What Are the Most Unusual Food Combinations You Enjoy?

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The discussion revolves around unusual food combinations that participants enjoy. It includes a variety of personal anecdotes and cultural references, exploring both common and obscure pairings of foods and flavors.

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Main Points Raised

  • Some participants enjoy dipping bread in soy sauce, while others find it unusual.
  • Cheese wiz on apples is mentioned as a combination that some find strange.
  • A participant suggests mixing barbecue sauce with mac and cheese, which is met with mixed reactions.
  • Salt on bacon is considered normal by some, but others question the need for additional salt.
  • Chocolate milk powder in cereal is viewed unfavorably by some participants.
  • There are varying opinions on dipping bread in olive oil, with some considering it a common practice and others questioning its origins.
  • Several participants share their own unusual combinations, such as cottage cheese with A1 steak sauce, buttermilk with Tabasco, and peanut butter with pickles.
  • Raw meat consumption is mentioned, with one participant noting they stopped due to health concerns.
  • Discussions include cultural practices, such as the use of ketchup on steak and the preparation of boiled peanuts.
  • Some participants express nostalgia for childhood food habits, while others share current preferences for unique combinations.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express a range of opinions on what constitutes a "weird" food combination, with no clear consensus on which combinations are universally accepted or rejected. Many personal preferences and cultural backgrounds influence the views expressed.

Contextual Notes

Some participants reference cultural practices and personal histories that may influence their food choices, but these are not universally applicable. There are also mentions of health concerns related to certain food combinations.

Who May Find This Useful

This discussion may interest food enthusiasts, cultural explorers, and individuals looking for inspiration for unconventional food pairings.

  • #61
JasonRox said:
I used to eat raw meat, right out of the package. I stopped because apparently it is really bad for you.
I still eat raw vegetables, from potatoes to brocolli.
I had a friend that used to eat raw hot dogs, and she didn't like them cooked.
Raw vegetables are friggin awesome! I love sliced potatoes.

polyb said:
As for bread and olive oil, when I was cooking we made a blend of olive oil with garlic, spices, salt, and pepper that we called 'mill butter' for the bread that was served. It was really good!
Breadsticks, you get from the pizza place, I'll only eat those reheated with marinaria sauce and my personal olive oil, garlic, salt, pepper, oregano, basil, chili powder, and parmesan solution.

Evo said:
My dad got me addicted to buttermilk with tabasco sauce and salt and pepper. I'd give anything to have a glass of that right now!
Sounds errr... healthy.

ShawnD said:
Right now I'm dipping bread in soy sauce.
I put cheese wiz on apples.
I put a small amount of barbecue sauce in my mac and cheese.
I put salt on bacon (I think this is normal but everybody around me disagrees).
I put chocolate milk powder in my cereal.
A guy I knew dipped bread in olive oil.
My best friend puts ketchup on his steak.
Bread and soy sauce? That sounds really good, I think I'll put my toast in tomarrow morning.
When I was a kid I used to like celery and ketcup, I used to eat it all the time, until I lost my front teeth.
I put salt on EVERYTHING... I tell ya, everythings better with salt, until it "overpowers" the flavor of the food.
Chocolate milk powder on cereal? I was very impressed when I first tried that a few months ago, now I won't eat mini-wheats without Ghiredelli cocoa powder mix. It makes the cereal surprisingly much better!
If I don't have any gravy, or flavor enhancers as such, I always use ketchup!

Anyone had seaweed before? I don't like it, Its too flavorless.
 
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  • #62
PHP: 
buttermilk with tabasco sauce and salt
Sorry Evo, but that's just wrong. :rolleyes:

I hate cooked veggies..and eat all of mine raw. I also dip chicken strips in peanutbutter.
 
  • #63
Mk said:
Anyone had seaweed before? I don't like it, Its too flavorless.

Not really favourless.. Sometimes it depends on the type of seaweed you're eating. Just add some lemon and garlic and it'll taste great! :wink:
 
  • #64
When I was a kid and staying over at my buddy's house, his Swedish dad fixed us breakfast: He fried some bacon, made toast, and broke out some maple syrup. Hmmm, okay so far... But then he poured the bacon grease on the toast, added butter and lots of syrup, and served it up with bacon on the side. No kidding!
 
  • #65
Ivan Seeking said:
But then he poured the bacon grease on the toast, added butter and lots of syrup, and served it up with bacon on the side.
Are you sure he was Swedish? That sounds French-Canadian to me. Up here our bacon (side type, not back that Yanks call Canadian) is often cured with maple.
 
  • #66
Ivan Seeking said:
When I was a kid and staying over at my buddy's house, his Swedish dad fixed us breakfast: He fried some bacon, made toast, and broke out some maple syrup. Hmmm, okay so far... But then he poured the bacon grease on the toast, added butter and lots of syrup, and served it up with bacon on the side. No kidding!

My stepfather did that, except he didn't even bother toasting the bread. Is it any wonder he's way overweight and having trouble controlling his diabetes? :bugeye:
 
  • #67
Are you sure he was Swedish?

Actually...after thinking about, he was Danish.

My stepfather did that, except he didn't even bother toasting the bread. Is it any wonder he's way overweight and having trouble controlling his diabetes?

It's a wonder he's alive. How many grams of bacon grease is in just one slice of toast...? And we're talking about lard here! It's probably a criminal offense to feed this to a kid now. :biggrin:
 
  • #68
Ivan Seeking said:
Actually...after thinking about, he was Danish.
Well then... there you go. (And following Simpson's First Law of Location--no matter where you go, there you are.*)


*this is also copyrighted by Omni magazine
 
  • #69
Ivan Seeking said:
It's a wonder he's alive. How many grams of bacon grease is in just one slice of toast...? And we're talking about lard here! It's probably a criminal offense to feed this to a kid now. :biggrin:

Yeah, you know it must be bad when even a kid thinks it's too gross to eat! I was much happier when I moved away from home and could cook for myself (you know it's really bad when college dining hall food looks good in comparison to your parents' home cooking).
 
  • #70
Moonbear said:
Yeah, you know it must be bad when even a kid thinks it's too gross to eat! I was much happier when I moved away from home and could cook for myself (you know it's really bad when college dining hall food looks good in comparison to your parents' home cooking).

I LOVE dining hall food! OH MY GOD, I WISH MY MUM COOKED THAT WELL! My mum gave up on cooking and buying groceries a LONG time ago. i haven't eaten this good in ages! I love actually having 3 meals a day, at regular times, and decent varieties of food. I hate going home, i always eat so poorly there. I think the food is one of the biggest reasons i like college so much.
 
  • #71
On my baked potato i like to put a little butter, then salt, then peper, then a little diced green onions and bacon bits, then smother it with sour cream, then peper the hell outta it then more green onions and bacon bits. In that exact same order for 15 years!

Dont even get me started on ordering a steak and baked potato at a restaurant.
 
  • #72
Ivan Seeking said:
When I was a kid and staying over at my buddy's house, his Swedish dad fixed us breakfast: He fried some bacon, made toast, and broke out some maple syrup. Hmmm, okay so far... But then he poured the bacon grease on the toast, added butter and lots of syrup, and served it up with bacon on the side. No kidding!
Syrup on bacon grease!?

Actually, my mom would take the pan drippings (from a lamb or beef roast) and we'd use that on bread or toast, as opposed to butter (too expensive).

My father had a vegetable garden for fresh vegetables and raised chickens. I used to garden with my father, and occasionally help prepare a chicken for dinner.

As for weird foods (well weird for most, but normal for me) - pretty much every organ in cattle, pig, sheep/lamb or chicken. Fried lamb or cow brains is pretty good, except now I would have second thoughts given Mad Cow disease.
 
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  • #74
ShawnD said:
I put a small amount of barbecue sauce in my mac and cheese.

That is pretty good actually. Especially the sweet barbecue sauce.

Ivan Seeking said:
http://photopile.com/photos/godzillatemple/fark/83045.jpg
http://64.81.51.213/fpm/entry.php?sid=5927533&cid=794898

Ohh... nooo... :smile:
 
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  • #75
OMG, that's just DISGUSTING! And I don't get disgusted easily.
 
  • #76
My best friend from Italy was fascinated with American style bacon, except he didn't like it cooked, he would only eat it raw. :eek:
 
  • #77
Evo said:
My best friend from Italy was fascinated with American style bacon, except he didn't like it cooked, he would only eat it raw. :eek:
Can you spell 'tryckanosis'? (I can't. :biggrin: )
 
  • #78
Evo said:
OMG, that's just DISGUSTING!
This from someone who drinks, and I quote: buttermilk with tabasco sauce and salt and pepper?!
 
  • #79
Danger said:
Can you spell 'tryckanosis'? (I can't. :biggrin: )
trichinosis

I was a spelling bee champ. :redface:

I am SO boring. :frown:
 
  • #80
Danger said:
This from someone who drinks, and I quote: buttermilk with tabasco sauce and salt and pepper?!
Well at least it didn't have any BRAINS in it!
 
  • #81
Ivan Seeking said:
My grandmother allegedly liked brains with eggplant but I never saw her eat it.

Anyway, here you go Astronuc:

http://photopile.com/photos/godzillatemple/fark/83045.jpg
http://64.81.51.213/fpm/entry.php?sid=5927533&cid=794898

:rolleyes: You might try cooking the brains first! :wink:
 
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  • #82
Evo said:
My best friend from Italy was fascinated with American style bacon, except he didn't like it cooked, he would only eat it raw. :eek:
Raw ham is delicious, try this:
Bake a bun, add butter, a slice of ram ham, top with a sauce of mustard and oil, on top of that goes a slice of melon and some fresh garden cress :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: yummy!
 
  • #83
Evo said:
Well at least it didn't have any BRAINS in it!
Neither did Sylvia...
 
  • #84
Ivan Seeking said:
Actually...after thinking about, he was Danish.



It's a wonder he's alive. How many grams of bacon grease is in just one slice of toast...? And we're talking about lard here! It's probably a criminal offense to feed this to a kid now. :biggrin:
I was thinking about the cold climates, which require more calories to burn. Like primitive man, who would leave the lean cuts behind when butchering--otherwise they would die of protein starvation. Things have changed, haven't they though?
 
  • #85
Monique said:
I don't eat weird things anymore (like cow stomach, fish intestine
I'm not a picky eater, but that would gag a maggot.
 
  • #86
Evo said:
I am SO boring. :frown:
You are SO not! Hey! Who bit the end off of that h? :-p
 
  • #87
my grandparents ate scrambled eggs with brains...there wasen't much left of a animal when they decided to eat it. I should mention Grandpa died at 104 and Granny still fends for herself at 103.
 
  • #88
I don't think that this qualifies as weird, but I'll share it anyhow. My favourite cold-weather food is a 435ml can of Campbells Chunky split-pea and ham soup with a can of Tenderflake or similar ham mixed in, along with a tablespoon or 2 of cayanne powder and/or some of those little dry chilis that you get for pizza. The gastrointestinal ramifications might not be socially acceptable, but it warms me up. :approve:
 
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  • #89
:eek: ahhh so now we know were all the methane is coming from !
 
  • #90
hypatia said:
:eek: ahhh so now we know were all the methane is coming from !
Don't knock it! With the price of fuel these days, that hose from the driver's seat to the carbeurator saves a fortune. :approve: