I did think the snails were delicious when Mme Prin made them in the summer of 1959. They were buttery and garlicky and a little bit chewy.- mmmmm! That was the year I spent my long summer vacation with the Prin family in Le Touquet, France.

But, that was then. Before summer 1958, I loved the pizzas I ate at Edricos in Ludlow Avenue, Cincinnati, and up the road from Edricos, the hot fudge sundaes I had in a drug store opposite Burnet Woods, were just the best!

Of course, we had delicious meals at home, particularly those for Thanksgiving and Christmas which were usually at Grandma Weller’s house in Zanesville. My memory tells me that the sweet potatoes cooked in the oven with marshmallows on top, were THE BEST thing ever, though nowadays I imagine I would find that a bit too sweet.

When I am feeling particularly hungry nowadays, whatever I find that I enjoy, is my favourite food of the moment. A big bowl of chili or roasted chicken thighs or raspberry pavlova might be my favourite foods or, like today, a tuna steak on a bed of spinach which was just wonderful! And then, there’s salmon fillet roasted in the oven for exactly 18 minutes – sometimes I can’t think of anything I would rather eat!

For breakfast I adore porridge with cinnamon, sugar and cream! (Being on a diet, sadly I can’t have the cream 🥺). I fondly remember breakfasts of French toast (eggie toast to the British), or American pancakes – which are so different from English pancakes! Then there are ‘continental breakfasts’ of croissants with jam, baguette with jam, coffee in a bowl (of course, no jam!🤣) or jam doughnuts! (If I weren’t so full, still, from my lovely lunch, I would love some jam doughnuts!)

If I had to answer the question asked in today’s prompt, which of all the above, would I choose?

Vario’s roast beef with a baked potato filled with whipped sour cream & chives is possibly the stand-out meal that I remember from my past. (Vario’s was a restaurant in either Nevada or California, but I can’t remember which – I was only 12 at the time!)

Sitting here, thinking about it, I believe I could make a list of my favourite foods from the time I was eating baby foods (vegetables and lamb) to today’s lunch (the tuna) and that list would be as long as my arm!

Better to ask my least favourite foods! I think that would be tripe! Mind you, I had a migraine the day I was given it – in Amiens, France in 1958 – so, perhaps it wasn’t that bad, but I’m not keen to try it again!