French Toast toppings...

The thread dealing with North vs South (US) cuisine brought back a childhood memory. Being of British parentage, I have always put a little ketchup on my french toast. I mean, it's eggs, right?

When I was about 7 years old, I stayed over at a friend's house, and the next morning french toast was served. Seeing no ketchup on the table, I asked for some. The disbelief and horror on the face of my friend's mother is something I still remember after 30 years. It was only then that I found that most Canadians (?North Americans?) use icing sugar or syrup on their f.t.

My question is this: do various cultural groups tend to prefer sweet to savoury toppings on their f.t.? Is the use of ketchup a British thing, or am I some kind of Hideous Mutant Freak and evolutionary dead end?

One more thing: travelling in the US about 15 years ago, I noticed there was never any vinegar at the table in restaurants and diners, and our request for some drew looks that brought back memories of the French Toast Incident.

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I too am of British parentage (well on one side, anyway) and I have always had jam or syrup on my french toast. This would seem to support your theory that you could be a "Hideous Mutant Freak", although I'm sure your mummy still loves you.

That having been said, I have been looked at askance for such combinations as chutney and grilled cheese sandwiches, a culinary oddity my British mother instilled in me.

I don't know anyone who puts ketchup on french toast, though. What do the french do?

You wacked out Limeys!

You also put mayo on french fries.

I believe that the toppings used on food is learned from your parents. My dad peppered his cantaloupe. So do I.

Your average US restaurant would only make vinigar available in the case of fish and chips or perhaps a salad.

My wife is British and favors some rather strange (to me) combinations of food. Alas, and thank God, ketchup on her french toast isn't one of them.

One thing she has taught me is to avoid is anything offered to you by a Brit with the word pudding in it. I grew up with the kind of pudding that was creamy and chocalatey and came in little disposable cups like the stuff Bill Cosby hocks. Pudding to her can mean anything from coagulated pig's blood (black pudding) to a sausage casing filled with sugary lard (white pudding?)

She also has a proclivity for putting things on toast: Beans, sardines, corned beef (the gross kind that comes in a can) and peas.

Yet she cringes in revoltion at the sight of a peanutbutter and jelly sandwich. There were MANY good reasons for the American Revolution and I aint talking about taxation!

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Aon Dia.
Aon Tir.
Aon Ite.

I like mayo on my french fries. I also like catsup on french toast.
When I was a kid, we had pancakes and eggs with maple syrup on the cakes and a couple eggs on top with catsup on them. YUM!
Everybody liked it, except Mikey.
Most cultures enjoy sweet and savory together.
Peace,
mangeorge

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I should have perhaps specified that while my father was English, my mother is Scots.

My father and I would actually have to leave the building when my mother prepared an atrocity called "Finnan Haddie," which to the best of my recollection is salt mackerel boiled in milk.

Fried mealy (or white) pudding, fried tomatoes, Ayrshire ham and eggs, with soft baps (floury rolls) and hot tea is a breakfast fit for God's Own Prophet, and prepares a man for a day's scurfing in the shipyards.


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"A friend will help you move house. A best friend will help you move a body."--Alexi Sayle

What the hell is wrong with beans on toast???

The true culinary weirdnesses come from south of the border, IMHO. That's right, you Yanks do some strange and disgusting things to food.

Exhibit A: Corn dogs. Eeeewwwww.
Exhibit B: Grits. I don't even know what they are, but I wouldn't want to eat anything that brings to mind that feeling you get between your teeth after driving for five hours on a dirt road in a drought.
Exhibit C: Chicken-fried steak. No elaboration necessary.
Exhibit D: Pizza pops
Exhibit E: A morbid fascination with non-foods like aspartame and olestra.
Exhibit F: Pork rinds

I could go on, but I'd rather not lose the bagel I ate for breakfast. Wacked out Limeys indeed. Hmph.

My dad was from Nova Scotia and did similarly strange things to fish, particularly kippers.

I forgot to add earlier that ketchup does belong on eggs, if that was in doubt. I always had ketchup on omlettes and scrambled eggs as a kid. Just out of curiosity, did anyone else's mom make scrambled eggs in a saucepan rather than a frying pan? I was under the impression that my mom's scrambled egg method was a Brit thing, but it may have been just a family thing.

I'll take a corn dog over beans on toast anyday. No wonder the Brits lost their empire! Your tank hits a bump in the road on the way to squelsh the whirling dirvishes; you got beans all over your lap! If you'd had corn dogs, you could have ruled the world forever!

Well, on my French toast, it has to be butter, maple syrup, and powdered sugar. Mmmm, mmmm. Is anyone else on this board normal.

My dad always mixed ketchup in with his chicken noodle soup. Is this a common thing, or shall I continue my thinking in that this combination would cause anyone else to hurl?

Speaking of weird toppings, I guess this isn't that unheard of, but my uncle won't eat ice cream unless he has some Rice Krispies or Cornflakes to put on top of it.

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I've not done the Krispie/Corn Flake deal. I have topped ice cream with granola, though.

My aunt mixed ketchup in her soup. Also sour cream. And,(*coincidence*?) Raspy, her pet feline was named Rasputin Finnius Cat.

My friend from Mexico City says all foods are divided into two categories:
- Those you can eat with ice cream (French Toast would fall in this category); and
- Those you put hot sauce on.

No C or P

The only eggs I've ever put ketchup on were in a fried egg sandwich. I put syrup on french toast and wash it down with orange juice.

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Ooh, that reminds of some good sandwiches I used to make a lot myself. There was the fried egg and cheese sandwich (no ketchup, though), plus the always popular peanut butter and banana.

Speaking of weird toppings, I guess this isn't that unheard of, but my uncle won't eat ice cream unless he has some Rice Krispies or Cornflakes to put on top of it.
When I was a kid, my grandma (my Coors-drinking, baseball-fanatic, non-domestic type grandma) used to give us vanilla ice cream with Cheerios on top. This was a very rare, very special treat and MUCH better than it sounds.



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Don't take life so serious, son... it ain't no how permanent.
-Porkypine

Since we're admitting to strange food combinations, I'll throw in my favorite: Peanut butter and cheese. It's good, really! But it has to be JIF peanut butter, not a sweet brand like Peter Pan.

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What has to be the wierdest ice cream topping known to mankind is A-1. I know somebody who will put A-1 on vanilla ice cream and eat it.

<shudder>

. . . As for french toast, the only way I've ever seen it done is in restaurants in the western United States, where it is invariably (so far as I can tell) topped with powdered sugar and pancake syrup.

-- Sylence.

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Cream cheese and any jam or jelly.
Damn, I'm hungry!

Ooh, ooh.
Cold spaghetti on Wonder bread with mayo.

Cold, congealed gravy. On Hi Ho crackers.

I'm outta here. Gotta get some chili-cheese dogs at the Wienerschnitzel.

Weird food combinations:

Slow cooked pinto beans with bacon...and cottage cheese. This is excellent.

My stepfather used to eat peanut butter sandwiches...with American cheese slices and French's mustard. Gag.

On French Toast? Well, my younger brother slathers mustard (has to be the bright yellow stuff) on his. As for me, I like my French toast the way I had it every morning back in my Army days: toast on the bottom, sunny-side up eggs on top of that, creamed beef on top of all that. That would be my favourite meal number one.

Favourite meal number two is an Ulster Fry. Dang, that's a great breakfast! And the pancakes don't have syrup on them.

Eris: you just reminded me of my mum's "steamed egg," which is essentially scrambled eggs (with milk, pepper and parsley), cooked in a covered saucepan. Served, naturally, on toast.

My mother will still occasionally have bully beef (the tinned kind) and cabbage. And always steak pie (no kidney) on Hogmanay (New Year's Day), and of course, haggis on January 25, with bashed neeps.

"And what do you think the Argylls ate in Aden? Arabs!?" -old Monty Python skit

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>>One more thing: travelling in the US about 15 years ago, I noticed there was never any vinegar at the table in restaurants and diners, and our request for some drew looks that brought back memories of the French Toast Incident.>>

Vinegar is not one of the top condiments on tables in the US. In Maryland, there are several french fry establishments ("Thrasher's" in Ocean City and "Boardwalk Fries" elsewhere) which conspicuously serve vinegar. In fact, Thrasher's provides apple-cider vinegar for your fries at the cash register, under a big sign which announces "NO KETCHUP". The sign, of course invites thousands of "Got any ketchup?" questions per day. In most other restaurants, however, ketchup is on the table and vinegar is not.

On top of French toast? Well blueberry jam and whipping cream. If there is no bluberries, the strawberries. In desperation syrop will do fine.On top of toast? Why pickeled herring and slided boiled eggs of course!

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Eris: you just reminded me of my mum's "steamed egg," which is essentially scrambled eggs (with milk, pepper and parsley), cooked in a covered saucepan. Served, naturally, on toast.

Yes, that's essentially it. Except there's some genetic mutation in my family that's caused none of us to like parsley, hence no parsely in the scrambled eggs. My mom added a bit of butter & salt, too. And of course it was served on toast!

Nice to see another Victoria resident on this board. Beautiful day, isn't it?

Awww..I hate the guy that reminded me of Thrashers Fries over in Ocean City. I used to drown em in apple vinegar and eat quickly, burning the hell out of my mouth. (Now I am on the west coast I can't get to them!) You FIEND!

Ok gorwing up in the south I have eaten wierd stuff:
-Peanut butter and Banana sanwiches fried in Bacon fat (Elvis was on to something-they taste good)
-Eggs, sourcream, wosht- Worschtershire sauce (I think thats right), cayenne pepper
-Fried Pickles! (Its a corn dog but with a pickle inside-popular in Arkansas)
-Peanut butter and butter sanwiches

Now for your enjoyment Alcoholic drinks never meant for human consumption-PUNISHMENT SHOTS

-Dragon Piss (Creme de minthe and Mountain Dew) Go ahead and try to choke it down
-Cement Mixer (shot of Bailey's Irsh Cream, shot of lime juice-Take shot of Bailey's. With Bailey's in your mouth take shot of lime juice. Mix rapidly in mouth by shaking head vigorously. Swallow before it congeals totally.) I have puked everytime I tried this
-Blood of Satan -GUARANTEED TO FLOOR YOU (
1 part Jagermeister,1 part Goldschlager,1 part Irish whiskey (Jamson's ),1 part Jack Daniels - Mix in shot glass and chug..grab something non human and hold on-being that I nearly broke someones arm after downing this)

Anyone else got really really bad punishment shots?

I can't remember what this was called (I'll look it up and get back to you), but it probably had something to do with fire. Cinnamon schnapps...and tabasco. I am not making this up.

My mother grew up thinking that the proper partner for peanut butter on a sandwich was pickles. (it's still her preferred choice, and I eat it, too. I'm always amused by the reactions when I mention or eat it).

Well, my uncle "kicks ice cream up a notch" by slathering it with pinto beans. In all other respects he's an intelligent man.

The question is, does he add pinto beans to ice cream because he honestly believes pinto beans are tasty on ice cream, or does he do it because he thinks plain ice cream is boring and needs some accoutrements that nobody else has thought of yet? It's the latter trend that worries me.

Sayeth the Doolster -- "Anyone else got really really bad punishment shots?"

Ensign Eaters --
1 shot rootbeer Schnapps
1 shot San Bouca(sp?)
Coke (a Cola)

Put Schnapps in shooter glass. Then slowly pour Bouca down the outside of a swizzle stick so it layers on top the Schnapps. Rinse mouth w/Coke. Shoot it. Bow to porcelain queeen. Repeat.

Wors'en rinsing with Coke after brushing your teeth.
Fill mouth with Coke and

Got shots?

See Punishment Shots thread.

Great DAY, what an insane thread. Better add to the fire...

My Dad is a bred-and-born German (from farm country, no less) and therefore eats just about anything you can chop off a cow with a quick whack from a sharp axe (Including the thing you'd think you wouldn't eat, but let's not go into that here). He puts salt on everything including, but not limited to, peach ice cream, root beer, and brie (as if it weren't salty enuff). He likes stinky sammiches made of limburger, muenster, hard pastrami and sardines in mustard sauce with red onions and garlic topped with tabasco on sourdough bread (and for that matter, so do I). He puts mayo on his potatoes.

Mom is half-Scots, half-English, so there were cooking monstrosities going on in that house around the clock. Grandma likes the taste of milktoast. Mom has a fondness for lukewarm pineapple chunks. And peanut butter on everything. Grandad was a Scotsman, and therefore, liked the taste of whiskey. Hooo!

My fiancee says she likes Rice Krispies in a bowl of RC, but she's kind of a freak.

And I dunno so much about ketchup on French Toast, but golly I like maple syrup on my sausage and eggs.

And it ain't a shot, but for a mean drink, check out http://freehosting.at.webjump.com/a1/87cents/deportee.htm

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Ensign Eaters --
1 shot rootbeer Schnapps
1 shot San Bouca(sp?)
Coke (a Cola)

I think it's Sambucca. However you spell it though, it's still nasty.

My favorite weird food combo is macaroni & cheese & ketchup. I try to not eat this when anyone else is around 'cause it really looks nasty. But it's good! I swear :) Especially if Mom didn't put enough velveeta in the m&c

Never heard of anyone putting anything but high concentrations of sugar on french toast before, although I put ketchup on scrambled eggs 'til I got to college and the ketchup was worse than the eggs.

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Those who can't hear the music, think the dancer is mad.

Taste - there's just no accounting for it.

This brings to mind a related saying, and a related topic: Life is a matter of Taste.

Does anyone else here watch the Food Network? Specifically, David Rosengarten's show Taste? Does anyone else think that he gets most of the way through a recipe, and it looks all good, but then he adds something just disgusting (like anchovies to egg salad) and that just wrecks it? Or is this a standard American way to cook? I'm not trying to yank-bash here, but I've seen this on other cooking shows too. Has anyone else noticed a tendency to "kick it up a notch" just for the sake of "kicking it up a notch"?

In addition to the aforementioned PB and banana sandwiches, my dad had another fruit sandwich oddity: pineapple sandwiches. He'd take canned pineapples (rings or chunks) and stick them between two slices of bread and chow down. I think he may also have put mayo on the things.

Still looking for the adoption papers...

As a kid, I used to love Mac & Cheese with kechup.

Want a great combination? There is a resturant in St. Louis that serves a thing - I think called a slinger. Take two cheeseburger patties (I prefer RARE); top with a fried egg each. Put hash browns next to it. Smother the whole plate with chili. Wonderful. Gotta be soft yolks on the eggs so that they stare at you out of the chilli!

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Benjamin Disraeli

My favorite odd combo.....brussel sprouts drowning in Miracle Whip.

My sister eats Cherry flavored pop tarts with butter slathered all over the top of it (uncooked, of course)

My stepfather won't eat any kind of meat unless it's coated in barbecue sauce, and that's including turkey, ham, etc.

I like orange sherbet with chocolate sprinkles, or orange sherbet with chocolate sauce (not fudge!) stirred into soup. Mr. Rilch says I'm crazy. Having read this thread, I think not.

Not a punishment shot, but cool:
Brain:
1 shot Bailey's
1 shot peach schnapps
The peach curdles the cream, causing it to look somewhat like a brain. Add a drop of grenadine to make it a Brain Hemmorhage.


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[[Well, my uncle "kicks ice cream up a notch" by slathering it with pinto beans. In all other respects he's an intelligent man.]]

Ice cream and beans is a popular treat...in Hawaii!

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"Age is mind over matter; if you don't mind, it don't matter." -Leroy "Satchel" Paige

One of the three best hamburgers I ever had was a regular thick burger patty wrapped in what basically amounted to the outside of an omelet. Put it on a grilled bun, and the only condiment you need is salt. Yum...

(The other best burgers are tame...medium rare, with cheddar cheese, mushrooms, bacon, and a liberal dose of A-1, or the same thing, only topped with bleu cheese and bacon)

You just reminded me of one of my summer camp favorites. Sloppy Joes with potato chips, only put the potato chips on the sandwich instead of on the side. This only works with those thick, ridgy chips (Ruffles are the best), but they're damn good.

Oh, well putting potato chips in a sandwich isn't strange, is it? You GOTTA do that with a tuna sandwich. Adds texture.

Oh yeah, mac&cheese with ketchup!!!

And, butter beans with mustard!!

Also, bologna w/ Miracle Whip and Frito's on potato bread - the best!

You people are all sick, sick, sick! :) I don't think I have any strange food cravings. I am way too much of a picky eater for that.

The grossest thing I have ever seen someone else do, though, was take a twinkie, cut it lengthwise, and put a hot dog in the middle. Yuck!

Start with a Omelet with green pepper, mushrooms, and onions. (or what ever you like, a cheese omelet works too) Top with chile and serve with a side of salsa and a side of sour cream...Mexican omelet. A cafe where I grew up served these, really good but draws some strange looks.

Two awful food combinations I've run across:

1. An old college roommate would get rid of flat beer in the morning (y'know, the half-bottles lying around the day after a party) by using it instead of milk over Cheerios. He also smoked opium, so we expected this sort of behavior from him.

2 (this one still comes up regularly, because it's a favorite of my inbred stepfamily and I see it at holidays and reunions): Fill a large bowl with cottage cheese. Stir in a packet of Jell-O powder, preferably lime. Add raisins and shredded carrots. Enjoy.

RRRAAaaalllffff...

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"I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV."

(this one still comes up regularly,

I can see why...

Weird combos for me?

Mountain Dew and creamer. Be careful though that the creamer isn't bad though, or it will explode when you put it with your drink.

Strawberry yogurt and rice krispies. Yummy.




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The most important things in life aren't things.

[I can't remember what this was called (I'll look it up and get back to you), but it probably had something to do with fire. Cinnamon
schnapps...and tabasco. I am not making this up.]

Red Hots! Had a friend of mexican persuasion who would do shot of tabasco and chase it with the c/schnapps. MEDIC!

My favorite weird food combo is macaroni & cheese & ketchup

I used to add sour cream and Heinz 57 sauce to mine. Thick & spicy!

The weirdest thing I ever put together was purely for shock value (i.e. grossing out sister and friends) and was a ketchup, mayo & potato chip sandwich. Sounds kinda tame but they ran screaming, which was the effect I desired.

Doolin, man, thanks for the shot ideas. Gonna try those out sometime and see how bad they ruin me.

Actually, some of these food ideas don't sound all that bad...

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You just reminded me of one of my summer camp favorites. Sloppy Joes with potato chips, only put the potato chips on the sandwich instead of on the side. This only works with those thick, ridgy chips (Ruffles are the best), but they're damn good. We also made stuffed hamburgers at camp, where you'd take your hamburger patty, divide it into two, put what would normally be toppings (onions, cheese, etc) in the middle, seal the edges, wrap it in aluminum foil, and throw it into the campfire until well-scorched.

My wife had a high-school chum who used to put mustard on cooked spinach. the resulting bilious yellow-green mess was the nastiest-looking thing ever.

Also, when I was a kid I had the nasty habit of dipping my Cheetos in my milkshakes. I don't do that anymore, but I do like chocolate-covered potato chips...

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Da Chef

1/2 Scottish...Always had ketchup on French Toast...that's no big deal. But Gramma always made fried tomatoes with the Bacon, Eggs, Sausage, potatoe, toast and ubiquitous tea...AND Everone puts A-1 Sauce on their eggs, don't they?
Americans are so provincial...

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"The minuteyou settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." Maureen Dowd

Michelle: The grossest thing I have ever seen someone else do, though, was take a twinkie, cut it lengthwise, and put a hot dog in the middle. Yuck!


Did you see a person do this, or was it a movie? Weird Al did that in UHF.

One of my favorite lunches as a kid was hard-boiled eggs sliced in half and stuffed with tuna fish. Discard yolks (yuck), salt and pepper to taste, and serve with Cheetos(TM). Or stuff the Cheetos(TM) in too, what the hell. I would probably still be eating this if I wasn't too impatient to boil and peel the eggs.

For maximum tuna cohesion, first stir into the tuna ketchup and Best Foods Sandwich Spread(TM) ("Best Foods" on the West Coast, anyway, I think it's "Helmann's" to everyone else in the country).

Yum-yum, Give me some!

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"I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it," Jack Handy

In regards to French toast toppings, I had a friend who put corn syrup on hers. Just plain corn syrup straight out of the bottle. Thought that was pretty bizarre. I prefer applesause and cinnamon, myself :)

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"I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it," Jack Handy

Oooh, that reminds me of an evil thing my mom used to do. She would sometimes only buy white Karo syrup (corn syrup) instead of maple. She liked it just fine and thought everyone else should, too.

Karo syrup on pancakes... it's just fundamentally wrong.

Well, commercially produced pancake syrup (Aunt Jemima, Vermont Maid, etc.) is pretty much 98% corn syrup, 2% (or less) maple syrup, and some caramel coloring. So you may as well just use Karo syrup.

For me, it's 100% pure maple (Grade A Medium or Dark Amber, please) or nothing.


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"For what a man had rather were true, he more readily believes" - Francis Bacon

My Dear and departed Grandma would about once a week because brains are expensive eat...
Scrambled eggs and Calf brains with ketchup and Kayro Corn syrup. I always slept in when visiting Grandma.

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My grandma used to eat brains and scrambled eggs, too. I'm just too squeamish to eat internal organs (I don't eat spam or hot dogs, and I'm fully aware that if I saw how sausage was made I'd never eat it again, either, ergo I am never going to watch sausage being made).

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"I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it," Jack Handy

[QUOTE]My Dear and departed Grandma would about once a week because brains are expensive eat...
Scrambled eggs and Calf brains with ketchup and Kayro Corn syrup. [\QUOTE]

You win. That's the grossest thing I ever heard. It was the Karo syrup on top of it all that was the clincher. (I'm gonna BLORK!)

My husband has been known to sing the praises of a peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwich. The other day my 5 year old put M and M's in his tuna sandwich, but I'm convinced he was doing it to gross out his poor mom.

How about a grilled cheese sandwich with a layer of sweet pickles. Ummm Ummm

Sadistic Weasel, I SAW my friend eat the hot dog/twinkie combo with my very own eyes. He prolly did get that idea from a movie though.

WARNING: Do not ever drink diet cola (Pepsi, specifically) when eating anything with real maple syrup.


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Well, if you're going to eat the Twinkie weiner sandwich properly, you have to cover it in Easy Cheez and then dip it in milk...That's how Weird Al likes it.

Well, if you're going to eat the Twinkie weiner sandwich properly, you have to cover it in Easy Cheez and then dip it in milk...That's how Weird Al likes it.

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You just reminded me of one of my summer camp favorites. Sloppy Joes with potato chips, only put the potato chips on the sandwich instead of on the side. This only works with those thick, ridgy chips (Ruffles are the best), but they're damn good.
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I once spent 7 long months in a homeless shelter. Lunch was always a bologna sandwich and some chips. I *hate* bologna, so the only way I'd eat my sandwich was with lots of mustard. Eventually, I started putting my chips in the sandwich also. I'd also nuke the bologna whenever the staff would let me use the microwave.

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"Age is mind over matter; if you don't mind, it don't matter." -Leroy "Satchel" Paige

The best toppings for french toast consist of fresh fruits and light syruping.
As far as weird food combos, my mom worked with some vegans so they were always making the grosses sandwiches possible. Mom didn't help by adding meat products, either. This one is really scary: PB, mayo, bacon, and raisins. She loves it. Blech.
Nasty shooters: 1/2 Southern Comfort 1/2 Pepto bismol. If you don't puke right away, you'll be good for another hour or so of drinking!

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Have you hugged your mustelid today?

The best toppings for french toast consist of fresh fruits and light syruping.
As far as weird food combos, my mom worked with some vegans so they were always making the grossest sandwiches possible. Mom didn't help by adding meat products, either. This one is really scary: PB, mayo, bacon, and raisins. She loves it. Blech.
Nasty shooters: 1/2 Southern Comfort 1/2 Pepto bismol. If you don't puke right away, you'll be good for another hour or so of drinking!

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Have you hugged your mustelid today?

SadisticWeasel says:

<<Karo syrup on pancakes... it's just fundamentally wrong. >>

Eh, Sadistic: have you read the previous 50+ posts?

Sorry about that (computer problems). Quote should have read:

<<Karo syrup on pancakes...it's just fundamentally wrong!>>

One last time, without the frills!!!!

Karo syrup on pancakes...it's just fundamentally wrong!

(There: That should do it...)

When I grew up, the peanut butter treat was Peanut butter and Bacon sandwiches, as long as the bacon isn't to smokey is very good.

French toast is cinnimon and 100% real maple syrup.

Corn dogs are best served as nuggets, rather than on a stick.

Chili belongs on top of spaghetti with loads of cheese and onions. (Yes, I grew up near Cincinatti, how did you ever guess? :) )

One eyed jacks are a staple of the navy, overeasy egg on a hambuger, greasy as heck though.

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---The dragon observes

Here's a combination:

1) Take a can of frozen orange juice concentrate.
2) Let stand for an hour or so until melted.
3) Prior to making the orange juice, drizzle some of it over vanilla ice cream.

Anyway... the most frightening recipe I have ever read was for Twinkie Pie. You take some unholy mixture of Twinkies, Jello, Cool Whip... well, the only thing without a (TM) after it is almonds. I read this in the Best of Oklahoma recipe book. Oy.

The three most frightening dishes with which I have ever been personally confronted are 1) haggis, 2) marmite, and 3) lutefisk, which I encountered in a restaurant in Duluth, Minnesota.

Let's see... we've got America, Scotland, England, and Norway, in that order. Damn, I love living in Canada.

Anyway, the most unimaginably hedonistic and self-indulgent food I know of is Nutella. Wonder no more why the Swiss are so idiotically happy.

While I have no particularly gross foodness, some friends & I would always challenge a new member of our drinking circle to "Drink The Rainbow". Basically, if there's not already a liquor in that color, you play around with color combinations until you've created it. That's how we came up with the Deep Purple & the Black Hole. Wish like hell I could remember the recipe for either of the above, but it sure helped seperate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak.

Waste
Flick Lives!

Back to the original thread, taste is pretty much based on what you're used to. I was listening to an interview on NPR. The guest was the author of a book on eating insects. He related a story about visiting with a native tribe (sorry, don't remember the country) and partaking of a deliscious meal of grubs. When he mentioned to his native hosts that he'd once eaten termites, they looked at him as if he'd grown a third eye and said, in effect, "Grubs are yummy, but termites? Yuck!"

And to add to the list of awful/yummy foods, I get grief from wife for eating sauted chicken gizzards (delicious!) and raw hamburger (stopped this habit after all the awful stories on meat contamination). Oh, and how about chitlins? Had them once in a soul food restaurant. They were good, but I got an awful case of indigestion.

My dad refuses to eat pancakes with anything except dark Karo syrup. Luckily, it appears to not be genetic, as the rest of us stick with maple syrup.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned "meat spread." That's the digusting pink stuff that supermarket delis sell. It must be a puree of bologna, any other deli meat that's going bad, mayo, and pickle relish. Disgusting stuff, but I used to love it when I was a kid.

Other gross things? Pickled eggs. Incredibly good with a cold beer.

And to the person who was worried about seeing sausage being made - the grossest thing about sausage is the casings. Other than that, it's usually hamburger or ground pork and some spices. C'mon over, I'll make some for you and leave out the casings. It's no grosser than a hamburger.

the grossest thing about sausage is the casings

The only casing on "sausage" around here is plastic. Are we talking about the same sausage? ;)

Yeah, a lot of places use plastic casings. But some really do use "real" casings, which are intestines. Cleaned out, of course.

That reminds me of several instances of drinking with a friend - we had a relatively well-stocked bar, and after a few he always had an obsessive desire to create the perfect drink.

The name of this drink? 'The Pony'.

It had to be brown.
It had to taste fuzzy.
It had to use a lot of alcohol.
And we always made him drink it himself.

Poor guy. :)
lovelee

Peanut butter and dill pickles, peanut butter and bacon, the two best combinations God or man ever invented for a sandwich.

And please don't use the word "Yanks" when you discuss grits. That's a Southern dish -- most "Yanks" will turn their noses up at it just like you did.

Maple syrup on French toast. No question.

Eggplant

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"If you are going to tell people the truth, be sure to make them laugh, for otherwise they will kill you." --George_Bernard_Shaw

The most disgustingly vile examples of food that is clearly being sold as a prank:

1. Snails, which are essentially slow-moving wads of phlegm.
2. Pickled remainders of things we would otherwise be hesitant even to feed to our garbage disposals: melon rinds, pig’s feet & ears, herring (which also comes creamed & picked), etc.
3. Souse loaf, which looks like a cross-section of a dachshund. It is disguised as lunchmeat & sold in clear packages, causing some people who look directly at it to go blind or insane.
4. Various brands of something called “potted meat product”, which is the remains of organ meat that was too disgusting to be sold even to those people who willingly eat organ meat.
5. Oysters, which are even worse than snails, in the sense that oysters are phlegm wads that aren’t even cooked.
6. Zucchini. An inert vegetable suitable for use as a door stop or attic insulation; the instrument has not been invented that could detect any flavor in this vegetable.

I tried to limit the list to “ordinary” items that you might find in almost any average American supermarket. The list would be endless if I included ethnic cuisine.

The thought of ketchup on French toast seems less than appealing, but I might try it if the opportunity presented itself. The only breakfast food I put ketchup on is hash browns, and I do so sparingly, since it does little more than totally cover up the flavor of anything you put it on.

On the other hand, whenever I eat mac & cheese, I have to have Harvard beets (which are kind of sweet & sour glazed) right along side, and I always mix them together. That’s about the oddest thing I’ll eat without being dared. Those of you who mentioned eating crispy/crunchy things on sandwiches are texture eaters; I like to make a French fry layer in my McDonald’s quarter-pounder w/cheese. Doesn’t alter the flavor much, but it “eats” better.

Hey Matt__Mcl! Why do you think Nutella isn't Italian? It sure is...and it is awesome...By far the greateat invention in food products is: H.D. Deep Chocolate Fudge Ice cream...though they have replaced it with Chocolate Chocolate Fudge. The greatest thing left.
BTW-- Best PMS food: Macaroni (anything: rigatoni, zita, penne, farfalle, linguine, spaghetti...)with a beautiful marinara or vodka sauce. Bread-- beautiful Italian bread, hard crust, soft as a cloud inside. A Gorgous salad. Steak. Beer. Chocolate icecream. If the PMS is really bad, we simply put the chocolate ice cream on the steak....ahhh! Otherwise, I hate beer. Must be the carbos I'm cravin'...
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Q: How many women with PMS does it take to change a light bulb?


A: WHO THE HELL CARES?????

Archimedes, our mothers must be related. My mom did that peanut butter and pickle thing too. Ewwwww!

The PROPER topping for French toast is butter (REAL butter, not that fake, hydrogenated, yellow-colored, nasty, vegetable oil poser!) and maple syrup. Of course, since there is a financial barrier to having maple syrup all the time (stuff's expensive!!), Karo actually makes a decent pancake syrup. It's got a green label. My grandfather uses their corn syrup - gross!

The worst thing I can remember eating as a kid, which actually turned out pretty good, was pickle juice on alfalfa sprouts. Yes, we tried it on a dare.

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Carpe Diem!

French toast...depends how you make your egg batter. I make it with s smidge of sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. then all it really needs is butter.

Weird Yet Surprisingly Delicious Food Thing:

31 Flavors chocolate mint ice cream and Canada Dry Collins Mix, or Squirt.

Sounds like they wouldn't mesh, but they do.



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Stoidela

Don't meddle in the affairs of dragons, cuz, like, you're crunchy
and taste good with ketchup.

[[Other gross things? Pickled eggs. Incredibly good with a cold beer. ]]

Of course, if you get the black egg, that means you're the designated driver.

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"Age is mind over matter; if you don't mind, it don't matter." -Leroy "Satchel" Paige

Nutella...yummm.. it is a food group all in itself.

Someone mentioned Sloppy joes with potato chips in the mix..a great camp fire memory for me.

I like my eggs with salsa if I can get it. If not, ketchup.

As for drinks, I was just thumbing through a drink recipe book from the glory years of boozing it up, 1973, and there was a drink in there called the " Suffering Bastard". Heh. I've already passed it along to my lush neighbor as a joke, so I don't recall it's mix. I can imagine the jokes that went along with ordering one of those" I'll have a Suffering Bastard, please" " Take you pick, there's three at the other end of the bar."

As for alcoholic poisoning, try Kummeling or Jagermeister. I had a Wodka mit Lemon (Vodka with Lemon) in a german young adult version of an illegal bar once. I don't know what in the hell they did with the lemon, all I know is that I got a tumbler full of vodka and had six or seven or eight that night (all free as I was the only American and everyone wanted to buy me a drink.) We got home from the bar at 430 am and I slept until 8pm that night. My most coherent memory was trying to swap my aviator leather jacket with another guy who had a black leather jacket covered with patches from all over Europe of places he'd been too. It almost worked until he tried mine on and the sleeves were just a hair too short....sob.

I'm Scottish and putting catsup on French toast doesn't seem strange to me at all, although personally I prefer my French toast with honey.

Rodd Hill: I believe you're talking about Cullen skink, made with the finnan haddock, milk and a few other ingredients. It is truly one of the most unappetising concoctions ever (and I have eaten haggis).

No C&P (and on a semi-related note)

I haven't read through this entire thread, but I doubt anyone else has mentioned this really cute little song (must be British) all about toast and how you can put just about any topping on it and it works.

I heard the song one morning on KFOG (San Francisco rock station) back in 1988 or so and raced to the tape machine to record it and missed the name of the song and who did it, but here are some words. Anyone with any information on this tune, PLEASE contact me!

There's brown bread, white bread,
All sorts of whole-meal bread.
It comes in funny packages wif' writin' on the side
But it doesn't matter which one you have,
Cuz when you cut the crust off
Have it with marmelade or butter cheese tomatoes beans banana or chutney
If it's strange, it really doesn't matter.
Oh no. It all goes with . . .
TOAST! TOAST!

(I gotta think about it some)

Well I go down the supermarket,
Wif' me basket in me 'and.
I'm walking from one counter to another tryin' to find the bread store
But I can't find it anywhere.
And then I bump into a mother with a baby in 'er basket,
And she says "Oh! Look you've started 'im off again!
I've come here for a little bit of peace and quiet,
To get some bread to go home to make
...... TOAST!"

I've wondered about this song ever since I heard it, and I'd love a complete recording of it, or at least the name of the band. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?


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StoryTyler
Derwood and Kirby's mom

I travel and my motto is never turn down a free meal...but, let me read a selection from the Willy Pizza menu in Tokyo:

Egg & Potato

Onion
small quail egg
mayo
potato
squid
corn


mmmmmmmm!!!!

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There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -Montaigne

Reading about these "Punishment shots", why do people drink these? Poor Spam. Read Cecils column on it, it's not all it's cracked up to be! Macaroni and Cheese and Louisiana Hot Sauce-Yum. LHS is good on french fries too. Or in soup, etc. Love the stuff. But catsup on French toast sounds really gross.

My great-grandmother used to serve me something that was akin to french toast. She called it Egg-In-A-Hole. She would take a slice of bread and slather butter on it. She would then cuta 3/4 inch hole in the middle of it and put it on a hot frying pan. She would then crack an egg and drop it into the hole. The hole would hold the yolk in the center (soft cooking it), while the white would partially soak into the bread and crisp on the bottom. The yolk would still be runny when served. I would lovingly gobble this down with ketsup.

But for French Toast; it's cinnimon and maple syrup all the way!!

My great-grandmother would also serve piping hot egg salad for breakfast. I loved the stuff.

She used to eat a butter and banana sandwich every moring, because the doctor told her that bananas were good sources of potassium.

Cyrunner

I used to work with someone who raved about the following taste sensation:

stale Fritos (MUST be stale) and frozen slizes of pineapple.

Whatever floats yer boat, I guess....



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StoryTyler
The fun starts here!

Hello all, now that I'm joining you, let me just say...

1. Pudding can be either Chocolate, Vanilla, Tapioca, or Butterscotch.
2. French Toast should have syrup, butter, and powdered sugar.
3. Although I am of Norweigian descent, I've never tried lutefisk. I hear the Norweigians only eat it once a year, and I heard an American description of it somewhere on the web... and after 5 minutes of research on AskJeeves!, I found it:
http://urbanlegends.com/food/ode_to_lutefisk.html
Now that that's cleared up...

Let's see, the strangest food I've eaten? I tried soy sauce on popcorn once, but the kernels melted and it tasted kinda sweet, it made me sickish. Following up on the lutefisk link above, I once accidentaly (sp?) chewed on a gelcap of some sort or another. DON'T DO IT.

Good advice.

;)

SanibelMan

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Your mother was a hamster, and your father smells of elderberry!

Sorry, no weird (to me)French Toast toppings here: berries, butter, syrup, whipped topping, nuts, cinnamon and grandma would put food-coloring on them when I was younger. Reading about the shooters, when I tended bar, I would send out an "L.A. Freeway" to all of those kids who just turned 21 and wanted to strut their stuff.

LA Freeway:
1 Shot glass
1 Bar mat
Pour contents of bar mat(spillage)into shot glass and serve.

If we didn't have enough to fill a shot glass, a "252" would also do the trick.

252
1 shot Wild Turkey (101)
1 shot Bicardi 151

(add the two proofs together, hence 252)

As for ketchup (or catsup), anything that can be used as a metal polish and will explode upon opening, I tend to avoid (restaurants recyle ketchup!).


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"Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'"
E A Poe

Where I come from ( Philly ) we take our fries with ketchup, and our pancakes, waffles and french toast with either syrup, buttah, or cinnamon ( a personal fave on french toast was cinnamon and buttah ).

While I respect the Mutant Aberrations of our good friends both across the Puddle and above the Border...let us not forget that Toads In The Hole brought down the Empire. :)

Typer

Anyone tried french fries dipped in a chocolate malt/shake? Wendy's Frosties are the best for this.

Yyyuuuuummmm...... :D

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- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court-Mark Twain

French fries dipped in Frosty. A friend of mine does that too. Haven't tried it myself though.

Regarding French toast, I grew up eating it with butter and maple(ish) syrup, but during a year abroad in Germany there was no maple syrup to be found. I ate a lot of French toast, with either honey and cinnamon or homemade applesauce on top. Obviously, my cuisine mostly consisted of uses for almost-expired food.

BTW, if you want to impress somebody, make 'em French toast. It's so easy to do, yet every time I've made it the recipients were positively thrilled, like it was a gourmet treat or something.

Oh, and for the record, I like peanut butter and bacon, my dad likes peanut butter and pickles (ick!), and my sister drinks Kool-Aid with virtually no sugar (mega-ick!).


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Etwas was ist wunderbar ist ein' Kuh mit Pferdehaar.
Und haette sie kein Pferdehaar, dann ist sie nicht wunderbar.

I spent a week at my sister's house in Texas along with most of the rest of my family for our parents' 50th Anniversary party. One morning, I fixed myself a toad-in-the-hole (that's a grilled egg sandwich for those not familiar with the term). My sister seemed quite impressed with this.

Note to someone who wants to try their to make their own toad-in-the-hole: make a hole in at least one of the bread slices, this is for the yolk. Unless you want a runny yolk, keep the heat very low or the bread will get done first.

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"Age is mind over matter; if you don't mind, it don't matter." -Leroy "Satchel" Paige

[Rodd Hill]

In the throes of nostalgia, I looked up the first thread I started (almost exactly a year ago!).

As I read, it occurred to me that we now seem to have a larger number of UK/European posters than a year ago, and that important scientific data, (vital to the West to avoid a Breakfast Entree Gap between us and the Russian Federation) could be gleaned from bumping this puppy to the top of the forum.

Or perhaps not.

(I wonder how long before this gets punted to GD as it degenerates into a green vs. red ketchup slanging match?)

[manhattan]

Whoa. This thread is old. It predates forums! Well, at any rate, we have a forum for it now, called In My Humble Opinion. And IMHO deserves to have a classic thread or two in it.

So off this one goes.

[Annie-Xmas]

My sister-in-law makes vanilla ice cream with cream
corn in it. She loves corn in anything.

Any flavor yoghurt with cereal is good.

I like pineapple on French toast.

The worst dish I have ever heard about is Scottish
haggis: sheep's liver, heart and oatmeal mixed together
and boiled in the stomache. Makes me heave thinking
of it.

And chicken fried steak is one thing I really
miss since going veggie.

[Rodd Hill]

A good haggis is a joy forever. As well as being well and truly sonsie, warm, and reekin', it is the "great chieftain o' the pudden race." It has been the victim of spiteful, jealous and downright offensive slanders for years by the fearful and ignorant. Anyway, if it's good enough for Duke Ellington (http://www.scottishhaggis.co.uk/mckean_news_clip_the_duke_orig_WEB.gif), who are the Teeming Millions to kvetch?

Really, it is like a slightly spicy pate, and nowadays is often just oatmeal, onion and spices, with chopped liver. As for being encased in a sheep gut for cooking purposes, it's no worse than sausage which used to (and sometimes still does) come encased in pig intestines. It's only a container, anyway; I've never seen anyone eat the stomach. I enjoy a haggis meal four or five times a year, including Burns Night, of course. I always bring one into work, with crackers, and most of the rest of the staff dig in greedily.

Name o' the Wee Man, there's even vegetarian haggis (http://www.scottishhaggis.co.uk/jessies.htm), in an artificial casing, so you have no excuse not to try one, Annie-Xmas!

To relate to the OP, I have not tried haggis on French Toast, although there is a "French Connection" to haggis: the word, like many in Scots, comes from the French "hachis", in the sense of "chopped fine."

[Annie-Xmas]

Rodd: Gee, I'm forever in your debt.
The British have a sweet pudding with raisins in
it. They call it spotted dick. The weirdest
named food, but I love asking British men
Ever eat spotted dick? And knock me up sometime.

[Modian]

I can't remember what this was called (I'll look it up and get back to you), but it probably had something to do with fire. Cinnamon schnapps...and tabasco. I am not making this up.

This was probably answered (Considering it's a 3 month quote, hehe), but it's called a Fireball. Love the damn things. They only call for 5 drops of tabasco, but I take the bottle and pour it in. One time I couldn't wait for the drink, so I drank the Tabasco straight from the bottle. Damn, that was good. :)

And still never had a hangover...

[Modian]

oops, make that a year and 3 months. Holy crap.