# Foods you eat that other people think are really wierd. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 26, 2005, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316 "2005-07-26T23:10:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/21 "2005-07-27T01:04:33Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > I like to drink certain kinds of nonfat salad dressings and marinades. I’ve been known to pour two or three ounces of lemon pepper marinade or nonfat Italian dressing into a glass and just gulp it down. I need extra sodium in my diet, and this is one tasty way that I can get it. Doesn’t seem weird to me, but it freaked out one of my friends when she saw me doing this. Funny you should mention that. 'Cause just last night I made myself a salad with raseberry walnut vinagrette, and when I got to the end of the salad there was quite a bit left, so I drank it. Nobody found it weird because I was alone at the time, but…I’d do it again!!! My SO claims to enjoy dry uncooked pasta with marmite but I’ve never seen him actually do it. According to him the strangest thing I eat is peanutbutter and jelly sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/22 "2005-07-27T01:11:41Z")
I _like_ haggis. I have been known to eat almost anything (those big South American bird-eating spiders taste a lot likr crab legs). What the family cannot accept is that I do not like sweet potatoes or yams. Yucky. Winter squash of any variety is yummy, though… ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/23 "2005-07-27T01:15:28Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > I like 'em, too. They’re good plain, straight outta the can, but if you want to get fancy, try this. Get some cherry tomatoes, cut the top off and carefully hollow the inside out, fold up the oyster and shove it in. Make a bunch of them, then sit down and enjoy. Just pop them in your mouth. Yummy. Thank you. Our cherry tomatoes are ripening like crazy, this’ll be great! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/24 "2005-07-27T01:31:45Z")
Cold pizza for breakfast Veggie burgers Veggie “chicken” stuff Veggie sausage Veggie bacon Veggie baloney (I’m a vegetarian, so anything of this ilk gets me strange looks) Stale cheese doodles (I leave the bag open over night) Dehydrated mushrooms (easy to make and delicious) Dehydrated pineapple bits those snap pea crisp things I get in the food market Mangos hmmm, come to think of it, this list could be really long for me… I’ve always been more of a trendsetter than a follower 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/25 "2005-07-27T01:35:49Z")
> [@Nunavut Boy](#): > > Sometimes I like to cut up a whole bunch of cheddar cheese and then use italian salad dressing as a dip for it. Add lettuce, grated carrots, and a few other somewhat crunchy veggies, and it makes a nice salad. ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/26 "2005-07-27T01:38:49Z")
I like to crumble corn bread up in a glass, top it off with cold milk and eat it with a spoon. I learned this from my Dad – back when he was little his family used to eat this for supper sometimes – when there wasn’t much around to make a meal of, or they were in a particular hurry to get a meal on the table. Sort of Okie fast food. They always called it ‘short supper’ for some reason. By the time I came along, we didn’t have this as a meal on it’s own anymore, but we often had pinto beans and corn bread for dinner and my dad always fixed a glass of corn bread and milk as a sort of dessert after that meal. And my siblings and I would always follow suit – not my mom, though. She thinks (as does my husband) that ‘short supper’ is gross. I love it though – especially when the cornbread is still warm and the milk real cold – the cold and the warm sort of swirls together in the glass and in my mouth in a way that’s indefinably delicious. ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/27 "2005-07-27T01:42:39Z")
Canned menudo. Yes, it exists. The tripe is chewier then good from-scratch menudo, but canned menudo is better then no menudo. Arguably. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/28 "2005-07-27T02:05:04Z")
> [@Jess](#): > > I like to crumble corn bread up in a glass, top it off with cold milk and eat it with a spoon. I learned this from my Dad – back when he was little his family used to eat this for supper sometimes – when there wasn’t much around to make a meal of, or they were in a particular hurry to get a meal on the table. Sort of Okie fast food. They always called it ‘short supper’ for some reason. By the time I came along, we didn’t have this as a meal on it’s own anymore, but we often had pinto beans and corn bread for dinner and my dad always fixed a glass of corn bread and milk as a sort of dessert after that meal. And my siblings and I would always follow suit – not my mom, though. She thinks (as does my husband) that ‘short supper’ is gross. I love it though – especially when the cornbread is still warm and the milk real cold – the cold and the warm sort of swirls together in the glass and in my mouth in a way that’s indefinably delicious. That sounds delicious. When I go to Wendy’s I dip my fries in my frosty. Spam musubis, which are just spam and rice wrapped in nori. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/29 "2005-07-27T02:17:31Z")
Mayonaise on french fries. I learned it from my German grandmother. It’s apparently quite common in Europe, especially Belgium, but here in the U.S. I get strange looks. I’ve only ever managed to persuade one person to try it. He liked it. ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/30 "2005-07-27T02:18:21Z")
I drink a kind of green tea called pinhead gunpowder. The leaves are all rolled up into little balls and fan out after they soak a little bit. Then my mug is full of dark green leaves, which I strain the tea from by keeping my upper teeth on the rim of the mug. A Chinese I used to work with turned me on to this years ago, and I still do it. It’s great. Another thing I do is I chop up cloves of garlic and soak them overnight in olive oil. Then I smear it on bread or toast. It’s wonderful. If you’re worried that making a habit of this could kill your love life, just do what I do: date an Italian. ---
**Author:** ![Nunavut\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e95f7d/32.png) [@Nunavut\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunavut_Boy)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/31 "2005-07-27T02:25:07Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Add lettuce, grated carrots, and a few other somewhat crunchy veggies, and it makes a nice salad. That’s actually how I got the idea. I realized that I liked the cheese in the salad a lot more than the salad itself. If I wasted stomach real estate on low cal stuff like veggies, I’d waste away. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/32 "2005-07-27T02:29:51Z")
Another vote for raw potatoes here . Pickled okra . Bologna and potato chip sammiches . Fried mush . Not mushROOMS , MUSH . Yummy . Fried cabbage . Fried okra . Not breaded , just sliced and fried with chopped onion and bacon pieces . I eat entirely too much fried food , evidently . :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Frankenbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c0e974/32.png) [@Frankenbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankenbear)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/33 "2005-07-27T03:28:21Z")
> [@FilmGeek](#): > > Handful of freshly popped popcorn, handful of M&Ms. Repeat. I like hot popcorn with junior mints. Yummy. Bologna sandwiches with american cheese and bean dip. Sardines with mustard on crackers. Pineapples dipped in chocolate. My mom likes to eat peanut butter, banana, pan sausage and mayo sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/34 "2005-07-27T03:38:43Z")
> [@Snowboarder Bo](#): > > Mangos Mangos are a weird food now? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/35 "2005-07-27T03:40:10Z")
Red Eye Gravy. ---
**Author:** ![Lt\_AF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@Lt\_AF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lt_AF)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/36 "2005-07-27T03:46:02Z")
> [@Sierra Indigo](#): > > Isn’t that what cream cheese is for? Spreading on sandwiches and crackers, and eating? That’s why it’s referred to as cream cheese spread, no? That’s what I said. I guess some people aren’t used to seeing a sandwich that is just bread and cream cheese. I guess folks, like my girlfriend, use it as a topping like on bagels or toast. I spread that cream cheese about 1/2 inch thick. It grosses her out. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/37 "2005-07-27T03:47:39Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > Mangos are a weird food now? 😕 And so is cold pizza for breakfast, apparently. Though, I must wonder what kind of people y’all hang around with, as more than half of the food mentioned here isn’t weird at all. I mean, chicken dipped in ranch is weird? Americans put ranch on practically everything. (I hate ranch). Ethiopian weird? Time to get some more cultured friends. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/38 "2005-07-27T04:00:26Z")
Ham of course (I do not even talk about pig’s feet, a double whammy) and oddly, iced tea puzzles the locals. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/39 "2005-07-27T05:22:11Z")
I like to crumble potato chips up in a bowl, pour on some ketchup, then mix it up and eat it with a spoon. It’s also a GREAT way to deal with the crumbs at the end of the bag. Same with corn chips and salsa. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/40 "2005-07-27T05:26:46Z")
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