# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/81 "2012-12-31T02:11:33Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > He’s more lenient than we are. They’re called dead soldiers in our house. Not till they’re gone. That’s the joke. ETA: OK, I see now that a partially consumed beer is also sometimes called ‘dead soldier’. I’ve never heard that usage, it refers to empties. ---
**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 31, 2012, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/82 "2012-12-31T02:49:16Z")
Dead soldiers are beers that have been sitting out too long to consume. It makes perfect sense! When you find a beer bottle the next morning, you pour it out, right? (Cue the folks who will inevitably show up and say that they never throw out stale beer.) ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/83 "2012-12-31T07:36:21Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > I haven’t eaten this in a while, but I like to mix diced green olives with cream cheese, spread it on toasted rye bread, and top it with a slice of ham. The salad olives are good for this. Between the ham and the olives, one slice probably has enough sodium to last you for most of the day. But it’s quite savory. It works nicely on most crackers, too. Not that unusual as Kraft used to make an olive cheese spread. I loved it when I was a kid. My oddest favorite would be a spicy smoked sausage patty on a fluffy hot biscuit slathered with garlic jelly. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/84 "2012-12-31T08:29:14Z")
Mac and Cheese from KFC mixed with their mashed potato and gravy. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/85 "2012-12-31T19:05:31Z")
> [@dwyr](#): > > Not that unusual as Kraft used to make an olive cheese spread. I loved it when I was a kid. > > My oddest favorite would be a spicy smoked sausage patty on a fluffy hot biscuit slathered with **garlic jelly**. 'Splain the part I bolded, please? I’ve never heard of this. (I’m familiar with onion jam.) ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/86 "2012-12-31T20:31:41Z")
I like my oatmeal savory. Basically, any spice or veggie you’d eat with potatoes or rice, I love adding to my oatmeal. I start out with a veggie cube and a dash of white wine for the boiling water. After dumping in the oatmeal, I’ll add any or all of the following: Sriracha or Frank’s Red Hot sauce, curry paste, Laughing Cow Cheese, parmesan, mushrooms, onions, garlic, a veggie burger or an egg. Also, I would happily make a meal of things most people consider to be condiments or relish try items: olives stuffed with anything (especially anchovies,) pickled anything, baby corn, pepperoncini, anchovies, sardines, caviar. ---
**Author:** ![grodinsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/57b2e6/32.png) [@grodinsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grodinsky)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/87 "2013-01-01T05:44:14Z")
nothing for me really thought i cannot stand anything remotely “creamy” or milky (melted cheese is as far as i go… sometimes white chowder but it has to be REALLY hot with NO chance of cooling or congealing). the sight of leftover milk from cereal (never mind) skeeves me to no end. eggs weird me out too but only if i think about it too much. had a friend who would take a piece of bread and cover it with chocolate chips, put a cheese slice on top and then microwave it for a snack. ugh ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/88 "2013-01-01T08:26:20Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > 'Splain the part I bolded, please? I’ve never heard of this. (I’m familiar with onion jam.) Basically you take fresh\* garlic puree, vinegar, sugar, and pectin and turn it into jelly. It’s very sweet and very garlicky. At first I thought I wouldn’t like the sweetness but I have to admit it’s a perfect foil for the spicy sausage. I got the recipe from [The Good Stuff Cookbook](http://www.amazon.com/The-Good-Stuff-Cookbook-Delicacies/dp/0761102876) which definitely lives up to its title. It’s jam packed with delicious concoctions. \*Did you know that if you use old garlic you can get a chemical reaction with the vinegar that turns the resulting jelly grass green? It was a little disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/89 "2013-01-01T08:36:46Z")
And as it turns out, I posted the [recipe](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7003380&postcount=56) here some years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/90 "2013-01-01T16:38:08Z")
> [@Mr.Accident](#): > > 4Not exactly food, but when I’m at a place where I can fix my own fountain drink, I’ll get a little bit of each drink offered. (Really fun at those fountains that have 15+ choices.) > [@abbeytxs](#): > > We used to do that when we were kids and do it yourself soda fountain machines were relatively rare. We called the resulting drink a “suicide”. I don’t know if other kids called it that, or if it was just my brothers and me. > [@Barking\_Dog](#): > > No, not just you. Me and every kid I knew growing up called it a suicide. The kids called that swamp water when my kids were growing up. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/91 "2013-01-01T21:51:48Z")
> [@dwyr](#): > > And as it turns out, I posted the [recipe](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7003380&postcount=56) here some years ago. Thank you!! ---
**Author:** ![one\_red\_shoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/54ee81/32.png) [@one\_red\_shoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/one_red_shoe)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398/92 "2013-01-02T11:19:46Z")
Herring in wine sauce!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unusual-food-predilections/645398.md?page=4)