odd food combinations what have you seen?

[Mrs. Readsalot]

I have seen what I consider some really strange thing done to food.
1. Pepper on cottage cheese and I am not talking about a little pepper either.
2. Salt on a salad (basic lettuce salad) Interestingly this is done by the same person as the pepper on the cottage cheese.
3. Ketchup on Macaroni and Cheese. Ok I know a lot of people do this but it just grosses me out. Both my ex-husband and current husband do this. I am telling you , if, I ever marry again I am checking on this first

[Jennifer in MI]

I have seen what I consider some really strange thing done to food.
1. Pepper on cottage cheese and I am not talking about a little pepper either.
2. Salt on a salad (basic lettuce salad) Interestingly this is done by the same person as the pepper on the cottage cheese.
3. Ketchup on Macaroni and Cheese. Ok I know a lot of people do this but it just grosses me out. Both my ex-husband and current husband do this. I am telling you , if, I ever marry again I am checking on this first

Well, I like pepper on cottage cheese! But, I like pepper on anything!

I also really like peanut butter and bacon sandwiches. I've been told that's weird! LOL

[Shelly in IL]

1. Cottage Cheese on top of shredded wheat (a little like cottage cheese on crackers, really - adds protein to your breakfast!)
2. Oatmeal made very dry with milk - then dump in a tub of sweetened yoghurt (especially key lime pie or orange creme). this is VERY good!
3. chips on meat sandwiches.

[Marie in Oh]

a bowl full of saltine crackers with milk over them like cereal every night before he went to bed. Wierd.

[cin]

I have seen what I consider some really strange thing done to food.
1. Pepper on cottage cheese and I am not talking about a little pepper either.
2. Salt on a salad (basic lettuce salad) Interestingly this is done by the same person as the pepper on the cottage cheese.
3. Ketchup on Macaroni and Cheese. Ok I know a lot of people do this but it just grosses me out. Both my ex-husband and current husband do this. I am telling you , if, I ever marry again I am checking on this first


I do the first 2!

Corn bread in a glass of milk (buttermilk preferred)
Peanut butter mixed with maple syrup
Chocolate cake in a bowl of milk
Potato chips dipped in ketchup
white bean soup with ketchup added

I'm sure there's more, but I can't think of them right now....

[Virginia Dawn]

I eat potato chips in my tuna sandwiches.
I like grilled cheese and apple sandwiches made with raisin bread.

When I was growing up my dad ate Ritz crackers with a slice of very sharp cheddar and a sardine on top. I used to like it. I can't figure out why.

I had a friend who used to drink a glass of chocolate milk with crushed saltines in it.

My 14yo son loves to experiment with putting things in his quesadillas. Yesterday he put pepperoni and spinach in with monterey jack cheese.

[mcconnellboys]

I think some people learn to salt and pepper everything and then just never stop. I know some older men who will salt and pepper all their fruit, even their pancakes, LOL! I think the same thing goes for ketchup. I had cousins growing up who learned to put it on everything (and craved the sugar in it, I guess) and they were still doing that as adults.

I like mustard on fries, myself......

[Virginia Dawn]

I used to cringe when my grandfather with heart problems would salt his fried chicken.

[percytruffle]

I have seen what I consider some really strange thing done to food.
1. Pepper on cottage cheese and I am not talking about a little pepper either.
2. Salt on a salad (basic lettuce salad) Interestingly this is done by the same person as the pepper on the cottage cheese.
3. Ketchup on Macaroni and Cheese. Ok I know a lot of people do this but it just grosses me out. Both my ex-husband and current husband do this. I am telling you , if, I ever marry again I am checking on this first


When I was growing up my family did all of these, myself included. I only do #1 now. :D

The most disgusting thing I've seen someone eat was a peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwich. It makes my skin crawl and my stomach twitch just thinking about it. I can't even stand to look at mayo, so that particular combo just seems unreal to me. :ack2:

I also don't understand the whole "fruit in your cottage cheese" thing. Just weird I tell ya. Salt and pepper it, why the sweet stuff? It is already salty, it's not like it is sweet like yogurt.

[WendyK]

I went to culinary school so I have seen some very interesting things. One thing in particular is ice creams made with unusual ice cream ingredients. Think corn ice cream, or asparagus ice cream!

I don't get putting ketchup on good beef steaks.

Salt on fruits, believe it or not, is not strange. It really does enhance and intensify the sweet flavor of the fruits (same with salt on salad).

That is all I can think of for now.

[percytruffle]

Salt on fruits, believe it or not, is not strange. It really does enhance and intensify the sweet flavor of the fruits (same with salt on salad).



Oh yeah, I forgot about the salt of fruit thingie. Ds discovered that if you lightly salt strawberries it tastes like you're eating strawberry shortcake. you get the sweetness of the berries and the salty quality of the shortcake biscuit at the same time. And, with fewer calories I might add.;)

[TN Mama]

I have seen what I consider some really strange thing done to food.
1. Pepper on cottage cheese and I am not talking about a little pepper either.




Peanut butter mixed with maple syrup
white bean soup with ketchup added



If I eat cottage cheese it is either with fruit (peaches or strawberries) or with a lot of pepper. Yum!

Growing up peanut butter & syrup was a yummy treat and I haven't had white beans in a long time, but I always add ketchup!

When I was younger I used to put ketchup on my <gasp> TACOS! I have a friend who still does that. Grosses me out now, but hey... who am I to talk? :)

[JFS in IL]

My mom grew up in Kansas. She would make a "salad" of peas, sweet pickles and peanuts, all chopped up together and mixed with mayo :ack2: need I add I NEVER ate any of it.

She would send us off to school with peanutbutter and pickle sandwiches, too.


I have to add - some of the combos mentioned sound like Depression-era cheap foods folks ate because it was all they had. And the kids then enjoy them as comfort food now, in their old age.

[Mrs. Readsalot]

Well
I do put salt on watermelon
and I loved potato chips on sandwiches (didn't matter what else was on it )when I was a kid....hmmm I might have to make one of those for lunch

[Rich with Kids]

I had an uncle that put milk on his chili. Me? I am a very picky eater. I one of those my-food-can't-touch-people. It drives my DH crazy! I can't eat reheated meat. Sweet can't touch salty unless it's m&ms in popcorn. Things like carrot salad with raisins make me cringe. Or grapes in chicken salad. I have issues...

[sclisa]

When I was growing up, my mom never baked bread products. We always, always had "bread & butter." This was simply white bread (like Wonder, yuck) and margarine. My dad would always cut his bread into halves or fourths and top the margarine with applesauce. I always thought that was strange, but his whole side of the family did it. Wonder why? I never asked and now they're all gone.

Thanks for asking the question...I had forgotten about that until I read this thread. It was a fun surprise to have a nostalgic childhood memory return. :)

Lisa

[Tammyla]

Ketchup on a biscuit or eggs, just gives me the willies. Oh, and mayo on a grill cheese. LoL.:lol:

My oddity is liking natural peanut butter on pancakes with bananas, when I'm pregnant. Thankfully, those years are behind us. :lol:

[percytruffle]

You can come eat at our house anytime. We have plates (http://www.amazon.com/Corelle-Livingware-4-Inch-Divided-Winter/dp/B000KZ0HS0) for people with "food touching issues"! Dh appreciates them very much.

[Lorna in the boonies]

My food can't touch, either. Also, I eat all of one thing before moving on to the next.

My oldest puts mustard on her cantaloupe.

Dh puts cheddar cheese and applesauce on his biscuits. The cheese part doesn't gross me out, but the applesauce part does.

Personally, my only odd combination is popcorn with candy corn.

[mcconnellboys]

Oh yeah! I forgot! People used to mix peanut butter with Karo syrup to make sandwiches. In fact, I think they did this at our elementary school on the days we had those sandwiches. And we used to eat Mayonaise sandwiches - yum! I still like those! I think it's a southern thing......

Now, if you want to talk about weird past foods, such as we used to sell in our grocery store, how about Souse Meat? Hogshead Cheese? Brains? Other internal organs? Fat Back? I know other countries still do this more than do we..... Pickled Pigs Feet..... Who watches Andrew Zimmern? (Is that last name correct?)

[RoughCollie]

My DH puts thousand island dressing on cottage cheese.

My former husband puts either grape jelly or catsup on scrambled eggs.

I put sweet pickles on grilled cheese sandwiches, but I don't think that is weird.

Some people I've met think a peanut butter & banana sandwich is weird.

[mo2]

Everyone thinks it's weird that I put grape jelly on my grilled cheese sandwiches. Dd eats cheese and mustard sandwiches. I like to dip french fries in ice cream. We mix baked beans in with our mac-n-cheese.

[Diana in OR]

The most disgusting thing I've seen someone eat was a peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwich. It makes my skin crawl and my stomach twitch just thinking about it. I can't even stand to look at mayo, so that particular combo just seems unreal to me. :ack2:



Dh's favorite is a peanut butter, dill pickle and mayonnaise sandwich. I tried it once. It didn't do anything for me. :confused:

[Rich with Kids]

You can come eat at our house anytime. We have plates (http://www.amazon.com/Corelle-Livingware-4-Inch-Divided-Winter/dp/B000KZ0HS0) for people with "food touching issues"! Dh appreciates them very much.

Gotta get me some of those!

[Mamagistra]

I like mustard with french fries. Is that so wrong? :001_huh:

[Mrs. Readsalot]

Is vinegar of French Fries a common thing...I know we like it.

[Mommy22alyns]

I'm a boring Midwesterner with my food. An occasional bit of salt, and garlic salt on almost anything that's not sweet.

I've seen:

Ketchup on macaroni and cheese... :001_huh:
DH likes ketchup on his hash browns. I guess logically it might make sense, but I still raise my eyebrows at it.
DH and MIL will salt to death anything that stands still. Really, seriously salt. DH isn't as abundant with it, but the both of them will add salt to country ham. :ack2:

[Mamagistra]

Is vinegar of French Fries a common thing...I know we like it.

Mm...yes, that's the British way with "chips". :D

[Adrianne]

She would send us off to school with peanutbutter and pickle sandwiches, too.

Peanut butter and sweet pickle (grandma's bread and butter pickles) sandwiches are big in my family. :ack2:

I personally like grandma's bread and butter pickles on my tuna fish sandwich with potato chips.

My dh likes pepper and salt on cottage cheese. He also puts ketchup or any tomato based product on his mac and cheese. He also likes lemon juice and hot sauce in his V-8 juice :ack2:

He gets grossed out when I eat any beans and onions so I guess we are even.

[Janet in Toronto]

Is vinegar of French Fries a common thing...I know we like it.

This is typical in Canada. All our fast food restaurants have little packets of vinegar with the condiments.

[Happy]

My uncles all eat mashed potatoes with green peas and ketchup. I've never tried it and hate to look at it.

My dad used to talk about mayonnaise sandwiches...just mayo, nothing else.

We love a sprinkle of salt on fruit and salads. Yum.

Dh's family eats chicken and rice soup over mashed potatoes. It's good.

I once saw my brother pour BBQ sauce over cornflakes. I think it was because we were out of milk and he was a teenager...

[Jami]

I had an uncle that put milk on his chili. Me? I am a very picky eater. I one of those my-food-can't-touch-people. It drives my DH crazy! I can't eat reheated meat. Sweet can't touch salty unless it's m&ms in popcorn. Things like carrot salad with raisins make me cringe. Or grapes in chicken salad. I have issues...


I'm with you. Fruit with meat is weird for me. Cranberries and turkey, grapes in chicken salad, ham and pineapple...so strange. ;) And carrots with raisins! *shudder* Like those strange Jello combination salads, celery in lime Jello...I need to link the Lileks food gallery. http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/jello/index.html

Jami

[cin]

If I eat cottage cheese it is either with fruit (peaches or strawberries) or with a lot of pepper. Yum!

Growing up peanut butter & syrup was a yummy treat and I haven't had white beans in a long time, but I always add ketchup!

When I was younger I used to put ketchup on my <gasp> TACOS! I have a friend who still does that. Grosses me out now, but hey... who am I to talk? :)


Interesting....my dad was from Tennessee. And I see that your in E. TN. I wonder if it's a regional thing?

[charlotteb]

We put peanut butter on our pancakes. Yummy!! And if you don't happen to have any pancakes handy, you can mix a slice of bread, peanut butter and syrup. It's a great snack :)

My family (not me though) puts ketchup on their biscuits and gravy. I always thought that was weired.

Charlotte

[LisaK in VA]

My favorite snack (pregnant or not) is garlic toast and orange juice (not mixed together, just eating the toast and drinking the juice).

As a child, I remember eating Miracle Whip, Ketchup and Mustard Sandwhiches... I also ate chips on my tuna sandwhiches...

[Stacia]

Banana sandwich w/ MAYO! (I got served this at a friend's house when I was a kid. And, here I was, just getting my first bite of what I thought was a regular old banana sandwich when I tasted the mayo. :tongue_smilie:)

I used to think dh was extremely strange for eating chocolate sandwiches (actual chocolate bars on bread, or Nutella, or butter covered w/ chocolate sprinkles on bread). He's Belgian -- what can I say? And, I've since been reformed. ;) (Well, except for eating a chocolate sprinkle sandwich -- I still think that one is weird.)

[OnTheBrink]

My dad is from Southern Indiana and he made peanut butter/syrup for me when I was a kid.He also puts cole slaw on hot dogs.

One of my favorite breakfasts is a whole grain waffle, peanut butter and sliced bananas. Top it with maple sugar, if I have any.

I mix peanut M&M's with buttered, salted popcorn.

I LOVE a good, icy cold chocolate cherry coke from Sonic.

[TXMomof4]

alright, here's a true story.

My dh's grandmother celebrates her English heritage. Unfortunately, she grew up in south TX during the depression, so she takes the 'idea' of the English food and makes do with whatever she has. One time she was going to make tomato aspic. Ok, tomato and meat jello grosses me out in principle, but she didn't have any of the correct ingredients, so she made


LIME jello, with salsa mixed in. Served with sour cream.


We found her cookbook with the recipe marked for tomato aspic and all of her substitutions noted. It was marked *VERY GOOD*. Makes me gag just to think about it.

My cousin's grandmother made chocolate gravy to eat on biscuits. It was interesting. Not my first choice for breakfast though

[Jenny in Atl]

I like mustard with french fries. Is that so wrong? :001_huh:

We used to eat French fries with turkey gravy... Ihop style! :001_huh:

[*anj*]

I have to add - some of the combos mentioned sound like Depression-era cheap foods folks ate because it was all they had. And the kids then enjoy them as comfort food now, in their old age.

Yes, like spaghetti and eggs, peppers and eggs, pancakes with gravy, tuna with evaporated milk on toast....those are the ones that popped into my head. I never had to eat any of those things, but friends of mine did. Cheap meat eatin' days!

Oh, and dare I say it? Tater tot casserole!!

[OnTheBrink]

My dad is from Southern Indiana and he made peanut butter/syrup for me when I was a kid.He also puts cole slaw on hot dogs.

One of my favorite breakfasts is a whole grain waffle, peanut butter and sliced bananas. Top it with maple sugar, if I have any.

I mix peanut M&M's with buttered, salted popcorn.

I LOVE a good, icy cold chocolate cherry coke from Sonic.

I thought of a few others: I like ranch dressing on pizza and on fries.

[*anj*]

My former husband puts either grape jelly or catsup on scrambled eggs.



Some people I've met think a peanut butter & banana sandwich is weird.

My mom likes to eat sausage, eggs, and grape jelly on a biscuit.

I love pb and banana!!!! My brother used to leave the banana whole and put it on a hot dog bun with pb as the "mustard."

[jacqui in mo]

It was a neighbor of my MIL's in CA whose dh was Mexican & apparently this was a common dish. It was just Chicken stewed with cocoa powder (unsweetened) & maybe some other spices but it's so long ago I don't remember. I do recall it tasted strange to me:tongue_smilie:, the sauce was kinda bitter like unsweetened chocolate would be expected to be. Must be descendants of Aztecs or something.

Jacqui

[LisaK in VA]

Two more of my faves...

McDonald's Egg McMuffin w/ grape jelly
McDonald's Sausage Biscuit with strawberry (no substitutions)

Although, the sausage biscuits from 7-11 I want mustard.

[Mamagistra]

We used to eat French fries with turkey gravy... Ihop style! :001_huh:

Ooh, that's nearly Canadian! Poutine, anyone?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Poutine.jpg

Just one more cultural service furnished by the WTM General Board! Thanks, Cleo! :D

[Mamagistra]

It was a neighbor of my MIL's in CA whose dh was Mexican & apparently this was a common dish. It was just Chicken stewed with cocoa powder (unsweetened) & maybe some other spices but it's so long ago I don't remember. I do recall it tasted strange to me:tongue_smilie:, the sauce was kinda bitter like unsweetened chocolate would be expected to be. Must be descendants of Aztecs or something.

I think it's a version of mole (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_(sauce)#Mole_de_cacahuate).

[allearia]

I knew a guy once who would put ketchup on his cottage cheese. I wonder why so many of these wierd combinations include those two foods?

my grandma used to eat toast with peanut butter AND butter on top.

I love pancakes with peanut butter and syrup on top.

[j.griff]

DH- peanut butter and Cool Ranch Doritos sandwich
his brother- peanut butter and Cool Ranch Doritos and pickles sandwich
my dad- tobasco sauce and pepper juice (from pickled peppers) on butter beans, collard greens, turnip greens, etc. Tobasco sauce on bologna, pizza, etc.
My mom- a glass of cornbread (preferred) or white bread, covered with milk- eaten with a spoon.

A friend of ours put mayo on her hot dogs, which I found to be a tiny bit odd, but she though that us putting onions on ours was VERY strange, LOL.
I've been told that I am "weird" for putting tomatoes in soups. *shrugs*

[RoughCollie]

Now that is creative!

I love pb and banana!!!! My brother used to leave the banana whole and put it on a hot dog bun with pb as the "mustard."

[j.griff]

I LOVED it when my Nanny Cile would cook fatback for breakfast, and she liked souse meat- but I wouldn't touch the stuff.

[Jennifer on Earth]

Ooo, I love cottage cheese and pepper (preferably with salt too)!

It's common at a local pizza restaurant around here to dip pizza in ranch dressing ~ as if pizza wasn't artery clogging enough. My father likes to eat peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches. My brother likes peanut butter and syrup sandwiches. My parents love fried Spam with scrambled eggs. And my husband puts hot sauce on just about anything he puts in his mouth (soups, casseroles, salads, eggs, etc.). Can you tell we're from the South?:)

[Hen Jen]

Jacqui,

it's called Chicken in Molay sauce- and I know I killed the spelling there, my dad is mexican, and he makes it- here in Ca you can buy cans of the sauce, it is more than just cocoa powder, from what I remember. I love, love, love it. I love chocolate, so there's my clue I guess.

The weirdest combination I witnessed was when we were in Taiwan, we bought ice-cream cones, and inside the ice cream we started finding peas...carrots...small cherry tomatoes.

My sister likes french fries dipped in mayonase, which started me on french fries with ranch dressing...which I stopped doing because you know that has to be so fattening!

[Heather in NC]

I love mayonnaise and banana sandwiches!

[Stacia]

I love mayonnaise and banana sandwiches!

Hey Heather, you don't serve those to unsuspecting kids visiting your house, right??? ;) I just feel sympathy for kids getting the nasty suprise of mayo when they're not expecting it. hahaha

ROFL!

Oh, and I see the mention of fries & mayo in some posts. My dh used to do that (doesn't now since it's so unhealthy) & I thought it was yucko! LOL. But, I love that opening scene in Pulp Fiction when they're discussing fries & mayo -- I can so relate!

[Mandamom]

(which luckily I've never seen before ) is raw hamburger/groundbeef with mustard on bread.

He learned to eat raw hamburger when he was a kid from his mother. They would eat it as a snack.

[Karin]

Is vinegar of French Fries a common thing...I know we like it.

But of course. In Canada there is always a bottle of vinegar along with ketchup. The vinegar is for your fries, thank you very much.

[Karin]

Ooh, that's nearly Canadian! Poutine, anyone?

Just one more cultural service furnished by the WTM General Board! Thanks, Cleo! :D

That's French Canadian;). I never saw that growing up in BC. Vinegar on fries. Ketchup on fries.

[Karin]

My grandfather ate honey on cheese.

When I was 16 and living in San Francisco, I invented a peanut butter, sprouts and walnut sandwich. Someone later said they saw it in a restaurant, so either someone told them about it (lots of people saw me eat those) or they figured it out, too.

Later, I would eat peanutbutter, cheese, raisin and alfalfa sprout sandwiches--that's more than 2!!! I'd be enormous if I ate that now. It sounds gross, I know, but it's very, very, very good (Harvarti cheese works well for this, as does white cheddar.) And I was grossed out at the thought of cheese and peanut butter for years before I tried them together.

Also, I used to make a great sauce that included tomato sauce, ginger and scallops. I can't even remember all the different combinations I've made--I often cook by smell and just put things together. The almost always get rave reviews even if they sound strange on paper.

My 10 yo likes to mix weird things, too.

[Emily in FL]

My husband makes fun of me because I used to eat mayo and ketchup on saltines. Oh, and I spread the mayo thin and put a small dot of ketchup on each cracker. My mother taught me to love these.

Heather in NC, I love banana sandwiches with mayo too. It has to be white bread though. A tall glass of Dr. Pepper to drink with it makes it perfect.

[Rose in BC]

3. Ketchup on Macaroni and Cheese. Ok I know a lot of people do this but it just grosses me out. Both my ex-husband and current husband do this. I am telling you , if, I ever marry again I am checking on this first

You definitely have my support that this is an obnoxious concoction.

[Pepper]

My mom loves ketchup on fried spaghetti. Sounds bad but tastes okay. I think it was what we ate when dough was low, as a child, or when she couldn't
get up the energy to cook.

My mom's sister ate stuffing sandwiches before she lost weight.
So, that is bread, with chopped buttered bread inside.

My family's version of fried spaghetti and ketchup is a nasty dish with Korean potato noodles ( cheap and gluten free at the Asian grocer's).
They are a slippery grey/lavender see-though noodle that I boil and serve with soy sauce and chopped Spam. Yes, Spam. It's nasty. Terrible and wonderful at the same time.

[Oak Knoll Mom]

The most disgusting thing I've seen someone eat was a peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwich. It makes my skin crawl and my stomach twitch just thinking about it. I can't even stand to look at mayo, so that particular combo just seems unreal to me. :ack2:

My dad used to eat these. He said it started when he was a kid and making a PB&J. After he put the PB on the bread, he realized that they were out of jelly. He didn't like PB by itself, but knew better than to waste the sandwich so he looked in the fridge for something that would sub for the sliminess of the jelly. And the PB&M was born. Thankfully he never made any of us eat them. :tongue_smilie:

[Oak Knoll Mom]

(which luckily I've never seen before ) is raw hamburger/groundbeef with mustard on bread.

He learned to eat raw hamburger when he was a kid from his mother. They would eat it as a snack.

:ack2::ack2::ack2:

[huntergirlnc21]

Peanut butter on hot dogs and hamburgers...my college boyfriend's whole family did this. They were otherwise very normal in their food choices.

I tried it...once. It wasn't bad, but I haven't done it since :)