Ewwww! Yummmm! Ewwww!

[tzikeh]

I'm sure we're aware that one person's vile, nausea-inducing bucket of slop is another person's most favoritest yummola snack in the world. Usually this discussion is limited to I love sushi / I hate sushi and the like, but what I have recently become fascinated, nay obsessed with, is certain combinations of food that most people would never ever have thought of but others adore.

esorlehcar likes to dip her french fries in her chocolate shake. whatssnoo puts tuna fish in her macaroni and cheese. Either of these combinations can have me fleeing the room. But I like to put grape jelly on my scrambled eggs, which disgusts both of them. (Jelly omlette! It turns the eggs sort of purplish-green, like a bruise! It's yummy!)

So, c'mon, 'fess up. What combo makes you all happy but sends other people out for fresh air? I'm just totally interested in the idea of bizarre food combinations that people actually eat.

Comments

[taraljc.livejournal.com]

I'm also a chocolate shake/french fry person. I love bacon and sausage in syrup, mustard in my egg salad, and the only way I'll eat ketchup is in a bacon-cheese-and-ketchup sandwich. But the only food I eat that makes people run screaming is black pudding... And possibly cornmeal mush with salt, butter, and bacon...

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I love bacon and sausage in syrup, mustard in my egg salad, and the only way I'll eat ketchup is in a bacon-cheese-and-ketchup sandwich.

Bacon or sausage in syrup isn't that unusual - the whole sweet/savory thing. Ketchup in bacon-cheese-and-ketchup is sort of interesting, but I don't think it's a weird combo again - as anyone who eats bacon cheeseburgers with ketchup would attest. And black pudding isn't exactly a freaky combo so much as just a strange food. ;) But you like fries in your shake, so that makes you Officially Strange.

[merryish.livejournal.com]

Yay! It's the Friday Gross-out!

::fleeing your LJ as fast as my little feet can carry me::

=)

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

No fair! Get back here and tell me what kind of weird combo shit you eat!

[eliade.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I can't think of anything too weird that I eat. I love fries, grated cheese, and gravy, but that's normal, right? ;) Also oranges (like, fruit) and chocolate (e.g., Hershey kisses) together. Also not strange...um. I'm more the type of person who eats simple things and turns green at other people's concoctions. {g}

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I love fries, grated cheese, and gravy, but that's normal, right?

Yup. ;)

Also oranges (like, fruit) and chocolate (e.g., Hershey kisses) together.
Also normal - lots of folks eat chocolate-covered orange peel or orange-flavored chocolates.

So, if you think of a combo you eat that makes people wish they were at another table, be sure to let me know!

Fractious foods

[maygra.livejournal.com]

Hmm...I think eggs and jelly sounds pretty gross, but I do like a fried egg slipped in between two halves of a blueberry muffin. Or my favoirte sandwich which is white bread, butter, sliced ham and dill pickles.

I understand the french fry and chocolate shake thing, although for me, it's saltines and a Frosty from Wendy's. Tuna in Mac and cheese wass pretty normal when I was growing up (Along with sausage, or hamburger, or kielbasa or bacon in mac & cheese.

Ketchup and boiled shrimp? Ketchup and bologna sandwiches?

Re: Fractious foods

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Ketchup and boiled shrimp?

That's one that might go on the list, though ketchup is awfully close to cocktail sauce, in a way....

[heresluck]

What's amusing me most is that a lot of these contributions are things that I won't eat separately. Um... I don't think I eat food that grosses people out, but I do eat things that are counterintuitive. Such as: chicken in asiago cream sauce with (this is the odd part) pistachios and dried cranberries. Served over pasta. Very tasty, but I have to serve it before I tell people what's in it or they get all skeptical. I can't imagine why. :::rolls eyes, whistles:::

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

chicken in asiago cream sauce with (this is the odd part) pistachios and dried cranberries. Served over pasta.

Actually? That sounds pretty excellent. The problem is you eat grown-up food. It's harder to find truly gross combo in grown-up food.

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

Dude, my sister eats Cheez Whiz and Marshmallow Fluff sandwiches.

On an ONION roll.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

So far? Your sister is winning.

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[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

*looks around furtively*

Sometimes? She TOASTS the roll first.

[renenet.livejournal.com]

I'm not coming up with any current yummygross food prefs. (If I like it then it's normal, right? and living alone means no one to make fun of me and ruin that delusion.) But when I was ten or eleven I made myself a crunchy peanut butter and American cheese sandwich on toasted bread at least every other day. Oh...Fritos and Ruffles brand ranch dip (available in little glass jars in the snack food aisle)--that grosses some people out. But, then, Fritos gross some people out in and of themselves.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Crunchy peanut butter and cheese on toast. Interesting.

I like Fritos!

[renenet.livejournal.com]

I like Fritos!

Oh, hell yeah. And if they're ever not rich and greasy enough for you by themselves, try the ranch dip thing. Yum.

[tobiascharity.livejournal.com]

I love sandwich pepperoni with peanut butter. Doesn't send people fleeing; my penchant for salt bagels in ranch dip does, though.

::grin:: Nice topic.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Huh! And I think I'd have the opposite reaction - salt bagel with ranch dip sounds kinda good, whereas pepperoni and peanut butter... I'll pass.

[amilyn.livejournal.com]

I love my eggs over easy so I can dip my toast in them. For some people this is nausea-inducing, although it's not really uncommon.

finabair is totally grossed out by the fact that I put hard boiled eggs in my tuna fish salad. I think this is also normal. I used to put sweet relish in it as well, but have found I like it just salty best.

I like to put peas in my mashed potatoes. Again, I don't think this is terribly out of the ordinary, but many others seem to, while another group puts corn in the mashed potatoes (I think that's just...ew, I mean, starch-on-starch!).

I like to stir up cheap chocolate ice cream and use it as "dip" with frozen Thin Mints as the "chips". I think this is more creative than weird, and think that almost anyone who eats mint who tried it would be...pleased.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I love my eggs over easy so I can dip my toast in them. For some people this is nausea-inducing, although it's not really uncommon.

My guess is that it's not the combination that grosses people out so much as that runny yolk can get to some people.

Hard-boiled eggs in tuna salad, huh? I guess that's not too weird - it's like combining the tuna salad and egg salad.

[amilyn.livejournal.com]

My guess is that it's not the combination that grosses people out so much as that runny yolk can get to some people.

Right. I think it's runny yolk in anything, to which I say cookie dough!!!! *grin*

Hard-boiled eggs in tuna salad, huh? I guess that's not too weird - it's like combining the tuna salad and egg salad.

I think this is actually fairly common...at least somewhere. And it's very good even if finabair can't even abide the smell although she likes both tuna salad and egg salad. I don't, however, like onion or celery in my tuna salad--I don't want it to crunch.

There's always Sam Beckett and the jello and onions.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Right. I think it's runny yolk in anything, to which I say cookie dough!!!! *grin*

But "runny" and "raw" are two different things. Cookie dough doesn't drip. It's a solidity thing.

There's always Sam Beckett and the jello and onions.

Hee! I wondered at the time if that was based on someone's actual pregnancy craving experience.

food, glorious food

[sanj.livejournal.com]

Oh, my god, you are, like, the only other human being EVER who eats jelly and scrambled eggs together. And I haven't eaten it in years and years, but I used to be able to gross out my brother at the table when I was a kid.

Also? Velveeta cheese on top of peanut butter and jelly. Laid on top of the top slice, not inside the sandwich. Another delicacy from the same era -- probably haven't had it in 20 years, but I remember it fondly.

/me stares thoughtfully at refrigerator....

BTW? Tunafish in macaroni and cheese is utterly normal. It's dinner, at least once a week. Better if you throw in a little broccoli, too.

Re: food, glorious food

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Oh, my god, you are, like, the only other human being EVER who eats jelly and scrambled eggs together. And I haven't eaten it in years and years, but I used to be able to gross out my brother at the table when I was a kid.

Jelly Omlette! No one ever believes me! And I couldn't gross my brother out with it because he ate them too.

BTW? Tunafish in macaroni and cheese is utterly normal. It's dinner, at least once a week. Better if you throw in a little broccoli, too.

Ew. :D

Re: food, glorious food

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I'm eating tunafish in my mac-and-cheese even now. It had never even occurred to me that people might find that odd. People who don't eat tuna might find it unpleasant, sure, but what's so weird about tuna mac? :-) It's like Tuna Helper, only cheesier. I've never added broccoli, although if I had a scallion or two I'd chop them in for a little kick of green...

I don't think I eat many weird food combinations. E insists on combining liverwurst and pickles in sandwiches, which -- just eww. I like them both individually, but *together*? Feh.

And I still have to maintain that anything combining eggs and jelly is just plain wrong.

Oh, and blueberry bagels? Also an abomination. But now I'm off on a tangent...

[cin1607.livejournal.com]

French fries dipped in chocolate shakes are yummy! And when fries are lacking, potato chips will work just as well. :) I've been known to eat a lot of strange foods, and I'll eat just about anything if it's been pickled, but one of my old favorites that generally gets me labeled a freak is a peanut butter and bacon sandwich. I haven't had one in ages--now I'm having a craving. *g*

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Okay - peanut butter and bacon sandwich goes on the list.

Boy, what is it with peanut butter - everyone combines it with something bizarre.

[renenet.livejournal.com]

Mmmm...peanut butter and bacon sandwich! I used to eat that. Toasted bread so the peanut butter gets a little bit melty. I'd *still* eat that, unlike my peanut butter and cheese combo. Thanks for the reminder!

[kirbyfest.livejournal.com]

I dip my pickles in mustard. Yellow mustard for dill pickles, Gulden's (sp?) for bread and butter pickles.

For some reason, people think this is weird. I can't imagine why.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Huh! I wouldn't choose to dip my pickles in mustard, as I like them just fine as they are, but no, I can't see why anyone would think it strange. Again, two hamburger condiments people eat together all the time.

[mtgat]

Amen to the tuna wif mac n' cheese (I used peas rather than broccoli but still yum). I used to live on that stuff! Also a yum for Amilyn's suggestions: I adore hard boiled egg in my tuna salad, with relish or without, and just dill gives it a nice kick.

As for possibly gross and bizarre, my cousins and I used to take a Town House cracker, slap a bread and butter pickle slice on it, add ketchup, and put on another cracker to make teeny sandwiches. We thought it was great, but it made the grownups gag.

And then there's limp, salty (no, no, not that) asparagus from the can into the melted butter into my mouth. Mmmmm ...

My stepsisters ate their potato chips with ketchup. I can see the connection with french fries but it always made me gag

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

asparagus from the can into the melted butter into my mouth. Mmmmm ...

You mean like, pre-cooked asparagus from a can you buy at the supermarket, but unheated, or raw asparagus?

Either way, not a big fan of asparagus over here, but asparagus and butter isn't that uncommon, is it?

[barkley.livejournal.com]

Tuna and macaroni and cheese was a standard meal growing up. Very cheap for those on a strict budget, plus it had protein. Hot dogs were the other substitution. Green beans were the vegetable if you needed one.

I've tried the eggs and jelly, and it wasn't bad. It's not a regular thing, but I can understand the appeal.

French Fries in mayo isn't that weird, but I like it.

The most bizarre concoction of my childhood that was inflicted upon us by my mother:
Hot dog chowder. Basically a milk based soup with hot dog slices, corn and potatoes.

[renenet.livejournal.com]

Hot dog chowder.

Um, kind of ewww. Also, for some reason (probably the fact that I really need to go to bed now) I would very much like this to be the name of a dance, like the Chicken Dance or the Beer Barrel Polka or something like that. "Come on now, everyone! Get up on your feet! It's time for the Hot Dog Chowder!"

[axiom_of_stripe]

heh. wandering in off of friendfriends, mostly because laurakaye and i were having this very argument over lunch today.... recently, we went to an ice cream parlor that would mix things into your ice cream fresh. they had a row of dry ingredients (chocolate chips, heath bars, pie crust crumbs, etc), a row of fruit, and a row of syrups. i got egg nog ice cream with peppermint patties and raspberries mixed in, and it was delicious. delicious, i tell you! and yet, laurakaye and thermidor will swear to you that it was foul, to which i say fooey.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

egg nog ice cream with peppermint patties and raspberries mixed in

That sounds *delicious*, actually.

Now I want ice cream!