).

PB, whipped cream, nutella...actually I have "sampled" any condiment straight from the container while using it....using fingers, spoons...Obviously all batter for baking is eaten straight from the bowl. I lick my fingers when cooking and also double dip.

However, when cooking for others, I do control myself.

[sueatmo]

I love roast chicken. After I get it gloriously done and beautifully browned, and I pull it from the oven to rest before slicing, I cannot seem to stop myself from picking off browned bits of glorious skin to sample. And later, I alwayis try to get that knob of rich flesh on the bakbone of the chicken. Nibble on both sides. Very good.

[lgss]

My husband and I drank our oj (he drinks extra pulp and I drink no pulp, so we each had our own carton) straight from the carton when we were remodeling the kitchen and trying to drastically limit the number of dishes we had to wash.

[mcsheridan]

I live solo, but even so I don't drink milk out of the carton/jug...ever.
As to the aerosol whipped cream, I'm with Caroline1 "..shoot it on the palm of my hand. It holds more!" -- but I've been guilty of direct delivery to my mouth as well.

Five second rule gets broken if I can wash it off *and* cook it off. Mostly, I don't believe in the five-second rule, but there Are exceptions.

Double-dipping chips...absolutely! It's just me! :)

And yes, I'll fish pickles out of the jar sans tools...fingers work real well.

[PeterL]

I do that even with people watching (except for the floor bit, but I observe the 5 sec rule). What's the big deal?

OK actually I don't do any of that, but many many years ago I worked in a very dimly lit restaurant and saw a waiter drop someone food on the floor. He picked it up, put it back on the plate, winked at me, and served it to the customer.

[cimui]

bravo, chowhounds, for being so environmentally friendly! fewer glasses and spoons to wash, less water wasted...

this is how my SO and i justify taking swigs from the same OJ bottle.

[hyacinthgirl]

I have two weird ones... Enjoy:
I love the burnt bit of cheese that's on the pan whenever you're cooking something cheesy... I really love it. So much so that I don't always feel the need to cook something cheesy. Sometimes, oh, just sometimes... a hunk of cheddar might find itself in the middle of a plate. And that plate might find it's way into the microwave. And that melty bit might find it's way into my mouth.
The other... well... I may or may not have been caught dipping my finger into the olive jar, Just to lick off the brine. My lawyers have advised me not to comment further until the trial is over...

[adrienne156]

My last roommate would microwave hunks of cheddar and eat them with her fingers. I never partook, but you are not alone.

[hyacinthgirl]

Oohh good to know! We can formed a melted cheese club.

[relizabeth]

For as long as I can remember, Ive eaten brown sugar from the container. Now, Ive moved onto molasses sugar from the box. Usually a teaspoon or 2 will suffice per day. It is funny, I love my molasses sugar, but a few sweets are too sweet.

And sometimes, we will go 2 weeks or so without Italian food, and somehow the parmesan in the fridge disappears. I just cant help myself.

[smartie]

try molasses brown sugar with thick whipping cream - omg haven't done that for years!

[Sooeygun]

I like those darker lumps that sometimes form in the brown sugar. I suck them like a hard candy.

[RGC1982]

I'll eat leftover food off my daughter's plate after clearing the table. This is one of the reasons I am not skinny :)

[mojoeater]

I also recall the cooks in some of my old kitchens enjoying the whip cream spray can. But they weren't after the cream! There were times it was hard to find a can that still had nitrous in it!

[LindaWhit]

LOL! That's exactly what I was thinking when I read about the whipped cream canisters. I used to share a rental with someone who'd go to the supermarket and wouldn't even buy the cans - she'd somehow get the whippets to give her the nitrous and she'd come home high with her friends. @@

[mrbigshotno.1]

Yep, we had to lock up the reddi-whip in the joint I worked in because of that

[nkeane]

milk straight from the jug?check.(and even if bacteria can spoil the milk, A gallon lasts about 3 days around here, so I aint real worried about it)
Whip Cream straight from the can?yes sir!
using my fingers to get at/sample anything and everything in my pantry/fridge?damn straight!!!

man is it good to live alone!:-)

[LindaWhit]

Well, I live alone, so drinking out of the milk carton is de rigueur. :-)

Spooning out of the peanut butter jar when I just want a quick peanutty taste is also habit, and same with ice cream when I just want "a taste."

And I always pick out the bits of crusty roasted potato bits left in the roasting pan when I'm cleaning up the dishes.

[thinks too much]

I pick the brown crusty bits off the pan or the oven sheet after the meal is over and before I wash the dishes.

I also take a single poonful of icecream out of the container. Because of the double-dipping thing, it keeps me to only taking one... so they tend to be agenerous spoonful

[mrbigshotno.1]

OH, where did all the ice cream go with the little spoon scrapings....and
OH, who took their fingers and tore off a hunk of cake..........and
OH, who broke in half or squeezed the chocolates to see what was inside and put them back in the box? Wasn't me.................

[Sharuf]

When will they ever learn?

[Sharuf]

Getting pickles and olives out of the jar? That's why God created fondue forks.

[Davwud]

And fingers.

DT

[Sal Vanilla]

What a great idea Sharuf! I had been using chopsticks.

[Davwud]

Guilty on all counts Melly. At least, when I used to by aerosol whipped cream.

Ditto to the chocolate syrup.
I'll also dip crackers into the jar of PB.
I too pick olives and pickles with my fingers.

DT

[smartie]

what a naughty crowd of CHrs.

ditto to licking plates, cake beaters, I have eaten spoonfuls of Ovaltine straight from the tin (must be the malty one).
my dogs lick out the mixing bowls of cake mix, and yoghurt pots.

[Cinemaverite1]

When no one is looking, after the first few sips of a cappuccino I will use my finger to enjoy the rest of the foam. I know, it's totally uncivilized, but it brings me joy

[Sal Vanilla]

Nix on drinking milk from the jug. Bacteria forms and can make the milk bad.
I have never had aerosol cheese, but if I did I would squirt it in my mouth regardless of who was around. Ditto on the whip cream.

I double dip chips and repeatedly use my spoon to taste even when guests will be eating it. I have not tried to hide that last one, but I would guess anyone who did not know and love me might turn their nose up at that.

I would definitely pick up anything from MY floor and eat it. If it can be brushed or washed off it is going down my gullet. The only time limit is if it has gone bad or I spy it later on the floor and cannot recall when that item was last consumed - unless I am desperate. Like when and if I should find an oreo or a nutter butter peanut butter cookie on the floor of my kitchen... heaven help the poor fella that tries to wrench it from my hand as I aim it toward my piehole.

One time I slipped an oyster into my mouth, but it tasted funky so I sneaked it back onto the shell which was on my OWN plate. I went to the bathroom, came back and it was gone. Someone at my table thought they were being cute snagging it. I only know it was not me or my husband.

[Dax]

That oyster story is awesomely gross.

[Caroline1]

The ONLY time I drink milk from the carton is if there's only enough left to finish it off because drinking from the carton is a shortcut to sour milk!

I didn't know they make aerosol canned cheese.

Never shoot canned whipped cream straight into my mouth. I shoot it on the palm of my hand. It holds more! '-)

I do taste LOTS of stuff from the jar, but I use a spoon and never double dip and sometimes every spoon in the house seems to be dirty. Well, maybe not ALL, but a whole bunch of em!

I wash and dry the fish fillets that hit the floor, then cook 'em. But if it's a cooked steak that hits the floor, oh well, everybody dies from something.

[mojoeater]

I will drink straight from the jug of juice/milk.
I will eat peanut butter or ice cream by the spoonful, double and triple dipping.
I will grab pickles and olives out of the jar with my fingers.
I will lick my plate or bowl clean.

We almost never have house guests, but I am sure I would not do these things if anyone other than the two of us were to be eating from these same containers...

[kattyeyes]

I'm a shameless licker--particularly of dessert plates and any of the whips, paddles or beaters (!) from either mixer.

[Sal Vanilla]

There is shame involved in such licking??? My dog and I fight for the beaters. She does not buy it when I tell her why I deny her the chocolate ones.

I have licked steak juice off my plate.

[Samalicious]

LOL. What is this "shame" of which you speak?

[ScubaSteve]

guilty on all counts.

[shaogo]

Oh, dear. Ice cream, in our home, occasionally disappears in 2-3 teaspoon increments. These are flavors that I swear I really don't care for, so it *can't* be me!

I was caught, by a houseguest, licking off the paddle from the mixer after whipping some butter into a liver pate recipe. Of course, the paddle was about to go into the dishwasher, but I had pate all over my face -- suffice it to say I my dignity was compromised.

Picking one stuffed olive, one piece of watermelon pickle, a single dill spear, out of the jar -- with my fingers -- I stand guilty as charged.

Boy, was that a cathartic experience!

[Sal Vanilla]

I love the pate one. Brought a smile to my face.

[adamshoe]

An errant finger sometimes finds its way into the jar of Peanut butter...
Occasional swig of milk or apple juice straight from the jug...
Just used the "5 second rule" last nite when my Saltimbocca jumped on to the floor instead of "into the mouth" adam

[theferlyone]

My caramel apple cheesecake recipe calls for a 1/4 cup of caramel...the rest of the jar disappears by the spoonful over the next week or so.

[elfcook]

No to the milk, but I have been known to have a bit of Hershey's syrup from the jug (a la Glencora!) when I am in need of chocolate & have none in the house.
As for the can of whipped cream, at the mere sound of the can spraying, all 3 kids and the (now departed) dog would line up in the kitchen waiting for their turns! No sneaking possible, that dog had ears like a bat.

[njfoodiegirl]

Mine also line up like little birds for whipped cream out of the can.

As for me, I just scoop out the brown bits from the bottom of the pan after roasting a chicken. I would eat just the fond for a meal if I could............

[Ruth Lafler]

Oh yeah, that's good stuff!

I don't drink milk out of the carton, but I think it must be because of the size of the carton, because I've been known to take a swig out of a carton of heavy cream (I live alone). I'll eat a spoonful of peanutbutter straight out of the jar, but I don't double dip. It never even occurred to me that it was "bad" to take pickles or olives out of the jar with my fingers!

Whether I apply the five second rule depends on how recently the housecleaner has been in. And actually, I'd better scoop it up in less than five, or the dog will beat me to it.

[susancinsf]

it isn't ok to take pickles out of the jar with my fingers? Oh boy, I am in trouble...

(though in my defense, I think I am the only one who eats pickles in my household)

[kattyeyes]

elfcook: Reminds me of that scene in "The Tao of Steve"...do you know the one? I must have replayed that particular part a dozen times. It cracked me up. ;)

Edit: I found it...sound quality is kinda $#*++y, but "the moment" is at 1:16. Cute flick:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-B23k...

[Boccone Dolce]

True Character is how you behave when no one is watching! (I think that's how the quote goes?)

I confess NOTHING on this thread.

Ok wait- one time I was also babysitting and I snuck a hunk of a candy bar I found in my Aunt's pantry, right next to her flour, and sugar, and vanilla (can you see where this is going?) Man I NEVER wanted to steal a bite of anyone's 'chocolate bar' EVER again- it was unsweetened, and it was a tiny nibble of hell!

[Glencora]

When I was a teenage babysitter, I used to drink Hersey's chocolate syrup out of the can late at night. Gross, I know. What would the parents have thought? Now, as an adult, I never buy the stuff, but a year ago my mom brought some over for sundaes and I ended up with most of it left behind in the fridge. It's still there and I haven't had single swig. What's happened to me?

[Caitlin McGrath]

You grew up, and so did your tastes.

[KTinNYC]

Was Hersey's syrup ever any good? I only tried it for the first time and it's more like chocolate flavored corn syrup than chocolate syrup.