# Disgusting Food Combinations (that people actually eat) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-food-combinations-that-people-actually-eat/536998 "2010-04-22T16:01:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![PaperBlob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@PaperBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaperBlob)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-food-combinations-that-people-actually-eat/536998/21 "2010-04-22T18:59:19Z")
**Hot dogs with mustard, chili and slaw** - got one by mistake once while in Winston-Salem. Someone (a native) went out to get lunch and took our orders. I asked for chili dog. How that resulted in what I got, I don’t know. Even if I liked cole slaw, that combination of stuff on a hot dog would have grossed me out. For that matter, **cole slaw**. Shredded cabbage made soggy by milk and sweetened with sugar (at least, that’s as much as I remember of my Mom’s cole slaw). Ewwwww. One thing I do that my family can’t stand is put **ketchup on my french toast**. In my defense, it’s unsweetened (no powdered sugar) french toast. Still, I know it’s very weird, but I love it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-food-combinations-that-people-actually-eat/536998/22 "2010-04-22T19:37:26Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > [banana+ketchup+whipping cream+pork]… how was it? It was passable. In retrospect, the pork + ketchup + whipping cream is basically just pork medallions in a creamy tomato sauce. The banana was a little unusual, but the mild flavour didn’t really change the taste of anything else (which tasted like pork and/or ketchup). ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-food-combinations-that-people-actually-eat/536998/23 "2010-04-22T20:00:48Z")
My mother likes old fashioned flavors sometimes and will get a hankering for cheddar cheese and strawberry jam sandwich. She says growing up cheddar cheese went on a lot of things we wouldn’t dream of putting it on now: apple pie, cinnamon rolls, strawberry jam, etc. crazy stuff. Of course, I did get my love of American cheese on banana bread from her. My husband thinks it’s revolting but he won’t try it. He’s so weird he won’t even eat butter on banana bread. It’s bread! of course it tastes good with butter. ---
**Author:** ![Phoebestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Phoebestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phoebestar)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-food-combinations-that-people-actually-eat/536998/24 "2010-04-22T20:19:58Z")
> [@PaperBlob](#): > > **Hot dogs with mustard, chili and slaw** - got one by mistake once while in Winston-Salem. Someone (a native) went out to get lunch and took our orders. I asked for chili dog. How that resulted in what I got, I don’t know. Even if I liked cole slaw, that combination of stuff on a hot dog would have grossed me out. I just logged in after years of absence to note that that’s what I had for lunch. In Winston-Salem. (and they were good!) Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-food-combinations-that-people-actually-eat/536998/25 "2010-04-22T20:30:38Z")
Well, don’t be a stranger! Report back what you have tomorrow. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Phoebestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Phoebestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phoebestar)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-food-combinations-that-people-actually-eat/536998/26 "2010-04-22T21:32:36Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Well, don’t be a stranger! Report back what you have tomorrow. 🙂 Only if someone else finds it disgusting, particularly in the setting of Winston-Salem. Otherwise, I’d just be wasting your time. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-food-combinations-that-people-actually-eat/536998/27 "2010-04-22T22:32:58Z")
I’ve never understood the compulsion to put fruit in savory dishes. Just…no. (And by “fruit” I of course mean sweet things like apples and raisins, and not, say, tomatoes.) Also, **Covered\_in\_Bees!** , replace “onions” with “bell peppers” and you have my second answer. Bell peppers are vile. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-food-combinations-that-people-actually-eat/536998/28 "2010-04-22T22:34:58Z")
Whoops, double post. ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-food-combinations-that-people-actually-eat/536998/29 "2010-04-22T22:41:55Z")
Chicken and waffle. Seriously, WTF? ---
**Author:** ![amaguri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@amaguri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amaguri)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-food-combinations-that-people-actually-eat/536998/30 "2010-04-22T22:53:53Z")
> [@FallenAngel](#): > > Chicken and waffle. Seriously, WTF? Delicious! But I am a big fan of sweet+salty (+greasy doesn’t hurt!) ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-food-combinations-that-people-actually-eat/536998/31 "2010-04-22T23:02:56Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > No! Onions and mustard infect and corrupt everything they touch. They must be handled with great prejudice. But would you eat an onion all by itself? No? So it’s not the _combination_ that’s the problem, see? > [@FallenAngel](#): > > Chicken and waffle. Seriously, WTF? Have you ever had chicken and waffles? ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-food-combinations-that-people-actually-eat/536998/32 "2010-04-22T23:17:39Z")
I used to do all the cooking for my father, and once after dinner I watched him spread sugar free blackberry jam on cheesy garlic bread. When I protested, he told me as a child he used to eat something called “coddled milk” - let it spoil and get lumpy and I think he said you sprinkle brown sugar on it. Ugh! ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-food-combinations-that-people-actually-eat/536998/33 "2010-04-22T23:30:34Z")
I had a friend in high school who _adored_ peanut butter and dill pickle sandwiches! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-food-combinations-that-people-actually-eat/536998/34 "2010-04-22T23:34:17Z")
I occasionally enjoy a snack of sardines and a large navel orange. I may have to try [this recipe](http://whatscookingamerica.net/Beef/CincinnatiChili.htm) for Cincinnati-style chili. In addition to the kidney beans (which I believe qualifies it as a five-way), the recipe calls for allspice, cinnamon, unsweetened chocolate and Worcestershire sauce, among other goodies. There may be spaghetti in there too, but it’s hard to tell what’s lurking under the mounds of shredded cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Ludy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Ludy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludy)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-food-combinations-that-people-actually-eat/536998/35 "2010-04-22T23:53:34Z")
My husband raves about peanut butter and tomato sandwiches. Ewww ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-food-combinations-that-people-actually-eat/536998/36 "2010-04-22T23:54:52Z")
Cheddar cheese ice cream, from my local Asian grocery store. Not as bad as it sounds, but I wouldn’t ever buy it again. ---
**Author:** ![nikonikosuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-food-combinations-that-people-actually-eat/536998/37 "2010-04-22T23:57:30Z")
> [@PaperBlob](#): > > One thing I do that my family can’t stand is put **ketchup on my french toast**. In my defense, it’s unsweetened (no powdered sugar) french toast. Still, I know it’s very weird, but I love it anyway. Not too strange to me, really. I mean, if you like ketchup on eggs, why not? I had some friends who would eat chunks of Tillamook sharp cheddar cheese dipped in maple syrup _barf_. They acted like it was ambrosia but when I tried a sample it just tasted like heartburn and vomit to me. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-food-combinations-that-people-actually-eat/536998/38 "2010-04-23T00:04:44Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > My SIL the corn freak makes vanilla ice cream with brown sugar and adds a can of creamed corn. I’ve had it and it’s not bad. Like washing down carmel corn with a vanilla shake. How did she happen to discover this combination; was it two minutes to midnight and those three things were going to go bad if she didn’t eat them in a hurry? I suppose that question can be applied to every post in this thread, but that one just struck me as particularly unlikely to happen by accident. ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-food-combinations-that-people-actually-eat/536998/39 "2010-04-23T00:06:18Z")
I could never get my head around the apple pie and sharp cheddar cheese thing. I am NOT an apple pie lover. Something about the texture the apples take on after baking kinda squicks me out a bit. But my wife’s aunt made a pie for us a couple of months ago, and I just so happened to have some sharp cheddar in the fridge at the time too, so I gave it a whirl. Now, I can’t imagine having apple pie any other way, and I find myself CRAVING a slice pretty often. But if I or the restaurant I’m at doesn’t have the cheddar, I won’t order it. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-food-combinations-that-people-actually-eat/536998/40 "2010-04-23T00:11:53Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Dated a girl once who put ketchup on everything. I’m not one of those staunch anti-ketchup people at all; I like ketchup on a lot of things many people consider uncouth (pork chops for example), but this girl dipped absolutely \*\*everything \*\*in ketchup. Pizza, pickles, eggs, cauliflower, corn on the cob, apple slices, even saw her mix it in a cup of blueberry yogurt once. I was reading along thinking about my teenager who abuses ketchup pretty fiercely, but apples and yogurt surpass even his worse transgressions. The combination of white bread, lunch meat and ketchup smushed together and microwaved doesn’t qualify as “sandwich” in my head, but hey, as long as I don’t have to eat it, right? I suppressed an inner wince when he dredged perfectly seasoned and fall-apart-tender roast beef in ketchup, but I cringed outright when he started dousing the mashed potatoes and gravy with the stuff and making an unholy mess on the plate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-food-combinations-that-people-actually-eat/536998.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-food-combinations-that-people-actually-eat/536998.md?page=3)