I’m not a big fan of mustard generally, but a pastrami sandwich just doesn’t taste right without it. They work beautifully together - yet I’ll avoid mustard in most other situations.
Do you have any foods or condiments that you normally don’t like yet you not only tolerate but actually enjoy when combined with some other specific food?
Tonic water is bitter swill but add some ice, a lime and some vodka or gin and it’s wonderful. Hell, it even works with tequila.
Let me turn that around. Add some tonic to your vodka or gin. Not trying to make a joke, but a weak vodka/gin and tonic tastes pretty terrible.
Mayonnaise is just awful, unless a part of tuna, potato, or macaroni salad. Egg salad too.
Joe
Same here, add turkey sandwiches.
Olives are only good soaked in gin.
Mayo…I eat it on sammiches, but I rarely eat sammiches.
Peanut Butter…I can’t recall the last time I ate a peanut butter sammich. At most, I eat a spoonful or two a year cause it sounds good.
Pickles…I like them enough, just rarely think about eating them.
Put them all together in a peanut butter, pickle and mayo sammich, however, and I will eat them until whichever ingredient runs out first. 
Oh, and on the drink angle…I typically ahve a bottle of angustura bitters around, simply to add to 7-UP, which is another thing I don’t drink hardly ever, except in this combination.
Beats any ginger ale, ever, except maybe Vernors.
I only eat mustard if it’s on a hot dog, and then it has to be a brown, spicy, or dijon. Never that bright-yellow, French’s crap.
Nah, it has to be part of a matrix, not slathered on. Blech.
Joe
Opposite for me. I use brown mustards on a variety of things, but only the bright yellow stuff works on hot dogs, and hot dogs are the only thing it works on.
I’m not sure condiments should count. Their very definition is that they are combined with other foods.
Pickles for me. Lots of people eat them plain. I’ll only eat them on a cheeseburger.
Can’t stand spinach. Only tolerate artichokes. But put them together in some Spinach Artichoke dip, and YUM!
Nah. Tuna. Just tuna.
Vile stuff otherwise.
Both of these…except for me it’s on Wendy’s Spicy Chicken Sandwiches.
I don’t mind tonic water, but it’s not something I would generally drink on its own. Same thing with gin. But together with a bit of lime? I don’t know what happens, but it’s some kind of beverage alchemy. Turns into the perfect summer drink.
LOL about the tonic water.
I love it straight up, and if there is a blacklight nearby, the stuff fluoresces eerily.
People really get disturbed to see me drink something that looks like nuclear waste dump seepage.
:eek:
By definition, condiments are meant to be eaten with something else. You don’t really hear of people sitting down to a nice bowl of mayonnaise.
Yeah, I should have been more clear in the OP. What I meant is that you only like them combined with something specific. Like in my case I’ll put mustard on a pastrami sandwich but nothing else.
Anyone see the Zimern food show with the mayo milk shake in Japan?
Blech!
Maybe a little mustard would have made it palatable?
I can’t stand tomatoes on their own, but I love all kinds of tomato-based sauces.
I only put A-1 sauce on burgers.
When I was a kid I’d heat up ketchup in the microwave and eat it with my fingers.