Heh. My username is stupid, I selected it on a lark, I love eating foie gras, but its so prohibitively expensive, therefore its evil, etc, yadda.
I don’t really give a shit about how birds are treated for their livers, because their livers are fucking good and also because domestic foie comes from American Hudson Valley ducks that are humanely harvested for their livers compared to their French geese counterparts. They are Freedom Livers!. And I agree about Canadian Geese. They are quite populous enough now, thanks. Their livers are crap too, damn Canadians.
Anchovies and other small fish right out of the can.
Salsa as salad dressing.
Oatmeal with any or all of the following in it: veggie broth, shrooms, cheese, veggie burgers, potatoes, hot sauce, curry powder.
Vodka with oj and diet root beer.
Raw oysters.
Baby corn.
Hearts of palm
Tuna and cheese on a baked potato.
Bacon Salt on everything from Bloody Marys to cantaloupe.
Peeps!
Capers.
Cilantro.
Anchovy-stuffed olives.
Baby food mixed with salt and hot sauce on bread or in a wrap.
Necco wafers.
Birdseed with steak sauce or salad dressing.
Any nut dipped in any cream cheese.
Broccoli and ketchup together is one of my favorite vegetable side dishes. Just barely steam the broccoli past “tender-crisp” so it’s still bright green but a tiny bit softer, and dip it in ketchup. Yum!
I love to eat bacon with caramel ice creams like Americone Dream.
Hot chili paste on the sweet-and-salty peanut bars that I think are made by Nature Valley? If I’m craving calcium, the chili paste is replaced with a slice of pepperjack cheese.
I like my french toast made as a savoury dish and eaten with ketchup (the egg wash has soya sauce, worcestershire sauce, salt, pepper, and other spices added). I’ve tried it sweet with syrup, and that’s just weird. My way prevents me from ever ordering it in a restaurant, though (I did once, when I was young and foolish and didn’t realize other people put sugar on it after cooking it - blech).
I like french fries dipped in a chocolate shake or chocolate ice cream, too, but that doesn’t seem weird to me.
I love sushi. My family insists that it is disgusting.
On the other hand, I remember as a young child loving cantaloupe. Something switched in my brain when I turned about eight or nine. I haven’t been able to eat cantaloupe since. At 28 now, there’s still something about it that tastes disgusting to me. Haven’t eaten any for nearly twenty years now.
Haggis is OK - it’s just another kind of sausage really - there are things I like better, but it’s not bad.
I ate snails from my back garden once (properly prepared) - they were OK - not really very interesting though, but mentioning that one occasionally raises an eyebrow.
One of my salt-fiend friends shreds her Thanksgiving turkey and eats it on potato chips/crisps. I’d be a bit grossed out, but we’re talking about a group of people who have managed to dry out a nicely fat Hutterite turkey every time I’ve had Thanksgiving with them. If you don’t like gravy, the chips are the next solution, I guess.
I have a snack I’ve adored since I was a kid. My wife thinks it’s really weird, and loves to describe it to her friends to get an EWWW reaction from them.
I call it a “cracker sandwich” or, alternately, a “peanut butter and cracker sandwich”. (Yes, I know, sounds Elvis-inspired … )
Basically entails two slices of bread with peanut butter on them (I prefer crunchy PB for this). Then, one of the slices is covered with crackers (usually saltines, but I’ve been knonwn to use Graham crackers as a special treat), these are whole, unbroken crackers, usually four (in a square pattern) tends to do it.
then, cover that slice with the other slice, PB side facing the crackers of course, and voila! One of my favourite snacks!
How did it come about? Well, when we were kids, my isster said that one of her stuffed animals loved crackers. One day, I decided to make a snack for her animal to “eat” and came up with the above recipe. Being a stuffed animal, though, someone had to eat it for the beast. I did and loved it since.
Oxtail, beef tongue, and beef cheek meat are all things that I was a bit squicked out by the first time I had them but they all taste great so I got over it. I do get weird looks when I tell people I’m making oxtail stew but everybody I’ve talked into trying it has loved it.
