# Do you have any weird food combinations that actually taste good to you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 13, 2020, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-weird-food-combinations-that-actually-taste-good-to-you/847879 "2020-02-13T16:05:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-weird-food-combinations-that-actually-taste-good-to-you/847879/21 "2020-02-13T22:38:53Z")
French fries dipped in mayo. Common across the pond, but people here look at me like I’m weird. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-weird-food-combinations-that-actually-taste-good-to-you/847879/22 "2020-02-13T22:40:17Z")
> [@peedin](#): > > French fries dipped in mayo. Common across the pond, but people here look at me like I’m weird. I do that on occasion, but more frequently dip them in yellow mustard. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-weird-food-combinations-that-actually-taste-good-to-you/847879/23 "2020-02-14T01:42:41Z")
sour cream goes well with various things. Sour cream and meatloaf is good. Sour cream with macaroni and cheese as well as hot sauce, also good. ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-weird-food-combinations-that-actually-taste-good-to-you/847879/24 "2020-02-14T01:48:46Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Peanut butter and dill pickle sandwiches. Got to disagree - that’ll be peanut butter and _sweet_ pickle on crusty wheat toast for me please. A nice bowl of chili con carne with a soft, gooey cinnamon roll floating in it. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-weird-food-combinations-that-actually-taste-good-to-you/847879/25 "2020-02-14T01:52:39Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I make cranberry sauce with zero added sugar by just simmering cranberries with a splash of water. I then add a few tablespoons of this cranberry sauce to a dish of plain Greek yogurt. Delicious! I have to try this one. Thanks! (I might add a touch of honey as I usually do with plain Greek yogurt.) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-weird-food-combinations-that-actually-taste-good-to-you/847879/26 "2020-02-14T02:18:10Z")
A now-defunct restaurant in Chapel Hill, where I grew up, served an “African Tuna” sandwich. I have no idea why it was named that, but the filling was: -Canned tuna -Olive oil -Garlic -Curry powder -Cayenne and it was tasty. But that’s not the weird part. They served a variation of the sandwich, in which the tuna was spread on peanut-buttered toast, and it was freakin DELICIOUS. I also sometimes make myself a tuna melt using this recipe. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-weird-food-combinations-that-actually-taste-good-to-you/847879/27 "2020-02-14T02:51:53Z")
> [@LH75](#): > > I like peanut butter and mustard sandwiches Would PB, banana and cream cheese sandwich be weird? I gots to know. > [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > sour cream goes well with various things. > > Sour cream and meatloaf is good. > > Sour cream with macaroni and cheese as well as hot sauce, also good. SC on corn chips right outta the bag (I’m so pedestrian.). And cream cheese on pretzels. ETA: Almost forgot to mention: This diner we frequent has a dish that consists of Pulled Pork (with sauce) on Macaroni & Cheese on top of a Cornbread Waffle with Cinnamon Butter and you can get syrup. It’s 2190 calories. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-weird-food-combinations-that-actually-taste-good-to-you/847879/28 "2020-02-14T03:10:22Z")
> [@Alpha\_Twit](#): > > Got to disagree - that’ll be peanut butter and _sweet_ pickle on crusty wheat toast for me please. I like peanut butter with spicy bread & butter pickles in a sandwich myself. I’ve also been known to do peanut butter with hot pepper flakes, but it’s not quite the same as without the acidic punch of pickles. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-weird-food-combinations-that-actually-taste-good-to-you/847879/29 "2020-02-14T06:34:02Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Hot dogs with peanut butter. OMG! You’re the only other person I’ve seen who likes this, apart from one of my friends’ kids. But it has to be the right kind of peanut butter on the right kind of hot dog. Kraft smooth peanut butter, the kind with sugar in it, to start with. Organic “just peanuts” peanut butter will NOT work. The weiner is ideally a Schneider’s Red Hot, vaguely smoked and vaguely pork. And the weiner should not be too moist either. I think there’s some sort of savoury/sweet contrast thing going on. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-weird-food-combinations-that-actually-taste-good-to-you/847879/30 "2020-02-14T07:14:49Z")
I prepared some table snacks by mixing pickled lupins and green olives. Is that weird, though? ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-weird-food-combinations-that-actually-taste-good-to-you/847879/31 "2020-02-14T07:35:04Z")
**Moderator Action** Moving thread to Cafe Society (from MPSIMS). ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-weird-food-combinations-that-actually-taste-good-to-you/847879/32 "2020-02-14T08:04:29Z")
I dip okra in ketchup. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-weird-food-combinations-that-actually-taste-good-to-you/847879/33 "2020-02-14T10:08:04Z")
I recently backed a hot sauce company on Kickstarter which is producing a strawberry-basil-and-Carolina-Reaper-sauce that’s intended as an ice cream topping. It works surprisingly well. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-weird-food-combinations-that-actually-taste-good-to-you/847879/34 "2020-02-14T11:15:52Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > And cream cheese on pretzels. I thought this was weird until my wife and kids introduced me to it, and I realized that every mall has a pretzel place that serves them like this. Also ruined one of my frugal snack strategies, as I can no longer buy a $2 box of pretzels without doubling the price with at least 1 block of cream cheese. I like mustard on a lot of things, including pretzels (soft or hard). So that’s what I do. No one else I know eats mustard at all. Is it weird to dip hard sourdough pretzels in ice cream? My uncle turned me on to that when I was a kid. Doesn’t matter what kind but I prefer something chocolate based. ---
**Author:** ![cgg419](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cgg419/32/2847_2.png) [@cgg419](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cgg419)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-weird-food-combinations-that-actually-taste-good-to-you/847879/35 "2020-02-14T12:53:47Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Peanut butter and mayo sandwiches. A fave since childhood. I didn’t discover it until last year, but it’s amazing. Add onions and or hot sauce to take it to the next level. Hot sauce on vanilla ice cream is pretty good too. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-weird-food-combinations-that-actually-taste-good-to-you/847879/36 "2020-02-14T12:59:55Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > I always get a Bacon Egg and Cheese sandwich with mayonnaise. I was introduced to this exact sandwich probably in the early 1980’s by a dude who worked for my dad, and I don’t think I have ever seen anyone else ever order a BEC with mayonnaise except for me and him. My favorite breakfast sandwich— egg extra cheese ham bacon breakfast sausage patty ketchup a little grape jelly a few drops of Tabasco sauce ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-weird-food-combinations-that-actually-taste-good-to-you/847879/37 "2020-02-14T13:55:59Z")
> [@cgg419](#): > > Hot sauce on vanilla ice cream is pretty good too. I love the sweet hot sauces such as _Toad Sweat_ on ice cream. Sadly I fear they may have gone out of business. It seems unavailable via the net at the moment. I will conserve my stash for special occasions ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-weird-food-combinations-that-actually-taste-good-to-you/847879/38 "2020-02-14T14:17:27Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > My favorite breakfast sandwich— > > egg > extra cheese > ham > bacon > breakfast sausage patty > ketchup > **a little grape jelly** > a few drops of Tabasco sauce (bolding mine) My mother puts a fair amount of grape jelly in her Swedish(?) Meatballs 😕. It must do something, as they always disappear toot sweet. > [@jtur88](#): > > I dip okra in ketchup. … and wing it against the cafeteria wall. Yeah, I remember you from Junior High, Bennie. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![slightly\_askew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@slightly\_askew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slightly_askew)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-weird-food-combinations-that-actually-taste-good-to-you/847879/39 "2020-02-14T14:30:41Z")
I like to put salsa on my tuna salad sandwiches. Perks them right up. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-weird-food-combinations-that-actually-taste-good-to-you/847879/40 "2020-02-14T15:02:00Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > (bolding mine) > > My mother puts a fair amount of grape jelly in her Swedish(?) Meatballs 😕. It must do something, as they always disappear toot sweet. Sounds like a riff on the classic (at least in some parts) barbecue sauce & grape jelly combo for appetizer meatballs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-weird-food-combinations-that-actually-taste-good-to-you/847879.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-weird-food-combinations-that-actually-taste-good-to-you/847879.md?page=3)