# Another Sweet and Savory thread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sweet-and-savory-thread/975232
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** food-cooking
**Created:** [November 20, 2022, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sweet-and-savory-thread/975232 "2022-11-20T00:49:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sweet-and-savory-thread/975232/1 "2022-11-20T00:49:17Z")
Or Sweet and Salty, whichever.
So, whilst visiting the parents the other day, I made myself a cheese and jelly sandwich before dinner(am so an adult! eating dessert before dinner proves it!!)
Ma Vader was shocked. “I thought I was the only one, everyone always said I was weird for eating cheese and jelly sandwiches!!” she exclaimed.
Now then, i know sweet and savory (or savoury as my phone keeps insisting)or salty is a well liked topic, when it comes up, so how do you like it?
Pineapple on pizza?
Cheese and jelly sandwiches
Ham and jelly
Porkchops and apple sauce?
Tell me how you get your fix
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sweet-and-savory-thread/975232/2 "2022-11-20T01:11:58Z")
Just finished a meal anchored by sweet potato french fries with cajun gravy. The taters are naturally sweet and the gravy is definitely savory (and hot).
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### Author:  [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sweet-and-savory-thread/975232/3 "2022-11-20T03:45:23Z")
pineapple, bacon, jalapeno on pizza. Need a sweet/savory/spicy for ideal combination IMHO. Along those lines, hot honey on all kinds of meat.
Blueberry bagel or some other kind of bread with fruit as the bread in a breakfast sandwich with eggs, cheese, and some kind of meat (bacon or sausage are OK but I prefer scrapple or corned beef hash). Add honey or jam to that or a biscuit and egg, and butter. Could do the same with a burger, though I’ve never tried a glazed donut as a hamburger bun or anything like that.
Are cranberries/sauce “sweet”? A turkey sandwich with gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce or some other variation of a moist maker sandwich is popular this time of year, and I’ve seen it on some chain menus.
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### Author:  [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sweet-and-savory-thread/975232/4 "2022-11-20T04:38:55Z")
Mmmm, the little bit of pineapple you get in a good al pastor taco. Heaven.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sweet-and-savory-thread/975232/5 "2022-11-20T04:43:25Z")
I often make a slice of toast with goat cheese and some blueberry jam or honey. Much like your cheese and jelly sandwich.
Despite being from Chicago, I prefer my hotdogs with ketchup, as the sweetness of the ketchup helps counter the saltiness of the frankfurter.
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### Author:  [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sweet-and-savory-thread/975232/6 "2022-11-20T04:46:00Z")
Chicken and waffles with maple syrup. I’m not southern, but encountered it there, although I make my own fried chicken thighs (boneless for ease of eating) on top of homemade waffles.
For bonus points, I will go for sweet-savory-spicy by serving the chicken and waffles with a spicy honey, or by adding a lot of cayenne pepper to the chicken breading.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sweet-and-savory-thread/975232/7 "2022-11-20T04:51:59Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#):
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> For bonus points, I will go for sweet-savory-spicy by serving the chicken and waffles with a spicy honey, or by adding a lot of cayenne pepper to the chicken breading.
I recently discovered that drizzling a little honey on chicken tamales is very similar to chicken waffles, and tastes delicious.
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### Author:  [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sweet-and-savory-thread/975232/8 "2022-11-20T05:18:13Z")
I haven’t had one since I was a kid, but Mom used to make us cheese and jelly on toast sandwiches.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sweet-and-savory-thread/975232/9 "2022-11-20T05:35:35Z")
Hot sauce on vanilla ice cream. It adds a lot of flavor and the dairy content cuts the heat so you’re not left with a burning mouth. I’ve got a bottle (from a company I backed on Kickstarter) that’s specifically marketed as a dessert sauce, made with strawberries, basil, and Carolina Reaper peppers.
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### Author:  [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sweet-and-savory-thread/975232/10 "2022-11-20T05:41:46Z")
Honey on fries when I can get it.
Also, when I get pancakes, waffles, or french toast , I always drench the sausage or bacon in syrup
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sweet-and-savory-thread/975232/11 "2022-11-20T05:46:10Z")
I like ham and pineapple. I use to do both a leg of pork glazed in marmalade and fried chicken livers with a blackberry sauce that surprised many people. I think because my parents were English, cheese with sweet stuff has always been a thing - fruit cake with cheddar, Hobnobs with blue cheese.
I think a piece of good toast with a thick pile of soft cheese, topped with strawberry jam is pretty close to a cheesecake. And much easier to throw together when the mood takes you.
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sweet-and-savory-thread/975232/12 "2022-11-20T06:28:16Z")
> [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](#):
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> Are cranberries/sauce “sweet”?
Actual cranberries, and the juice thereof, is most definitely _not_ sweet. Sour as straight lemon juice, although a radically different taste profile. Make your mouth pucker in appreciation. Or non-appreciation if you don’t much, I suppose.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sweet-and-savory-thread/975232/13 "2022-11-20T15:16:28Z")
I get my fix by going to one of my favorite local restaurants and ordering their Mrs. Pickett sandwich: 5 Cheese blend of goat, havarti, American, farmers, and bleu cheese with crispy bacon and lingonberry jam on grilled sourdough. Damn, it’s delicious!
[ ](https://i.postimg.cc/HW2cwLhG/mrs-pickett-sandwich.jpg)
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sweet-and-savory-thread/975232/14 "2022-11-20T15:22:50Z")
Pineapple and anchovy pizza.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sweet-and-savory-thread/975232/15 "2022-11-20T15:52:01Z")
> [@Zyada](#):
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> Also, when I get pancakes, waffles, or french toast , I always drench the sausage or bacon in syrup
I cut my pancake stack in a grid formation (Apparently, this is very strange; I had a waitress stare at me once for a full minute while I operated and she exclaimed she had never seen anyone cut a stack that way.), then administer the syrup, then stab a block and lastly impale a chunk of sausage. The whole morsel goes in the old pie-hole. YUM!
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### Author:  [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sweet-and-savory-thread/975232/16 "2022-11-20T16:02:26Z")
I really enjoy the big pieces of salt on top of a good brownie or chocolate chip cookie.
I add diced carrot to my tuna salad. That’s a little sweet and crunchy too.
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### Author:  [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sweet-and-savory-thread/975232/17 "2022-11-20T17:22:50Z")
> [@Zyada](#):
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> Also, when I get pancakes, waffles, or french toast , I always drench the sausage or bacon in syrup
So do I. Also pineapple on pizza, salted caramel, gorgonzola with pear.
Haven’t had a chance to try it, but dipping fries in a Frosty from Wendy’s seems to be a thing.
Dark chocolate covered potato chips. [Yum](https://estherprice.com/product/chocolate-covered-potato-chips-dark/).
Bacon-wrapped dates with goat cheese
Prosciutto with cantaloupe. Actually, this is quite common here.
Bacon on/in a peanut butter and chocolate milkshake.
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### Author:  [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sweet-and-savory-thread/975232/18 "2022-11-20T18:23:43Z")
Cream cheese topped with hot pepper jelly served with crackers.
Chocolate dipped pretzels.
Teriyaki chicken.
Chicago mix popcorn (cheese and caramel).
Blue cheese and gingersnaps.
Baked brie with jelly or caramelized onions.
Sausage links wrapped in pancakes served with syrup.
Fruit with salt or Tajin.
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### Author:  [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sweet-and-savory-thread/975232/19 "2022-11-20T19:31:45Z")
Ham and cream cheese on raisin bread
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### Author:  [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sweet-and-savory-thread/975232/20 "2022-11-20T19:49:16Z")
Oh, that sounds good. I like salted butter on raisin toast.
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