SF Foodie Royalty Reveals Junk Food Favorites

• Joanne Weir (famed chef, "Tequila: A Guide to Types, Flights, Cocktails and Bites"; KQED's Joanne Weir's Cooking Class): "I am absolutely crazy about potato chips. I can't have them in my house because they'd be calling my name to eat them. I would eat the whole bag. The saltier, the greasier, the better. I also love Ghiradelli's peanut butter chocolates. I'd kill for one right now!"
• Elizabeth Binder:(Bar Bambino executive chef): "This is hard one as I don't really eat junk food, believe it or not, but I do love Coca Cola. It's the only soda I'll drink, but it has to be the real thing; no Pepsi or diet for me."
• Sara Deseran (7x7 Magazine, senior editor): "Well, I can really go for a Louisiana hot link topped with sauerkraut, ketchup and spicy brown mustard, from Fatt Dog around the corner from my office, paired with chili-cheese fries—although I never actually order the fries myself (that’s my guilt at work). I let someone else order them and then I eat most of it myself."
• Paolo Lucchesi (Eater, editor): "I am all about In-N-Out. And also the classic hot dogs at the ballpark. Oh, and those old Flintstone's pushpops from the ice cream man. Those were fun."
• Mark Sullivan (Spruce, executive chef): "Jamon Iberico. I would choose this over foie gras and caviar any day; home made apricot pie (nothing beats a homemade pie prepared from sun ripened tree fruits. Nnoll farms apricots are worth their weight in gold!); and a perfectly prepared Dark and Stormy on a warm summer day."
• Patty Unterman (SF Examiner, food critic; owner of Hayes Valley Grill): "Chicago-style hot dogs. I just ate two of them at O'Hare airport in Chicago waiting for a connect back to SF from Paris."
• Leslie Sbrocco (Check, Please! Bay Area, host): "I have so many guilty pleasure foods: Cheetos (crunchy), In-N-Out burgers, Oreo Cakesters..."
• Jan Newberry (SF Magazine, food critic): "I'm nuts for any kind of red hot candy: Hot Tamales, Atomic Fire Balls, Cinnamon gummi bears. I'm bored to tears with high-percentage chocolates and olive oil-sea salt desserts. Give me cinnamon candy any day."
• Lessley Anderson (CHOW, senior editor): "I am a HUGE snacker if I come home and have had a few drinks, so for this reason I try not to keep anything unhealthy in the house to prevent binges. Therefore, I have been known to eat weird shit that's the only thing available in those moments -- ie: raisins, soymilk, and Brazil nuts mixed together with honey in a dirty coffee mug that I don't even bother to wash out, four-day old pancakes saved in a plastic baggy, shelf-stable hot chocolate out of the work vending machine, curly fries...."
• Meredith Brody (SF Weekly, food writer): "Skippy extra-crunchy peanut butter, Campbell's chicken noodle soup, Orange Milano cookies, and canned chili (which I admittedly tart up with grated cheese, chopped onions, sliced avocado, fresh cilantro leaves, and sour cream, until the original product is nearly unrecognizable). I also love Popeye's fried chicken, extra spicy, and their red beans and rice, and probably eat a Double Double In-N-Out burger (with extra onions) about once a month. The pleasure that others are trying make guilty is my hunger for foie gras."
• Alice Waters (Chez Panisse, philosopher, mafia Donna): "Alice is traveling on a very tight schedule for the next couple of weeks so she will have to pass." -- Waters' assistant, Varun Mehra

Fret not, overlooked foodies of note! We will make this a semi-regular feature. And a special thanks goes out to Marcia G. for helping us out.