Saturday, October 25, 2008

My heaven foods wish-list

Last year we bought some coupons from a fundraising door-to-door boy scout. Among them was an unlimited 'buy one blizzard, get one for 99 cents' DQ coupon good for a whole year. Genius. Naturally, we used it several times and got the largest possible size so that the $.99 one could also be ludicrously huge. Occasionally we even shared a few spoonfuls with the kids. Whenever I'd sink my teeth into that first bite of cookie dough w/M&M's blizzard, the Hallelujah chorus of Handel's Messiah burst forth from heaven. As I'd make my way through the deliciousness, I'd inevitably start philosophizing about the next life. How are souls in heaven truly happy without blizzards? Perhaps it's sacrilegious of me to even ponder this, but so be it. One of the orthodox Christian doctrines is that we'll be re-unified with our bodies at the end of time. There must be a reason for this - we were made to be both matter and spirit. The consensus seems to be that we'll be perfectly happy in heaven, but until we get our bodies back, will we ever think about the pleasures we enjoyed while in our corporal state? I've decided that if we do repine for our bodies, it must be in the happy way a child waits for Christmas day - the whole 'anticipation is half the fun' idea. This is sort of consoling.
I've been keeping track of a few succulent requirements that God in his goodness will surely supply me with, if heaven is all it's cracked up to be. Here, in no particular order, are a few of the foods I'd like to enjoy with my eternal taste buds.
  • Leeann Chin Peking chicken and cheese puffs
  • Mountain Dew
  • M&M's and many other candies and chocolates, too numerous to count
  • Pepperoni Pizza, preferably from B&B, Pizza Man, or Papa Murphy's
  • French toast
  • cookie dough w/Oreo or M&M's Blizzards or Concrete
  • chocolate cake
  • cheesecake
  • pumpkin pie
  • Cinnabons
  • Godfather's dessert pizza
  • Abdallah dark chocolates
There are others that I can't think of now. Maybe I'll add some in later. You may notice the lack of fruits and vegetables on my list, and that's because I only grudgingly eat anything remotely healthy. And although I'm pretty sure it won't be a concern there, I'd like to make note that for my heavenly dental hygiene I'll require regular Colgate, due to it's superior taste.

3 comments:

Chris said...

http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-dairy-queen-chocolate-chip-cookie-i52928

Mary said...

Evil fiend.

Anonymous said...

Mary, I'm finally getting around to catching up on all your blog entries. Good stuff! This one cracked me up, because Janine and I are in a Sunday School class studying heaven, and we've had several conversations already about what foods will we find in heaven. Ha!