The Big Question: Y’all Eat Some Weird Things Edition
Mustard and vanilla ice cream? Peanut butter on hot dogs? I’m not one to judge (HA. See what I did there? It’s called lying. Good times) but y’all are CRAZY.
It’s like my friend Greg who –after seeing my rather unusual lunch– announced loudly that he was glad to know I wasn’t pregnant.* Because what could possibly be less embarrassing than having a good-looking attached guy with whom you are friendly (but not, you know, “friendly”) proclaim his relief at your lack of ripening womb fruit to a room full of colleagues?
Where was I? Oh right, you people eat weird things. I want more.
Today Miss Plumcake wants to know:
What is your weirdest food combination or craving?
And just because turnabout is fair somethingorother, I will share with you that my favorite food in the whole wide world is a bean and egg breakfast taco with extra cilantro.
and haggis.
Because haggis is awesome.
*Come to think of it, that doesn’t even make sense. It’s not like I was drinking a bottle of hair spray and smoking a Lucky. I was just eating broccoli slaw, and isn’t eating weird things a sign that you ARE pregnant?
Weird food combos that make people look at me funny:
- popcorn with grape jelly
- dipping french fries into a milkshake
Sweet + Salty = Yum.
Umm, I didn’t know haggis looked like a diseased pair of lungs…
My grandmother, who was from Arkansas, taught me to eat cornbread and buttermilk. Yes, you actually put the cornbread in the buttermilk and eat it together. It’s mushy goodness! Apparently it’s very typical in the south, but no one up here in DC has ever heard of it.
I may never eat again after seeing the Haggis ***urrgh blep***
My father eats peanut butter and margarine sandwiches. But he’s brain damaged. He also likes chipped beef on toast which looks too much like used food to me.
Huh. I don’t think I eat any strange food combos. I am a fan of the sweet + salty thing, though. Back in the day, when I was a carhop at Sonic, if I made myself a chocolate shake I’d have to eat a bag of Fritos with it (but, no, I didn’t dip the Fritos in the shake). It’s the same today — if I have something sweet, I feel the need to chase it with something salty, and vice versa. I don’t think that’s unusual, though. My food tastes are pretty pedestrian because I’m an extremely picky eater.
French fries dipped in soft ice cream.
As a kid I used to looove a sandwich made with strawberry jam and plain ripple chips on white bread.
Hey now! Haggis looks like ONE diseased lung. Let’s be fair.
Scrapple and jelly sandwiches.
Coffee cheese, aka Hillbilly Fondue, aka grate sharp cheese into a coffee cup, pour hot coffee over it, top it with a saucer, and leave it alone for a few minutes until it melts. Scoop out the melty cheese with a fork and use it to top biscuits.
I like camembert with jam or marmalade, doesn’t have to be cranberry, but it’s best. A friend used to like Nutella and cucumbers.
I’m pretty sure my dad invented this, I’ve never come across it anywhere else and no one else has ever heard of it but I’m willing to be proved wrong.
If you like peanut butter, you absolutely must try a peanut butter omelet. Not as gross as it sounds, you prepare the egg like you would for a regular omelet but omit putting any cheese on. When the egg is mostly cooked, put 2-3 TBSP of peanut butter in the middle. Flip closed and cook a little longer to finish up egg and warm up the PB.
The beauty of this is that, surprisingly, the egg compliments the taste of the PB really well and, because of the cooking, the PB gets all soft and gooey.
Camembert with marmalade isn’t even weird. Nor is Epoisses with French honey. They are delicious.
Nursery comfort food we used to get for dinner as little kids: take a can of corn and a can of creamed corn, mix, heat, pour over buttered toast, pop a sunnyside down fried egg on top. I still want this occasionally.
Haggis IS awesome!
Peanut butter and bacon sandwiches. Best when served on slightly toasted bread. All ingredients have already been mentioned. They’re oddly fantastic.
I like a lot of foods and am willing to try almost anything, but I don’t think that I have any other really Weird cravings or likes in food. Closest I might come there was my fondness for eel sushi at 6 a.m. when I was a graveyard security officer.
What can I say? It was fun to mess with the brains (and stomachs) of the employees just coming on shift.
I’m reading these comments and, for some reason known only to the Almighty, they are making me hungry. Go figure.
No, with that split down the middle, that picture really looks like TWO diseased lungs. Mentally flip the picture of the haggis upside down, and it’s roughly the shape of both lungs.
http://bp2.blogger.com/_hf6xT6xenbE/SDMQ232SFII/AAAAAAAACLw/At3APX-kimc/s1600-h/blacklungs.jpg
Trust me, I know lungs. They pay my bills.
…yep, definitely never eating haggis again.
Peanut butter and onion sandwiches.
Or a nice toasted, open faced peanut butter, peaches, bacon and cheddar sandwich, with the cheese melted under the broiler.
Both are best served with a tall glass of ice cold milk.
Oh, my. Haggis. Haggis is love. Warm, oaty, meaty love. Ties right into my unnatural adoration of black pudding. Aw, heck, I’m of Quebecois and Irish stock. Of course I’m going to dig the funky things you can do with oats and the parts of animals some people don’t consider food. :)
Broccoli slaw is also marvy. Best base for a cold salad ever. That, chicken, cheese and mayo will make me very happy as dinner on a hot day. But that’s not weird per se, so I’ll continue forward into the stranger combinations I have fond memories about and perhaps still eat now.
I have got to try the peanut butter omelet. Sounds to me like it’d be extra-fab with some cream cheese along for the ride. I am also a big fan of the peanut butter and bacon sandwich.
As a kid, I was introduced to the baked bean sandwich by my grandmother. She also taught me about mashed banana sandwiches minus the peanut butter, which really did work well. The bread is spread with butter or margarine in each case, mind. Mayo would just not cut it, and Miracle Whip remains an abomination outside of deviled eggs.
When I was a poor struggling student, my favorite trick was to crack an egg into my ramen as soon as the noodle brick broke up. I’d cook it until the white had gone solid, then drained the whole batch and used the egg yolk as a sauce on the noodles. So good.
I’d also dip my fries into my chocolate shake sometimes. I once put mayonnaise on a pepperoni pizza. I defy anyone to tell me that adding potato chips to a tuna salad sandwich is silly. They might get away with it when I admit I did the same with bologna.
I don’t like much in the way of unusual food or food combos, but judging from the looks and remarks I get when I’m eating a peanut butter and cheese sandwich, it’s not a universal favorite. Seems like an obvious combo to me, though. Peanut butter on apple slices? Tasty. Apple slices with cheese? Tasty. Ergo…
And here’s me thinking that picture of haggis looks like a Japanese puffer fish, blown up and grilled to perfection.
My dad got me eating peanut butter and Miracle Whip sandwiches. Mmm…tangy!
Lindsay – I LOVE the french fries dipped in milkshakes. I have excellent memories of sitting with my girlfriends eating french fries dipped in chocolate chip milk shakes at the drive in frosty shop in my home town (they tore it down after I left for college to build a parking lot. sigh). If that salty-sweet combo is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
In a similar vein, I also have a soft spot in my heart for whipped cream on popcorn. I’ve only ever used the stuff out of a can, so I can say if “real” whipped cream would work. It probably would, though.
Peanut butter & butter toast! So delish!
Peanut butter on grilled cheese! Yum!!!
Peanut butter toast dipped in tomato soup!! MMMMM!!!!
Ok, so I loves me some peanut butter!
For something different: ham & butter sandwiches. Add some sliced hard boiled eggs to it….its like an Easter dinner rolled into one.
I will 3rd (or 4th?) that french fries dipped in ice cream/frosty/milkshake is yummy! French fries dipped in ranch dressing and even better, mayo, is also good. Bagel and cream cheese with bacon or plain kettle chips on top. Cheese and crackers with m&ms or chocolate kisses on top. (cheese and chocolate is good together am eating left over chocolate frosting and cheese goldfish together right now, yum). I use to LOVE PB and miracle whip sandwiches but I cant bring myself to eat that combo anymore. My mother loves PB and butter sandwiches. Oh and I love cold, in the can, non salted green beans. I will happily eat a can as a snack.
I can choke haggis down if it is fried in a meat pie and drenched in HP sauce.
Mmmm, haggis… Lysana said it right!
I like soya sauce on my fake mashed potatoes.
I never thought I had weird food tastes until I moved in with my husband. Apparently, not every one likes potato chip and ketchup sandwiches or just cheese and ketchup…. or sweet pickle relish, cheese, and ketchup…. well, basically anything you would put on top of a hamburger minus the hamburger part makes a great sandwich for me. :)
I also love salsa on my baked potato (the few times I splurge on that starchy goodness) which gets me some weird looks at restaurants.
For all you salty/sweet lovers out there, I’d have to say the strangest thing I’ve ever witnessed was in a McDonald’s when I was about 9 or 10 years old. There was a woman at the next table with an ice cream cone. Just regular vanilla. And in her other hand was a salt shaker, and she salted it before every lick. I’m just not into that. Anybody else?
My food weirdness: an inordinate love of vinegar. French fries, vegetables, you name it – it could use a shot of vinegar.
When I was a young girl, I would often spread some peanut butter or Cheeze Wiz onto celery sticks. I think it was the combination of the smooth and crunchy texture that was appealing to me.
Popcorn with pickled jalapenos. That’s good.
Oh Plumcake! Come to my arms! I never knew you shared my love of haggis!
For those of you still terrified of it, I remind you that Mike Myers said in So, I Married An Axe Murderer: All Scottish food is based on a dare.
Me? I took the dare and never looked back.
I’m with Alaina on the subject of vinegar. There are very few things on a table that cannot be improved with a dash of the correct vinegar. Strawberries and balsamic, anyone? A good malt vinegar on proper chips? Yum. Okay, now I want to go get myself half a dozen flavors of vinegar and play with them.
Sashibala, you are not alone in appreciating salsa on baked potatoes. I particularly lke a nice salsa verde.
Probably the strangest combination I eat, though, is tonkatsu sauce on rice. No tonkatsu. Okay, if I have the tonkatsu, I love it, but the tonkatsu doesn’t need to be there. It’s become this very odd comfort food for me.
Alaina: my roommate recently told the rest of us how she used to put salt on EVERYTHING, including ice cream.
And I shall fourth/fifth the movement of french fries dipped in milk shakes. Divine.
I adore breakfast sausage smothered with maple syrup. I don’t find it too weird (salty + sweet = DUH), but it literally makes my husband gag.
But…but jenn, the main reason I use maple syrup on my waffles and pancakes is so that the maple will spread to my bacon/sausages! Too yummy for words.
Daughter loves ketchup on tuna with chips, Hubby loves massive amounts of sugar on chili and tang with buttermilk. Me, I loves the cornbread with buttermilk just like demjen209, must be an Arkansas thing.
My ex-husband introduced me to “rolives” – radishes and black olives eaten together. Peanut butter and pickle relish sandwiches. French fries and ranch dressing. I liked haggis better before I saw the photo!
Bacon and real maple syrup are the food of the Gods! Mmmmmm. Want some NOW.
Got to have french fries with pickle juice. Hate pickles, but I’ll mash those dang fries into a side order of pickles in order to get out all that delicious, pickly nectar.
As a kid, I used to loooooove plain ol’ Wonder Bread spread with Miracle Whip and rolled into delightful little truffle-sized balls. The thought of this totally grosses me out now.
And not that it’s a particularly weird combo, but I have converted more friends and loved ones to the heavenly pastiche of movie theater popcorn, “butter”, and M&Ms all mixed together. Makes even the worst movie an experience to look forward to.
Amy, I love to eat movie theater popcorn (sans “butter”) and Milk Duds together. The salty-sweet thing again. Toss a few pieces of popcorn into your mouth, throw in a Milk Dud, chew, swallow, repeat. Yum! It’s like a deconstructed popcorn ball.
My husband introduced me to the food I love the best that sounds the weirdest: cheese and jam omelets. Shredded sharp cheddar and the strawberry jam (or preserves) with the biggest pieces of fruit you can find. Nummy. And it isn’t quite as good, but it sounds even weirder: crumbled bacon and apricot preserves in an omelet.
I learned this one from Mr. Rogers: American cheese wrapped around a banana. Mmm. Has to be the good American from the deli, though, not “pasteurized processed cheese food.” With a side of sweet pickles.
Cat, I used to go to some terrible movies, just so I could have the hot movie popcorn laced with milk duds, or smarties, or a combination of either of those and those fantastic, super decadent smoked almonds. What I sat through, just for that taste combo.
Haggis is awesome, and though it might not look too appealing when cooked it’s quite a cute wee critter when running around the glens.
http://haggishunt.scotsman.com/haggisclopedia.cfm
Ok- So I thought a bit on weird combinations or food that I liked and I came up with Pork Rinds- I know, not the healthiest, but I like it.
I gre up toxically allergic to milk and ate a lot of weird stuff when I was a kid- Couldn’t have milk and the soy milk in the 70′s was vile stuff, so I at cereal with juice on it- sounds gross but it was good- my fave combo was grape juice and cream of wheat- looks gross but YUMMY. I also had to have pizza without cheese- again- sounds gross but its good- when I moved to the east coast I discovered people eat pizza without cheese a lot and they call it tomato pie- so ggod.
Best thing ever: peanut butter and swiss cheese sandwich, toasted, preferably on wheat bread with lots of grains and stuff in it. Peanut butter must be natural.
One nice salty-sweet combo in the winter is to eat buttered popcorn and drink hot chocolate with it (I learned about it in a play I saw).
I would never try this myself, but one of my mother’s uncles eats navy beans on lemon meringue pie.
I grew up eating bacon and pb sandwiches, potato chips on a pb&j, or a banana sliced lengthwise and filled with pb – I still love the bacon and pb combo.
My mother told me that when she was pregnant with me she craved dill pickle slices with a dollop of pb on top. I tried it once; it’s actually pretty interesting – the combo of flavors gives a suggestion of sweetness you wouldn’t expect.
mozzarella and dark chocolate
dark chocolate, cayenne pepper and almonds
crackers, sharp cheddar and raspberry jam
cherry, rosemary cornbread- when mixing up the jiffy cornbread add like a quarter cup of cherry jam and some finely diced rosemary. The correct amount is in there if the mixture has turned slightly redder, has chunks of cherries in it and flecks of rosemary. Bake as usual but check after the normal amount of time and do the toothpick trick and then let it go for like 3 more minutes
goat cheese, apricot jam and almonds
I like to mix my sweet and savory… I also like to broil garlic, spread it on bread and top with a roasted red pepper
also celery with salt
french fries with tzaziki or ranch and lots of salt
bagels with cream cheese and onions
bagels with cream cheese, belly lox, and onions
sour garlic pickles that have been left in the fridge to mature for three-six months.
steak with cantaloupe
There is a yummy dark chocolate candy bar with smoked bacon pieces found at Whole Foods. Less odd but my true favorite is Fran’s milk chocolate caramel sprinkled with large chunks of smoked salt or dark chocolate with gray salt.
I have to add this: my dad (and I) eat fresh cantaloupe with pepper. I have no explaination for it. I also always have my chocolate chip cookies warm from the oven with a nice cold beer. I’ve eaten lots of fruit or preserves with savory stuff like cheese, I don’t find that weird at all. And the french frys dipped in shakes – you all know a good thing when you taste it!
Aiii! I just discovered – sweetened apple (in this case, halved, cored, and baked in the oven with brown sugar) and blue cheese dressing.
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Coffee Cheese!!! The best thing in the world when I was a little girl and my Dad would make it for us–and spread it on toast or English muffins. I have never heard of ANYONE else who made it/had it/even heard of it but you really should try it. Nothing else comes close! Grate sharp cheddar into a coffee mug of strong coffee–cover with a saucer or plastic wrap and let it melt–or micro for a few seconds. Spread on buttered toast or an English muffin. You can skip the butter if you want. Yum!!!!