Ferran Adrià secretly enjoys an occasional Bollycao, a chocolate-filled Spanish cousin of the Twinkie. Julia Child once admitted that she sometimes ate hot dogs for breakfast, and considered Burger King French fries to be "very good." Auguste Escoffier could never resist pulling into any KFC he passed for a Double-Down.
Actually, I made that last one up. But, hey, who's to say that the father of modern French cooking wouldn't have enjoyed a cholesterol-bomb of fried chicken, bacon, and two kinds of cheese once in a while after a hard day at the Ritz? The point is that many people in the food world -- chefs, restaurateurs, writers, and the rest -- "eat down," which is to say that they indulge at least occasionally in victuals that are far more commonplace (dare we say "junky"?) than the cuisine they cook themselves or extol in the culinary media.
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