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What weird food combo did you not realise was weird?
I was pretty shocked when my partner and my best friend both told me that apparently the cheese and tuna omelettes my family has been eating for years aren't normal! I also know a guy at work who likes to eat spaghetti with either mayonnaise or gravy. What strange concoctions have you been eating?
Wendy's fries dipped in a Frosty. The sweet/salty mixture is perfect.
I didn't know this was weird. I thought that was how you're supposed to eat your Frostys (Frosties?).
I don't think it's weird, but then again I also like to scoop slurpees (specifically plain ol' Coke ones) up with Cheetos puffs in the same manner, so maybe I'm just a sucker for an edible utensil.
Ok that is actually weird lol
We do McDonalds fries and softserve here in Singapore.
Can't do that in the US, as the ice cream machine is always broken.
Same here in Romania, regular McDonalds fries with their cheapest icecream cone.
This is not weird. That is also why it is the top rated comment.
There is nothing weird or uncommon about dipping fries in a frosty.
Don't take this the wrong way, I'm not trying to start an argument here.
This is kind of like saying "does anyone else [picks a common topic that virtually everyone on the planet does]?" Yes, everyone does that.
Perhaps it is confirmation bias on my behalf. Where I grew up nobody else seemed to think I was crazy.
I've seen this a few times so I might give it a shot. Sugar and salt are both flavor enhancers and potato is pretty neutral. So you've got the contrasts of hot and cold, salty and sweet, smooth and crispy; all on the bed of rich chocolate or vanilla. Screw it, I'm getting a sundae with a side of fries now.
Oh sweet embrace, this was such a treat as a kid. Showing others this always resulted in shock and than awe once they tried it.
I've never purposely dipped them in but I always found it was nice to take a sip of the frosty after eating the fries.
Sweet and salty is classic and fries dipped in fast food ice cream is so good
My sister and I had done this in front of our brother and he thought we had lost our minds. So we had convince him that other people also did this and is completely normal to do.
I was going to say the same thing. I just assumed everybody ordered fries and frostys together.
I dip my chicken nugs in frosty and my fries in honey mustard.
Cereal and warm milk. I grew up eating a lot of hot porridge so I figured that its the same for cereal. I managed to keep this disgusting food choice a secret until I made breakfast for some roommates. They were disturbed, appalled and a little hurtful about the whole thing. They also agreed that it was a superior choice but wouldn't do it because its just too weird. to me, it helps infuse flavor into the milk and makes it feel far more hearty than sad sugar cardboard in cold cow juice.
You are clearly the lone sane man in a mad world. Breakfast should be hot.
That actually sounds like a really good way to eat something like coco pops in the winter :)
Doesn't the warm milk turn the cereal soggy quicker? I mean, I'm all for porridge (or other hot foods) for breakfast, but what I like about cereal is the cold dairy (milk or yoghurt etc.) with crispy cereal – eaten fairly quickly before it has time to get soggy.
As a side note, I was once served cornflake ice-cream where the cornflakes had been steeped in the cream used, and it was delicious and tasted exactly like it should.
And this is why people who pour milk over cereal are wrong. The other way around. Milk first, cereal after. And then you eat the most-soaked cereal first.
All of it can be crispy if you actually care.
Honestly, I don't understand why people who want their cereal to be crispy put milk in it at all. Just eat the cereal and drink the milk.
It shouldn’t be completely crispy though! It has to soak a bit to be just the right amount soggy. That’s why you start with the cereal, then milk, and “push” it with the spoon repeatedly like a mad man.
once the milk hits the cereal, the clock is ticking. you have 3-4min to get that down before you get to soggytown
I don't want it to all be crispy. I don't want it full on soggy either, but i like that middle ground between crispy and soggy, and if i have to choose I'll lean soggy. Pouring milk onto the cereal gets all the cereal wet from the get go.
That cornflake milk as an ingredient is the trade mark of Chef Christina Tosi (Milk Bar). She makes a flan out of it that I haven't had but would love to try some day.
I also grew up eating cereal with warm milk in the winter. I thought it was pretty normal - all my family and friends also had it. A working class way to give you some warmth in a house without central heating.
My father was a carpenter by trade and when I was younger I'd occasionally go off and do a few weekend nixers with him. He'd always have Weetabix and warm milk for breakfast! It was like a ritual for him
Mayo is crazy pants, but brown gravy is just one of the normal default options for spaghetti in HK restaurants. It could be a mushroom based sauce or caramelized onion or black pepper, but it's basically just brown sauce. The othe usual optioms are white or red. Sometimes yellow for curry or (HK style) Portugese sauce is also offered but more rare. Is that not okay?
Same cuisine, 鴛鴦 Yuen yeung is coffee mixed with milk tea. I've learned most people would not mix coffee with tea?! But chocolate is totally normal for folks apparently.
Speaking of chocolate, chocolate banana is not a common combo outside of Japan, I guess?
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I totally forgot the MOST common way to eat pasta at a HK Cafe!! In clear broth. Broth macaroni with bits of ham. Completely normal staple. If the breakfast menu says macaroni without elaboration, it's going to come in broth.
Mini bananas as in the smaller species or just regular bananas cut up in chunks? If it's the former I can see that being popular for novelty reasons but the latter should just be made at home.
Huh it seems choco banana is quite common. :)
Wait, what?
Dilly bars (also in Texas) when I was growing up(90s-00s) were just ice-cream with a chocolate shell.
Pasta in clear broth isn't that weird I think. There's a traditional (maybe?) Italian dish called Tortellini. It's also pasta in clear broth and has some meat in it.
I had it for the first time in Italy recently. It was great.
How interesting! I've only ever eaten tortellini in North America where it's served in the standard thick sauces before. I've heard so many comments on pasta in broth being "oh you wacky Hong Kongers hrhrhr" that this is awesome new knowledge that I will be sure to throw back at folks from now on :)
Ours probably sprang from "ease of preparation" and being appealing / available to the old, young, busy, and/or poor, rather than from hundreds of years of fine culinary tradition and a romantic story about Venus herself though :)
I think a lot of us have had chicken noodle soup before. Pasta with noodles isn't that crazy
Interesting! I knew filipino spaghetti (or at least Jollibees) was different with the hotdogs and a sweeter tomato sauce but I didn't realise there were so many choices for it in HK. We have some chocolate banana stuff in the UK - Muller banana chocolate flakes yoghurts are the best! A very occasional treat for me is also some chewy dried banana pieces coated in chocolate.
your yuen yueng link is broken (missing a g at the end), but that sounds an awful lot like a dirty chai latte, which i guess is some sort of tea/coffee convergent evolution. it's not very common, but you'll find it here in europe in more hipstery/less mainstream cafes.
Most HKer local cuisine that isn't Cantonese in origin came about as a folk knock off versions of the fancier stuff we see the visitors eating :) we have derivative curry (way less spicy and let's make it glow yellow), derivative milk tea (way milkier!), derivative steak (who has time to cook and eat? Make it 5mm thick and get out the door already!), derivative pastel de Nata (get rid of the cinnamon and make it less sweet and flakier)
so it's entirely possible it's not even convergent and just straight up "permanently borrowed" 😂
Wikipedia says chai latte is tea based rather than caffeine based: is the dirty version with a shot of espresso?
Link fixed, thank you!
yes, exactly! chai latte is just what would be called chai in other cultures, a milk heavy tea with some spices. dirty adds a shot of espresso, so you get the spiced milky tea with a kick of caffeine. not super popular, but has recently become one of my favourites!
I've had that kind of spaghetti before, but I wouldn't describe the sauce as a gravy (though it certainly has it's share of similarities).
Mostly I just wouldn't want to admit to it being a gravy. It's really good though, especially with beef.
Pasta with mayo is not that crazy. Macaroni salad exists.
Ooh I've always wanted to try Yuen yang. The only coffee/tea mixture you'll see in the West is a "dirty chai", which is a chai latte with a shot or two of espresso added.
:) try it when you get a chance. It's velvety and a very easy going kinda drink: nothing challenging, no acidity or need prep or build up or anything. Just sip and let it encourage you to get on with your day. A complex flavour but totally unpretentious.
In the Netherlands bread with butter and chocolate flakes or sprinkles is really popular. I tend to get weird looks whenever I tell people about that abroad. Search "hagelslag" or "vlokken" if you're curious about how it looks.
And if that tickles your fancy, there's also "gekleurde muisjes", "vruchten hagel", and "anijs hagel", all sugary sweet sprinkle stuff, some with aniseed.
Years ago, in England, I went to a friend's son's birthday party. She was Australian. As one of the table snacks for the kids she was making buttered bread with rainbow sprinkles and I looked at her like she was crazy.
She asked why I was looking her like I'd just had my cookie stolen and I said about this weird combo she was making. She laughed and said it was really common in Oz and was simply called "Fairy Bread" and was normal at kids parties.
Mind blown, I tried some, it's fantastic.
This was pretty popular in the UK in the 80s too, at least the part I'm from. Also sugar sandwiches and banana sandwiches.
My partner eats buttered, dry Weetabix which is frankly deranged.
that looks really good! It just also looks like food a toddler would make unsupervised lol
Whenever I made my own bread unsupervised the layer of chocolate flakes tended to be more a pyramid.
I grew up in England but went to the Netherlands on holiday fairly frequently to stay with family friends. Bringing back boxes of hagel was always a requirement and we loved it. I was't such a fan of aniseed gestamte muisjes but even that was a treat.
Yeah, the aniseed stuff isn't my favourite either. I usually bring back a few packs of extra pure vlokken. Those were a great addition to the mix of products they make.
This is really common in Denmark and in the same ballpark.
Less messy for sure. Those flakes got everywhere.
Cottage cheese and salsa.
The acid of the tomatoes mixes nicely with the creamy cheese, and the mixture is thick enough you can pick it up with chips and eat it like dip. People have told me it's strange, but I like it.
On a hot day, it's hard to beat a tortilla with cold cottage cheese and salsa for lunch. I ate this as late as Monday!
I had no idea this was a weird combo; cheese or creamy sauces etc. are very common for burritos etc.
My grandmother makes a dish where she spreads cream cheese on a plate and adds cold salsa and shredded cheese and it's actually really good. Not the same but your comment reminded me of it. I haven't had it in years I'll have to make it myself.
My family has a long standing tradition similar to this-- cream cheese on the bottom of a baking tray covered by Hormel chili and with shredded cheese on top. Bake at 450 degrees F for 10 to 15 minutes and scoop with tortilla chips. It is absolutely delicious.
Can you elaborate on the ideal ratios for this dish? (And it’s just on a plate? Does it not slidey-ploosh around? Any and all details welcome is what I mean lol). I make some amazing salsas, but if I don’t have time for all that, this sounds like something I could make for a good quick nacho snack.
I haven’t had it in forever, but I’m pretty sure it’s a whole stick of cream cheese spread evenly and then it’s more of a thin layer of salsa to cover the cream . Then shredded cheese can be added as desired. If using a more chunky salsa it shouldn’t slosh much, if at all.
I have a bowl of this almost every day with breakfast. Picked it up from my wife and passed it along to my sister-in-law. It might be the best sounds weird, is actually great food combo out there.
I can get behind this. I don't love sour cream, and usually sub high-fat yoghourt, including with nachos. Honestly, I'll probably try your salsa + cottage cheese combo as nacho dip eventually.
That's exactly what it's for!
About half of my "quick get up and go" breakfasts are a half cup of cottage cheese and salsa, with tortilla chips.
This is something my grandmother would do. Microwave a block of cream cheese and throw a can of cheap salsa on it. Always assumed it was an oddball family thing but interesting to know others do it with cottage cheese.
This is weird? I do this 3-4 days/wk
Depends on who you ask! I think it's perfectly normal
My mom always liked cottage cheese with a red, spicy salad dressing. I'm going to have to try this with salsa now... it sounds like just the kind of thing I'd like.
Our family as a whole has always eaten our grilled cheese sandwiches with pickles and ketchup, but all my friends have found it weird. I don't know why though, it's just a cheese burger without the meat.
That's about the only way to have them for me
This makes sense as a combo, fat + acid go well together. It's similar to nachos with pickled peppers.
I hear what you're saying about it being "a cheeseburger without the meat" but that meat adds a significant flavor and texture to the overall sandwich. That's like saying a peanut butter sandwich is just a pbj with no j. It is technically the truth but in practice, very different.
That being said... I'd like to try it. Sounds interesting
My Mom always made grilled cheese with spicy brown mustard inside. My wife thinks it's sacrilegious so whenever she makes grilled cheese for us I just put mustard on the side for dipping. The cheesy mustard combo is so good.
Mustard on them is good, too, with onions (that's also how I like brats and hot dogs), but never ketchup AND mustard. I don't like them together.
I hope you enjoy, use really good crusty bread🍻
Pickles in grilled cheese is my go to favourite. Trick is to slice the pickles (baby garlic dill for me) and wait til you take sandwich off the heat, open and put in the pickle slices ( this way they won't get soggy) then I dip it in ketchup mixed with hot sauce.
Ketchup and tomato soup fill a pretty similar role
I had a girlfriend once who like bread spread with chocolate spread with pickled gherkin slices on top.
chocolate and pickles, hmm. It's technically sugary and salty I guess, but I wouldn't think the actual flavors of chocolate and pickle would combine very well.
My in-laws eat tacos (think Midwest Americanized, no spice, Tacos) and frozen pizzas with basic apple sauce.
Breakfast tuna casserole sounds kinda dope, I'd try it.
Apparently my family thinks that mixing cheddar sour cream chips with peanut butter chocolate candies is weird.
Fuckin' good though.
Well that depends. Like, mouthful of each in succession, that sounds delicious. If you mash up all the chips and it's a hard candy you're talking about them that's weirder. :) Cheddar sour cream chips sounds like mega win by itself already
peanut butter and chips is great, and cheddar sour cream would be a tasty addition. Chocolate and dairy and chocolate with salt is good, so I can see how that would be really yummy
Growing up with a post-world-war nan, she would put weird things together.
A buttered banana and sugar sandwich was absolutely normal, as was a slice of sugared toast.
It's no wonder she died overweight and of diabetes.
Cinnamon sugar toast is so common they make an entire cereal about it, so just sugared toast doesn't seem too far a stretch.
Cinnamon spread used to be a thing in Canada but it was discontinued a few years ago, it was literally just sugary cinnamony margarine.
I had a friend when young who moved up from Kentucky, and they ate untoasted slices of white bread spread with margarine and sprinkled w sugar. I recoil at the thought of eating sponge bread and crunchy sugar today, but I thought it was a decadent treat as a five year old.
As a kid, I sometimes ate buttered bread with sliced banana and sugar as a snack.
I cut out the added sugar, but toasted wholegrain bread + butter + sliced banana is still a comfort food for me.
For me, Chili over rice. That's how my stepmom always served it and it wasn't until I made it for my now husband who thought it was weird did I realize that's not a usual way of eating it.
Very normal in the UK! What is the “normal” way of eating chilli where you live?
Where I’ve lived (Midwest and west coast USA) you don’t serve it over anything, although you can serve with cornbread or crackers. Cincinnati style serves it over pasta though.
Ok over pasta is deeply weird to me! I wonder why the UK serves with rice… maybe the vague similarity to curries influenced that decision
Ireland checking in here, we'd serve it with rice too! The thought of eating solo is mad to me. The amount of extra chilli you'd have to cook to make up for the missing rice bulk!
That’s a good point about bulking it up. I feel like you need some kind of carb. At least a potato!
Depends on where in the us. The two most common I know is just like a bowl of soup or in a bread bowl. Or on a hot dog (different though then the type you eat as a soup). In the Midwest apparently on spaghetti is common (it tastes like the chili they use for hot dogs). I think that is weird lol.
I just figured my step mom did it to make my dad happy (he is from the philipinnes and he would insist on rice with every meal when I was a kid). Never thought about it until my husband commented but then realized I didn’t see it served on rice except for when I or my stepmom made it so I assumed it was just something she did for my dad. So interesting it is normal in the us (and my stepmom is not from the UK).
What is the difference in the chilli they use for hotdogs? That’s something else that never came to the UK!
I also have seen on food shows that sometimes you guys serve chilli over crisps (chips) still in the packet? I love these little cultural differences. It’s such a small thing really, but it’s also totally mind blowing
In my opinion it's kinda gross. Chili is very varied here though (other than that type). You have some that uses big cubes of meat, mine uses ground beef, controversy over whether it having beans is really chili (chili cook offs in general ban beans but mine has beans). The chili on hot dogs is usually ground beef and some sort of sauce and always has the same type taste (a lot of times you can just buy the stuff I think in a can to put over your hot dog). I don't particularly like it (so I was disappointed whne I finally got to try midwestern chili cause I was curious about this over spaghetti thing and it was basically like hot dog chili).
UK chilli is always the beany type (especially in my house growing up because we were vegetarians. My dad used to call it chilli non carne).
I can kind of imagine canned hot dog chilli. I imagine the Midwest style is kind of like a weirdly spiced bolognese
I love chili over rice! My family does both chili on its own and then chili with rice. With rice is by far my favorite, it's just so tasty.
That sounds good!
I like it over a baked potato. I've been told that's weird, too.
Yeah I've never heard that. Not sure my chili would be good over a baked potato or not. Probably at worst it wouldn't be better or worse (I mean I am not sure why a potato would make it not good when it's fine over rice).
Edit: My husband points out you can get chili on a potato at Wendys... so maybe not so weird?
Wait, that's weird? I eat that all the time, it's delicious. :)
I've also learned you can put just about any canned dinner over rice and make a tasty meal. Chili and soups work the best though.
I tried that last night for the first time. I was pleasantly surprised. I still will die on the hill that chill shouldn't have beans, but I've warmed up to the idea that it goes well with a small bed of rice and it helps absorb some of the extra water in the batch.
I like the beans (but only dark red kidney beans) plus honestly if you are on a budget beans makes chili a very budget friendly meal.
Toast left to go cold + butter + Marmite + Strong orange marmalade. You're welcome.
as well as being nom, it's one of the best cures for a hangover I've found.
Marmite is also great on crepes.
My opinion is that spaghetti with garlic bread is pretty weird. It's basically cooked ground wheat with a side of cooked ground wheat. I don't understand it.
The noodles don't absorb the sauce. The garlic bread does. You need a dauber for your sop.
Ikr, have some starch w your starch - why not add a baked potato, too!
My uncle only eats meals like this. He has to have bread or chips or fries or crackers with his meals. I think he does it to help him get food on his fork because he doesn’t know how to use a knife, and to clean up the extra sauce on his plate.
He only eats pizza, cheeseburgers (plain), spaghetti, peanut butter and jellies.
Potato chips dipped in ketchup or jelly.
People dip French fries in ketchup which are literally just fried and maybe salted potatoes. People pair savory and salty peanut butter with jelly.
Why can’t chips get a dip?
Wait! Potato chips with ketchup is weird??? I love potato chips and ketchup.
I don’t believe it. I can’t believe it! I’m off to Google to check on this….
OK. My “research” indicates chips-and-ketchup eaters are certainly a minority, but we’re nowhere as weird as, say, ketchup on ice cream enjoyers. I guess I can live with this…
Somehow the idea of potato chips and ketchup bothers me but I can't articulate why.
Potato chips and jelly is out there enough that I'll give it a pass.
Is it ...is it similar to ketchup flavor chips?
not at all, more like... crispy fries. ketchup chips are sweet, but in a different way from ketchup and plain chips together. they have this burn-your-mouth-off acidic quality to them that combining chips and actual ketchup just doesn't replicate lol
I like potato chips in honey mustard. But it has to be really sweet. I discovered this on accident at a deli chain called McAllisters deli. I was eating a sandwich with the sauce on the side of my sandwich, and a chip fell in. Instead of wasting it I ate it, and I was pleasantly surprised at how good the combo was.
When I was deployed to Iraq one of the few snack items available to us were ketchup flavored potato chips.
I mean why not just go for ketchup chips
Those are surprisingly hard to find in the US, at least where I am. I've seen them once or twice in Trader Joe's (and snapped them up immediately - still waiting for All Dressed though). I've recently seen ketchup Doritos, but given that those are tortilla chips and not potato, I get the feeling they'll taste a bit odd.
Ketchup Doritos are incredible, and possibly my favorite Dorito. It’s a great all dressed flavor. Please pick up a bag while they’re here, you won’t regret it.
I just discovered ketchup and mustard flavored Doritos a few weeks ago. They are amazing! Especially when eaten together. I think they are only available for a limited time in my area, or else they were so popular they sold out quickly. I hope they become a regular thing.
Where I live in the US they’re pretty rare. Doubly so at a restaurant or diner where there’s no shortage of standard potato chips and ketchup.
so you have your tomato soup. take a slice of bread (not toast), put peanut butter on it, and dip into the soup. it's delicious! gets you weird looks but even those that say they won't do it again agree that it's a good combo.
I love all of those things but never thought of putting them together. I'll keep this in mind next time I make tomato soup and try it out! It's strange enough it might actually work.
I grew up with strawberry jelly on grilled cheese sandwiches, and my wife looked at me like I was a puppy murderer the first time she saw me do it.
Edit - during my very brief stint working at McDonalds in the 90s, I also started wrapping fresh nuggets in half a slice of american cheese, and it's something I still do in my 40s now.
I've only got raspberry preserves, but I'll give it a shot 💪
I've never had it as a melt, but people are always calling me and my family crazy cause we all love jam and cheese sandwiches.
I'm gonna have to try the grilled cheese version next time
Jam/jelly and cheese are amazing together. I love strawberry jam with extra old cheddar especially.
Coffee and Spicy/Flaming Hot Doritos
Please expand on this. Are you dipping Doritos in coffee??? This might be the most bonkers one here
No I just like to drink coffee while eating the Spicy Nacho, Flaming Hot, or ESPECIALLY "Flamas" (I love Flamas, but my guts do not). For some reason it makes a great combination.
Ok this is much more sane. I quite like a coffee when I have a particularly spicy sandwich for lunch so I can kind of see this. Hot drinks enhance the spice a bit
You win! Some of these are truly strange, love it :)
These sound amazing
Gnocchi with cheese and bbq sauce
Sounds like a great twist to a loaded baked potato.
Speaking of loaded baked potatoes.
I completely realized this was weird but it still weirds me out it works but I swear it does. The chocolate glazed Krispy Kreme donuts with Funyuns. I did it out of sheer doped up amusement one night with friends and was shocked when it paired so bloody well. Got others to try it to confirm but for whatever reason the salty/sweet onion/chocolate somehow works.
Tamales and ketchup!
You misspelt tamales and salsa for those with the complexion of a cell phone flashlight.
I need to add one that I always knew was weird but that my friend still claims as totally normal: banana and mayonnaise sandwiches. Even typing that makes me feel slightly sick
I came to say peanut butter and mayo. Both of ours are a variation on Elvis’ favorite, peanut butter, mayo, and banana.
Elvis was a good singer but absolutely bonkers about food. As is anyone who chooses two out of those three and doesn’t pick the only sane two: peanut butter and banana.
I’m willing to have my mind changed on this, tell me what you like about the combo!
Look, just put Sriracha on peanut butter and toast. Just try it. Do it.
I mix sriracha and peanut butter in ramen broth all the time (it works great with Shin Ramyun) - how did I never think of putting the two together on toast? I'll definitely be trying this out soon.
Not now. Apparently Sriracha is $70 a bottle right now due to drought induced shortages.
I haven't done it in many years but as a snack I used to eat saltine crackers topped with mayo. Cheaper and less hassle than butter and same effect. (fat and salt pair well)
Maybe if you call it.... something of whipped egg atop gently toasted grain squares or something.....
Add tuna to the mayo and it becomes legitimate again.
Savory dinner pancakes. Delicious!
I also hadn't realized that the different flavored humus-types you can buy in the store are apparently very controversial for many. Fried pepper etc. flavored hummus is an incredible dip for regular chips instead of other dips.
That's what Yorkshire puddings are (savory dinner pancakes, but shaped differently) - the batter for the puddings and pancakes is the same. They're delicious and always a firm part of a Sunday roast. They're also a great way to hold extra gravy on your plate!
A giant, plate-sized Yorkie with your entire roast dinner inside it… top tier
Savory pancakes aren't weird in the scheme of things. There are many cultures that have savory pancakes.
And as much backlash as I'm sure to get for this, pancakes are just flatbread cooked outside of an oven. There's nothing stopping you from enjoying savory pancakes except cultural expectations.
There's a whole world of savory breakfast foods. Savory oatmeal, spicy omelets, garlic pancakes, etc.
The breakfast = sweet mentality is hard to unlearn though.
I have an old Two Fat Ladies cookbook with a recipe for mushroom pancakes. I adapted to my tastes to be cheese, fresh herb, and mushroom pancakes. You can also sub in up to 30~40% whole wheat flour to add some fibre without compromising texture (can sub more, just tends to make the dough denser).
I sometimes have peanut butter and hot sauce and people think that can be weird.
I’m with you on not weird. I recently bought a peanut butter that is spicy and smoky, it’s insanely good. I really like it on sliced apple, but of course it works well on toast too
Peanut butter is savory on its own. We're just used to mixing it with sweet foods like jelly and chocolate.
My dad used to make Peanut butter and Bacon on toast when I was a kid. Kind of a light version of the 'Elvis Sandwich' I guess. - Surprisingly good!
Used to make bacon in the microwave on a special plastic tray, then make sandwiches with the bacon, mayo and white bread. It's a bit, hold the l and t...
My dad makes spaghetti with tomato soup. My mom thinks it’s disgusting, but my brothers and I enjoy it.
That is basically Spaghetti’Os without the O’s.
Spaghetti I’s or Spaghetti lowercase l’s
Strawberries dipped in sour cream then rolled in brown sugar. I thought everyone had this as kids. Then I tell friends about it now and I get some WEIRD looks. But anyone who's tried it has LOVED it. It's a great summertime, after pool snack!
Edit: Also nacho Doritos dipped in mayo. The chip already has enough flavor with all the powder so the mayo just acts like a plain creamy sauce. A lady on Amtrak taught me that one!
Someone else! A chef family friend introduced it to us and it became the main way to serve fresh strawberries in our house for years. The tang of the sour cream helps balance the sweet and creamy flavors. Plus it’s super easy to adjust the brown sugar on the fly depending on how ripe the berries are and how sweet each person likes theirs.
Waffles and Velveeta cheese. Place velveeta cheese slices between two waffles, add syrup... Yummy.
Hot chocolate and buttered toast. I made a comment at Perkins one day that the way they cut their toast would be perfect for hot chocolate. My friends just looked at me flabbergasted because they did not understand what I meant at all. Turns out, dipping toast in hot chocolate is not as common as I thought. Was a shock to find out at 23.
Similar but slightly different, I grew up eating what we called chocolate sop. It is basically dipping buscuits in hot chocolate syrup. It's not as uncommon as I thought growing up, just search for chocolate gravy. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/187298/southern-style-chocolate-gravy/
Doritos dipped in mustard is very tasty. When I was a kid I would smash the Doritos onto my sandwich and at some point I realized the very tasty combo was coming from the chips and mustard. And I mean French's yellow mustard, though I'm sure it's good with other mustards.
A toasted bagel with peanut butter, cinnamon and bacon bits. Mmm.
Mint ice cream with butterfinger for some extra crunch
Pork steak dipped in ranch
Lawrey's seasoned salt on popcorn
Ritz crackers, cottage cheese and season salt.
Spices + cheese works on a lot of savory foods
When my Marmite delivery is delayed, I'll spread beef bullion on warm toast and then top it with cream cheese. I get weird looks from the rest of my family, but it's totally worth it.
Mexican rice with sliced bananas tend to raise eyebrows. It's a hot topic here, almost as polarizing as pineapple in pizza or quesadillas without cheese
This is basically the norm in Brazil. Pretty common to add a banana to a lunch consisting of black beans stewed with some pork meats (feijoada) and rice with a dash of pimenta (fermented peppers in oil or vinegar). The sweet, salty and spicy combo is surprisingly good.
Sounds interesting
That's just a tortilla
Not exactly, people in Mexico City usually call quesadilla to the tortilla folded and stuffed with stews. Then they charge extra for cheese.
Milk + Pizza when I was little. Everyone told me, "I can't believe you drink milk with pizza!" and I was like, "Why wouldn't I?? I drink milk with every meal!"
Now that I'm an adult, yeah. It was weird.
I did the same shit. I just liked milk, especially if it was super cold. My folks would get grossed out when I'd sit down and snack on shit like salt and vinegar chips with a tall glass of milk lol
Sharp cheese, ideally artisanal Wensleydale, with rich fruitcake. Yum!
Sounds awful. I’ll have to try it just to prove my theory.
I'm curious about the cheese and tuna omelets. My mom would make tuna fish and eggs, which was a can of tuna and scrambled eggs cooked together. No cheese, but it sounds similar.
I feel validated! We like to add 3 beaten and seasoned eggs to a pan, add a tin of tuna in there, then when it's almost done put a bunch of grated cheddar cheese on top and throw it under the grill so the cheese gets all melty and bubbly. You're already two thirds of the way there anyway, but everything's better with cheese!
Rice with Cottage Cheese
My friend turned me on to this at a time when I thought cottage cheese looked, smelled and tasted like baby spit up. He convinced me to try it and I never looked back.
It’s been my go to lunch for the past 6 years and is delicious with just plain rice and cottage cheese or with soy sauce for a salty kick. Lately I’ve been putting spicy chili crisp with it. The cold creamy cottage cheese juxtaposed against the warm spicy rice is a killer combo.
Yellow mustard on carrots.
I'm a big fan of snacking on Cheez-its with peanut butter. My fiance thinks it's weird.
Cream cheese, pickapeppa sauce, and fritos
My dad would eat this sometimes and eventually I decided to try it. It doesn't look great, pickapeppa is a deep brown sauce and you just pour it on a block of cream cheese. It tastes amazing though. The important thing is to use "normal" cream cheese, no reduced fat versions or flavored kinds. They taste significantly different (reduced fat with pickapeppa tastes bad to me, even).
Pickapeppa is intended as a steak sauce and for that it is very good, but this was what I always used it for and still do now. I've never met folks besides my dad who did it, but everybody I've introduced it to very much liked it.
Edit - I remembered, I have actually encountered the tuna cheese omelet before. A coworker brought it for a meal that day and microwaved it, that's how I found out it had tuna in it. Definitely not a good impression, but for what it's worth you are not alone lol.
I put yellow mustard (plochmans) on ruffles.
I've been told it's weird.
Tuna mayo and bbq sauce sandwiches. Thank me later.
I recently (within the past few years) discovered peanut butter and marmite sandwiches. Marmite is not common or easy to find where I live, but I got my hands on a jar and found I liked it on buttered toast, as it's normally had. I don't recall what made me put it on a sandwich with peanut butter, but it's delicious!
You aren't alone because they actually sell Marmite peanut butter in one jar in the UK now! I haven't tried it yet but maybe I'll be brave and give it a shot.
In my small part of the United States, chilli with a cinnamon roll was a common lunch-time option at school.
When I lived in Puerto Rico, a can of what is essentially SPAM (called jamonilla) would be mixed with 8oz of cream cheese into a ball and topped with jam, then used as a cracker dip at parties.
I always loved hot dish sandwiches. Didn't matter what kind of hot dish. It all works.
When I was growing up, I would eat my spaghetti-o’s with either chips or Fritos. I viewed the spaghetti-o’s as a dip for the chips/Fritos. I kind of figured it was weird at the time but looking back, it is completely weird and also disgusting to think about now.
Three Musketeers candy bars on a Club cracker. With the snack pack sizes they fit almost perfectly, and the salty buttery cracker adds a nice complement to the chocolate and nougat.
Velveeta Mac and cheese (other brands are available) with A1 steak sauce (other brands are not)
I think it’s becoming more accepted now, but savory oatmeal. I eat it like congee or risotto. It’s easy, filling, and delicious. On the other hand, sweetened oatmeal used to gross me out, but I’ve finally come to enjoy peanut butter oatmeal. Fruit in oatmeal is still yuck.
I've never heard of peanut butter oatmeal but I'm intrigued.
Savory oatmeal doesn't sound bad, but i think grits already kinda has that niche covered.
Peanut butter oatmeal is very literally oatmeal with a large spoonful of peanut butter stirred in. I think of it like peanut butter oatmeal cookies in a bowl. You can add a bit of sugar, cinnamon, etc. Banana or apple slices would probably go well, too, if you like fruit in your oatmeal.
We don’t have grits where I live, but I might give them a try. They look delicious in photos.
I used to eat buttered whitebread dipped in ketchup. Called ketchup sandwiches. It wasn't until college that I learned it was my grandpa's great depression food. I still love it!
That's pretty much a culinary technique called maceration :) I do this with strawberries and sugar anytime I'm making a cream cake or eton mess - guarantees good results!
Oh man, I have a few of these. Let's see.
Slice of bread with sour cream and raspberry/strawberry jam. I started doing this as an unseasonal replacement of white bread with sour cream, strawberries and a sprinkle of sugar which my dad used to make when I was a kid.
Bread with white cheese and jam.
Bread with brown cheese and cucumber. (Or jam)
I never realized how much people hate salty/salmiak liquorice outside Scandinavia/Netherlands. It's flavored with ammonium chloride and people absolutely hate it in Australia. I -love- it and miss it dearly.
Also, I'll sprinkle peanuts on almost anything because it's delicious.
I grew up with peanut butter and cheese sandwiches. Didn't think about it as weird at all until I became an adult.