# Contrasting flavors you love **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 18, 2007, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contrasting-flavors-you-love/388523 "2007-01-18T23:57:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contrasting-flavors-you-love/388523/61 "2007-01-24T04:34:52Z")
Ooh! I just remembered another one. Chocolate-covered potato chips. Sounds disgusting, but once you try 'em you can’t eat just one. Really. A good, dark chocolate enveloping a salty potato chip. Mmmm. ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contrasting-flavors-you-love/388523/62 "2007-01-24T05:01:17Z")
[QUOTE=kath94] I’ve got a killer recipe for a jello-pretzel “salad.” Broken stick pretzels soaked in butter make the “crust,” then there are layers of strawberry jello mixed with pineapple juice, cream cheese, and I think Cool Whip. The buttery, saltiness just goes GREAT with the oversweet jello goo. Yum. I, too, used to make “sandwiches” with slices of American “cheese” and peanut butter. Used to gross out my older brothers. But, hey, you can buy peanut butter-filled cheese crackers, right? What’s the diff? [/quote] Hi. Are you my husband? He loves pretzel Jello (so do I, truth be told), and requests a peanut butter and American cheese sandwich for lunch. Every day. Packing his lunch is a breeze, I’m tellin’ ya. > [@kath94](#): > > Speaking of pancakes, I grew up on pancakes that were 1st buttered, then slathered in peanut butter, then drizzled with (usually fake) maple syrup. I really miss the peanut butter on the pancakes when eating breakfast at a restaurant. Okay, that’s new for me. But am I the only one who makes pancake towers? Start with a pancake, and top it with an over easy egg. Then pancake, then egg, then pancake. Then (this is very important), press down on the top pancake so the yolks break open and run down between the pancakes. Liberally apply syrup. Consume. Stagger off to lie down somewhere until your head clears. It’s the only way, kids. Oh, and another vote for Chubby Hubby. ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contrasting-flavors-you-love/388523/63 "2007-01-26T05:56:19Z")
[QUOTE=StuffLikeThatThere] Hi. Are you my husband?. [/QUOTE] Nope, but the guy sounds like he has good taste! ---
**Author:** ![Valearl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Valearl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valearl)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contrasting-flavors-you-love/388523/64 "2007-01-28T08:11:09Z")
Peanut Butter and Banana all mushed together and spread on plain white bread. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contrasting-flavors-you-love/388523/65 "2007-01-28T15:22:37Z")
[QUOTE=Valearl] Peanut Butter and Banana all mushed together and spread on plain white bread. [/QUOTE] I’d have to call those _complimentary_ flavors, not _contrasting_ ones. I love those together, too. Try a toasted peanut butter and banana sandwich! But my wife, who hates bananas, can’t think of a combination more unappealing. We used to have neighbors where the lady liked to eat peanut butter and Spanish onion sandwiches. Now _there’s_ contrast! I’ve never been brave enough to try it. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contrasting-flavors-you-love/388523/66 "2007-01-28T15:27:19Z")
Plain M&Ms and salt & vinegar potato chips. Not in the same mouthful, but alternating. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contrasting-flavors-you-love/388523/67 "2007-01-28T21:25:33Z")
Try this combo: All dressed Ruffles potato chips, dipped in plain yogurt\*. The two flavors combine to produce a unique flavor that is absolutely delicious. One big bag of chips and a standard-sized container of yogurt is a good ratio. When you’ve dipped all of the big chips, crush the remaining fragments into little tiny bits and dump them into the bowl of yogurt and stir them together. Eat with a spoon or fork. Yum. \*I don’t know whether this works with low-fat or fat-free yogurt. Use regular yogurt. Balkan style works well. ---
**Author:** ![Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contrasting-flavors-you-love/388523/68 "2007-01-28T23:54:18Z")
Jack Daniels & cinnamon hard candy bacon & lemon meringue pie sauerkraut & ketchup (of course) clam chowder & Sam Adams ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contrasting-flavors-you-love/388523/69 "2007-01-29T00:32:29Z")
Chocolate and string cheese. Chocolate chips in particular; something about the bitter chocolate and the perfect amount of creaminess from the cheap Mozzerella. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contrasting-flavors-you-love/388523/70 "2007-01-29T03:25:10Z")
I have a couple. Sandwiches made out of Saltines and Sour Patch Kids Bacon cooked INTO the pancake batter and topped with dark maple syrup Bacon, dark maple syrup, real butter, sunny-side up eggs, and pancakes all mixed together. Extra sharp chedder with strawberries, on garlic bagle chips and topped with either pineapple or dark maple syrup (or both) Any flavor ice cream with salted/butter popcorn From my days as a Dunkin Donuts employee: Berry Berry bagle, with chive cream cheese and bacon finished off with a bottle of strawberry milk From the Indian restaurant I went to a few weeks ago: These little sweet bready balls soaked in what tasted like honey (but not quite). I wish I could remember what they were called. Anyway, mix a bite of that with a bite of chicken vindaloo, wrap in naan and then smother the whole thing in that sweet honey tasting sauce. Finish with a steaming gulp of chai. Yum. I will put pineapple or maple syrup on just about anything. i don’t think I’ve ever found something which wouldn’t go well with one, the other, or both. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contrasting-flavors-you-love/388523.md?page=3)