I’d give this a try if I had any peanut butter around the house. It just sounds like a home version of cheese-flavored peanut butter cracker sandwiches.
What a tasty topic! I too thoroughly enjoy Liver and Onions. I think the one concoction ofmine that had everyone running for the bathroom was…Mashed Potatoes, corn, and cottage cheese. Mmmm, mmm, mmm!
re: Uni
Fascinating. Utterly bewildering, but fascinating.
Hmmm…I love pineapple on Pizza, hot sauce on Popcorn…limburger cheese, onion and tomato on rye is a great sandwich. Velveeta with Miracle whip on squishy white bread is wonderful as well. And always Goetta, a German oatmeal sausage. Almost time to reload on my goetta supply.
As far as drinks I, too, will go with the Rauchenbier.
MMMMMM tasty!
I like Lapsang (sp?) tea for the same reason.
The smokey taste.
Also, I love buttermilk.
Love the tangy taste.
For me it is a comfort food/drink.
Bananas eaten with American cheese. Yummy.
It might be a bit unAmerican, but I prefer pizza with VERY little cheese, and LOTS of sauce. Dominoes sauce is best…
I happen to like olives, sushi, (spicy) chicken feet, jellyfish, duck feet, pigs’ ears, etc. Must be the effect of growing up with all that Chinese food! One thing I will not touch is pork intestine! No way!
There was this time a few weeks ago that I dipped some chocolate chip cookies in salsa, and managed to thoroughly disgust some people I was with at the time. It wasn’t THAT bad, considering.
However, you should consider my brother’s food combos:
once we went to a restaurant, and my bro and his friend put the following things in a cup, and left it on the table for the waitress to see: water, veggie pieces, pepper, coffee, salt, a bay leaf, borscht, milk, sugar, tea, napkin pieces, butter, and ice
then there was the time he put spaghetti, mustard and other assorted condiments on a plate and proceeded to eat it
at the same party, he decided to combine tomato rice, mint chocolate chip ice cream, and bbq sauce; of course, he ate it…
one of his friends wanted me to tell him when it was all done so he could look at him again… poor guy!
since my bro doesn’t like salad dressing, guess what he uses instead? Coke! (or any other suitable soft drinks available) salad swimming in Coke… mmmmmmmmm…
at a BBQ, he put a weiner, assorted condiments, tapioca bubble tea pearls, and Triscuits in a hot dog – he ate it, of course
he had a haggis party once, and decided to make a puree out of it with orange juice and Coke (and also put haggis on toast with marmalade; the marmalade made it taste better); I tried both combos, and they weren’t TOO nasty!
See, that’s really funny: I only recently found out about Bubble Tea, and was delighted and astonished at what a phenomenally Bad Idea it is (I’ve never had the opportunity to try it – I will when I get a chance). But this is one-upping the already grotesque idea of Bubble Tea: bubble tea and hot dogs! hee hee hee!
Daniel
I don’t think I eat too many of the things mentioned in this thread, since I don’t eat meat. But I do drink straight Tonic Water (mmm, mmm, quinine!) and I like cottage cheese and applesauce.
In school, I would gross out my friends by eating poor woman’s lasagne: cottage cheese, ketchup or jarred spghetti sauce, and egg noodles. I still go for that when I want something fast. I’ll also eat boxed mac and cheese but add a big, big dollop of salsa, or any green veggie; broccoli, spinach, lima beans, brussels sprouts, peas. Yum.
I am also a big fan of puddings, and I’ve been known to put pudding over cake (butterscotch pudding over spice cake is excellent) and even bread – vanilla pudding with a buttermilk biscuit is a favorite. I think it’s a textural thing. It’s good, in any case.
Oh, you know what rocks? My girlfriend and I once went to an Indian restaurant right before I had to drive the 250 miles back to my house. On the way back, I got hungry again, and I had the leftover curry from the restaurant, but no utensils.
So I stopped at a Bojangles and got a couple of biscuits.
Lentil curry on buttermilk biscuits – damn fine eatin!
Daniel
I’m eating it right now–“it” is Supari (the red version, to be precise), a product of India. Supari is a heady mix of fennel seeds, bits of sugar coloured red, bits of sugar coated with metal leaf (true!), something that looks like wood shavings that I’ve never been able to identify, and betel nut. The last of those is a little nasty, as it’s a mildly addictive stimulant. The idea of Supari is that you put a pinch or so in your mouth and chew it until it’s moist enough to swallow.
I was introduced to Supari by the Indian cricketers at my old club. There is a supplier in Los Angeles, so discarded Supari packets litter the cricket grounds out here too. It’s a love-hate “food”–either you’re put off by the bitter taste of the betel nut, or you get wound up by the stimulant. It runs to $13.50 a pound, so it’s an expensive habit too. I think I’m going to have to run out and get some more tomorrow…
Daniel, when you do get a chance to try bubble tea, try the strawberry flavor first; if the place you happen to be in screws that up, it’s not a good place to be in for the stuff! (bubble tea in general; strawberry bubble tea is supposed to be GOOD!)
Of course, if you want to try other flavors for your very first drink of bubble tea, go right ahead, but strawberry is a pretty good “first-time taste test” kind of flavor. (don’t get me started on flavors such as Horlicks, watermelon, mint, etc.)
If you get old pearls in your bubble tea, it’s probably an isolated incident. Then again, you get the freaks like my brother; he once visited a freind who worked in a bubble tea place, and ate all the old pearls! :eek:
Supari update…
Uh-oh. To say the least.
I like:
to Drink Pickle Juice!!! once the jar is empty.
To suck the juice out of the center of the puckle and dip it into grape kool-aid so the pulp soaks it up, and then eat the rest of the pickle.
I love garlic on just about everything.
I don’t like:
Cheese with red meat, unless it’s a pasta dish.
tomatoes
mushrooms
I like most of veggies raw, hate mushy cooked or steamed veggies.
Anchovies have been promenently mentioned in this thread, and one of the things I like is laden with them!
Bagna cauda(BAHN-yuh COW-duh) It’s an Italian hot oil dip. Melted butter and olive oil are heated together gently, with six or seven cloves of finely minced garlic. When the garlic is well infused you stir in a 2 oz can of anchovies and mix until they break up. The bagna cauda is kept warm, and cold crisp veggies or chunks of Italian bread are dipped in it, ala fondue.
A dish with a very strong personality, rather an acquired taste, but I LOVE it!
buttermilk and tabasco sauce
cottage cheese and buttermilk
hard boiled eggs in omelet - an “egg omelet”
The foods I love that most people balk at:
[ul]
[li]Chopped (chicken) liver on roast beef, pastrami, beef tongue, or all three with brown mustard, russian dressing, and coleslaw[/li][li]Just about every kind of sashimi there is (except urchin and macrel)[/li][li]Ultra-strong and bitter espresso[/li][li]Extremely rare, bordering on raw filet minion (I’m getting hungry just thinking about it) [/li][li]Scrambled eggs with smoked salmon, salmon caviar, pickled herring, onion, sour cream, and swiss or cheddar cheese (I toss it all into a hollowed-out everything bagel with chive cream cheese) [/li][li]Greek, Arabic, Jewish, and Indian cuisines[/li][li]Tunafish with balsamic vinegar (give it a shot)[/li][li]Slim Jim and Mountain Dew[/li][/ul]