# Strange Food Combinations (or) How To Squander Your 1,900th Post **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 19, 2000, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-food-combinations-or-how-to-squander-your-1-900th-post/46430 "2000-12-19T23:37:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-food-combinations-or-how-to-squander-your-1-900th-post/46430/61 "2000-12-23T20:19:06Z")
Take a hamburger, and put some baked beans on it. Its good. I know This isn’t a combo, but I _love_ Quaker oats, dry. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-food-combinations-or-how-to-squander-your-1-900th-post/46430/62 "2000-12-23T22:12:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Burnt Toast \* > **I can’t believe no-one has said McD’s chips with a soft serve yet.** Listen up mate, all the drum in the previous posts about _French fries_ being dipped in a _milkshake_ is precisely the same dodgy practice you’re yammering about with your _“chips and soft serve”_ bidniz. We blokes and sheilas just have different terms for it here in the U.S.of A. ---
**Author:** ![Burnt\_Toast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Burnt\_Toast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burnt_Toast)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-food-combinations-or-how-to-squander-your-1-900th-post/46430/63 "2000-12-24T04:19:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Burnt Toast \* > > **I can’t believe no-one has said McD’s chips with a soft serve yet.** > > Listen up mate, all the drum in the previous posts about _French fries_ being dipped in a _milkshake_ is precisely the same dodgy practice you’re yammering about with your _“chips and soft serve”_ bidniz. > > We blokes and sheilas just have different terms for it here in the U.S.of A. \*\* Eh?? Soft serve = Milkshake??? Soft serve is those Ice-cream thingies that cost like 30 cents each. Or is this just a huge misunderstanding, mate? ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-food-combinations-or-how-to-squander-your-1-900th-post/46430/64 "2000-12-24T18:53:37Z")
Aussie “soft serve” = U.S. “Frostie” Dipping chips in our “ice cream” are we? Things really are done different down under! ---
**Author:** ![Burnt\_Toast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Burnt\_Toast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burnt_Toast)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2000, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-food-combinations-or-how-to-squander-your-1-900th-post/46430/65 "2000-12-25T08:56:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > \*\*Aussie “soft serve” = U.S. “Frostie” > > Dipping chips in our “ice cream” are we? Things really are done different down under! \*\* nope its just me 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-food-combinations-or-how-to-squander-your-1-900th-post/46430/66 "2000-12-26T07:49:15Z")
I grew up on Peanut butter and banana sandwiches. They were weird at the time, but seem pretty mild as I read some of these posts. We also had PB and pinapple sandwiches, and tomato sandwches, which consisted of tomatoes and mayo. I put ketchup on everything from eggs to potatoes to fish. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-food-combinations-or-how-to-squander-your-1-900th-post/46430.md?page=3)