These things fall into two categories—stuff that you buy because the quality is unquestionably higher than alternatives, and stuff that may or may not be a little bit better than alternatives but that you have strong, minimally-rational feelings about.

I find the second category more fun to talk about, so I offer up the fact that this is a C&H [sugar, US based] house. Once my wife brought home some other sugar, and I complained until the bag was gone.

I’m neither a writer nor a scientist, but there’s a copy of this on my bookshelf and I wish I could lend it to you: Deadly Doses: The Writer’s Guide to Poisons

There are so many things that are more important to me than what the actual job is. Working close to home (but not at home), predictable half-time hours, mostly working alone, working for a non-profit/government/individual, etc.

But all that aside for the sake of discussion, if I could operate a train that’d be awesome.

Honorable mention for bike mechanic and lab science grunt.

So, as has already been stated—soup/stew-y foods (I was thinking pozole specifically).

But I used to get these chocolate caramels from a bakery near my house, and if you let them sit for six months or so they dried out and turned into something so incredibly magical—tender, delicate, light as air outside with just a bit of soft middle. Man, I miss those.

Also citrus segments get a nice crisp bite if they sit around for an hour drying out after you peel them.

Finally, cheetos are best after spending an hour in the sun on a hot dashboard. (It doesn’t work to put them in the microwave, 10 year old me tried that.)