# Things you want to eat wrong. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 20, 2011, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-want-to-eat-wrong/575353 "2011-03-20T13:03:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-want-to-eat-wrong/575353/41 "2011-03-22T18:55:11Z")
You know… I don’t like crunchy pre-made taco shells. But that actually sounds good right now. (I’ve just had a bologna sandwich with tortilla chips in it.) ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-want-to-eat-wrong/575353/42 "2011-03-22T19:14:59Z")
If I’m having hot dogs at home, I prefer to roll it up in a slice of soft white bread to a “proper” hot dog bun. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-want-to-eat-wrong/575353/43 "2011-03-22T19:26:37Z")
I know that the way I eat sushi is not the correct way (I eat the ginger with the fish), but I don’t care. The different posts about altering recipes makes me remember the time about a year ago when my mom said she had made minestrone soup. However, she was on Atkins at the time. So, I did discern that she could not have the pasta in it. Nor could she have the beans. I think there was one other ingredient she was not allowed. I never did find out what the fuck she put in the soup. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-want-to-eat-wrong/575353/44 "2011-03-22T19:43:00Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Maybe in the same vein, my huevos rancheros looks like this: > -2 fried eggs > -Black beans > -Grated cheese > -Sour cream > -Salsa > -Corn tortillas > > So far fairly normal. Except that I layer them in a tower until it’s like a tall stack of pancakes. Total heart-attack meal, and delicious. I haven’t made it in years; I should make it soon. I think Bobby Flay has made something very much like this, stacked and everything. As for stroganoff, I just follow the recipe on the back of the Hamburger Helper box. Hot dogs: I put ketchup, American cheese, mustard, dill relish, and sometimes mayonnaise. ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-want-to-eat-wrong/575353/45 "2011-03-22T22:32:11Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > Different idea but still Stroganoff related- I went to an Uzbeki restaurant and ordered it and was shocked when it came out not with egg noodles but french fries… HOLEE SHIT! Loved it. My husband is British, and apparently it’s quite common to have curry over chips. (what we Yanks know as fries.) So we were on a cruise & one afternoon they offered an “English Pub Lunch.” Sounds good! The options were 1.) chicken curry over rice; 2.) fish & chips; or 3.) a ploughman’s lunch with a scotch egg. Hubby decided to make the English Pub Lunch even more “authentic” by asking for the curry over chips, obviously an easy substitution based on the readily available meals. He got a plate of (not bad) chicken curry with a side of potato chips. Where’d THEY come from?!? 😕 Such is the risk of attempting to communicate in English with non-native speakers. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-want-to-eat-wrong/575353/46 "2011-03-22T23:39:46Z")
I dunk the rice part of nigiri sushi in the Soy, which is improper or whatever, but I don’t care. I used to freak everyone out by dipping pretzels in mustard. Now I see everyone doing it, especially with those big soft ones you get at sporting events. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-want-to-eat-wrong/575353/47 "2011-03-22T23:49:26Z")
I roll a little bit of cookie dough into my crossaints before I bake them. I use A-1 or salsa or lemon pepper liberally as toppings on just about anything. I usually put fritos or potato chips in my sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-want-to-eat-wrong/575353/48 "2011-03-23T01:08:23Z")
Lunch meat and cheese. Just plain lunch meat and cheese. Why ruin perfectly good meat and cheese with tasteless bread? (The exception I make is with GOOD bread, made in an actual bakery or by my own hand. But if the only option I have is pre-sliced Wonderbread, I’d sooner skip it and just eat the innards.) My mother has a tuna casserole recipe that’s completely trashy, with crushed potato chips, canned tuna, canned peas, and canned cream of mushroom soup. But it can’t be made for realsies, with fresh, high-quality ingredients. Everything has to be canned and mushy, else it just isn’t good. There’s a time for quality, award-winning cooking, and a time for lowbrow, canned crap. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-want-to-eat-wrong/575353/49 "2011-03-23T02:37:04Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > I used to freak everyone out by dipping pretzels in mustard. Now I see everyone doing it, especially with those big soft ones you get at sporting events. Tip: Try eating your onion rings with yellow mustard. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-want-to-eat-wrong/575353/50 "2011-03-23T16:40:20Z")
> [@GoodOmens](#): > > > [@dwyr](#): > > > > When I was a kid my mother would make this dish we called ravioli which in no way resembled anything vaguely italian but I loved it. I think she found the recipe in a Pillsbury Bake Off cookbook and it used ground beef, jarred spaghetti sauce, canned crescent rolls, and american cheese slices. > > My Mom used to make something she called “cheeseburger pie,” which if I recall correctly was made of exactly this. Might have been Velveeta instead of American. It was the standard meal for when Dad had to work late. Sooooooo good. Hmm, my family’s “Mommy’s Surprise” sounds similar to these, except (I think) without any spaghetti sauce: there was definitely ground beef and cheese, and it was in a yummy Bisquick shell. I would love to have that again someday! > [@Sister\_Vigilante](#): > > As for stroganoff, I just follow the recipe on the back of the Hamburger Helper box. Amen! And when I have a craving for beef stroganoff, it’s that. 🙂 > [@Maiira](#): > > My mother has a tuna casserole recipe that’s completely trashy, with crushed potato chips, canned tuna, canned peas, and canned cream of mushroom soup. But it can’t be made for realsies, with fresh, high-quality ingredients. Everything has to be canned and mushy, else it just isn’t good. There’s a time for quality, award-winning cooking, and a time for lowbrow, canned crap. When I was in high school my mom taught me how to make a non-casserole type of tuna casserole that we just call “Tuna and Rice”: canned tuna, Campbell’s cream of mushroom soup, Minute rice, and maybe some grated parmesan cheese to taste. I don’t make it very often anymore, but it’s still on my rotation – though these days I tend to use 98% fat-free soup, 1% milk, and light tuna (I tried using brown rice the other week, but somehow _that_ is what made it finally stop tasting like the comfort food I wanted). ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-want-to-eat-wrong/575353/51 "2011-03-25T09:05:49Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > Hmm, my family’s “Mommy’s Surprise” sounds similar to these, except (I think) without any spaghetti sauce: there was definitely ground beef and cheese, and it was in a yummy Bisquick shell. I would love to have that again someday! … This sparked a memory. Another Bake Off recipe my Mother used to make sometimes involving ground beef, Bisquick, condensed soup, and instant gravy. No cheese though. I think I still have that recipe somewhere and I seem to be getting all nostalgic… ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-want-to-eat-wrong/575353/52 "2011-03-25T09:44:58Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > my family’s taco salad - Iceberg lettuce, unseasoned ground taco beef (cold), tortilla chips, red kidney beans, black olives and thousand island dressing. My taco salads; iceberg, tomato, onion, a brick of shredded cheddar cheese, and a package of taco shells smashed up into bits. Toss with a jar of medium salsa. Plate and then spread a layer of refried beans over the salad and a layer of taco beef over that. A few peculiarities of my own; I stir yellow mustard into my baked beans. I got this habit from my father, and i’ve never heard of anyone else who does it. Carne asada - most people make tacos with it, or roll it in a burrito. I eat it on top of french fries with guacamole and cheese. In San Diego they call it “carne asada fries”. Everywhere else they call it “weird”. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-want-to-eat-wrong/575353/53 "2011-03-25T13:09:29Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > 1. Splitting a baked potato in half, loading it up with butter, sour cream, etc. and then eating it like a taco. I do this one. I can even not top the potato at all (though I’ll usually at least need salt). I will also eat the skin, even other peoples. I do the same with sweet potatoes. I used to prefer my bacon microwaved, but now I learned that it’s possible to cook them on the stove and keep them still chewy while also being crispy. But it’s hard to get right, so I’ll more often still cook it in the microwave unless someone else is cooking. The only other thing I can think of is that I prefer my taco meat to be rather lightly seasoned and baked with cheese into a taco shell until the taco is slightly moist, but still holds its shape. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-want-to-eat-wrong/575353/54 "2011-03-25T13:50:30Z")
> [@dwyr](#): > > This sparked a memory. Another Bake Off recipe my Mother used to make sometimes involving ground beef, Bisquick, condensed soup, and instant gravy. No cheese though. I think I still have that recipe somewhere and I seem to be getting all nostalgic… Since yesterday I’ve been thinking that I need to email my mom and see if she still remembers how to make “Mommy’s Surprise.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-want-to-eat-wrong/575353/55 "2011-03-25T14:07:10Z")
My dad makes the best soft-boiled eggs in the world–super runny, with gobs of butter and salt and pepper. In Japan, scrambled eggs are deliberately served runny. Grosses some people out, but I think they taste fabulous. Baked beans taste better with brown sugar and ketchup added. On an ANA flight once, they served tasty bread and butter AND salt and pepper. Now I have to butter, salt AND pepper my bread. Cream of Wheat with brown sugar and butter. Canned spinach doused in vinegar (a New England favorite?) French fries doused in vinegar–oops, that one’s not wrong, is it? 😃 I’m a huge fan of those 2 nasty Thanksgiving standbys: sweet potatoes baked with brown sugar and marshmallow globs, and canned fried onion-cream of mushroom soup-canned green bean casserole. ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-want-to-eat-wrong/575353/56 "2011-03-25T15:22:59Z")
> [@rjk](#): > > For my own wrong food, I’ll suggest classic English trifle, (Prairie style from the 1950s): slightly dry yellow cake from a mix, with nicely hardened butter (really margarine) icing, cut up in a pan and dotted with strawberry jam, then covered with vanilla pudding. :eek: That _is_ wrong!! 🙂 > [@Morbo](#): > > I used to freak everyone out by dipping pretzels in mustard. I don’t like ketchup so I like mustard (or BBQ sauce) for my french fries. A lot of people think that’s wrong - especially the mustard part. My uncle taught me a ‘poor man’s’ pasta fagioli, which I still love to make: A small tin of tomato sauce, a can of Cannellini beans, and some salad macaroni. Dump the sauce and the beans (with liquid) in pan and heat on low heat. Season with garlic powder, onion powder, and oregano (or italian seasoning if you have it) and stir occasionally. While that’s heating, cook the pasta with ‘extra’ water. When the pasta is done drain out only some of the water (or use less water and drain none). Toss in the sauce & beans mixture, stir together, ladle out and enjoy with a sprinkling of cayenne pepper on top. Fast, easy, cheap, and really good comfort food. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-want-to-eat-wrong/575353/57 "2011-03-25T16:46:12Z")
Yes, I prefer my celery cooked, and often makes things like celery chowder, celery lasagna and celery parmagan. Sue me. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-want-to-eat-wrong/575353/58 "2011-03-25T16:56:43Z")
> [@](#): > > On an ANA flight once, they served tasty bread and butter AND salt and pepper. Now I have to butter, salt AND pepper my bread. My father’s mother used to serve (store bought Italian) bread, which she had spread with olive oil, salt, and pepper, and reheated in the oven. She might have put some red wine vinegar on it, as well, I’m not sure. > [@](#): > > Cream of Wheat with brown sugar and butter. How ELSE are you supposed to eat it? Though I put cinnamon on it, too. I make hamburger stroganoff with Campbell’s cream of mushroom soup, too. I’ve tried making it the authentic way, but the bastardized version is what we like at our house. Now, sometimes I use leftover rare or medium rare steak as the meat, and we like that too, but the hamburger/mushroom soup version is our comfort food. I will sometimes serve it over rice or mashed potatoes instead of noodles. And if we don’t have sour cream in the house, we have hamburger romanoff. ---
**Author:** ![Noelq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noelq/32/16438_2.png) [@Noelq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noelq)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-want-to-eat-wrong/575353/59 "2011-03-25T16:59:11Z")
I prefer my oatmeal to be cooked to the consistency of cement. I like it solid, dense, and overly sweet. One cup water, one cup brown sugar, and slightly less than 2 cups oatmeal. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Any\_Other\_Name](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@Any\_Other\_Name](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Any_Other_Name)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-want-to-eat-wrong/575353/60 "2011-03-25T17:44:16Z")
My guilty pleasure - hot dogs - slice two in half lengthwise, put on one slice of toast, slice of american cheese, mustard, raw onions, relish, lots of black pepper, topped with another slice of toast. Kind of like a patty melt with hot dogs. I’ve got to make lunch now … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-want-to-eat-wrong/575353.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-want-to-eat-wrong/575353.md?page=4)