# Two foods that just don't go together? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 29, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-foods-that-just-dont-go-together/257469 "2004-07-29T18:13:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-foods-that-just-dont-go-together/257469/1 "2004-07-29T18:13:03Z")
I’m looking for suggestions of two foods that most people like, and yet most people would find distasteful if combined. Why? Well, I like strawberries and I like chocolate cake, but strawberries in (or even on) my chocolate cake? Yuck. But, of course, friends and family give me a hard time, saying “How can you like the two of them but not like them together?” I’d just like to have an example (or two) that I could toss back at them to make the point that just because two foods are good, it doesn’t necessary follow that they’re good together. ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-foods-that-just-dont-go-together/257469/2 "2004-07-29T18:33:57Z")
I can do this. All it takes is recalling my school cafeteria menu. Spaghetti w/marinara and corn: aside from the fact that it is two starches, it just looks stupid on the plate together. Pizza and green beans I have also personally hated the “Bananas and Strawberries” combination. I love bananas, and I adore strawberries, but putting them together forms some kind of semi-translucent pinkish good that eats off the sharp edges of the cut bananas and makes them into squishy lumps. Yuk. Vegetable in gelatin (aspic aside, I’m talking about actual chopped up veggies suspended in jell-o) Coleslaw with stroganoff(sp?): This was perpetrated upon my family by my grandmother, once, long ago, and followed by… Tacos and cranberry sauce: She had a Mexican themed Holiday party, but just couldn’t forgo some of the traditional stuff. FB ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-foods-that-just-dont-go-together/257469/3 "2004-07-29T18:38:09Z")
Pickles and ice cream Chocolate and pizza ---
**Author:** ![Lips\_Obsession](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bbce88/32.png) [@Lips\_Obsession](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lips_Obsession)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-foods-that-just-dont-go-together/257469/4 "2004-07-29T18:59:37Z")
Orange Juice and anything Minty. (Ever brush your teeth BEFORE you drank your OJ in the morning?) ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-foods-that-just-dont-go-together/257469/5 "2004-07-29T19:00:20Z")
Pepsi and Milk. LaVerne lied. That stuff’s nasty. ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-foods-that-just-dont-go-together/257469/6 "2004-07-29T19:01:56Z")
Chocolate and pepperoni. M&M’s and pizza sauce. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-foods-that-just-dont-go-together/257469/7 "2004-07-29T19:07:52Z")
Orange juice and beer. Milk and beer. Orange juice and milk. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-foods-that-just-dont-go-together/257469/8 "2004-07-29T19:08:55Z")
Cranberry juice, then milk. ---
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-foods-that-just-dont-go-together/257469/9 "2004-07-29T19:17:56Z")
Well, my sister, who was living with us for a while, had a favorite meal: chicken-flavored Stovetop Stuffing, chicken-flavored Rice-a-Roni, and corn. ugh ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-foods-that-just-dont-go-together/257469/10 "2004-07-29T19:27:02Z")
Bananas and Ketchup Ice Cream and Ketchup In fact, a lot of things don’t go with ketchup. In the movie **Godspell** you can tell one of the characters is supposed to be in Hell, because they put ketchup on the whipped-cream pies before throwing them into her face. At Baskin-Robbins I heard that they made up a gallon of ketchup ice cream for one of the managers, who put ketchup on everything. No one would eat it. Inclusing him. Mustard and chocolate ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-foods-that-just-dont-go-together/257469/11 "2004-07-29T19:34:37Z")
Peanut butter and pickles. I have eaten this and I wasn’t pregnant. What the hell is wrong with me?? Coffee and pizza. Potatoes and mayonaise. Potatoes (other than fries) and ketsup. Malted milk balls and vanilla milk shakes. uugghhhh. Peas and carrots. Who the hell ever thought these two went together? ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-foods-that-just-dont-go-together/257469/12 "2004-07-29T19:39:28Z")
Coffee and pretty much any kind of fruit. I don’t know who decided that having both coffee and juice at breakfast was a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-foods-that-just-dont-go-together/257469/13 "2004-07-29T19:42:11Z")
> [@cher3](#): > > Coffee and pretty much any kind of fruit. I don’t know who decided that having both coffee and juice at breakfast was a good idea. Probably the same person who decided on cereal and OJ at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-foods-that-just-dont-go-together/257469/14 "2004-07-29T20:09:47Z")
I like pina coladas. I like spaghetti. I made the mistake of ordering both once. Now if I ever decide to simulate the taste of vomit, I’ll know how to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-foods-that-just-dont-go-together/257469/15 "2004-07-29T20:41:22Z")
Coffee and Super Sugar Crisp (a sweetened puffed wheat cereal, now known as Golden Crisp, 'cause somewhere along the line, “Sugar” became “not a selling point.” But I digress.) ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-foods-that-just-dont-go-together/257469/16 "2004-07-29T22:21:28Z")
A decade or so ago, there was a radio commercial that included a phrase something like “…foods that don’t belong together, like kiwi pizza.” That pretty much says it for me. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-foods-that-just-dont-go-together/257469/17 "2004-07-29T22:24:57Z")
Chocolate and anything else. Three exceptions: 1. Chocolate milk. 2. Chocolate chip cookies. 3. Chocolate and sex. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-foods-that-just-dont-go-together/257469/18 "2004-07-29T22:26:58Z")
Bananas and strong cheddar cheese - tastes like vomit. ---
**Author:** ![DaveRaver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daveraver/32/1078_2.png) [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-foods-that-just-dont-go-together/257469/19 "2004-07-29T23:40:39Z")
Bacon and raisins. ---
**Author:** ![Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bren_Cameron_1)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-foods-that-just-dont-go-together/257469/20 "2004-07-30T00:14:39Z")
Chocolate and garlic. Mmmm. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-foods-that-just-dont-go-together/257469.md?page=2)