Ok, here's a really personally revealing poll -- use at your own peril

[kinzel]

If there's some kind of special circumstances involved with *your* involvement with food like this, please
explain. I swear we won't hold it against you.


[Poll #1761163]

Comments

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

It most definitely depends. Cold pizza can be wonderful. Cold scrambled eggs, on the other hand, should be given to the dog if you seek revenge against someone you're living with and are willing to suffer alongside them a decent burial, because there's no way they will be good again.

cold scrambled eggs

[(Anonymous)]

To the contrary, they are great for breakfast burritos. Throw in cold fried potatoes, cold scrambled eggs, salsa, little cheese, stir-fry until cheese melts and slap into a warm tortilla. Yummmm. Maybe only in Colorado? Jen from CO

Cold beans

[(Anonymous)]

Can't vote in the poll since I don't have an LJ account and thus am always "anonymous" when I comment but for what it's worth, when I was in high school my mother wouldn't let me leave the house in the morning unless I had something for breakfast so I would eat Campbell's pork and beans, straight from the can. Actually canned pork and beans, even the "gourmet" brands available now such as Bush's, taste better that way than warmed up. Since I'm 69 now my teenaged dietary habits haven't seemed to affect my longevity so far and I do prefer homemade baked beans, slow cooked and seasoned with brown sugar, onions, bacon and mustard,served hot. It's just the canned ones that are better cold or at least room temperature. Cold pizza, not so much. And other cold leftovers on a case by case basis.

Anne in Virginia

[keristor.livejournal.com]

"All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense." [Principia Discordia, Malaclypse the younger, as transcribed by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea.] Ticky box!

It definitely depends. Cold pizza, every time (I normally leave a couple of slices for breakfast). Cold lasagne, if it's good lasagne. Cold tuna pasta bake, yup. Cold other pasta, not so much (a lot depends on how dry it's gotten overnight).

Cold Heinz baked beans (all of the others are nasty, Heinz ones are good) out of the tin, yup. Cold the next day after they've been heated, not so much.

Cold steak goes leathery, do not want. Cold roast beef, on the other hand, can be good (and lamb, but pork is risky). Cold turkey any meat (not just breast) I'll pick off the bones (cold chicken as well, although I'm not so fond of chicken as turkey). Most of the other things I either don't normally eat except in restaurants (like crab and corn on the cob) or don't leave enough to get cold.

[mardott.livejournal.com]

Oops, I missed "self" under who would indulge. It would mostly be me! Pizza - anytime, anywhere. It's magic food.

I'm surprised so few people have tried cold peas. Throw 'em on a salad. They're great. As for the baked beans - aren't they typical picnic food? I've had them cold lots of times.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Actually, thinking about it I have done cold (cooked) peas in rice in a salad type thing, and they were OK. I just wouldn't think of eating them on their own a a vegetable.

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

I've done cold peas, but not as leftovers - cold peas on a salad or such come out of the freezer and are run under cold water until they're thawed, but are never heated.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

I was in the Navy, and before microwave ovens, if you couldnt eat it cold, it wasnt edible. At 3am, no one is going to bring you an oven.

[orlacarey.livejournal.com]

I note that you ask if we've ever had said cold foods not if they are any good. To which I point out that some of those foods I've had cold in miniscule amounts ONCE and never again

Clarification

[(Anonymous)]

Does the cold fish sandwich come with custard?
and a visit from a raggedy Doctor??

[aldersprig.livejournal.com]

Some of those things will never make it to leftovers stage. Corn on the cob, peas, steak are among them. And some we just don't ever eat, so I've never had cold and leftover.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Prior to the widespread diffusion of microwave ovens, I ate many leftovers cold. Now, not so often.

Cold Pizza for Breakfast

[edgreenberg.livejournal.com]

Be sure to check out Christine Lavin's song, Cold Pizza For Breakfast.

[rdmasters.livejournal.com]

Cold baked beans are a desperation food.

Cold pizza is a perfectly reasonable lunch. Or hangover breakfast.

Cold-cut sub.... what's the difference? :)

Cold steak is leather, and thus desperation food.

Cold turkey/chicken is just the thing for sandwiches!

And I should qualify - I deliberately excluded cold vichyssoise from the cold, leftover soup option, as it *is* meant to be cold...

[cailleuch.livejournal.com]

Cold peas -- as long as they are just picked and raw. In fact they rarely make it to cooked never mind leftover.

Cold turkey, beef, chicken are great for sandwiches.

Pizza - doh!

[attilathepbnun.livejournal.com]

Cold or rewarmed pizza is edible only if you're starving. Soup or chicken, however, can be quite tasty ....

[amm-me.livejournal.com]

I was going to reference Christine Lavin's great song, but was beaten to it.

My brother and I loathed canned green peas, and were not too fond of the frozen ones, cooked. On the other hand, fresh out of the freezer the icy little green nuggets are delicious.

A considerably more ... vintage ... musical/literary reference comes from nursery school days -- "Pease porridge HOT! Pease porridge COLD! Pease porridge IN the pot, nine days OLD!"

If'n you're a bachelor ...

[bonkabonka.livejournal.com]

you learn to eat most anything cold. And like it. Well, tolerate it anyway. Cold chinese food (local place makes a tremendous honey chicken and shrimp dish) that sets up into a kind of jiggly brick with crunchy bits (sort of like the fruit jello molds I had growing up) and back when I could still have it I'd often skip a reheat since it'd turn the crunch into sog. Just use a butterknife to carve out a slab and drop it on some of the accompanying desiccated and leathery brown rice. =D For all that I mock it, it was still quite tasty.

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

Cold baked beans are, in my experience, only good if they're home-made (or tinkered with). If the spoon won't stand in the middle of the pot, the beans aren't ready. If the cold beans fall out of the container, even when inverted, they weren't done right.

Tinkered with beans: Start with two cans of decent baked beans. Place in pot, add two strips of bacon, diced or julienned, 1/2 to 3/4 c diced yellow onion (about 1 medium onion), a healthy squirt of ketchup (we always used Heinz), a healthy squirt of spicy brown mustard (I grew up on Gulden's; any brown mustard should do), a reasonable dollop of molasses, and some brown sugar (probably 1/4 - 1/2 c). Cook over the lowest burner you can establish; stir every 20-30 minutes. Be careful that it doesn't scorch - it's now fairly sugar-rich. When enough water has cooked out that the spoon will stand upright in the middle of the pot, and you can't find any un(der)cooked looking bacon or onion, it's done.

[trolleypup.livejournal.com]

I will note that cold pizza, stuffed in a ziploc and thrown in a backpack for 10.5 miles and 6500 feet could have earned me about $5 per slice! In the event, I had no intention of selling it, providing it free with a shot of good whiskey to the others on the mountaintop (I was the first person up from the Pizza side of the mountain)...me? I had a carnitas burrito cold, some whiskey and whatever normal trail food I had.

I'm a firm believer in lazy food...and things like cold pizza and warm flat Coke definitely qualify...as does leftover sushi allowed to warm up from being in the fridge all night (my then passengers might dispute this!)

[manywaters.livejournal.com]

My family often buys KFC a day before we actually want to consume it.

[ironore.livejournal.com]

Cold pizza is better than hot pizza in my opinion. In fact, a lot of Italian food is better cold the next day than fresh.