Food Obsessions

Do you ever get hung up on a specific food, so that you eat it over and over until you're incredibly tired of it?  I'm starting to do that.  For a while, I had a serious sushi addiction.  I'd eat it once a week for lunch (which gets expensive, I might add).  I've moved off of that, and have moved on to a Thai food addiction.  Again, I eat it once a week (much cheaper than sushi). 

I find that I'll eat the same entree whenever I go out to eat, instead of moving around.  I get a favorite, and I stick with it.  I guess if I'm at a place where I don't have a favorite, I'll eat something from different parts of the menu.  But if I find something that I seriously like, I'll just keep ordering it ad nauseum.

Case in point:  When we were in college, we used to eat out at this restaurant in Moore, OK, called Las Fajitas.  I always thought the name was super cheesy, but really enjoyed the food.  We ate there often enough (and it was 30 minutes from campus, so we had to make a trek to get there) that the waitstaff only had to ask us what we wanted to drink, as we ordered the exact same food, all the time.  If you're interested, it's their beef chimichangas.  I drool just thinking about them.  We've moved away, but whenever we go back to visit my family, we eat there.  And, yes, we order the same thing.  The waitstaff no longer knows us (it's been 16 years after all), but that's fine. 

My husband has always had food issues, and eats this way, but I'm realizing that I have it too, to some extent.  That's not to say that I can't eat other foods, or that I don't.  I do.  It's just that when I find a new favorite, I tend to stick with it for a long while.  After that, though, I'll move around, ordering new things.  It might take a couple of years, but I do it.

But I'm still ordering beef chimichangas when I go home.