Ketchup on Pizza?!? and other wierd international eating habits

[Martini_Enfield]

@Thudlow Boink

The closest thing to a meat pie in the parts of America I’m familiar with is pot pie (e.g. chicken pot pie, which has chicken and vegetables in gravy baked in a pie crust), which is not uncommon in restaurants and readily available in the frozen food section of most grocery stores.

Ironically, Australian pies do not typically contain chicken. You can get them, but when you say “Pie” here, most people immediately think of the steak kind with tomato sauce on it.

[Max_the_Immortal]

The more I think about it, the more I get the sneaking suspicion that you Brits are just playing a trick on us. You really think that peanut butter doesn’t go well with jam? You tried it and didn’t like it? Yeah, right. We’ve all heard the jokes about your food, but you can’t be so culinarily inept as to miss such an obvious combination. I bet you eat peanut butter and jam sandwiches all the time.

Lutefisk probably isn’t real, either.

[devilsknew]

I think it is stupid. Why was Smith’s statement of understanding worse than a perpetuation of hate?

I’ll bet if he would have badmouthed Hitler in a hateful way he’d be applauded. Why must we hang on to hate?

Better to call an apple an apple.

[whiterabbit]

I’m afraid lutefisk is all too real. I have relatives from Minnesota. I haven’t eaten it, but I have heard alllll about it.

My Czech roommate recently made spaghetti with a pile of grated cheese (yum) and then instead of actual sauce used ketchup. And from the size of the bottles of ketchup he buys he must do this a lot, I just don’t often see it since we tend to have very different schedules. I found this utterly disgusting.

I don’t like ketchup anyway, but as pasta sauce?? Is this a Central Europe thing, or just a weird roommate thing?

[whiterabbit]

I’m afraid lutefisk is all too real. I have relatives from Minnesota. I haven’t eaten it, but I have heard alllll about it.

My Czech roommate recently made spaghetti with a pile of grated cheese (yum) and then instead of actual sauce used ketchup (WTF???). And from the size of the bottles of ketchup he buys he must do this a lot, I just haven’t seen it since we tend to have very different schedules. I found this utterly disgusting.

I don’t like ketchup anyway, but as pasta sauce?? Is this a Central Europe thing, or just a weird roommate thing?

Peanut sauce for dipping Vietnamese spring rolls is like crack for me.

[threnodyangelfire]

@Max the Immortal

When visiting New Zealand I was nonplussed when I discovered that they consider canned beet (aka “beet root”) a legitimate hamburger topping. I tried it and did not care for it. On the other hand, I wish that potato wedges with sour cream were more common here in Canada. Those are sheer brilliance.

It’s not a real hamburger to me without beetroot and pineapple on it!

[whiterabbit]

@Lisa-go-Blind

Well, there’s two words I never thought I’d see together.

I should have read farther back in the thread before I posted a minute ago.

Idaho Curry???

[StinkyBurrito]

@nd_n8

First it was foolsguinea,

Then it was chowder.

Third came pretend my name is witty.

And now nd_n8 joins this ellete group.

After reading three posts about peanut butter and mustard (especially pretend's experiment) I didn't want to be a wuss so I went into the kitchen, slapped some PB on a slice of bread, and squirted some mustard on it.  I don't have English Mustard so I used a bottle of Spicy Brown Mustard left over from last summer's bratwurst.
I approached this abomination with an uncomfortable combination of fear and curiosity in the pit of my stomach, and a full glass of water just in case.  I actually winced with the first bite then began to chew.
Dammit man, this was not just acceptable, it was dad burned tasty.  I returned to the kitchen to add another healthy shot of mustard and made a second one.  Now I'm looking forward to the stares I get when I go to work next week with a jar of Jif and a loaf of bread (there is already mustard in my fridge at work) and go to lunch.
Thanks
    Nate

Lord help me, I just ate a peanutbutter and mustard sandwich. Then I made a cashew butter and mustard sandwich and ate that too. Of course I already had this in my cabinet.

[devilsknew]

@StinkyBurrito

Lord help me, I just ate a peanutbutter and mustard sandwich. Then I made a cashew butter and mustard sandwich and ate that too. Of course I already had this in my cabinet.

You know what would be good? Cashew Mustard with Schnitzel… or cashew crusted schnitzel with Löwe Mustard

(Umm… that Will Smith Hitler thing was posted in the wrong thread. My bad.)

[devilsknew]

No, it’s not Schnitzel with Love Mustard, you perverts.

“Ler-va Mustard…”

[Tuckerfan]

@devilsknew

No, it’s not Schnitzel with Love Mustard, you perverts.

“Ler-va Mustard…”

Larva with mustard??? (Actually, with anything.) Eeeewwww!

[Bites_When_Provoked]

@TheLoadedDog

And nobody has mentioned the South Australian “pie floater”? Take one bowl of pea soup, and one meat pie. Drop the meat pie into the soup. Eat (somehow).

Tomato sauce is essential, too. Meat pie, tomato sauce, green pea soup. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts, honest.

[TheLoadedDog]

@Bites When Provoked

Tomato sauce is essential, too. Meat pie, tomato sauce, green pea soup. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts, honest.

Yeah, yer right. Forgot the sauce. Dunno why, being a New South Welshman through and through, but I do loves me a good pie floater. Great winter fare, and as my dad would say, it’ll “stick with you”.
Pie’n’peas is also good.

[chowder]

@Max the Immortal

What do Brits do with peanut butter?

Well in the absence of KY…

No seriously…spread yer PB on bread and sprinkle salt on.

That jam thing is disgusting and a waste of PB

[WILLASS]

@amarone

But I’m a Brit and understand that “peanut butter and jelly” to you means “peanut butter and jam” to me. And it still sounds gross. As I’ve posted in other food threads, we Brits do not mix savoury and sweet like the Merkins do.

Getting back to the OP: iced tea. Full of the spirit of “when in Rome” after emigrating to the US, I tried it, and discovered that it tastes as disgusting as it sounds.

I, and loads of people I know do. I love PB&J and also love bacon or sausages with maple syrup. You should try it, it’s no weirder than pork and apple sauce or turkey and cranberryreally is it?

[WILLASS]

Peanut butter, mayonaise and cucumber sandwiches.

I’m sure this will ick most people but mainly Americans as they seem far less keen on mayo than Europeans but I can assure you it’s awesome, an old flatmate of mine made them.

I have dipped pizza crusts in ketchup but this was because the sour cream and herb dip had run out and I needed something moist to dip the crusts into. It was alright, pretty much exactley what you’d expect seeing as ketchup is so acceptable a flavour.

[amarone]

@WILLASS

I, and loads of people I know do. I love PB&J and also love bacon or sausages with maple syrup. You should try it, it’s no weirder than pork and apple sauce or turkey and cranberryreally is it?

I don’t like maple syrup. Or apple sauce with pork (it’s OK with custard). Cranberry jelly with turkey is ok - I can take it or leave it. I admit that I am at the extreme - I rarely like sweet with savory, but in my experience it is also generally true that Brits have fewer savory/sweet combinations than Americans.

As for other comments about PB not being savory - maybe not - I don’t eat it so can’t claim to be an expert. From when I was a kid, I don’t recall it being terribly sweet (British brands). I do remember it sticking to the roof of my mouth - yuck.

[Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party]

@nd_n8

Say now, that doesn’t sound half bad. A well seasoned joint? Loaded with cloves and garlic and brown sugar and such?

Dripping sandwiches are what miners used to take down the pits with them, because they couldn’t afford anything else. So no, there won’t have been any seasoning on the dripping.

I’m not entirely sure whether chowder is pulling your leg at still enjoying dripping sandwiches, but, on the off chance he isn’t, for full disclosure, I heard he’s nearly 90

[Silence_of_the_clams]

@Max the Immortal

The more I think about it, the more I get the sneaking suspicion that you Brits are just playing a trick on us. You really think that peanut butter doesn’t go well with jam? You tried it and didn’t like it? Yeah, right. We’ve all heard the jokes about your food, but you can’t be so culinarily inept as to miss such an obvious combination. I bet you eat peanut butter and jam sandwiches all the time.

Lutefisk probably isn’t real, either.

Whats wrong with lutefisk, its only fish-jello. You should try it with peanutbutter

[WILLASS]

@amarone

Or apple sauce with pork (it’s OK with custard)

You like pork with custard and you are calling PB&J disgusting?!?!?

Only joking but I do agree that the sweet/savoury thing is not so common in Britain as it is in America but I do find that most Brits like it when they get over their intial ‘eww’ factor - those salted pretzels covered in chocolate? Everyone I knew thought they sounded gross until they tried them.