# Food combinations you found surprisingly terrible **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 5, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-combinations-you-found-surprisingly-terrible/591636 "2011-08-05T20:47:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-combinations-you-found-surprisingly-terrible/591636/1 "2011-08-05T20:47:47Z")
I’m not talking about some oddball combination that you may expect to be gross but still try anyway, like barbecue chicken-flavored ice cream or something. I’m talking about things you think should work together, but don’t. I love olives and I love blue cheese. Also, I like that olive-feta cheese mixture they sell at the olive bar at the grocery store. However, I bought some blue cheese-stuffed olives, and they did not go together at all. ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-combinations-you-found-surprisingly-terrible/591636/2 "2011-08-05T21:29:04Z")
I really like blue cheese but mixing it with stuff really leaves me unaffected. Like why mix blue cheese, fine or otherwise, in a dressing? Serve the whatever with an unadulterated wedge of blue cheese on the side is delightful. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-combinations-you-found-surprisingly-terrible/591636/3 "2011-08-05T21:33:11Z")
As much as I love Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, jarred peanut butter and real chocolate do nothing for me. Even though I keep trying it… ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-combinations-you-found-surprisingly-terrible/591636/4 "2011-08-05T21:35:45Z")
I love peanut butter in a sandwich along with some jelly. But I don’t like peanut butter in cookies or ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-combinations-you-found-surprisingly-terrible/591636/5 "2011-08-05T21:38:13Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > I love olives and I love blue cheese. Also, I like that olive-feta cheese mixture they sell at the olive bar at the grocery store. However, I bought some blue cheese-stuffed olives, and they did not go together at all. Probably the result of combining two salty foods. It takes it past the point of the right amount of saltiness and becomes too much. ---
**Author:** ![LaurenIpsum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@LaurenIpsum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LaurenIpsum)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-combinations-you-found-surprisingly-terrible/591636/6 "2011-08-05T21:55:56Z")
I don’t like barbecue sauce on chicken. I love it on pulled pork or on ribs, but for some reason, I don’t like the taste of it with chicken. If barbecued chicken has any sauce on it, I want it vinegary or spicy. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-combinations-you-found-surprisingly-terrible/591636/7 "2011-08-05T22:01:44Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Probably the result of combining two salty foods. It takes it past the point of the right amount of saltiness and becomes too much. Could be. I don’t like blue cheese-stuffed olives myself. More surprisingly I found the classic Gorgonzola-topped steak to also be a rousing disappointment. Doesn’t work for me at all. And I suppose that I should add that I usually do like blue cheeses. ---
**Author:** ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-combinations-you-found-surprisingly-terrible/591636/8 "2011-08-05T22:21:40Z")
As a kid, I _loved_ salami and I _loved_ “leverpastej” (pâté made of pork liver and lard, very common in Scandinavia). Until I tried combining the two on the same sandwich. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-combinations-you-found-surprisingly-terrible/591636/9 "2011-08-06T05:05:52Z")
I make a pretty good beef stew, and I find that a bowl of it goes really well with a mug of hot tea. Which gave me the brilliant idea to use tea as one of the seasonings. I’ll just keep them separate from now on. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-combinations-you-found-surprisingly-terrible/591636/10 "2011-08-06T20:37:13Z")
I’ve had pastitso several times, but I think it would be better without the cinnamon. I don’t like orange flavor (or god forbid lemon) with chocolate in sweets (though white chocolate is OK), and I don’t like chocolate mint ice cream. I always think, ‘eww, mouthwash’. ---
**Author:** ![tugboats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@tugboats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tugboats)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-combinations-you-found-surprisingly-terrible/591636/11 "2011-08-06T21:51:56Z")
I also love peanut butter and chocolate separtely but together - no beuno. Idk why. ---
**Author:** ![tugboats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@tugboats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tugboats)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-combinations-you-found-surprisingly-terrible/591636/12 "2011-08-06T21:52:56Z")
Also also dnw fruit with chocolate. Fruit is awesome on its own, it also doesnt need sugar all over it. Yuck. Maybe in a pie is fine but raw fruit must always be by itself generally. Maybe whip cream is fine…I suck at this game… ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-combinations-you-found-surprisingly-terrible/591636/13 "2011-08-06T23:55:59Z")
I love Oreos and I love ice cream. But I can’t stand cookies & cream ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-combinations-you-found-surprisingly-terrible/591636/14 "2011-08-07T00:20:42Z")
Reed’s Raspberry Ginger Brew, a “gourmet soda”. I tolerate ginger beer. I like raspberry. You’d think a combination would be OK - what could go wrong? Well…this. Just vile. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-combinations-you-found-surprisingly-terrible/591636/15 "2011-08-07T00:54:37Z")
Cheese or cream in a black bean soup. I have no idea why, but the result is a flavor that is mildly reminiscent of vomit. I could swear that I have had cream and/or cheese with black beans, with the result being good, but trying it home it’s been a dire result (made edible via dilution). ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-combinations-you-found-surprisingly-terrible/591636/16 "2011-08-07T01:10:42Z")
Coffee and mint. Bleeeh. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-combinations-you-found-surprisingly-terrible/591636/17 "2011-08-07T01:29:43Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > I love Oreos and I love ice cream. But I can’t stand cookies & cream ice cream. Something is wrong with you. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-combinations-you-found-surprisingly-terrible/591636/18 "2011-08-07T13:53:57Z")
I put chocolate milk on granola cereal once. It went right down the disposer. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-combinations-you-found-surprisingly-terrible/591636/19 "2011-08-07T14:46:22Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I love peanut butter in a sandwich along with some jelly. But I don’t like peanut butter in cookies or ice cream. I’m with you on that one. Love PB & J, not a fan of PB cookies, or peanuts on/in other stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-combinations-you-found-surprisingly-terrible/591636/20 "2011-08-07T14:53:32Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I love peanut butter in a sandwich along with some jelly. But I don’t like peanut butter in cookies or ice cream. That’s one for me. I loooove peanut butter on toast, but that’s the only place it works for me. Also, I really don’t like salty/sweet combos. No chocolate dipped pretzels, salted chocolate bon bons etc [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-combinations-you-found-surprisingly-terrible/591636.md?page=2)