# unusual food combinations **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 27, 2001, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-food-combinations/95430 "2001-11-27T02:50:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bibliophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bibliophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophile)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-food-combinations/95430/1 "2001-11-27T02:50:09Z")
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. how about you guys? any wierd food combinations? ---
**Author:** ![Mogwei22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mogwei22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mogwei22)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-food-combinations/95430/2 "2001-11-27T02:54:48Z")
For some reason I get strange looks when I dip my grilled cheese in ketchup. ---
**Author:** ![Kipper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Kipper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kipper)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-food-combinations/95430/3 "2001-11-27T03:12:09Z")
Teriyaki Chicken and Strawberry Sushi. No don’t look at me like that it’s a taste combo that really works well… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-food-combinations/95430/4 "2001-11-27T03:43:22Z")
My uncle eats stuffing sandwiches. I eat spaghetti on hard rolls. ---
**Author:** ![Tanaqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Tanaqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanaqui)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-food-combinations/95430/5 "2001-11-27T03:59:38Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fish_in_the_sky)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-food-combinations/95430/6 "2001-11-27T04:03:39Z")
I love buttered toast dipped in OJ. But I don’t even know if that’s weird. Do other people do this? I know my mom does, but that really doesn’t mean anything either way. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-food-combinations/95430/7 "2001-11-27T04:12:17Z")
My son’s favourite sandwich is Cheeze Whiz and peanut butter. ---
**Author:** ![OfficeGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@OfficeGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OfficeGirl)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-food-combinations/95430/8 "2001-11-27T04:14:38Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-food-combinations/95430/9 "2001-11-27T04:15:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Pablito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@Pablito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pablito)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-food-combinations/95430/10 "2001-11-27T04:30:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-food-combinations/95430/11 "2001-11-27T04:35:57Z")
I think that honey-mustard is a terrible idea! Ick! I like chocolate and orange juice - brownies or chocolate chips cookies with OJ, or plain chocolate chips and oranges. StG ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-food-combinations/95430/12 "2001-11-27T04:48:19Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-food-combinations/95430/13 "2001-11-27T05:35:44Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Palve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Palve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palve)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-food-combinations/95430/14 "2001-11-27T06:13:36Z")
Sheesh. And people thought my habit of using sour cream as a dip for chips was weird. Now I know where to send them! [😃](http://www.a-l-o.org/inter.mid) I know plenty of people who put ketchup on macaroni and cheese, but to me that’s just plain weird. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-food-combinations/95430/15 "2001-11-27T06:55:14Z")
Revolting food pairings that work [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=66119](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=66119) Strange Food Combinations (or) How To Squander Your 1,900th Post [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=51841](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=51841) ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-food-combinations/95430/16 "2001-11-27T14:43:19Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![LiquidLobotomy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/898d66/32.png) [@LiquidLobotomy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiquidLobotomy)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-food-combinations/95430/17 "2001-11-27T15:00:53Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-food-combinations/95430/18 "2001-11-27T15:07:09Z")
On thanksgiving along with the turkey I had a bag of microwave popcorn… ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-food-combinations/95430/19 "2001-11-27T15:13:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Leifsmama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a698b9/32.png) [@Leifsmama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leifsmama)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-food-combinations/95430/20 "2001-11-27T15:21:32Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-food-combinations/95430.md?page=2)