What strange food combos do you partake in or have you seen?
I recently made a large batch of chili in response to the dropping temperatures. I received an extremely strange look from my roommate when I fixed a PB and honey sandwich to go with it. My family always had PB sandwiches with chili (although my mom would mix in Mrs. Butterworth's syrup with the PB when we had chili).
I also frequently have cottage cheese with any Tex Mex type dish.
So out of curiosity, I pose this question to the SE community: What strange food combos do you partake in or have you seen?
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25 Comments:
I don't know if this qualifies as a "combo" but one of my absolute favorites meals growing up was a big bowl of penne mixed with ricotta cheese and sprinkled with sugar. Absolutely divine!! Everyone I tell that to thinks I'm crazy.
virgogrrl at 12:07PM on 10/23/09
Hmmm. Well, my father LOVES peanut butter and tunafish sandwiches. Not tuna salad with mayo, just straight from the can tuna with all natural peanut butter on wheat bread. I tried it once when he convinced me that I couldn't knock it till I tried it. Not my thing, though, as it turns out.
arwenb at 1:13PM on 10/23/09
When I was young I would eat PB and Cheese Whiz sands. Probably wouldn't now though.
The other day I fried up some pierogies and I didn't have sour cream to dip...but I did have French Onion chip-dip. TOTALLY WORKED!
Instead of Milk in my KD or in my Hamburger helper I use V8.
I also love cold sour cream on any deluxe pizza
...I probably have many more. I know many SEaters do too; we've had this topic b4 right?
hungrychristel at 2:09PM on 10/23/09
My German roommate in college would boil rotini pasta in milk and then add sugar and eat as a soup, blech. I like to have mexican food, like tacos, burritos, etc with tater tots or french fries hehe.
kmgagne at 3:00PM on 10/23/09
My all time favorite thing to gross people out with is just a plain, boiled hot dog dunked in peanut butter. I love it, been eating it since i was little. That tuna and peanut butter thing has me beat by a mile though!! LOL I have a friend who has to eat cheese with her cookies and potato chips with her pizza.
BakerPhlebo at 3:47PM on 10/23/09
I like cottage cheese with tex mex also and with pasta and red sauce. Cottage cheese is also really tasty with pickles.
Weirdest thing I've ever seen--my sister's father-in-law, a rather eccentric man, was making chocolate chip cookies and realized he was out of chocolate chips. He substituted TUNA FISH for the chocolate chips. Yes, I said TUNA FISH! Needless to say he had that entire batch of cookies all to himself.
dhorst at 4:48PM on 10/23/09
when grandma makes sirniki, or pan fried (in a lot of olive oil) farmers cheese mixed with raisins, sugar and sour cream, i put more sour cream on top. i also eat my pancakes with sour cream. actually when i was really young i'd mix sugar with sour cream and call it ice cream :/
i also take smoked trout or mackerel and mash it up coarsely with some small boiled potatoes. but i think thats kinda normal...yum!
korovka at 6:24PM on 10/23/09
It used to gross me out when there was a person at work who ate cinnamon & raisin bagels with cream cheese & lox.
but tuna cookies (@dhorst) sound worse.
hmw0029 at 7:59PM on 10/23/09
I was taught by my father to put salt in my watermelon "to make it sweeter". I don't know if that's strange, but some people think it is. To me it's normal! It's a Japanese thing.
Carioca at 8:15PM on 10/23/09
Cheese pizza with chocolate cookies on the side...even a hershey's bar will do, yum.
BiereBeer at 8:50PM on 10/23/09
@Carioca: I don't think that's strange. My dad's Mexican and I grew up watching him put lime, salt, and hot sauce on fruit all the time, especially mangoes, watermelon, and jicama.
My mom eats peanut butter and yellow mustard sandwiches. I think it's really gross.
In high school, we'd dip pizza into ranch dressing and the cafeteria ladies would give us the option of pouring nacho cheese or cream cheese into our bags of Hot Cheetos and we'd smush it all up prison-style and eat it with a fork. Also, when I was a teenage vegetarian, my mom would buy me frozen mashed potatoes and I'd heat them up in the microwave with A1 sauce drizzled on top. It was like a savory gravy without being meaty.
PumpkinBear at 9:24PM on 10/23/09
Most recently, blue cheese over baked penne.
yayfood at 10:43PM on 10/23/09
strawberries dipped in sour cream and then light brown sugar.
andshewas at 11:25PM on 10/23/09
OK, here's a weird one for you. I mix 7-Up and milk - half and half. Learned it from my dad who would drink it on hot afternoons. It foams up a bit and is very refreshing!
Potboiler at 11:28PM on 10/23/09
I worked for a language school, and we had a group of Chinese students. For breakfast they generally got bacon or sausages with eggs, with juice and a pot of yoghurt. One of the girls dipped her sausage in the yoghurt, and soon they were all doing it. Fried pork sausages dipped in strawberry yoghurt. Disgusting to me, but...heck, as long as they were happy...
NotAmerican at 12:37AM on 10/24/09
White rice with Kewpie mayo and canned parmesan cheese. Yum.
Yukiyummy at 1:02AM on 10/24/09
@potboiler, with six sons, all their friends and seven grandchildren, I thought I'd heard every weird food combination imaginable, but yours is a first.
@Carioca, my mom used to eat mangoes with salt, and my SO is a hillbilly from West Virginia who eats watermelon, apples and grapefruit with one hand and the saltshaker in the other. I don't think that's so weird, but by the reactions of some people, you'd think they were drinking blood, which is exactly the reaction my dad got when I'd see him pour a glass of buttermilk and top it with salt and pepper. Blecch.
I love cottage cheese with peaches, pears or cantaloupe, which grosses out my daughter-in-law. She drinks milk with pizza and milk with tacos, which turns my stomach: I don't think milk is good with anything besides breakfast, cookies, brownies and chocolate cake.
betteirene at 1:59AM on 10/24/09
My mom used to mix milk with ginger ale and drink it in the summer so milk with 7up doesn't sound so bad.
Salt on fruit; definately!
Infused salt sprinkled on vanilla or chocolate ice cream is heaven.
Vosges makes a chocolate bar called Mo's Bacon Bar. Sounds awful until you try it.
greenkitchen at 10:18AM on 10/24/09
Popcorn dipped in mustard.
My roommate in college would take Doritos and put mushed m and m's between two like a sandwich.
PoorOldMama at 10:36AM on 10/24/09
If a breakfast place serves mcdonald's style hashbrowns, I sprinkle sugar on them. Also, I dip pretty much anything in maple syrup, especially at breakfast. My favorite is a swiss, sausage, and onion omelet with a side of maple syrup.
And yes, I am from Vermont.
eeels at 12:59PM on 10/24/09
First of all, I often have a PB sandwich with chili or a hearty soup. It's my favorite sandwich, despite being 30...and not an 8 year old child.
Probably the weirdest thing I absolutely love is the Reese's Pieces sundae at Friendly's, but I insist they serve it with orange sherbet. At this point in my ice cream ordering career I know to ensure I am very clear that what I'm ordering is a Reese's Pieces sundae with orange sherbet. Otherwise they'll either bring nothing, or vanilla.
phenoderr at 1:37AM on 10/25/09
My favorite is chocolate and bacon. When I was little, I would dip Doritos into blueberry yogurt. I've also had popcorn with ranch dressing.
fatitalianbroad at 2:00AM on 10/25/09
PoorOldMama: I'm betting there was some controlled substance issues with that Dorito and M&M sandwich.
Shows up a lot on Umbrian pizza menus: Pizza topped with french fries.
Judith klinger at 11:48AM on 10/26/09
In the dining halls in college I would see the weirdest combos--salads topped with lucky charms, jello and ranch dressing; multiple glasses of milk with every meal including with mexican, chinese, italian, indian, etc flavors; sandwiches with peanut butter and mustard and various deli meats--It was mainly boys who did these things but I saw the same people consumîng them on a day to day basis so I know it was not just a dare.
namelt at 9:11AM on 10/28/09
I'm used to the salt + watermelon combination around my family, though I'm one of the few that doesn't partake in it. Apparently it's supposed to bring out the sweetness in the fruit.
@betteirene -- my cousin religiously ate cottage cheese + peaches/pears/canned mixed fruit to lose weight. Not my thing, but I didn't realise it was such an odd combination.
What really icks me is plain rice topped with ketchup. Nrrrrrrgh. *shudder*
avaryne at 9:23AM on 10/28/09