Cold Raviolli

One of my favorite foods in the whole world is eating Chef Boyardee pastas straight out of the can without warming it up or doing anything else to it. Most people cringe at the very idea of eating food at room temperature, but I love it.

Interesting fact about myself, my tongue burns really easily. I don't know why this is, but I really cannot enjoy hot foods because my taste buds almost always get burned right off. It's really not any fun at all. Whenever someone serves up some soup, coffee, or really much of anything I am almost always forced to let it cool for several minutes before I can even think to enjoy it. This is the origin of the room temperature food habit.

I started eating food this way when I was in elementary school. It was partially because even at this very young age I was relatively lazy. I was a very bookish child hardly ever coming up for air from either a book, my Lego creations or a video game. Often I just simply lacked the patience to take the time to microwave my food and then wait for it to cool back down to the right temperature. There were times when I simply would not eat anything if there wasn't something I could just pop open and eat.

Another cause for this habit is that one of my chores growing up was doing the dishes. Which I personally was not fond of. I believe that I was also fairly mindful of how wasteful it was to have to wash all those plates and bowls out after using them only one time. So to save myself time, whenever possible, I would eat foods straight out of their containers anything from pastas, soups, chips, or beef jerky. I was always quite pleased with myself for finding a way to get out of doing more dishes. I thought that I was being extremely efficient which is something my laziness has bred in me.

I think the main reason why I love eating my Chef Boyardee straight out of the can is the flavor though. I know almost everyone in the whole world will disagree with me on this, but some things just taste better before you heat them up. This is because the way these foods are packaged they have very dense amounts of flavoring in the can so that when they are heated up if some of the liquid precipitates and takes some of the flavor with it it can still taste like the intended flavor. But, if one does not heat these foods up the flavors are intensified and that is why they taste so good.

Other foods that taste superb straight out of the can are the overwhelming majority of Campbell's soup. Anything from chicken noodle to tomato. These soups are generally meant to be watered down, but again since I like the highly concentrated flavors it tastes much better to me.