Weird food
Posted by: lectric
Weird food - 01/04/2006 02:46
Anyone ever heard of putting cheddar cheese on apple pie? Ketchup on eggs? Raspberry on a Monte Cristo?
What's the oddest food combination you've heard of?
Posted by: robricc
Re: Weird food - 01/04/2006 03:01
Ketchup on eggs is extremely common (at least in NY). I would never do such a thing though.
This post reminds me of
this blog. While it's not about strange combos, there is some pretty gross stuff there. About halfway down there is some crazy Mexican corn with an infection. I actually found and bought that a couple nights ago. One would think it's cheap, but a small 7 oz. can cost me $4! I may try it this weekend if I'm brave enough just to see what it's all about.
Fried chicken with waffles and maple syrup seems weird to me, but there are a few places in the city that specialize in it.
Posted by: robricc
Re: Weird food - 01/04/2006 03:11
The trend of putting cream cheese in sushi rolls is something I find odd. I personally think it's gross. I don't think any type of cheese belongs on any Japanese, Chinese or Korean menu.
Posted by: msaeger
Re: Weird food - 01/04/2006 03:14
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Anyone ever heard of putting cheddar cheese on apple pie? Ketchup on eggs?
I have witnessed both of those I say yuck to them both.
The site Rob linked reminds me of this one.
I have seen corn rotting away in the field still on the cob that looks like that canned molding stuff.
Posted by: rob
Re: Weird food - 01/04/2006 03:53
It's hard to even contemplate eating a fried egg sandwich without ketchup!
Rob
Posted by: Cris
Re: Weird food - 01/04/2006 05:39
Here in Yorkshire they put Cheese on their Christmas Fruit Cake !!!!
Sounds weird, but a bit of wensleydale tastes quite nice, but I am still a marzipan and icing man myself
Cheers
Cris.
Posted by: tman
Re: Weird food - 01/04/2006 09:12
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It's hard to even contemplate eating a fried egg sandwich without ketchup!
Yup. A fried egg + ketchup sandwich is great. Don't see what is so weird about it!
Posted by: andy
Re: Weird food - 01/04/2006 16:30
scrambled egg + ketchup can be good too
Posted by: andy
Re: Weird food - 01/04/2006 16:33
My aunt used to eat pork sausages, cooked until they were starting to blacken, drizzled with Golden Syrup. Sounds weird, but actually tasted quite good.
Eryl's mother has just started eating sugar sandwiches again (a throw back to her childhold), which sounds horrible to me. Golden Syrup sandwiches however are lovely
Posted by: petteri
Re: Weird food - 01/04/2006 17:35
While living in Finland I saw that many there put ketchup on top of pasta. Uck...
Posted by: andy
Re: Weird food - 01/04/2006 18:38
I have to admit to having eaten pasta with ketchup as a student a few times, when pasta and ketchup was all I had...
Posted by: StigOE
Re: Weird food - 01/04/2006 20:07
That's quite common here...
Stig
Posted by: Waterman981
Re: Weird food - 01/04/2006 20:07
I've seen people putting peanut butter on pancakes, then covered in syrup of course, which I would never touch! I occasionally put ketchup on my scrambled eggs, but always do it when making a scrambled egg sandwich.
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: Weird food - 01/04/2006 21:30
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My aunt used to eat pork sausages, cooked until they were starting to blacken, drizzled with Golden Syrup. Sounds weird, but actually tasted quite good.
That's not weird at all. The best part about an American pancake breakfast is getting maple syrup on your bacon or pork sausage.
Or, as Agent Dale Cooper put it:
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Nothing beats the taste sensation when maple syrup collides with ham!
Posted by: Ezekiel
Re: Weird food - 01/04/2006 21:33
A good sharp cheddar next to a warm slice of fresh apple pie, nothing's better. Or as my Grandmother says:
"Apple pie without the cheese is like a hug without the squeeze!"
Grandma's pretty smart.
-Zeke
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: Weird food - 01/04/2006 21:41
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some crazy Mexican corn with an infection
A month or so ago I went to a very upscale Mexican restaurant (entrees ranging from $16.50 to $29) and one of the descriptions included Huitlachoche (Pechuga de Pollo Rellena de Huitlacoche). Fortunately, I'd already read that page and managed to avoid it.
Posted by: lectric
Re: Weird food - 02/04/2006 03:27
Sorry I haven't had time to reply, our election was today and it's been a REALLY long day.
Personally, I like apple pie with sharp cheddar. Adds a little kick to it that I find appealing.
[gross analogy ]
To me, eggs with ketchup just makes me think of a chicken's afterbirth. Admittedly, I've never actually tried it. I can't get past the mental image.
[/gross analogy]
I, too, like it when my bacon comes in contact with syrup. In fact, I have started eating maple cured bacon. mmmmmmm.
My own personal peculiarity is that I like to eat my scrambled eggs with my grits mixed in. I've never seen anyone else do it, but I love it. What is particularly odd about this is that I don't normally like my different foods to even touch.
Posted by: boxer
Re: Weird food - 02/04/2006 04:24
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Eryl's mother has just started eating sugar sandwiches again
Now that's reminded me of a childhood treat I'd forgotten - I'm off to the kitchen!
Before sugar became available with rationing, after WW2, we used to have glucose on our cereal, I wonder whether you can still get it, it was great.
Posted by: Neutrino
Re: Weird food - 02/04/2006 05:04
Mayonnaise, pickle, and peanut butter sandwiches come to mind. Weird but good.
Posted by: boxer
Re: Weird food - 02/04/2006 05:30
I once stayed with some people in Wales who had melted cheese and bacon with their breakfast fry up.
Posted by: tahir
Re: Weird food - 02/04/2006 05:40
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scrambled egg + ketchup can be good too
and a touch of black pepper
Posted by: boxer
Re: Weird food - 02/04/2006 06:16
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and a touch of black pepper
I think that cereals and fruit are probably the only two things that I don't routinely pepper, despite my mother constantly lecturing us to taste the food first, before reaching for the condiments.
Posted by: tahir
Re: Weird food - 02/04/2006 07:00
Most fruits are great with a bit of black pepper, try it.
Posted by: boxer
Re: Weird food - 02/04/2006 07:29
......all of a sudden I want a date and banana sandwich!
Posted by: tahir
Re: Weird food - 02/04/2006 09:32
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......all of a sudden I want a date and banana sandwich!
Toasted? My wife introduced me to toasted banana sandwiches, excellent.
Posted by: bonzi
Re: Weird food - 02/04/2006 16:16
Grapes, wallnuts, sharp cheese and whole wheat bread (this is almost common in my father's homeplace, one mountain chain off the Adriatic coast).
Toast, butter, honey and garlic (this in not common at all - I discovered it when I accidentaly speaded my butter using a unwashed knife my mother used to chop garlic). Hmmm, haven't tried this for decades [heads to the kitchen)
BTW, I abhor ketchup, mayo or anything but salt and pepper on eggs or fries; OTOH, half of my pasta dinners use tomato-based sauce; lacking anything better, ketchup will do. Also, fresh tomatoes or, lacking that, tomato juice, ketchup or double concentrate are for me essential ingredient of beef consomme (as is onion, hacked in half and slightly burnt on stovetop before being boiled to death together with other ingredients).
Posted by: Dignan
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 00:17
I tend to be rather dull with my food (in other people's eyes). I like to think that I appreciate food they way it's been prepared. 99% of the time I don't even put salt on anything that's handed to me.
Ketchup on breakfast foods is very very common, although I also think it's very strange. I think it's also a love it/hate it type of thing.
I also think that mayonaise on french fries is odd.
Posted by: lectric
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 00:21
As a kid, I used to make saltines with peanut butter and white sugar.
Hmmm....
This is an interesting read. Makes one really think about what we're eating.
Posted by: julf
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 06:27
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I also think that mayonaise on french fries is odd.
You clearly haven't lived in Belgium or Holland 
OK, after almost 10 years here, I still find the excessive mayo on the fries repulsive.
Posted by: Schido
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 06:44
How about this then:
'friet speciaal'
Posted by: pgrzelak
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 08:20
Fascinating article! Thanks!
Posted by: lectric
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 11:48
A restaurant, well... a bar... around here serves something called appropriately the Heart Stopper. Large cut french fries with sour cream, cheddar cheese, and roast beef gravy. MMMmmmmm. So bad for you though.
Posted by: lectric
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 11:48
As to the friet speciaal - That's just nasty.
Posted by: DWallach
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 13:18
Reminds me of
poutine -- that great Canadian sensation that's often been described as a heart attack on a plate. I've also had a variety of mayonaise and fries combinations in Belgium.
Meanwhile, huitlachoche is actually quite tasty. If you have no trouble eating mushrooms, you'd have no trouble with huitlachoche.
I agree with earlier sentiments that mayonaise and ketchup tend to be disgusting. About the only sandwich that I'll allow anywhere near mayo is something that has tuna fish or chicken salad. Otherwise, it's mustard all the way. I put mustard on my fries as well. I've developed quite a distaste for ketchup, regardless of what you put it on. Instead, most anywhere you might put ketchup, I'll put hot sauce instead. About the only times I violate my hatred of mayo on fries is when I've visited Belgium. You won't get too far there if you try to avoid the mayo.
I think we can't properly discuss disgusting food without mentioning the wide world of canned meat products, ranging from the familiar
spam to far uglier things like
head cheese. I'm similar unexcited about things made from pork skin, whether it's
chicharrones or
pork rinds. Yuck.
Posted by: cushman
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 13:26
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Reminds me of poutine -- that great Canadian sensation that's often been described as a heart attack on a plate.
Poutine and Moxie, something I try to get when I visit home every once in a while.
Posted by: bonzi
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 15:51
... and poutine (cheese curds part) reminds me of a traditional local cheese "škripavac" ("squeaky") I loved as a kid, virtually nonexistent nowadays. These are small cheeses prepared from cow milk sometimes mixed with sheep's, curdled with rennet, pure white and spongy, with delicate milky smell and mild, almost bland taste. If eaten within, say, a day of the moment of manufacture (they are kept in brine for the time), škripavac squeaks against one's teeth not unlike wet styrofoam on glass (or baloons, as Wikipedia article on poutine puts it). After this window passes, it is best eaten with strong olive oil, tomatoas and black pepper (like mozzarella), or left to ripen and acquire some actual taste.
Mmmm, hungry!
Posted by: tahir
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 15:53
What's the fermented shark(?) thing they eat in Iceland?
Posted by: bonzi
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 16:00
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...from the familiar spam to far uglier things like head cheese
I actually like Spam and spam-like products (to horror of most people I know); my father loved head cheese (known here as "tlacenica", "svargla" or "prezvurst" - the last name obviously beig corrupted Germanism).
(No luck with Latin2 - back to ASCII...)
Posted by: boxer
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 16:07
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What's the fermented shark(?) thing they eat in Iceland?
Hakarl
Posted by: tahir
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 16:11
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Hakarl
That's the one, cool site Boxer.
Posted by: lectric
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 16:56
I think we have a winner. That is downright gutwrenching. -=shudder=-
Posted by: JBjorgen
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 16:59
Posted by: lectric
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 17:10
After a little research, I may have to stop eating
andouille.
Posted by: lastdan
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 17:44
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... and poutine (cheese curds part) reminds me of a traditional local cheese "škripavac" ("squeaky") I loved as a kid, virtually nonexistent nowadays.
you can find this at our local farmer's market here in Santa Cruz, CA.
I had no idea it was really called that, thought my girlfriend made up the name.
Posted by: Mach
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 18:03
In LA, its good stuff. In France? I recommend staying away from it. Can only be described it as sewage flavored meat. It ranks #2 on my list of ass-nasty foods. #1 being
Uni or sea urchin. Not entirely unlike pond scum scraped from the bottom of water logged board.
From my New Orleans days, we had a guy that would bring in a loaf of Bunny bread and a couple cans of sweetened condensed milk when it was his turn to bring donuts. I guess it was the equivalent of sugar sandwiches.
I first saw deep fried twinkies and candy bars at the Calgary Stampede but then saw them later at the Houston Rodeo but never had the misfortune of trying one.
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 18:26
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After a little research, I may have to stop eating andouille.
It's a sausage. What did you think was going to be in it? There are far nastier sausages than andouille. Haggis and black pudding come to mind.
Posted by: boxer
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 19:03
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Haggis and black pudding
Two of my favourite things! - although I do prefer white pudding.
In my annual ten days in Scotland, I aim to have haggis every day, if I can - then I leave it for the rest of the year.
Posted by: visuvius
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 19:15
Afghans have some crazy combinations. One of the oddest seems to be a middle-eastern wide thing...combining yogurt with damn near everything. As long as I can remember, we've always had yogurt at the table..simple, plain yogurt. My dad has always made it at home. We have it with rice, curries, eggplant, all sors of stuff.
Posted by: lectric
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 20:45
I know, it's a sausage, but I DIDN'T know it had tripe in it. Don't get me wrong, I know I'm being silly, but I tend to prefer NOT eating any type of offal.
That being said, I have no intent of stopping eating andouille. It's far too good in chicken andouille gumbo. Oh, and I DO buy it in LaPlace, the andouille capital of the world.
Posted by: robricc
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 20:53
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...I know I'm being silly, but I tend to prefer NOT eating any type of offal.
But the intestines the sausage is cased in is ok?
Posted by: petteri
Re: Weird food - 03/04/2006 23:53
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#1 being Uni or sea urchin. Not entirely unlike pond scum scraped from the bottom of water logged board.
Hah! Uni is one of my favorite thisngs to order at a sushi place! 
Posted by: webroach
Re: Weird food - 04/04/2006 00:16
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Hah! Uni is one of my favorite thisngs to order at a sushi place!
Agreed! And I can't believe that nobody has mentioned natto, which I'm actually quite fond of.
Strangely, I can eat rotting soybeans, but the decomposed shark almost made me hurl.
Posted by: lectric
Re: Weird food - 04/04/2006 00:50
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But the intestines the sausage is cased in is ok?
I choose to ignore that bit of my hypocracy.
Posted by: robricc
Re: Weird food - 04/04/2006 00:52
Natto is rotting soy beans? I've had it before and neither liked it nor disliked it. I didn't know it was rotting.
I have no problem with Uni, but it's another one of those things I almost never order. Over here, it's one of the more expensive pieces of sushi. I'd rather fill up on the cheap stuff which I like better. Masago and fatty tuna are my passions.
Posted by: webroach
Re: Weird food - 04/04/2006 01:55
Most people use the term "fermented" in lieu of "rotting", but I think the latter sums it up better.
I agree with you on the fatty tuna. The connoisseur's fave, to be sure. But I have to ask, what do you mean by "masago"? "Masago" means "sand". Is it a local variety / roll?
Posted by: lectric
Re: Weird food - 04/04/2006 02:13
Hmm.... I miss my smoked salmon box... Tomorrow's dinner is decided.
Posted by: lectric
Re: Weird food - 04/04/2006 02:15
To me, fermented and rotting have distinctly different connotations. Fermented means it is being broken down by yeast. Rotting means it's being broken down by other more nasty means.
Posted by: frog51
Re: Weird food - 04/04/2006 05:41
The best heart attack foods have to be Scottish. The
Aberdeen Rowie or Butterie sounds nice on that page, till you realise it is basically butter, fried in lard, and served with butter and salt!
The
deep fried mars bar is also pretty bad, but reasonably popular!
Me, I just like marmite or jam on cheddar as a wee snack in front of the telly
Posted by: pgrzelak
Re: Weird food - 04/04/2006 08:00
Fermenting vs. rotting is almost the same as "sushi" and "bait"... You can quite quickly tell is someome likes sushi by the way they describe it...
Posted by: robricc
Re: Weird food - 04/04/2006 12:11
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I agree with you on the fatty tuna. The connoisseur's fave, to be sure. But I have to ask, what do you mean by "masago"? "Masago" means "sand". Is it a local variety / roll?
Pic of masgo sushi attached. It's usually translated to english here as either smelt roe, or flying fish roe. I don't know if those two fish are the same thing with just a different name.
Posted by: andy
Re: Weird food - 04/04/2006 13:26
Wikipedia reckons that masago is the roe of the
Capelin and that the roe of the flying fish is called Tobiko.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_types_of_seafood
Posted by: robricc
Re: Weird food - 04/04/2006 13:40
I've never seen that fish's eggs on a menu. It would seem that a smelt and a flying fish are two completely different fish. A Capelin seems to be another different one. Maybe Capelin isn't very common here, so they substitute what is?
Posted by: andy
Re: Weird food - 04/04/2006 14:06
From the Wikipedia entry:
"The capelin (Mallotus villosus Müller 1776) is a small fish of the smelt family found in the Arctic Ocean in large quantities."
Posted by: robricc
Re: Weird food - 04/04/2006 14:09
Ok, smelt it is then....
Posted by: lastdan
Re: Weird food - 04/04/2006 14:59
ok, I gotta weird food problem-
I've been challenged to come up with a cocktail that contains bacon. the cheat is that it only needs to be called bacon, so the fake stuff or anything bacon-like is allowed.
I considered cooking bacon wrapped around a chopstick and using it like a stir stick in a bloody mary, but I'm not sure that's such a good idea.
any other bacon freaks out there?
Posted by: tman
Re: Weird food - 04/04/2006 15:08
Does having bacon around an olive dunked in it count? If so
Bacon Martini...
Posted by: peter
Re: Weird food - 04/04/2006 15:16
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Bacon Martini
"1999 Everything's Better Wrapped in Bacon contest recipe"... nice...
Peter
Posted by: Ezekiel
Re: Weird food - 04/04/2006 16:06
I would think that you could modify a
Bull Shot to add bacon pretty easily.
-Zeke
Posted by: webroach
Re: Weird food - 04/04/2006 22:54
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Wikipedia reckons that masago is the roe of the Capelin and that the roe of the flying fish is called Tobiko.
Yep, that's what I know it as. Though the connotations of calling it masago are actually pretty funny. Great stuff!
Posted by: lectric
Re: Weird food - 04/04/2006 23:56
I would think it'd be good in an oyster shot.