when i was a kid, the only way i would eat spaghetti was just the plain noodles topped with sour cream. it never occured to me that that was unusual until i was about 9 and i started noticing the waitresses’ faces when my parents would take us out to dinner. i honestly thought they made sour cream just for spaghetti. although i have since moved on to sauce, i still crave sour cream every now and again.
i have a friend who loves nothing more than a peanut butter and bacon sandwich. this is the same guy who puts ranch dressing on almost anything.
I love corn mixed up with mashed potatoes… or is that not weird enough?
I like apples dipped in peanut butter or covered with cheese as well. (Though not both at the same time!)
My boyfriend once ate * a poptart dipped in Ranch dressing. * According to him, he was neither drunk nor doing it on a dare. Apparently there was nothing else to eat in the house. And it “didn’t taste that bad.”
The poor crazy man. That strikes me as THE nastiest thing I can imagine.
Tanaqui, I also love to mix corn in with mashed potatoes, and usually top it off with some butter and a slice or two of cheddar cheese. Mmmm… there’s no better way to eat mashed potatoes in my opinion.
I also dip my grilled cheese in ketchup, mainly only when I’m eating at a restaurant (their sammiches tend to have more cheese than the ones I make at home, thus upsetting the delicate cheese/bread/tomato balance).
Does anyone else put spicy mustard on their grilled cheese sandwiches? A friend of mine did that and I thought it was horribly wrong, but it tasted pretty good actually.
Other than that, I do like to make baby food sandwiches, make a fantastic corn & macaroni casserole, and sometimes put Worcestire sauce on my popcorn. Oh, and like to melt cheddar cheese on a flat tortilla and then sprinkle parmesan cheese, garlic salt, and tabasco sauce on it. Yummy yum! This thread has made me hungry, especially since I just got home from getting my guts kicked at karate.
In my family, we’ll eat peanut butter with just about anything. My personal fave is peanut butter & bananas, followed closely by peanut butter & dill pickles. My grandmoher, though, had a serious addiction to peanut butter and horseradish. That’s just too much. Even my mom thought it was weird, and she eats peanut butter and onions.
Perseph, you beat me to it! I am a staunch advocate of peanut butter paired with just about anything else. I must say, your grandmother’s horseradish and p/b sounds pretty extreme–I’ve never tried that, but I love p/b and green olives; p/b and onions; p/b and bananas; p/b and sardines; p/b and anchovies; and, yes, p/b and bacon, as biblio says is quite good. Maybe I’ll try the horseradish combo.
Another great sandwich that sounds weird but which everyone who tries it, likes it, is a mayonnaise and banana sandwich. Or put potato chips in any sandwich for a good crunch.
What about putting salt on melons, grapefruit, pizza?
And Lunatic: yes, dipping your buttered toast into o.j. is weird.
OOooo well… you know those chocolate dipped pretzels you can buy? I was making those before they were on the market! And something else that is good is… plain ripple chips dipped in chocolate… yummy!
Something else that I find is good is ranch dressing on mashed potatoes… And what some find weird (tough I don’t see it as such) I used to eat molasses sandwiches. I also love warm buttered biscuits with molasses drizzled over… mmmm
When I was a kid (MANY years ago) I used to eat lime jello with the Ruffles potato chips on the school lunch tray. I was embarrassed, so I’d eat it on the sneak. It was years later that I found out that quite a number of the kids were doing the same thing.
I’ve often wondered if that combo would still be as tasty to me now as it was then…
I won’t eat spaghetti w/o sour cream.
It also tops my macaronni and ground turkey combination.
Mayonaise is a must for french fries, with only a taint of ketchup.
Jalapeno jelly and cream cheese adorn my Wheat Thins.
Raw oatmeal goes on top of my Total, to be topped in kind by a generous amount of honey.
Ketchup must adorn my black-eyed peas.
I’d have to say my weird food fetish is Scrapple, ie: everything that is left over after making sausage. You fry it up 'till it’s brown and eat it crispy. Great stuff. I usually don’t cook it completely, I like to leave a little soft grey middle. If you’ve never had Scrapple before you should give it a shot.
Pancakes are just not pancakes without peanut butter and syrup. Peanut butter and syrup, mixed well, also make a great sandwich - good for breakfast or supper.
I also like to put cottage cheese on my hamburgers.
Thanks to Katz’s Deli in Austin I now love egg salad on my Pastrami and Corned Beef sandwiches. (This particular combo is mentioned in another thread.)
Adding a scrambled egg between the slices of bread turn an ordinary grilled cheese into something sublime.
When we were little, my brother wouldn’t eat eggs without honey. He still puts sourcream in his cheerios. And everyone I knew in jr high loved Ruffles potato chips dipped in chocolate pudding. Me, I’ll eat anything that doesn’t require making any dishes dirty.
