Strange Food Combinations

leadercall ^ | April 9, 2009 | Robert St. John

[JoeProBono]

I was sitting in the movie theatre eating popcorn and Milk Duds while watching the previews of upcoming attractions when my wife asked how I could combine two seemingly opposite food items. I told her that Milk Duds, when eaten simultaneously with popcorn, are very tasty. Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it.

While waiting for the feature presentation I began to think of other strange food combinations that I have eaten through the years. Since childhood, I have dipped my potato chips into applesauce. Like Milk Duds and popcorn, the combination of the salt in the chips and sugar in the applesauce play well off of each other. I have always put ketchup on butter beans and now my children have now acquired a taste for their father’s strange legume-meets-tomato-condiment pairing.

I began to wonder what other people might eat in the way of strange food pairings, so I logged on to my Facebook page and posed the question: “What are the strange food combinations that you like to eat?”

[JoeProBono]

[LadyPilgrim]

Okay...thanks....I’ll try that. Of course I like the “tang” of most anything! :-) So...yogurt won’t be a problem.

[Grammy]

((((sigh))))

Out Italians!

[I am Richard Brandon]

Oh, and that reminds me. Someone once famously described Labour Prime Minister of UK as “just like a kipper.”

I think that this description fits Obozo so well - Two-faced and no guts! For explanation for those of you not familiar with kippers - go here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kipper

[mad_as_he$$]

Fried chicken and waffles.

[tet68]

Fried Salami in maple syrup.

My sister puts Ketsup on turkey.
Now that is wierd!

[kalee]

That’s not strange, we used to eat that when we vacationed at the shore in MD when I was a child.

[JoeProBono]

[BluH2o]

Fried chicken and waffles.

I've done a lot of off- shore sailing in relatively small boats ... a trans-Atlantic (both ways) in a 45 footer. Fried chicken & waffles sounds good to me ... ate combinations that make dog food appetizing.

[mad_as_he$$]

LOL. Long term camping here in the desert brings about some strange combo's like rice with pea soup and rabbit.

[angcat]

Is this what your eating on South Beach Diet?

[geege]

No........It’s just a wonderful memory.

[angcat]

Is Bob over?

[Randy Larsen]

I don’t know if this is weird or not...

I dearly love 2 pancakes(covered with real butter) with 3 juicy(over easy) eggs on top covered with Aunt Jemimah’s Butter and Maple Syrup...

Bust them yokes a pig out!

[JoeProBono]

Yes and BACON!!

[Toki]

Are they good? (I’m actually hungry after this thread)

[JoeProBono]

[Randy Larsen]

Yep, Eggs MUST be cooked in the bacon grease!

[GOPJ]

My kinda food!

[GOPJ]

My kinda food - and our mother's must have known each other...