If you ever thought of an unusual food combination you think might taste good, but never actually tried it before, what such combination would it be?
My such idea would be a strawberry pie with a thick layer of mozzarella cheese inside. The flavor combination sounds great, with the melted mozzarella cheese giving a nice texture to the pie.
Poo and ice.
This is something Ive tried before: one time I was making a Peanut Butter & Honey sandwich, and then I decided to put two powdered doughnuts on it. My taste buds were very healthy after that. :bigass:
Using yogurt as a dip
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Since I love root beer floats, I once thought a beer float might be good. I was wrong.
Quote from: cabiness42 on October 21, 2014, 07:46:38 AM
Since I love root beer floats, I once thought a beer float might be good. I was wrong.
What kind of beer did you use?
I haven't tried it yet, but a friend swears a BLT with peanut butter on it is fantastic.
I already eat them with American cheese and mayo (learned that in Wisconsin) but would delete the cheese and mayo and try PB next time I make them.
Quote from: cabiness42 on October 21, 2014, 07:46:38 AM
Since I love root beer floats, I once thought a beer float might be good. I was wrong.
I've had a Guinness float. It wasn't the greatest. There are probably better beers than Guinness for such a thing (sweeter, more caramel-y stouts, for example) but it would still probably not be my cup of tea.
Quote from: NE2 on October 21, 2014, 01:35:08 AM
Poo and ice.
Actually, when I think about this it might not be terrible, and I'm not even joking. Just don't tell anybody what it is before giving it to them
Quote from: spooky on October 21, 2014, 07:51:52 AM
Quote from: cabiness42 on October 21, 2014, 07:46:38 AM
Since I love root beer floats, I once thought a beer float might be good. I was wrong.
What kind of beer did you use?
I was far too intoxicated to remember such a detail.
Fish fingers and custard
I used to fix grilled cheese and peanut butter sandwiches. I'd put the peanut butter on the sandwich before I grilled it. I always thought they were pretty tasty.
But I don't get this whole chicken-and-waffles thing that is so popular in the south.
Quote from: hbelkins on October 21, 2014, 02:24:37 PM
But I don't get this whole chicken-and-waffles thing that is so popular in the south.
I have not tried it yet, but I saw chicken and waffles on the menu at IHOP recently, and it actually looks very,
very appitizing, at least to me. :-P :bigass:
Marmite and Marmalade toast sandwiches. I know they taste good. The Marmite has saltiness and savouriness, the marmalade has a bit of sweetness (from the sugar) with a bit of sourness (from the citrus juice) and bitterness (from the citrus peel). It's the whole package of taste, though the Marmite dominates.
I don't want to look up Marmite because it will unbalance a carefully-crafted search-engine-ad marketing profile I've worked hard to attain. Could you tell us what it is? We don't have that.
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Dragnet, Bill Gannon's peculiarities often served as the comic relief (as tepidly "comic" as Jack Webb would allow), including Bill's odd tastes and peculiar recipes. I tried one of his recipes that Nick at Nite felt worthy of turning into a network promo: the garlic nut butter sandwich. I've made them several times and found them to be quite good.
Take two slices of pumpernickel bread; spread one with creamy peanut butter and the other with cream cheese. Using a garlic press, crush a clove over the cream cheese side. Assemble and cut into quarters–a good finger food to accompany beer.
Quote from: Pete from Boston on October 21, 2014, 04:17:08 PM
I don't want to look up Marmite...Could you tell us what it is?
Yeast extract...similar to Vegemite but darker. A very salty and savory dark brown paste. Popular "down under" .
Quote from: briantroutman on October 21, 2014, 04:54:31 PMYeast extract...similar to Vegemite but darker. A very salty and savory dark brown paste. Popular "down under" .
They hate it "down under" and 'either love it or hate it' in the UK. Australia has that pooey paste that is Vegimite, New Zealand having their own thing (which they confusingly call Marmite) that are similar, but just not the same. You in the US have 'Vegex' as something similar.
It's yeast extract - you cook up spent brewers' yeast (they've even done gimmicky special editions with specific beer's yeast such as Guinness) and a couple of other things (most notably salt) to concentrate it into a black gloopy paste. It's an acquired taste and the media campaign 'you either love it or hate it' has meant that marmite as an adjective has entered British English as something divisive or polarising. Looking at wikipedia, Malaysia and Singapore like it with rice and yeast when broken down in the manufacture of these spreads creates something that is similar, but not, MSG.
Both mar- spreads go deliciously in a sandwich with hard cheese.
Quote from: NE2 on October 21, 2014, 01:35:08 AM
Poo and ice.
Ever mixed them and made a "Shit-ee"?
Quote from: cabiness42 on October 21, 2014, 07:46:38 AM
Since I love root beer floats, I once thought a beer float might be good. I was wrong.
I myself tried a Miller High Life (which was my beer for a time) float, back when I drank. It was awful. I think the beer and the ice cream interact in a way to cause bad flavor, though I'd have a hard time trying to explain it scientifically.
"Back in the day," I remember being disappointed to realize I wasn't the only one dipping french fries into a 'frosty' at Wendy's.
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Quote from: cabiness42 on October 21, 2014, 07:46:38 AM
Since I love root beer floats, I once thought a beer float might be good. I was wrong.
I myself tried a Miller High Life (which was my beer for a time) float, back when I drank. It was awful. I think the beer and the ice cream interact in a way to cause bad flavor, though I'd have a hard time trying to explain it scientifically.
You don't have to. It already sounds awful.
I was out of town once visiting with some folks that liked to go to this one place because it had $1 specials on pints of Keystone Light. The secret to making it palatable, they pointed out to me, was to add salt!
You'd have hoped the ice cream would take away the taste of urine that stuff like Miller would have, but it won't. Even better quality American beers would struggle - the crisp, dry and hoppy (esp with new world hops) flavour of the beer won't work with ice cream's creaminess (and to a lesser extent the sweetness)
Something like a stout might work with its coffee-chocolately flavours, but Guinness is too bitter. Beer + Ice cream would work better if a small amount of beer (like one or two fl oz per scoop) is added to ice cream, rather than ice cream dumped in a pint.
Salt helps take the edge off the ice cream's creaminess (and a little of the sweetness), so it would help.
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I remember having mini marshmallows in (British) baked beans when I was about 12 for some reason like pudding was marshmallows and I hadn't finished my main and nothing to store them in and it strangely working, despite being slightly sweet with little bits of very sweet when I ate a marshmallow. I got "that's repulsive" from everyone, but it really wasn't. But I'm not sure that would be too unusual an idea in America, given the happiness to add sweet to savoury that spooks Brits - like bacon & pancakes with syrup on all of it which I had often last time I was in America to wind up my brother and mother who didn't really like the concept.
Yeah, stouts are all I've seen with ice cream. Some of them actually incorporate coffee or chocolate into their flavor already.
Regarding the marshmallows, it is still common for people here to bake a pan of sweet potatoes/yams and have a layer of marshmallows atop. It always sounded terrible to me until I had it–the sugar in the marshmallows caramelizes and deepens their flavor, and the sweet potato/yam often has orange juice or pineapple to sweeten it, so they meet in the middle.
There are bacon chocolate bars commonly sold here. They immediately made me think of eating chocolate-chip pancakes with bacon, where the bacon gets mixed in with the sweetness. As it turns out, the wrapper states that was exactly the inspiration for the bacon chocolate bar.
There was a restaurant in Athens, Georgia (called Bruce's, IIRC) which served a hamburger with peanut butter on it. They called it the Tupelo...not bad.
A few months later, I'm at a shop in Jacksonville, and we talked about the site called "ThisIsWhyYoureFat.com" or some such. One photo featured a hamburger with two donuts in place of the buns. As it was a slow day, we made a run that afternoon to McDonald's and Krispy Kreme, and tried it out for ourselves. Messy to handle but an interesting taste, since it seemed to cover the aftertaste of Ronald's Cooking.
I've also had blueberry jalapeño jelly, and while it blends the sweet and spicy nicely for breakfast use, it doesn't have the pepper smell, just the kick. It's tough to find in stores, but it's been a clever way to guarantee that no errant peanut butter finds its way into my jelly jar!
Various sweet/hot pepper jellies are fairly common here. Nice for spicy toast or as a glaze for roasted pork/poultry.
Beer and ice creme doesn't sound good to me (but then I don't really like beer anyways). Vodka and ice creme, on the other hand, is totally awesome (and there's actually a restaurant called Sticky Lips in Rochester, NY that serves a drink with that combo).
Vodka and vodka sounds good to me; vodka and ice cream not so much. For booze and ice cream I stick to Kahlua or Cabin Fever, but these are now getting away from unusual combinations and into perfectly reasonable ones.
Quote from: formulanone on October 22, 2014, 12:17:34 PM
A few months later, I'm at a shop in Jacksonville, and we talked about the site called "ThisIsWhyYoureFat.com" or some such. One photo featured a hamburger with two donuts in place of the buns. As it was a slow day, we made a run that afternoon to McDonald's and Krispy Kreme, and tried it out for ourselves. Messy to handle but an interesting taste, since it seemed to cover the aftertaste of Ronald's Cooking.
I'm told that the Krispy Kreme burgers are one of the most popular food items at the Kentucky State Fair.
I just got fat picturing that.
I will often make myself peanut butter and bacon sandwiches on toast. I've gotten plenty of odd looks from others when telling them of my concoction. I tell them all, "Don't knock it until you try it...it's fucking good!"
As for the beer and ice cream thing...no, just no. It sounds disgusting. I like both, but not together.
So, what WOULDN'T go good with bacon?
Quote from: hbelkins on October 22, 2014, 10:04:49 PM
So, what WOULDN'T go good with bacon?
The Middle East.
Sorry to bump an old thread, however, there is one unusual food combination that I have actually HAVE tried that I forgot to mention: Chicken parmesan with pink sauce. The pink sauce is a blend of marinara and alfredo sauce. There was one Italian restaurant in Puerto Rico that I ordered it twice and it was good.
EDIT: And no, I don't like it just because it is pink. I just think it tastes good.
Pink slime with fries.
I made a sandwich with strawberry jam, red pepper (bell peppers, not Pepper Jack) cheese, and ham. It was delicious.
Beer and ice cream could work. Try a dark porter with vanilla ice cream.
I wish I could claim credit for that, but Stone Brewing actually have a porter with vanilla bean on the market, inspired by the idea of a beer float. I tried said beer a few weeks ago and found it pleasant. Not sure what I'd do if I had to pair it with food, but I'm thinking dessert. Ms1995hoo made a very rich chocolate cake earlier this week and this stuff might work with it.....too bad I don't have any of the beer left and there was none at Total Beverage today. I got the regular Stone Smoked Porter but I haven't got any ice cream to dump into the glass. We still have about a third of the cake.
In terms of odd food, does meatloaf cooked outside on the grill qualify for this thread? It's not a "combination," but it's surely atypical. I got the idea back in 2003 watching the Oilers play the Canadiens outdoors. I thought if I cook meatloaf in the oven at 350F, why can't I regulate the grill to 350, cook the meatloaf, and let the grease drip away so I don't have to clean up? It worked pretty darn well, actually, but as my meatloaf recipe has evolved over the years, cooking on the grill is less of an option due to the texture changing (don't want the meatloaf collapsing through the grates and burning up in the fire, though the smell might scare the shit out of our feral cat friend and the various squirrels and raccoons who visit our deck!).
BTW, here is the cat, seen in the snow two weeks ago. She WILL NOT let us near her; if I throw the bolt to unlock the door to feed her, she runs next door and waits on our neighbors' deck until I go back inside. I wish she could learn to trust us like the squirrels do.
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Quote from: NE2 on January 30, 2015, 10:01:47 PM
Pink slime with fries.
The subject line says "
UNusual."
My co-worker's girlfriend likes chili powder on ice cream.
Another co-worker is always putting condiments on things that ordinary people wouldn't put them on. We wonder if he really likes the taste or if he is just trying to get attention.
Quote from: Brian556 on January 30, 2015, 11:49:47 PM
My co-worker's girlfriend likes chili powder on ice cream.
Another co-worker is always putting condiments on things that ordinary people wouldn't put them on. We wonder if he really likes the taste or if he is just trying to get attention.
I love the chili-encrusted dried mango strips at Trader Joe's. I know some other folks can't stand them.
I had to struggle to get a friend to even try a michelada, which is where some Mexican god put hot sauce, lime, and worcestershire into a beer and made the best drink ever, but he got a second one after that. I can barely stop drinking them they are so delicious.
Ketchup on rice. Tastes great.
An ex girlfriend of mine used to like puting ketchup on macaroni and cheese. It was indeed bizarre, but didn't taste half bad.
Quote from: SignGeek101 on January 31, 2015, 01:03:37 PM
Ketchup on rice. Tastes great.
Original (black) kecap was designed for rice (being soy sauce + molasses). Red ketchup works fairly well too.
Quote from: signalman on January 31, 2015, 01:45:10 PMAn ex girlfriend of mine used to like puting ketchup on macaroni and cheese. It was indeed bizarre, but didn't taste half bad.
Red ketchup? doesn't sound odd - cheese and tomato is a common combo!
Probably not very weird but, I have made several sandwiches with a combination of peanut butter, nutella, and strawberries. It's pretty damn good.
Being new to middle Georgia, my Georgia native colleagues like peanuts and Coca-Cola, actually the peanuts in with the bottle of soda. I like the two items, but separately.
Chili & mashed potatoes.
Quote from: english si on January 31, 2015, 01:55:09 PM
Red ketchup? doesn't sound odd - cheese and tomato is a common combo!
I know many kids like to dip chicken nuggets/strips in ketchup, while adults typically prefer BBQ sauce or honey mustard; ketchup is usually for fries or burgers instead.
This has turned into "Food combinations that you think taste good."
Quote from: Pink Jazz on January 31, 2015, 05:35:44 PMI know many kids like to dip chicken nuggets/strips in ketchup, while adults typically prefer BBQ sauce or honey mustard; ketchup is usually for fries or burgers instead.
Aye, but we were talking about Mac and Cheese, so I'm not sure why the common combinations of nuggets+dipping sauce link with my post, or with the thread.
Quote from: Pete from Boston on January 31, 2015, 06:01:04 PMThis has turned into "Food combinations that you think taste good."
Yes. The thread is about
Unusual food combos. Chicken nuggets and Ketchup is the opposite of that.
I think the "I've not tried it, but I think it would work" element implied in the title is more OK to bypass - because surely the natural thing to do for many people is to try it, and they shouldn't be excluded from the thread.
Here's one I've not tried, but would like to (my brother had it as part of his 'Ginvent' calender in December), though I don't think it would taste that good - Gin with cream as a botanical (what you put in the still with the pure spirit to flavour the gin - could be anything, but one must be juniper or it isn't gin).
Quote from: Pink Jazz on October 21, 2014, 01:07:31 AM
If you ever thought of an unusual food combination you think might taste good, but never actually tried it before, what such combination would it be?
Nuts and gum.
Quote from: adventurernumber1 on October 21, 2014, 03:07:33 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on October 21, 2014, 02:24:37 PM
But I don't get this whole chicken-and-waffles thing that is so popular in the south.
I have not tried it yet, but I saw chicken and waffles on the menu at IHOP recently, and it actually looks very, very appitizing, at least to me. :-P :bigass:
As you'd expect, chicken and waffles is a big thing in NYC now.
Quote from: empirestate on February 01, 2015, 10:56:06 AM
Quote from: Pink Jazz on October 21, 2014, 01:07:31 AM
If you ever thought of an unusual food combination you think might taste good, but never actually tried it before, what such combination would it be?
Nuts and gum.
Together at last!
Quote from: xcellntbuy on January 31, 2015, 05:02:32 PM
Being new to middle Georgia, my Georgia native colleagues like peanuts and Coca-Cola, actually the peanuts in with the bottle of soda. I like the two items, but separately.
What, no Moon Pie too?
I remember watching some of my uncles and cousins doing this and thinking they were extremely daft.
Of course, a couple of my relatives liked salting their watermelon-WTF?
Never mind, Jake...it's the South.
Quote from: DeaconG on February 02, 2015, 12:15:51 AM.
Of course, a couple of my relatives liked salting their watermelon-WTF?
I grew up salting watermelon. I'll eat it without salt, but I really prefer it salted.
Quote from: hbelkins on February 02, 2015, 10:54:52 AM
Quote from: DeaconG on February 02, 2015, 12:15:51 AM.
Of course, a couple of my relatives liked salting their watermelon-WTF?
I grew up salting watermelon. I'll eat it without salt, but I really prefer it salted.
I was introduced a few years ago to putting salt in Keystone Light. It made the stuff almost drinkable.
Quote from: english si on February 01, 2015, 08:46:28 AM
Quote from: Pink Jazz on January 31, 2015, 05:35:44 PMI know many kids like to dip chicken nuggets/strips in ketchup, while adults typically prefer BBQ sauce or honey mustard; ketchup is usually for fries or burgers instead.
Aye, but we were talking about Mac and Cheese, so I'm not sure why the common combinations of nuggets+dipping sauce link with my post, or with the thread.Quote from: Pete from Boston on January 31, 2015, 06:01:04 PMThis has turned into "Food combinations that you think taste good."
Yes. The thread is about Unusual food combos. Chicken nuggets and Ketchup is the opposite of that.
I think the "I've not tried it, but I think it would work" element implied in the title is more OK to bypass - because surely the natural thing to do for many people is to try it, and they shouldn't be excluded from the thread.
I just thought that it was worthy of mention since you talked about ketchup being combined with something else. And chicken nuggets/strips with ketchup seems to be eaten mostly by children, while it is quite unusual for adults to do so (adults typically prefer them with BBQ sauce or honey mustard).