# Your Unusual Food Predilections **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 28, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398 "2012-12-28T17:24:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/41 "2012-12-29T19:34:14Z")
I’ve discovered that I really like the taste of peanut butter with pickles and/or hot peppers. In fact, my favorite combo I recently discovered is peanut butter with habanero pickles. Cutting something fatty with something sour is one of my favorite flavor combos, so that’s why it works for me, I think. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/42 "2012-12-29T20:50:22Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I’ve discovered that I really like the taste of peanut butter with pickles and/or hot peppers. In fact, my favorite combo I recently discovered is peanut butter with habanero pickles. Cutting something fatty with something sour is one of my favorite flavor combos, so that’s why it works for me, I think. That’s no too out there. I love spicy peanut currys. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/43 "2012-12-29T20:54:41Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > That’s no too out there. I love spicy peanut currys. It wasn’t the hot pepper so much that I thought was weird, but the pickles. Then again, maybe peanut butter and pickles is a thing. Apparently peanut butter and mayo, is, so why not? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/44 "2012-12-29T20:58:45Z")
> [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](#): > > I…I need more detail. How do I heat the donut? Frying pan? Microwave? Oven? Do I make transverse or vertical cuts? How is the butter to be applied? What kind? I must have learned this from my dad back before microwaves were invented, so it was the oven then, but the microwave does fine now–20 or 30 seconds, just enough to get the doughnut hot enough to melt the butter, which is simply applied to the top with a knife and allowed to run down the sides, mixing with the now melty glaze. Insert Homer Simpson drool noise here. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/45 "2012-12-29T21:08:25Z")
I love stale snack foods. Chips, crackers (especially Cheez-Its), Cheetos, popcorn, the staler the better. I _like_ the chewy texture and I feel that the en-stale-ening intensifies the flavor. ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/46 "2012-12-29T21:11:45Z")
Carrots dipped in ketchup are my one odd food combo. The mix of vinegar/salt/sweet is just perfect. In fact, there’s some baby carrots in the fridge that need eating. Lunchtime! ---
**Author:** ![Troppus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Troppus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troppus)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/47 "2012-12-29T21:31:01Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Nothing beats a big puffy glazed doughnut…heated and topped with butter. Well, there’s one thing that does. Cut the doughnut in half, butter, and fry until the glaze and butter carmelize. It will be a bit crispy around the edges. Or at least, that’s how I remember doing it when everyone in the house was training for a half marathon and we could get away with eating absolute crap and still feel fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![andrewbub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@andrewbub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewbub)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/48 "2012-12-29T21:52:23Z")
i hate ketchup for any purpose besides french fries and omelets. ---
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/49 "2012-12-29T21:52:48Z")
I saw an episode of Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood where he wrapped a slice of american cheese around a banana and ate it. I will still do it to at least one in every bunch I buy. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/50 "2012-12-30T01:03:03Z")
I like my cheese curls (and puff and other like things) stale. I open the bag and let them go stale before eating them. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/51 "2012-12-30T01:11:17Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Ham and jam on buttered toast. Apricot, peach, and berry jams are the best. > > Haven’t moved up to Spam and jam yet, but I imagine that’s pretty good too. 🙂 Try a paper thin slice of a good cured ham [I tend to get the prosciutto from the sub base grocery, I think it is BoarsHead?] a paper thin slice of [manchego](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchego) cheese, and a thin slice of [dulche de membrillo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulce_de_membrillo)/quince paste on your toast, or I like it on a toasted english muffin with butter as a rare treat. > [@DMark](#): > > My grandmother used to make those sandwiches for us as kids! However, she used a mayo that already had pickle relish in it (do they still make that stuff?), so if you really want to add some pizazz, put a teaspoon of pickle relish on the mayo when you make your next sandwich. It is more or less [tartar sauce](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartar_sauce). ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/52 "2012-12-30T03:27:19Z")
I love cold wonton soup. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/53 "2012-12-30T03:48:32Z")
My mother loves cold corn on the cob out of the refrigerator. My weird thing is stirring uncooked rolled oats into vanilla yogurt. But everybody I introduce this to loves it. It’s even better with some cinnamon and raisins added. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/54 "2012-12-30T04:04:56Z")
I have also taken to drinking a slug of straight balsamic vinegar. Tastes pretty good to me, and I have heard it is good for the arteries. Burns the throat a bit, though. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/55 "2012-12-30T07:39:38Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > śledzie. pickled herring. aside from myself and my grandmother, I don’t know anyone else who likes it. If śledzie is pickled herring, then LOTS of people like it. ---
**Author:** ![toast\_pakora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@toast\_pakora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toast_pakora)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/56 "2012-12-30T08:13:20Z")
This is not so unusual but every so often I’ll slice open a baguette and mash up a Mars bar inside. A British girl I met once told me that when she and her siblings were kids, their mother had to go into hospital overnight and that’s what her father fixed for supper. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2012, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/57 "2012-12-30T09:07:57Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > My grandmother used to make those sandwiches for us as kids! However, she used a mayo that already had pickle relish in it (do they still make that stuff?), so if you really want to add some pizazz, put a teaspoon of pickle relish on the mayo when you make your next sandwich. It’s called sandwich spread, and yes, they still make it. Or at least Hellman’s does: [http://www.hellmanns.com/product/detail/97903/sandwich-spread](http://www.hellmanns.com/product/detail/97903/sandwich-spread) . ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/58 "2012-12-30T15:41:19Z")
> [@SerafinaPekala](#): > > YES! We could be twins! > > How do you feel about cold, as in: room temp, leftover pizza? Its easier to eat when its not going to burn my mouth and have the cheese thwap me on the chin. I like pizza hot, warm, room temp, and straight out of the fridge. Not many ways I won’t eat pizza! ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/59 "2012-12-30T15:59:59Z")
I like to put Cheddar cheese in hotdog buns. We call this type of cheese sandwich a “cheese-boat.” My friends think it’s weird. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/60 "2012-12-30T16:25:14Z")
I know of several hotdog joints in the Southeast US that refer to these as cheese dogs. They’re often smothered with hotdog chili and served hot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398.md?page=4)