I’ve got a new one I just found. Don’t ask me why I tried it, (let’s just say it involved several people saying it was good, teenage mutant ninja turtles, and my own odd curiosity) but marshmallow and pizza. It wasn’t bad. I kind of want to try it again but with pineapple or something, some sort of tart fruit. Or maybe fully dessert it with chocolate, peanuts, and caramel or something. Just Michelangelo, half of your taste done good this one time.
Also when I was in elementary school I once enjoyed sour cream and cheddar chips dipped in vanilla icing. Not sure if it would still be good to an adult palette. Guess i’ll see next time I have both and feel adventurous… I am doubtful though.
I honestly don’t find half of these to be weird though.
Not sure how you could overlook the alarming news coverage each time infected produce is the source of food-borne illness, but a vegetarian diet does not protect you from food poisoning or allow one to shirk cleanliness standards expected in any kitchen. The belief that fruits, vegetables, and grains are free from contact with animal products is not only false, it’s silly. Even many organic foods are fertilized with bone meal, manure (feces!), blood meal, and other remnants courtesy the meat and hide industry. Same crops are also watered with sources contaminated by the aforementioned animal products. Not only that, plant matter is often picked and washed by human hands, which as anyone knows, vary in cleanliness. And you know what else? Produce pickers paid per quantity may not take the time to leave a huge field and visit a restroom in order to urinate or defecate, and may very well take a leak (and more) in the very field our food is grown in.
A vegetarian can claim many health benefits by following a vegetarian diet, but cannot claim in good faith that the veggie diet is immaculately clean, safe, and free from animal contamination. (I avoid deliberately eating meat and most animal products as well, but can’t see any valid reason to stand on this soapbox in order to pronounce the diets of others as “disgusting” nor can I claim my diet is cleaner than any other. Unless I grow it myself, I assume everything that goes in my mouth is potentially doused in shit. Them’s the breaks.)
Blue cheese dressing on eggs. My favorite omelet is a pepperoni and pepperjack cheese omelet with blue cheese dressing on top.
I also love cinnamon raisin bagels with jalapeno cream cheese. The sweet and spicy combination works perfectly.
With both of these I’ve converted doubters into lovers (and converted other doubters into confirmed doubters, de gustibus non disputandom and all that).
At outback they serve a wedge salad (i.e., a wedge of iceberg lettuce) with a dressing of blue cheese dressing and reduced balsamic vinaigrette dressing (along with bacon bits). The blue cheese dressing and the vinaigrette work together amazingly well. I would never have expected it, but they are perfect complements to one another.
Eggs have to have Tabasco on them, or even better, Frank’s RedHot Sauce. Doesn’t matter if they’re scrambled, fried, omelette, whatever, they have to have some form of sauce. When I was a kid, it was ketchup.
One I grew up eating as a kid and did not know was weird was rice with peanut butter for breakfast. Prepare rice, dress with cream, sugar, and peanut butter (better be Peter Pan, or woe be unto you.)
When I fix grilled cheese sandwiches, I like to put dill pickles (either burger chips, with 1 in each corner and one in the center) or the slices (two across) before I grill them. Bread, cheese, pickles, cheese, bread. Eat.
As far as potatoes:
Tater tots - usually ranch, but if not available, I like to dip them in mustard or a mustard/ketchup blend.
Fries - ranch or mayonnaise
I like fruit sandwiches: fresh bananas, or canned pears or pineapple, on white bread with mayo. Sharp cheddar with the pears or pineapple. Yum. Has to be cheap soft white bread, too. Artisanal bakery bread just doesn’t work.
My mother occasionally made a dish in the worst heat of summer that she told me was a traditional Polish meal during hot weather:
Warm white rice + cold sliced strawberries + a little sour cream. Sounds weird, but it’s a light, refreshing meal when you’re hot and sweaty and not hungry but still need to eat something. I love the warm/cold dichotomy.
Rye bread spread with olive hummus, about a tablespoon of medium-heat pickled garlic, bean sprouts, whatever raw greens salad stuff is about, and a dollop of cottage cheese.
I combined soy sauce, brown sugar, and cinnamon into a dressing, and it worked oddly well. Putting ketchup and mayonaisse on a sandwich freaks a lot of people out, but to me, it’s the perfect combination. In fact, it’s so good that I avoid using it, because then I won’t taste anything else in the sandwich.
Peanut butter and jelly (jam to us) is considered odd here in the UK, although I understand it’s a staple in the US.
Staying in a hotel once here in the UK, a coach load of Japanese tourists came into the breakfast buffet room. This was a help yourself breakfast bar that served the typical English hot breakfast fare; sausage, bacon, baked beans, eggs etc and cereals, porridge etc as well for the more health conscious guests. The Japanese people obviously hadn’t come across this before and all kind of milled around looking at the food, clearly bemused as to what to have. Eventually, one of the braver souls amongst them took a bowl, put a large helping of porridge in it and then mixed in a large spoonful of baked beans! Clearly relieved that somebody had taken the initiative, pretty much all of the rest followed suit :eek:
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I only mix it together on hamburgers though.