Anyone for a Swanson TV dinner? Enjoyed with your favorite white zinfandel while viewing the Game Show Network? Perhaps a McDonald’s sundae for dessert? Sounds like the perfect evening at home for Q readers who answered our call for their favorite cheesy, guilty, uncool pleasures.
Thanks to Mehul Doshi of Chicago; Lisa Encarnacion of Schaumburg; Bruce Holmes of Evanston; Jeanne Pokorny of Glenwood; Diane Rusniak of Chicago; Helen Schubert of Chicago; Michelle Smith of Evanston; Denise Smith Rodd of Des Plaines; and the resolutely anonymous “suburban mom” hooked on WWE wrestling.
‘CHEESE’ FOOD
– White Castle double cheeseburgers
– McDonald’s sundaes
– Hamburger Helper
– White zinfandel
– Necco wafers
– Late-night breakfast at Denny’s
– Sunbelt Snacks fudge-dipped coconut chewy granola bars (“A yum-yum bargain at 25 cents each”)
– Taco Bell
– The king-size bag of Chee-tos (“Can’t get much cheesier than the orange fingers!”)
TUNES
– The Monkees (“Still love their music and even got my 3-year-old daughter hooked!”)
– WLIT-FM 93.9 (“When you’re alone in your car”)
– Show tunes (“Especially singing in the car”)
– The Foreigner “4” album (“Admit it, it’s in a milk crate somewhere”)
– The Carpenters
– Mandy Patinkin
NIGHT IN
– Swanson’s frozen Salisbury steak dinner (complete with brownie dessert) with a viewing of “The Poseidon Adventure” (“H-ld your breath, Shelley!”)
– Reruns of the original “Batman” TV series
– “Happy Days” re-reruns
– Dolly Parton in “9 to 5”
– “Dirty Dancing”
(the movie)
– “Sorority Life” on MTV (from a 39-year-old)
– The Game Show Network (“Joker, Joker, Joker!”)
– “Gigi” (“When I am depressed”)
NIGHT OUT
– WWE wrestling at AllState Arena
– Hostess parties (Tupperware, Pampered Chef, Longaberger baskets)
ACTIVE CHEESE CULTURES
– Assembling the Dickens’ Village every Christmas
– Shopping in dollar stores
– A round of putt-putt at Par-King in Morton Grove
– English country dancing
– Sacred harp singing
– Barn dancing
HIS & HERS
– Anything and everything Transformers, Thundercats, Voltron and GI Joe
– Love’s Baby Soft (oh, the junior high memories!) and Queen Helene Cocoa Butter
