RE: Herring
Noon Hour brand herring in sour cream is the best, IMHO.
My contribution: beef tongue
Is that considered weird by other people?
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.
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…
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.
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!
Or worse, you move to eastern North Carolina.
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
And with a wave of my hand, I remove the “False” from your name…
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.
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.
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.)
CalMeacham are they like these?
I love Parma Violets, which, despite the name, have nothing to do with ham.
Actually, that website, http://www.aquarterof.co.uk has lots of British sweets that people from other countries would probably find foul.
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
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.
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.
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.
attention pickle juice drinkers! 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)
If I drank the tuna juice, my cats would stage a coup d’état.
I like New York in June, how about Jew? ;j 
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.