[javadog]

I was introduced to good food at an early age and I've always cooked, so I never really made anything worse than ramen. In the high school and college years, I was more likely to eat out than cook. I hit Taco Bell, every day. Every day... Their food has changed so much that now I won't even set foot in one. But, I remember when they cooked a decent amount of their stuff from scratch...

I did spend two years in the dorms and inhaled metric tons of cafeteria food. I bet I ate 10,000 calories at a time, when I was hungry. "Free" food and all you can eat...

When I was a kid, I ate a ton of sandwiches. White bread, cotto salami, French's mustard and iceberg lettuce. Make a couple of those, add a couple bags of Fritos or Doritos, a healthy handful of hot peppers from the garden and a Dr. Pepper. A Snickers bar, for desert. 5 days a week, when I was working construction.