The Incompatible Food Triad problem
George Hart has been pondering this question for years:
"Can you find three foods such that all three do not go together (by any reasonable definition of foods "going together") but every pair of them does go together?"
He's created a webpage to discuss it: www.georgehart.com/triad.html
A couple of suggestions he's received are lemon, tea, and milk and chicken, chocolate, and honey, but manages to shoot them down. (Indeed, the person who suggested the second one then found a recipe on Kraft.com that uses chicken, chocolate and honey -- sounds really gross to me.)
What do Serious Eaters think? Can you come up with three foods that go well with each other, but would mean culinary disaster if all three met in one dish?
(PS: I found out about this problem via Growabrain, http://growabrain.typepad.com/).
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