Since my food tastes are fairly conventional I doubt that my items will sound all that weird. However, there are enough foodies at these boards that I’m confident we’ll be able to come up with some winners.
[li]Scrambled eggs topped with soy sauce[/li][li]Harboiled egg and tomato sandwiches with mayo[/li][li]Cubed avocado in a yogurt and fruit salad[/li][li]Peanut butter and mayo sandwiches[/li][li]Vitello Tunnato (veal with a tunny fish sauce)[/li][li]Green onions dipped in mustard[/li][li]Salty Danish licorice (no combo, but pretty weird)[/li]That’ll do for starters. I once tried Nixon’s favorite, cottage cheese with ketchup, but it didn’t do anything for me. Some people consider me to be strange for liking large curd cottage cheese, but that’s another story altogether.
Speaking of eating anything with enough sugar on it:
When I was 8 years old, I asked my dad, “Can I have some Cheerios with a lot of sugar on it?”
My dad decided to grossly exaggerate my request. He came back with a bowl filled to the rim with table sugar, on top of which he’d balanced three (3) Cheerios cereal pieces. There was no milk. “Here you go,” he said, “Some Cheerios with a lot of sugar!”
I promptly told him to put more Cheerios in the bowl and add milk. I never told him to reduce the amount of sugar, though.
Take white bread. Preferably Wonder Bread. Lowest possible nutritional value. No crusts. Cut each slice of bread into quarters.
Take butter, melt it. Mix in maple syrup with the butter. Dunk the bread in the butter until the bread is soggy.
Take brown sugar and cinnamon sugar, put 'em in a bag together. Do the Shake ‘n’ Bake thing with the butter/maple-soggy bread.
Put the pieces of sugar-crusted-maple-butter soaked bread in the oven at about 300 for about 5 minutes until things firm up.
Take the now hot and crispy sugar-crusted-maple-butter soaked bread and put M&Ms on top. Let sit for a minute to get the chocolate inside the M&M to melt a bit. Spread the M&M’s with a knife (trust me: it’ll spread with a bit of effort).
Eat, with a large glass of chocolate milk on the side.
(I can’t believe I actually ate this. Regularly.)
And my best friend, who doesn’t appear to be missing any chromosones, eats artichokes. With Jif Peanut-butter-like-substance. Blegch…
Fenris, the only thing more worrisome than the fact that you used to eat that is the fact that it ever occured to you to create it. Ugh!
I’m fairly mundane in the food department. The strangest food combination I can think of is this: if a restaurant serves me potato salad or coleslaw with my sandwich, I like to open up the sandwich and put the salad on it. Pretty unexciting. Oh, and when I was a kid I used to put potato chips on my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, but everyone did that, right?
Huh? What’s weird about that? You don’t mean (ominous music swells) everyone doesn’t eat it like that? With extra sharp cheddar melted in, of course–though the green jalepeno variety lend an interesting color to the finished product.
I also adore lashings of melted butter, kosher salt and Tabasco on French toast. (No, I don’t use vanilla, etc. in the batter; don’t have much of a sweet tooth.) Fresh salsa and sour cream instead of the butter is sublime…but baroque, I admit it.
Deep red, warm-from-the-vine garden tomatoes, sliced and slapped on spongy white bread–salt and fixin’s optional. The whole drippy mess turns into pure delight.
A tuna sandwich (tuna and mayo only) on white bread, with an
Oreo cookie chaser. The point is to have a bite of the sandwich after I’ve swallowed the
cookie, but while the chocolate taste is still strong. Other types of chocolate, especially
M&M’s also work, but Oreos are the best. Yum.
I can’t believe that no one has checked in with wierd pregnancy food cravings, so I’ll start.
I once made an entire meal of dill pickles and orange juice.
I regularly ate vanilla ice cream using Pemmican beef jerky as a scoop.
I ate bubble gum ice cream with chocolate cake. More than once.
The tuna and mushroom soup, potato chip lined casserole that my stepmother used to make. Sunset Magazine, anyone? Somebody gotta cite? You just might win the weirdest “Recipe of the Week” status.
[sup]AND I MEAN THIS IN A GOOD WAY.[/sup]
Wow, there are some truly weird food combinations here! I used to eat cheese Doritos with peanut butter, but that seems pretty mundane…
I absolutely HATE any combination of eggs & tomatoes. I don’t know why; I like them both fine alone. But even thinking about, say, scrambled eggs with salsa icks me out.
Well, since this is also my 1900th post, guess I’d better chime in:[ul][li]Mashed potatoes and ketchup. My sister got me hooked on this when I was a kid, as a joke. (My sister was cruel.) But dang it, it tasted good. I don’t eat 'em this way in public, but when I’m alone…[/li][li]Peanut butter and Miracle Whip. Haven’t eaten this in a long time, but used to eat PB & MW sandwiches regularly as a kid.[/li][li]Scrambled eggs and sorghum syrup. Face it. Scrambled eggs are boring. When I ate sorghum syrup on my biscuits as a kid, it would sometimes drain over into the eggs. Eureka! Pretty tasty![/li][]My dad was a big fan of cornbread crumbled into a bowl of milk, then heavily salted. Said it was a big thing on the farm when he was a kid. I never developed a taste for that, or for his more common pleasure:[]Peanuts and Coca-Cola. I never got this one, though it was common among old timers in the South to get one of those little bottles of Coke and dump a bag of peanuts into it. Huh? It made the peanuts soggy and the Coke flat. Yeah. Real yummy.[/ul]
Chili sauce (any kind,anywhere, any time) on EVERYTHING.
Eggs? Yup. Sandwiches? Yup. Bagels with cream cheese? Yup.
Pumpkin pie? Yup. Ice cream? Once, and I was drunk, but Yup.
One of my favorite appetizers for my famous all-garlic meals (after which everyone in attendance is guaranteed to reek for days , and to have flaming swamp gas, but MAN it’s good eatin’) is fried garlic cloves. Peeled cloves of garlic frizzled until light brown and nutty in some good olive oil. Nothing more. My wife dared me to put these on ice cream once. Wasn’t half bad, but then again, I used to hit Gilroy each year at Festival time.
Once, at a fair, cotton candy and beer. Not bad until you added in the giant green Day-Glo pickle. Still not bad, but weird.
Hummus with pork rinds as a spoon. Caviar and sour cream the same way.
Oh, and if I’m frying bacon for whatever reason, I’ll throw some bread in after the bacon’s done and make myself a tomato sandwich with the resulting cholesterol bomb. EXCELLENT with some of my homemade mayo.
Oh, and my wife swears by this when drunk-Cheezits used to scoop up cream cheese.
