At my college we had soft serve cookies and cream ice cream. Tasted exactly like cookies and cream except there weren’t any cookies in it.
Ginger and chocolate.
I like ginger, and I LOVE chocolate. But never the twain should meet. I found this out when I tried chocolate-covered ginger Altoids. Yuck.
That is just horribly wrong somehow.
I’m always horrified to see lemonade recipes that say “toss in a sprig of mint.” Yes, it photographs better that way, and I understand why the set designer did it. But you -> Mr. or Ms. recipe-writer are supposed to know better. That is just revolting.
Also I second the ginger-chocolate combo. It’s like purple and brown, some twerp in New York decided to see if they could force us all to pretend it’s a good combination. Don’t let the power-trippers win.
Hey, TruCelt! As a New York twerp, I am offended by your last statement. Why do you assume the abominable ginger/chocolate combination was invented by one of us?
But I agree with your thoughts on matching mint with lemonade. Ick! Mint with lemon in dishes like tabbouleh is good. Mint with lemonade is just terrible.
I enjoy ice cream and chocolate separately, and ice cream with chocolatey things in or on it, but I do not like chocolate ice cream.
Tzatziki and eggs. I guess I assumed that omelets were kind of a free-for-all that I could put anything in, and dill is one of my favorite seasonings, but the yogurt and cucumbers did not work well as omelet filling.
I love chocolate and I love mint, but I do not love chocolate mints.
Rice Krispy Treats Cereal and horchata. Just way too sweet.
Any kind of tequila and Diet Dr. Pepper. Dr. Pepper may work as a mixer for some other kind of alcohol, but I never tried it. I can tell you though that tequila and Diet Dr. Pepper is terrible, no matter how drunk you are.
Well, if it makes you feel any better, I never meant to say that all NEw York twerps attempt to impose insanely poor ideas upon the rest of the populace. I’m sure the vast majority of New York twerps are just quietly twerping about in the park, never meaning a bit of harm to anyone.
But I strongly suspect that there exists a sort of Algonquin roundtable of fashion designers and chefs and artists who compete to see what tasteless uncomfortable or unpalatable nightmare they can convince the hoi polloi would reflect wordly sophistication if they pretended to like it. You can nearly always hear their minions coming, their battle cry is “It’s an aquired taste.”
Seriously though, there is so much more freedom for artists, designers and chefs in New York, and such an incredible infrastructure for Public Relations and advertising, that the really bizare fashions, including food fashions, always seem to come from the latest Manhattan Golden Child.
If you’re still confused, Google “Club Kids.”
Quoth Sage Rat:
This sort of aversion probably means that once upon a time, you happened to get sick shortly after eating creamy bean soup. You might not consciously remember it, and it might not have actually been the soup that made you sick, but it still has the subconscious association with it.
And Joey P, I’ve had cookies-and-cream soft-serve, too, and the taste is right, but what I love about cookies-and-cream ice cream is the texture of the soggy frozen cookies. Without that, it’s just not the same.
Jelly and donuts do not belong together. All I’m going to say.
This.
The first time I tried the strawberry-dipped-in-chocolate I expected it to be heavenly. Chocolate? Like. Strawberries? Like. But chocolate-dipped strawberries were awful. Those are two strong flavors that just seem to fight each other.
I like vinegar, I like all things peanut butter but anything with peanut butter and vinegar in it tastes like stomach acid to me.
Sushi = good
Cream cheese = also good, especially on bagels
Sushi + cream cheese (Philadelphia roll, etc.) = gross. It is especially vile if there is a large temperature difference between the cheese and the rest of the roll.
Chocolate dipped strawberries were not nearly as fabu tasting as I expected they would be. They were OK, but nothing special. They looked great but the tastes really did not complement each other (IMO) all that well.
For the record: bourbon. Dr Pepper and bourbon has a flavor that reminds me a lot of classic cocktails; the soda doesn’t mask the whisky quite as much as cola.
For my own: chocolate pieces and ice cream. I don’t like the feel of frozen chocolate in my ice cream. I buy a carton or two every year because the flavors always SOUND so good.
I’m tempted to say steak and anything, since a good steak is perfect with just a pinch of salt and maybe some black pepper. But that’s cheating – most steaks aren’t that good, and go just fine with sauces and toppings and whatnots.
Commonest has to be the chocolate and mint combo - that I amongst many others hate.
Also pinapple on pizza that already include ham of any description - eurgh! You would never ever see that happening in Italy…
I go with Diet Dr. Pepper and bourbon, or sometimes vodka. There is also the “Flaming Dr. Pepper,” a drink which supposedly tastes like the soda but doesn’t actually contain any. I’ve never actually tried it so I can’t verify.
Have you seen what other countries put on their pizza? Things like corn, peas, or a fried egg cracked right on top!?
Every magazine cover with a chocolate cake on it is inevitably garnished with strawberries, maybe raspberries. This irritates me no end!
Or tuna fish. That was not a good lunch when I got my German translation wrong.