# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Updike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@Updike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Updike)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/81 "2005-07-28T00:15:00Z")
RE: Herring > [@](#): > > My husband eats this all the time. Vita makes it. Noon Hour brand herring in sour cream is the best, IMHO. My contribution: beef tongue Is that considered weird by other people? ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/82 "2005-07-28T00:36:35Z")
> [@brownie55](#): > > What are those? [musk lifesavers](http://www.everythingaustralian.com/evryaustralian/noname162.html) [musk sticks](http://www.thegreataussietuckerbox.com/category18_1.htm) [http://www.aussieinamerica.com/food/nostalgia.htm](http://www.aussieinamerica.com/food/nostalgia.htm) Musk is a sort of flowery but not rose scent/smell. the lifesavers are like any other lifesaver, hard crack sugar but colored peptobismal pink. the musk sticks ar ethe same flavor but textured like a necco wafer. ---
**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 28, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/83 "2005-07-28T00:45:01Z")
> [@DeVena](#): > > I eat hot popcorn in milk, just like cereal. > > Next? IIRC, that’s how cold cereal was invented-early American settlers (think the pilgrims and such) would take stale popcorn and pour milk over it for breakfast. How about crumbled pretzels in ice cream? The salty/sweet combo is to die for, and it tastes like candy coated pretzels. I’ve also been known to snack on raw hotdogs. They’re just bologna, really. I especially adore Ball Park Grill Masters garlic weiners. Mmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/84 "2005-07-28T00:55:52Z")
I like to drink 3/4 Root beer with 1/4 Milk. Most of my friends & wife find this very weird. I think it taste like a Root Beer Float Lite. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/85 "2005-07-28T01:00:57Z")
> [@fubbleskag](#): > > sliced onions in a bowl of vinegar with liberal amounts of salt. when i was very young my mother would eat a half-onion like this every day while watching the Waltons. it wasn’t long before i was doing the same. i have now developed an addiction vinegar. i can be seen regularly drinking it straight from the bottle (malt & apple cider varieties are my favourites). > > i’ve also been known to eat cucumber, radish, and tomatoe in the same fasion (i ran out of onions and did some experimenting) One of my favorite sumemr dishes my dad always made (claimed his dad made it, too) was sliced cucumbers in white vinegar and a little bit of vegetable oil, and then the mixture is coated with black pepper, and you let it sit in the fridge for at least an hour before eating. Yum! ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/86 "2005-07-28T01:13:09Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Vinegar addiction isn’t a pretty thing. You start out with the Malt Vinegar and Balsamic Vinegar and all the pretty jars withn the flavorings laid out inside. Eventually your money runs out and you can’t afford the good stuff anymore, and you start doing shots of Heinz White Vinegar all day. Then the generic brands. Pretty soon you’re sniffing RTV straight from the tube for the acetic acid. Eventually you end up on street corners selling Witch Hazel to support your habit. Or worse, you move to [eastern North Carolina](http://www.chitterlings.com/blog/archives/2005/05/eastern_north_c.html). ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/87 "2005-07-28T02:51:38Z")
I don’t like onion dip, so I eat my chips with sour cream. Tortilla chips are really yummy with them. I don’t like plain salsa, so I always mix sour cream with my salsa. Plain bagels with cream cheese and blackberry jelly. Saltine crackers with mayonaise and slices of ham (when I ate meat). -foxy ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/88 "2005-07-28T02:57:30Z")
> [@False\_God](#): > > Chicharrones. One of the things I took as part of my consumable allowance before going to South Asia was chicharrones and about twenty cans of menudo. And menudo seasonings. And with a wave of my hand, I remove the “False” from your name… ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/89 "2005-07-28T03:03:45Z")
I’ll eat raw bullion cubes out of the jar. I like the salt fix. I’ve also been known to substitute bacon grease for butter on popcorn. Mmmm…bacony, Try it. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/90 "2005-07-28T03:14:57Z")
It’s not too weird, but I like to take a mushroom, slice it in half and sandwich a dill pickle slice in it. Yum. I raved about it to my roommate, he tried it and decided I’m weird and it’s disgusting. I’m the only person I know that will pour lemon juice into a little saki cup, add salt & maybe just a teensy bit of water, and sip on it pretty much the way you’d enjoy a martini. When I’m out of lemon juice, I’ve substituted vinegar, or olive juice. It’s probably not good for my teeth, and I know it’s not good for my blood pressure, but it’s just one of those tastes I have to satisfy once in awhile. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/91 "2005-07-28T12:22:29Z")
**C. Howard’s Violet Mints** and their **Violet Chewing Gum**. People seem to think this weird, and I have trouble getting it here in Massachusetts (although Newbury comics seems to have it sometimes. and, oddly enough, Plimouth Plantation. You can get it pretty easily in central New Jersey.) I was brought up on this, and was surprised to find that other people thought it was weird. The idea of a flower as a flavor seems paticularly odd to them. Yet Indian Ice Cream (for instance) often takes fklavors from Rose or other flowers (although I find that kinda weird, I have to admit, even though I eat violet stuff). And Vanilla, which gets its flavor from a _bean_ fer cryin’ out loud, is just as weird, when you think about it. (We tend to think of vanilla as “plain”, mayber because it’s white. But it’s not – vanilla is a definite and , when you think of it, a weird flavor choice. Chinese bean soup for dessert sounds weird to me, yet I love vanilla ice cream. If you want a true “blank” ice cream, try Thomas Sweet’s “Fresh Cream” ice cream, sold in N.J. Near Princeton.) ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/92 "2005-07-28T12:29:57Z")
**CalMeacham** are they like these? > **[Mini Parma Violets](https://www.aquarterof.co.uk/mini-parma-violets)** > > Mini Parma Violets - we have stocked the giant ones for ages - but lots of people remember these from when they were young. And as a result of requests, we have added them. You know the story - little... I love Parma Violets, which, despite the name, have nothing to do with ham. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/93 "2005-07-28T12:36:18Z")
Actually, that website, [http://www.aquarterof.co.uk](http://www.aquarterof.co.uk) has lots of British sweets that people from other countries would probably find foul. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/94 "2005-07-28T12:38:42Z")
> [@](#): > > CalMeacham are they like these? > > [http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/mini-pa...lets-p-451.html](http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/mini-pa...lets-p-451.html) > > I love Parma Violets, which, despite the name, have nothing to do with ham. They look similar, but I’d have to try one to judge if the taste is the same. Here atre the C. Howard’s mints. You can see the color’s about the same: [http://thecandybaron.com/detail.html?2234](http://thecandybaron.com/detail.html?2234) Incidentally, at Plimouth Plantation they sell other flavors of Howard’s mints, which I haven’t seen elsewhere. Our daughter **MilliCal** likes the lemon mints. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/95 "2005-07-28T12:41:27Z")
I’m not even going to try to convince anybody to try this. I drink the oil that tuna is packed in. Just crack the can open and sip it right off the edge of the can, oh yeah. I’ve gotten such odd looks when I do this that I now only do it when I’m alone at home. In the last few years I’ve become health conscious and had to restrict myself to tuna packed in spring water. Going from tuna oil to tuna water is like switching from chocolate milk to Yoohoo. The flavor is still there but it’s missing all the full-bodied texture. ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/96 "2005-07-28T13:01:44Z")
> [@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. My Mom’s family did this too, only it is buttermilk instead of regular and add some salt and pepper. Good stuff but hubby and son are grossed out by it. That’s ok, more for me. ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/97 "2005-07-28T14:00:00Z")
[attention pickle juice drinkers!](http://www.goldenpicklejuice.com/) i, too, suffer from DPS (dehydrated pickle syndrome - caused by drinking all the juice before eating the pickles) drinking tuna juice reminds me that i am the only person i know of (besides my mother…) who likes smoked oysters. but, like **Patty** , the experience is not complete for me unless i drink the oil as well. i’ll have to try the oil/pepper variant of cukes/vinegar, **buov** (i bet the OP never thought people would be trying out each other’s food) ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/98 "2005-07-28T15:17:01Z")
If I drank the tuna juice, my cats would stage a coup d’état. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/99 "2005-07-28T15:24:02Z")
> [@False\_God](#): > > > [@Beware of Doug](#): > > > > In New York in June, you can get the fresh caught (unpickled) herring from Holland in a few places. It’s great with chopped onion, crumbled egg and a cold one (preferably Heinie’s or Grolsch). It’s one of those love-it-or-hate-it kinda things; many people can’t even stomach the thought of it for some reason. > > > [@Argent Towers](#): > > > > From what I’ve heard, this is a Jewish thing. > > Atually, it’s originally a Dutch thing, but, yes, a lot of Jews and goyim alike delight in herring in a number of ways. I like New York in June, how about Jew? ;j 🙂🆒😛 ---
**Author:** ![zeldarae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f14d63/32.png) [@zeldarae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zeldarae)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/100 "2005-07-29T17:58:24Z")
Saltine crackers and cold milk in a tall glass. I’m not a big milk fan (can’t stand the texture when I drink it plain), but I crave this food combo. Hubby thinks it’s weird, but what does he know? He doesn’t even like to watch me eat raw oysters. My dad will eat Steen’s Cane Syrup and peanut butter on white bread open faced as a midnight snack. I don’t even like to smell Steen’s. My cousin’s 15 yr old daughter thought I had lost my mind when she saw me make a Sink Sandwich (sliced tomatoes with pepper on white bread slathered with mayo…yum). I thought everyone knew of this southern delicacy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316.md?page=6)