Guilty pleasure:what does this really mean?

I have never been asked that, but it seems to mean 'what is your bad habit?'

May I suggest a slight difference? I would consider a "guilty pleasure" to be something you enjoy even though you know it is not good for you, or too expensive, or somewhat selfish (like eating too much ice cream, buying chocolate and eating it all by yourself instead of sharing, buying coffee at Starbucks instead of making it at home, etc.) A "bad habit" sounds more like biting your fingernail

Yes, you are right, Mr. Hoff-- my answer was not well-considered. However, I take exception to the inclusion of Starbucks as a 'guilty pleasure'-- I suffer no twinge of conscience at my quotidian visits there.

Actually, I am Ms. Hoff, not Mr. -- I have used khoff as a user name for a long time, and didn't think about how anonymous or even misleading it could be. (I think of it as "K-Hoff, and it comes from my husband's name first initial and our last name - he is Ken Hoffman and I am Jackie. So maybe I should be J.Hoff instead.) Anyway, I LOVE this site and am happy to be able to contribute as any

There was recently a UK radio programme called 'Guilty Pleasures'. The idea was that guests should confess to the records they secretly enjoyed but publicly despised – Moon River, Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head, etc.

MrP
PS: Jackie, I always took your screen name for some exotic Middle Eastern transliteration...or perhaps something commissar-ish from the Republic of Georgia...(T

Sorry about the gender mixup, Ms. Hoff-- probably a result of my having no satisfactory third person singular pronoun for a human of unknown ***.

And be careful of MrP, the old smoothie. I wouldn't enter a thread with him unchaperoned if I were you.

{'injured innocence' emoticon}

it means; something you should'nt like , but you like it any way..