I have a couple of intriguing ones, even if not up to the eeewwww standard:
I likes me hot fudge sundaes made with orange sherbet, when it’s available.
When I was a wee freshman at El Camino Junior College, the first time I went to the cafeteria, I chose a big dish of cherry Jell-O. The lady behind the counter asked me if I wanted bleu cheese dressing on it (in retrospect, I suppose it’s possible she was enjoying a prank at the wee freshman’s expense). I accepted it, and it became my lunch staple for the next several months. I don’t eat Jell-O much anymore (pain in the arse to make), and even if I did, I don’t keep bleu cheese dressing in the house (now that Ranch dressing has been invented, I can hardly see the point of even having other flavors), but I still have fond memories of those lunches of twenty-nine years ago.
I used to make tuna melts on hash brown patties instead of bread. I haven’t done that for ages- I know what I’m having for lunch today!! I also love lima beans with ketchup.
One of the Sydney papers used to do this each week but would always ask the chef at some ritzy retaurant. The only one I recall (because I tried it) was a banana, bacon and peanut butter toasted . It is wonderful.
Years ago one paper ran a story on peoples favourite sandwiches. I recall most of Paul Hogan’s (remember him):
A clud sandwich - ham and pineapple and cheese with turkey and cranberry sauce plus other stuff, dipped in better and deep fried and then dusted with icing sugar. He said it was the main course and dessert in one go.
My mother who was English used to give me Vegemite and chopped nut sandwiches for school. They were great. I’ll have to ask her where the idea came from.
Someone once taught me banana, sweet mustard pickles (piccalilli) and bacon and it is very good. Do you have sweet mustard pickles in the US because I wouldn’t eat corned beef without them?
If I buy a salad sandwich for lunch I always have a slice of pineapple for moistness.
Another friend taught me scrambled eggs with orange juice (not milk), really tart cheese with honey drizzled on top. God it’s good.
And if I can get just one person reading this to try my favourite sandwich ever, I’ll be a happy man (I believe Elvis was partial to a deep-fried variant of this):
Get a hot dog roll and spread it with peanut butter, banana, and hot bacon, then sprinkle over tabasco sauce, and salt. Mmmm mmm mmm. Sweet, salty, savoury, spicy and gooey. Divine!
There’s a genius (three Michelin stars) chef in the UK called Heston Blumenthal who uses chemistry labs to analyse different flavour combinations. He’s made a fried breakfast ice cream that tastes of different elements as it melts. He also serves caviar in white chocolate. He’s written a fascinating article about flavours.
Me too with the cheese and jam sandwiches, also you can spread the bread with Philidelphia Cream Cheese and then dollop on the jam. How about Irish Whisky Fruit Cake and cheese. I serve it up every Christmas and the Aussies laugh at my parent’s eating habits, and then eat all of it.
The hot dog roll sounds like an improvement but I’ll stick to my favourite D L Jardine’s Blazing Saddles which took over from Tabasco years ago.
Have you noticed that no-one serves any of this stuff - it has to be home made.
I am a pretty vanilla kind of guy, not big into odd combinations. I do remember when I was in high-school we (my mother) helped an abused woman and her son by letting them live with us and her son used to eat…
Chocolate and bacon milkshake. But if you use fresh-cooked bacon you have to stop drinking before you get to the layer of lard and salt that pools at the bottom.
Ardred used to put sausage casserole (breakfast sausage, scrambled eggs, bell peppers and cheese, baked) in his orange juice and eat it with a spoon. He was a kid and I think he did it more to gross out his sister than anything.
I love maple syrup on bacon.
I also love instant grits with bacon bits and half the water called for in the recipe.
I also love salty/sweet. Throw a handful of M&Ms in with a bowl of popped popcorn. This seems to be a female thing, mostly.
Also, french fries in chocolate milkshakes are a staple of fast food.
So, what, bacon with pancakes or waffles and jam or maple syrup is something unusual? Hell, all you need is a poached or over-easy egg… People, we eat this stuff together all the time, piling it up into a sandwich is the logical next step.
Fish,, that chocolate bacon milkshake thingy sound, well, decadant. And actually kinda good.
I’m another sweet-salty combo chick, especially if the sweet part involves chocolate. And it’s actually a very popular combination. Really, you don’t see the companies that make chocolate or yogurt covered pretzels stopping making them because they don’t sell, do you?
And next cup of hot chocolate I have, I will be putting some crushed dried red chilis in. Sounds heavenly… mmmm
Once at a class party, I brought my famous brownies with crushed chilis in them. I put a sticker on the pan informing potential eaters of the brownies that they had crushed red chilis in them. I told the entire class the brownies had crushed red chilis in them. One girl bit into one, then asked me if they had something spicy in them. I said, “yeah, crushed red chili peppers.” Guess she thought I was kidding what with the sticker on the pan and the telling everyone.She took another bite, then threw abandoned the rest on her plate. She didn’t think it tasted bad, it was just that the spicy/chocolatey combination created some kind of sensory dissonance in her taste buds. The teacher scolded me- said I should have warned people about the red chilis in the brownies. Then she helped herself to another one…
About half the class refused to even try them. With the exception of the one girl, everyone who did try them thought they were great.
