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Weird food combinations

10 years ago

What kind of weird / odd food combinations do you like? I put potato chips on my sandwiches. Like if I have a turkey with mayo and tomato, I'll put potato chips on it, rather then eating them separately.

What about you? What unique food combinations do you like?

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  • 10 years ago

    I know there have been really weird combinations I've liked in the past but can't think of one. Something I like but isn't weird where I come from, though not universal, is hot sauce on onion rings. Or beans spread on a sandwich to "wet" the bread, the way one would in a burrito.

    Maybe this is weird? I like greens in mac and cheese. That's when you stir fresh baby spinach or arugula or kale into hot mac and cheese and it wilts from the heat. But there are lots of things I've had in mac and cheese, and I don't know what's weird. It's good with chunks of real pepperoni (not the bland sliced stuff). Or an extra large dollop of salsa picante (must start thick). Or barbecue sauce/spice, smoked cheese, chicken and onions. Or "cheeseburger" with ketchup and mustard...

    I do make interesting sandwiches, so maybe this is weird? My latest was chicken andouille, medium sized raw zoodles (spiral cut zucchini strips) with lemon juice, wild arugula (my favorite green) and a sauce halfway between sriracha and tobasco, on whole wheat flatbread (folded in half taco style). It was really good!

  • 10 years ago

    Potato chips dipped in small curd cottage cheese. Very yummy!!

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  • 10 years ago

    I don't eat anything weird, unless you count very rare....as in cold in the middle (raw) beef with lots of salt.

  • 10 years ago

    I love saltine oyster crackers on ice cream. Although I don't do this anymore, I used to put ketchup on fried eggs.

  • 10 years ago

    i prefer very rare, almost raw meat too, but that's not really weird to me. I'm a pretty picky eatter, with a limited pallete. My husband though, eats all kinds of weird stuff from pasta with sugar and butter to mashed potatoes and pickles.

  • 10 years ago

    Phoggie, I still like ketchup on fried eggs, my dad always ate them that way. Better yet, salsa...

    rhoder, in the 70's we made the 'California Dip' - sour cream and Liptons onion soup dry mix - for potato chips with cottage cheese instead of sour cream. Maybe we thought that made it 'diet/weight loss' fare ;)

  • 10 years ago

    I enjoy salsa mixed with cottage cheese. Also make tuna salad with salsa , minus the usual mayo.

  • 10 years ago

    Butter or coconut oil in coffee. But that's not unique anymore; even my local coffee shop offers it! So good!

  • 10 years ago

    Yes! Salsa mixed with cottage cheese is very good.

    Tabasco, salt, pepper & a splash of Worcestershire are tasty in buttermilk.

    Try orange marmalade or blackberry jam on pancakes instead of syrup.


  • 10 years ago

    When I don't feel good, I put a shredded wheat biscuit on a slotted spoon and dip it into boiling water for just a second. Drain. Put that into a bowl with a couple of pats of butter on top. Top with an over easy egg and salt. A comfort food from childhood.

  • 10 years ago

    Enjoy cottage cheese on saltine crackers!

  • 10 years ago

    Oh my, I would gag on raw meat!...I can not even stand a soft egg yolk!

  • 10 years ago

    I enjoy steak tartare and ceviche Spelling might be incorrect, sorry.


    Younger years thought I'd never ever eat either, but do now :o)


    Eggs over easy, always.

  • 10 years ago

    Ok Glenda we can share eggs, steak tartar and cheviche. LOL But all that mayo, oh my. I am weird because mayo is on "leave it off" list.

  • 10 years ago

    Ice cold pork sausages and jam. Yum.

  • 10 years ago

    I used to make a ground steak tartar raw with some yellow mustard or spicy mustard with herbs and spices rolled into tiny balls and I would put a drop of Tabasco sauce on them. They were awesome but these days I won't eat raw anything. We were at a seafood restaurant that specializes in raw oysters on the half shell last weekend and man they looked so good but I didn't risk it, I did have a few fried though yummy.

  • 10 years ago
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    "these days I won't eat raw anything"

    Agree completely. I also avoid underdone eggs, I cook fried eggs until the yellow is nearly firm.

    Those who like playing Russian Roulette when eating should try Fugu. You'll either love it or you'll die.

  • 10 years ago

    Cottage cheese in a nest of mashed potatoes with fresh ground black pepper.

    A dash of Louisiana hot sauce in a glass of V8 tomato juice.

  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    I like toast with jam and a slice of Swiss cheese on top

    I like "crunchy" eggs. Only recently learned they are called Spanish style eggs in some parts of the world. It is the way my family has always made fried eggs. Fried in hot oil (bacon grease for us) that is basted over the top creating an egg with a fully cooked white, a lacy brown edge and a hot runny yolk. Perfect for dipping your toast or serving atop buttered toast.

  • 10 years ago

    Also grew up eating radishes with a bit of cold butter.

  • 10 years ago

    A fried egg (with runny center) topped with walnuts and chopped banana, sprinkle of salt and lots of pepper.

  • 10 years ago

    I dip French fries in Thousand Island dressing and also put it on my burger.

    I seldom eat hot dogs but when I do I prefer them with mayo...not a ketchup fan. Sometimes I'll eat a hot dog with baked beans on top.

    I put chips in sandwiches too.

    I like dipping buttered toast in hot chocolate.

  • 10 years ago

    Oh I used to dip my buttered toast in my hot chocolate or chocolate milk too. That just caused a flash back lol! A good one. I saw myself at our kitchen table with my special cup (pink I still have it} my hot chocolate and my toast and mom was at the sink. Just like a snapshot!

  • 10 years ago

    My eggs are always over easy or a "dippy" egg. Never hard fried unless to be on a sandwich. No raw meat for me though, no mayo on my fries, ketchup only. Ketchup is fine on eggs too especially if fried with potatoes, love that.

    Sue

  • 10 years ago

    I do not like ketchup at all -- unless combined with horseradish for shrimp dip. I only put salt on my fries -- hence, I don't eat them fries much at all. Mustard is my condiment of choice where choices are to be made.

    I order or make: poached eggs, soft-cooked eggs, over-easy eggs. If you are going to get sick from bad eggs, it is 95% of the time, if not more, be from the egg whites.

    And if you have egg allergies, it is most often due to something in the albumin of the egg white, but if you do have those allergies, be careful anyway.

  • 10 years ago

    Oddities I like: Cut an avocado in half, remove the central seed. Balance them on a cooking pan and pre-heat oven to 350 F. Add an egg yolk to each half and bake for 20 or 25 minutes, depending on how you like that yolk. Some of the white can come along for the ride.

  • 10 years ago

    "If you are going to get sick from bad eggs, it is 95% of the time, if not more, be from the egg whites."

    Fewer than 38.1% of internet users produce more than 81.7% of informal information that gets cited on the internet in percentage form. And close to 100% of the information stated in percentage form on the internet (including the preceding sentence) is entirely made up.


    You're entitled to your view, artemis, but the CDC disagrees with you 100%. I'll go with their advice. Eggs, poultry, fish and other raw meats are more often than not contaminated with illness-causing pathogens. If handled and cooked properly, there's no risk at all.



    CDC's writeup on eggs

  • 10 years ago

    I once craved for dried shrimps (sort of taste like anchovy but not as salty) with watermelon. I couldn't rest until I had some. Fortunately, I had both ingredients in my fridge at the time. After consuming them, I was so content and felt that life was good.

  • 10 years ago

    artemis_ma, I agree avocado baked with eggs is delicious!

  • 10 years ago

    I also like cold left over baked beans in a sandwich, learned from my mother. Son was on assignment in Japan, and one of the crew knew the chef at a restaurant. So they ate all kinds of things that the chef fixed, including fugu. He was not impressed with the offerings, and he is my foodie.

  • 10 years ago

    Baked beans with mayo on top was my pleasure as a teen, plus ketchup on baby limas. Times have changed and I don't enjoy either combination.

  • 10 years ago

    If one is going to hard fry an egg may as well just eat a hard boiled egg. I do tend to "slam" them over so the yolk breaks for an egg sandwich but I don't let the yolk get too hard.

    I have never known anyone to get ill from any egg that was cooked at all. I am most leery of salads or sauced/gravied one dish meals when eating out. When in doubt breakfast food with eggs is my "safe" choice.

  • 10 years ago

    To me, a fried egg tastes nothing like a hard boiled egg, but if it does to you, fine.


    Flipping frying eggs over for 30 seconds does the job, so too does putting a lid over the frying pan. It's a low risk that easily becomes no risk, it's nothing to either dismiss or lose sleep over.



  • 10 years ago

    Some of these combinations actually sound good. None with ketchup though. I have never eaten it in my life, but I have a bottle because husband eats it. Also never bought mayo or Miracle Whip.

  • 10 years ago

    So here's an incontrovertibly weird one for you.

    Olychick had highly recommended Bubbie's pickles, so I was looking at the jars to see if they had too much sodium for my father (the kosher dills do). I bought a jar for my own home. Today, I opened it and was surprised that it was quarter inch thick, zigzag pickle chips rather than whole pickles, but, whatever, I plucked one off the top and bit into it. Surprise! It was sugary sweet! I looked at the jar and it said Bread and Butter Snacking Pickles. But, you see, I don't like bread and butter pickles, so I obviously bought it by accident, probably picked it up while replacing the jars I'd been inspecting. So it's a good thing I hadn't read the label. Because once I got over the shock of a candied cucumber and ate the rest of the piece I'd bit into, I realized it actually tasted good. Not that cloying, slimy sweet that I generally associate with bread and butter pickles--more like a preserved pickle version of Japanese cucumber salad sweet.

    So...I was baking and didn't want to make myself lunch, so was foraging for a snack.

    Now, I promise, this was really good, for all that it's really weird.

    TJ's roasted chestnuts, matched by circumference to Bubbie's bread and butter pickle chips (which is the perfect proportion for eating), stacked canape style, with no other ingredients. Each about 2-3 bites.

    Soooooooo good!!!! And really really weird. :)

  • 10 years ago

    Soft poached eggs on crispy toast is my favorite.

  • 10 years ago

    watchmelol, there's no mayo on steak tartare :o)

  • 10 years ago

    I know Glenda. That's why I said I would gladly share it with you. :-)

  • 10 years ago

    plllog, I've never even seen the bread and butter pickle chips! I hope you find the dill pickles, as they are fabulous, and I am now on the hunt for the b&b chips. Not really my fave kind of pickle, but on your recommendation, I'd try them. I really want to support this company, because their products are SO good!

  • 10 years ago

    Olychick, they had the dills. I just put the wrong jar in my cart and after all the label reading (except on that one), I didn't give it another glance! I'll be buying the dills soon. But I bet they won't pair well with chestnuts. :)

  • 10 years ago

    When I was a kid I loved radish sandwiches. Ate them all the time when I could get them fresh from the garden. I did not like to eat store bought radishes.

    I have a friend that loves peanut butter on her hamburger. I have never tried it but I might soon. It does sound interesting.

  • 10 years ago

    I never pass on a good sushi bar, I make my own ceviche but only with seafood that either we caught or that I know was freshly caught. I prefer that my oysters be just steamed enough to crack open a tiny bit, which means that they will still be raw. Again, they must be fresh from the water.

    My favorite appetizer is beef carpaccio, which I will often have served as an entree, after a soup and salad. (I enjoyed it earlier this week at a great restaurant in Chattanooga!)

    I used to like peanut butter and bacon sandwhiches, but I don't think of that as particularly wierd.


  • 10 years ago

    Salt, pepper, bacon bits and freshly grated Parmesan on oatmeal. Oats must be steel cut or extra-thick rolled oats. Never instant or quick-cooking!

    Try lemon juice and olive oil (instead of mayo) in potato salad. Especially good if you use little red potatoes.

    My grandmother loved bread, butter, onion and cold mashed potato sandwiches. Of course she used "real" mashed potatoes. Pretty tasty, actually!


  • 10 years ago

    plllog Does TJ's have roasted chestnuts year round or have you saved them from the holidays? Where do you find them in the store?

  • 10 years ago

    Sunflower seeds for crunch on oatmeal.

  • 10 years ago

    workoutlady - Peanut butter,bacon cheesesburgers are the bomb.

  • 10 years ago

    Olychick, it's TJ's. I think they have them as long as they have them, then don't have them, then get some more, just like most everything else. I usually have a couple of boxes of them. The box I had opened was marked good until sometime in 2017. They're in the refrigerated produce, and are kept in the fridge at home, but they're vacuum sealed inside their paper box so last. I used to roast my own, but too many of them had worms. I'm happy to save the effort. :) Someone told me that WF has them too.

  • 10 years ago

    This sounds strange but trust me, it is so yummy, I even have friends & family that eat this now. Spread a nice thick layer of soft cream cheese over a Wheat Ritz cracker & top with a tsp of hot Spagetti-O's!

  • 10 years ago

    Restaurant here serves peanut butter on hamburgers and for extra you can order grape jelly.. I tried the peanut butter hamburger. First couple bites, my taste buds and brain couldn't decide whether to like or dislike, but after that I kinda enjoyed. Won't order it again, though.