Butter sandwiches. I like homemade wheat bread with butter.

As a kid, pineapple and peanut butter sandwiches. My mom's invention.

I don’t eat fries much, maybe I will sneak 2-3 from DH’s plate sometimes. Never like dipping them in ketchup. But occasionally we will go to Five Guys and split a burger I do like their fries. I get a little cup of their malt vinegar and dip the fries in the vinegar. Yummy.

I can’t even think of eating anything with Spam. But then I don’t care for ham, so there is that.

Living where I do while it is not the same as fresh greens there have always been cans of greens, turnip, collards, beet on the very top shelf in the canned veggie isle.

I have eaten lots of things that some will consider odd. One that has not been listed above is plain ice cream with freshly cracked black pepper on it. I have not tried it because I have not purchased ice cream for a while someone suggested trying red pepper flakes.

For those that eat gravy on fries have you ever heard of Poutine?

My son and DH both eat cottage cheese with cracked pepper on top but I've never heard of ice cream and cracked pepper.

I like my cottage cheese with chopped green apple, zapped in the microwave for a bit topped with cinnamon, then the cottage cheese and then fibre 1 on top.

I love mudbugs (crawfish) when in season in the spring. Hard to get fresh around here but a Cajun joint in town has hundreds of pounds flown in a few times a week and they will sell them to you alive and pinching.

LoneJack 888 grocery off of 119th West of Metcalf normally has them during the summer. I do not remember seeing them there during the winter.

I don't know that I really eat anything all that weird. My mother is a midwesterner and my dad a southerner. I grew up eating bland food. I've expanded my palate as an adult. My kids don't necessarily like my favorites, but they love a lot more of a variety of seasoned/spicier ethnic foods. I've used cottage cheese in a variety of ways to substitute for things like cheese and cream cheese because I think it is healthier. I'll add it to my salsa. I'll snack on seasoned cucumbers to cut calories.

LoneJack, where I was from, not eating mudbugs would have been weird...

maifleur01 - thanks for that info. I've bought them at the original Jazz Louisiana Kitchen on 39th and State line several times. It's only a few minutes from my office downtown. I don't get out to the OP area very often since I live on the Missouri side out in the sticks.

Raye Smith - LOL, I'd never had them before until I worked in Shreveport for a few months back in the 90s. During the season it seemed like somebody at work was having a crawfish boil party every weekend. Lot's of pinching tails and sucking heads going on!

Is Spam a weird food? That and a side of potatoes, or frito pie, are emergency dinner staples at our house. Sure, it's only a couple times a year for each, but I don't think they are weird. Not ideal nutrition, but not weird :)

Nothing really weird around here. DH eats peanut butter and honey sandwiches. He got that from FIL. One time FIL mentioned it to me and I said, "Yeah, I know a guy who eats those." He looked shocked and asked who- lol. He realized who a second later.

When I was a kid I use to eat pimento cheese sandwiches on white bread with a layer of fritos in the middle. Haven't had one of those in years, but was talking with an lady who is a friend of SIL's and happened to mention that to her. She laughed and said her family ate that too when she was young. Is that actually a thing?

I think lots of the people that post on here probably ate lots of interesting combinations when they were younger because those were the only things they had to combine when they were hungry. Easy to develop a taste for something when you think of it as a comfort food from your childhood without realizing that was probably one of the few options you had.

From my 20's living on my own when I could afford it I would purchase Spam to add flavor to various pastas. No need to add any other flavoring. I was disappointed when I purchased a can of it last winter to used that way to see that the can contained only finely ground mush. I remembered it having small chunks although compressed with the ground meat.

I am not sure what "weird" food is. Food nourishes the body and soul. If you like it, it cannot be weird, can it? It may not be to my taste, but never do I see it as odd or strange, even if you like to eat crickets and ants.

My totally weird DH will not eat good cheddar cheese, but he eats individually wrapped orange squares of chemicals by the bucketful. Go figure. My "odd" food liking is dill pickles on hot dogs. Can't stand them with sweet relish. Therefore I only eat them at home or Dairy Queen, where they will grudgingly put a few on but give me very odd looks while doing so.

ediej - I only eat hot dogs with dill pickles as well along with mustard and a tiny bit of mayo. I like the crunchiness of them.

edie1209 - you do know they do make dill relish too?

OMG, I had forgotten about peanut butter and dill pickles. I'm fairly certain I ate my weight in that as a child. Now what is odd, my father used to eat peanut butter and lettuce sandwiches.

LoneJack, you spawned a happy memory, sitting on the sidwalk curb eating a container full of mudbugs during Mardi Gras (REALLY HARD TO FIND!) and everyone kept asking me where I got them. I too love them fresh, but they are hard to get.

i think my mother bought a few tins of span for "hurricane season" when we were children. They were thrown in the garbage as soon as the season ended.

Food nourishes the body and soul. If you like it, it cannot be weird, can it? It may not be to my taste, but never do I see it as odd or strange, even if you like to eat crickets and ants.

A thought provoking comment. So I am responding with several of my own: In general, I love all kinds of food and have happily tried all sorts of cuisine and ended up liking most, disliking a few. But there are 3 exceptions:

1) My father pressured me to try calves brains in black butter. Although I can see the wisdom of trying something before rejecting it, I just did not want to try that particular dish and resented being pressured.

2) Dishes like fugu. Just, nope.

3) Cannibalism: It's one of those things where I just don't want to go. Even if I did not make the kill, and there were dire survival incentives.

Lucille, pressuring someone to try a new dish never works. The mind will always reject it.

Puffer fish? Maybe from a reputable chef only. No desire to die the hard way.

Cannibalism? I have never been that starved, so I cannot pass judgment on those that reach this level.

LoneJack: Yes I know. I could find it a couple of places when we lived in Ohio. In AL, not. And no place that sells hot dogs ever had it, just the sweet stuff ;-{>

I’m willing to try most foods, but don’t want to eat raw animal protein.

My folks used to enjoy (treat — kids were not interested) things like:

Sweetbreads — bovine thymus

Fish Roe

Liver

My father would eat raw oysters.

They had an acquaintance who would eat native New England coast Sea Urchin, raw! I had smashed a few as a kid and thought the inside gooey mush looked too alive and the yellow orange green black purple smashed-brain looking insides was too disgusting to glimpse. IRRC, the man was of Portuguese ancestry (if not Martian).

I’ll eat sardines, smoked kippers (good with baked beans), cilantro, mussels, oysters, etc., but am reluctant to seek out brain, offal, goat eyeballs, jellyfish. I eat steamed lobster and their tomalley (on crackers). THAI fish sauce, shrimp paste (curry ingredient, but truly a stinky odor if you just open up a can.)

Spam tastes too fatty, too filled with fats and nitrites.

Maybe not so weird but bean sandwiches with Miracle Whip and vinegar; cheddar cheese and dill pickle sandwiches.

My dad also ate raw oysters. He'd microwave them just a few seconds to take the chill off. *shudder*

@rob....that cheese sauce is called roux....if you call it a french name it is ok to eat!

I wish you could respond to each individual post. Couple thoughts. ...spam probably isn't weird just crazy salty. The cottage cheese discussion reminded me I like cottage cheese and tomato juice. I don't do raw oysters but they aren't weird to me and I like roasted oysters.

roux is the name of the mixture of grease of some type and flour mixed together then heated to the color that you want for making what you want. A basic for many dishes. It will thicken the liquid. The color can be light to so dark it looks almost burnt.

I prefer butter as my grease but for biscuits and gravy I like using some of the grease fried from the sausage.

A childhood comfort food: bring a small pot of water to a boil; put a large shredded wheat biscuit on a slotted spoon and submerge in the water for a couple of seconds; drain; slide the biscuit into a bowl; add a couple of pats of butter; slide an over easy egg on top; salt and eat.

Still make it when I am sick.

That sounds good Angela

Katlan, I love French fries with gravy! Especially if fresh cut ... and then there’s poutine - I am Canadian.

Is Wisconsin poutine close? There is also Jersey fries with gravy......

Does Canadian Poutine have cheese curds?

I put ketchup on my hotdog. Nothing else. There I said it!

I love the large shredded wheat biscuits. Not those frosted minis, they are MUCH too sweet. I just like the biscuit in milk. Plenty sweet enough just on its own. Sometimes I chunk a banana up in it but that's all.

Oh and my hubby likes leftover cornbread crumbled in a glass with milk and pepper. Shudder.

I was watching one of those YT videos where various cereals were tried. The people had apparently only had the British equivalent as a hot cereal. I have seen the directions to pour hot water over shredded wheat biscuits but not just dipping them in hot water for a few seconds. Not certain what that would do.

I tried a lot of new to me foods while in Asia, but I just could not bring myself to try these:

OMG, that looks nasty .

Dawn, I'm speechless. In fact, I can barely type.

There used to be a quirky little deli (right next to our towns original liquor store) that had a section that held gag food/gifts of sorts. Like chocolate covered ants. About junior high age and junior high budget, I can remember buying some with friends and lots of giggling going on but thats the only time I remember eating a bug intentionally.

Yea, when I first saw that cart, it kind of left me speechless too, morz. Once I got used to it, I found it quite interesting, but still couldn't bring myself to try any of it. There was a college kid who bought a snake on a stick; from watching him trying to eat it, I'd say it was pretty darn tough.

I know what roux is...I was trying to make light. If we call snails escargot they sound a lot better.

Dawn, I spent a couple of weeks in China on business. I didn't eat anything too odd. I declined the sparrow on a stick, and the soup with brine shrimp still swimming in it.

Those snakes are just creepy.

gagh

I too know what roux is ;) My point was, I make cheese sauce from scratch, not from a jar or a can, but it seems silly since it's freaking spam I'm saucing. HA!

Spam is sold in every imaginable variety in Hawaiian grocery stores -- where appetites prefer a lot of salt -- and sugar. Spam having been created to feed our armed forces abroad, I wonder if MREs ever became popular.

I avoid the center aisles of grocery stores where the most profitable poison food is sold next to the plastic bottles of 'adulterated' water. (Sugar, Salt, Preservatives -- all cheap ingredients.)

I had fried ants in Mexico City - they were served as a garnish on soup, and just added some crunch. They were very small black bits, and if you had told me they were some sort of seed I wouldn't have known they were anything different. They had no discernable flavor, at least served that way.

I'll try just about anything, and have eaten brains, sweetbreads, tripe, etc....but I was once offered the classic Filipino dish of balut (look it up), and declined.

I just sat down to lunch and I guess most people would find it weird... Spaghetti with a bit of margarine and tomato soup right out of the can. It's been my Comfort Food since I was small. We only ever had it for lunch since my Dad was so anti-pasta.

One thing I eat that may seem weird to others is Hog Maw, which is pig stomach stuffed with chopped potatoes, onions, sausage and seasonings. It’s a traditional Pennsylvania Dutch dish, as is stuffed beef heart. Most of the butcher stalls at our local farmers’ markets sell fresh pig stomachs and some community organizations have fund-raising hog maw dinners.

I also love chicken hearts and usually buy 1/3 pound of them to simmer and slice while I’m roasting a chicken, if I want to make gravy with it. I also grill chicken hearts on skewers.

ruthanna, that sounds like the PA Dutch version of haggis.

I know different people and different cultures eat different things, by choice and by necessity so to put a "weird" term on it, I don't always agree. Different? Sure. Unusual? Yup. I can't really think of what I'd call "weird" that I eat because to me, it's normal. I ate fries and gravy long before it became popular around here. Never got into ketchup that much. Much rather have a bbq sauce than ketchup and I've made my own version of what some places call "fry sauce", which is bbq sauce, ranch dressing and hot sauce. At home I'll mix in some seasoning, in a restaurant, it's usually just salt & pepper available so I generally pass.

I think the strawberries & pasta sauce would definitely be something I'd try. I never got into Spam but when I have it, it needs to be fried. I think most people are turned off of it by reputation and not really trying it. For me, it's a bit too salty and I don't like the gelatinous glop that's in there. If it's fried well and served, I can eat it no problem, but I'd prefer bacon or sausage than Spam. And every time I hear the name, I just start thinking of the Monty Python routine.

Growing up, the peanut butter cookie dough was a delicacy. Now everyone is afraid that everything is "poison" and the real hysterical call everything "poison", when they don't know what they're talking about. If people actually knew what they were ingesting, they'd run scared. And I realize it's not the eggs that are the concern in cookie dough these days, it's actually the flour. But there are times a person just will take a chance to enjoy something.

I was criticized for not eating butter on bread when growing up. For some reason, I just couldn't stomach it. Wasn't until a few years after moving on my own when it sank in. We didn't have BUTTER when I was growing up, it was MARGARINE (or "oleo" as my dad would call it) and everyone called it "butter". Sorry folks, margarine is NOT butter and it annoys me when people call margarine "butter". Eat it if you want, that's fine with me, I don't mind different tastes, but don't tell me it's the same thing. It ain't! I could eat it on toast, melted in, but just not the same flavor as buttered toast. Not the same at all.

Much rather have a bbq sauce than ketchup and I've made my own version of what some places call "fry sauce", which is bbq sauce, ranch dressing and hot sauce.

This made me laugh. Just last night my at DD's house the family was eating chicken strips
from Safeway which came with a variety of sauces before going out for trick or treating. Grandson was eating his strips with bbq sauce. he got up and went and got a container of Ranch which he proceeded to mix in with his BBQ sauce on his place. He tasted it. Then went and got some ketchup. I told him ketchup was already sort of there in his BBQ sauce. He added just a bit. Then dipped his chicken took a bite and said, "This is wonderful, very flavorful, spicy but not too much." He's five. LOL