So, I went down to the kitchen and there was my oldest dunking his popcorn in milk. He swears it's yummy, but I am not going to try it.
A friend in Jr High used to like to fry Cheerios in bacon grease.
I once saw my mom pepper her watermelon.
Do you have any weird food stories? Normal food in strange combinations?
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Popcorn in milk is a very old "cereal" recipe. I heard about it way back when I was in grade school. The teacher said it was something the pilgrims did. I personally think the popcorn gets a bit soggy.
I think putting salt on cantalope is evil. I'm almost ashamed to admit it, but MrCoco does this. I think he's also salted watermelon which is just about as bad as mowing the lawn with nothing but a bra and overalls on.
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If MrCoco does ever decide to mow the lawn with nothing but a bra and overalls on, please don't post the pictures here.
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Anything fried in bacon grease is divine... what's the problem with cheerios fried in it?
If you've ever had cheese topping on popcorn, then you've had milk (okay, a derivative thereof) on popcorn.
Grilled cheese... not as in the sandwich, but there is this cheese that you can actually put on the barbecue and cook... big in Indian fare and maybe some other cuisines. It is good, but whudathunk?
I am really hard pressed to think of unusual combinations for food... oh here is one! It was a special sausage in one area of Germany I was in, and it was essentially made of fat and oat groats. It was called a pinkle. In the Bremen area, in mid / late February, they have a tradition called "Kohl und Pinkle Fahrt". Essentially, from a cultural standpoint, it is pretty much a reason for folks to go around in groups in the countryside with their schnapps shot glass on a string around their neck, pulling wagons with schnapps and what have you in it, drinking, getting drunk, and then coming home to a huge meal of braunkohl (kale... you know kale, the rough green stuff put on your plate as a garnish in restaurants... it is actually edible and quite tastey if you cook it long enough to where the fibers break down) that has slow cooked with some sausage, fresh sow belly, and smoked sow belly for like 24 hours, and the pinkle. All the fats are what end up seasoning the kale with only maybe some pepper. Anyway, this is served over hot boiled, peeled potatoes. And for Bremener, it is a glutton fest similar on scale to our U.S. Thanksgiving, except without all the extra trimmings... that is the meal... and it is in February.
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
Okay, the operative word here is "weird" - ketchup on scrambled eggs is not weird. O-tay?? Tobasco sauce is a little weirder... Cheese and pancakes are a little weirder still... (see McDonald's)
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I think putting salt on cantalope is evil. I'm almost ashamed to admit it, but MrCoco does this. I think he's also salted watermelon which is just about as bad as mowing the lawn with nothing but a bra and overalls on.
Dear Coco, neither of those things is evil.
I put salt on grapefruit and on Granny Smith apples.
My little brother likes maple syrup on cottage cheese.
When it finally reached the double dirty dog dare, our two older boys made and ate peanut butter sandwiches that included everything stored in the door of the refrigerator: Strawberry jelly, mayo, mustard, ketchup, soy sauce, rooster sauce, ranch dressing, balsamic vinegar, chocolate syrup, parmesan, salsa, butter, pickles, capers, and chocolate frosting.
They were good sports and ate the whole sandwich. We've never played that again, though.
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Salt and fruit is just... weird. It's simply not meant to be. Fruit is like, sweet. Salt is like, not. It's like you lose out on both ends, I just don't get it. Salt on grapefruit?? Holy mackerel, people. The grapefruit has to possess one of the most exquisite tastes on the planet... and to salt it, is just... well, weird. Please don't tell me you salt food in restaurants before you taste it...
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Actually putting salt on fruit accentuates the sweetness. It's the same reason you put salt in cookies, for example. A little salt can actually make things taste sweeter. (ask any gourmet cook... or me... :) (Gives even deeper meaning to... Ye are the salt of the earth...)
--Ray
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baby food on top? Yuck! Chocolate chip with peas? I'll pass.
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One companion on my mission ate pasta, ketchup and dried coconut together. He also loved and quite frequently made this rice meal. It consisted of frying chunks of chicken and banana in about a half inch of oil till blackened. He would then place the chicken and banana into a bowl of rice, then cover it with cinnamon and sugar. He would eat half, then stick the other half, uncovered, into the fridge and then the next day eat it dried out and cold.
I love artichokes. I eat them by the can, and artichokes are not cheap, about $2.50 a can. I also love to eat them on a cracker with some cream cheese and deli meat.
I also love Indian food and some find that weird. I also love dolmatas, stuffed grape leaves.
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Same thing, right? Grape leaves stuffed with herbed rice and meat, usually lamb. Linguistically, I bet dolmata is the plural of dolma, which means Val and I need to go back and study our Greek endings, because we both added an "s" to pluralize something that's already plural.
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I really like pudding on sub sandwiches. Vanilla or Chocolate...Butterscotch if I'm in the mood for it.
And who doesn't dip their french fries in a frosty? Although Wendy's doesn't have the best fries...
Ranch dressing on any Mexican food is just good, but the Mexicans will shudder.
a lot of people think that dipping pork chops in applesauce is strange...but that's our family favorite.
I love broccoli and carrots dipped in peanut butter.
Sometimes different foods are treated differently in different cultures. In many other countries, they look at us using cinnamon in sweet desserts to be strange. In fact, cinnamon is a common seasoning on meat, and is very delicious!
In fact, some cultures eat ant butts...I've never tried that though.
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I was a line cook for awhile at a Village Inn. That was my first exposure to a Monte Cristo. I thought the whole idea was just gross. But I was young and my tastes weren't very developed. Maybe it would be different now, but I am not going to find out on my current eating plan. Besides, I still don't care for mayo.
-- Edited by hiccups at 15:36, 2007-07-30
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Okay, spill the beans... recipe for a Monte Cristo and how to prepare... It is sounding like to me a combination french toast / ham & cheese / unknown jelly sandwich.
I had one once many years ago, but I don't remember any egg or jelly...
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Not that VI is great gourmet food or anything, but here's how they did it there:
Bread French Toast batter sliced turkey sliced ham swiss cheese mayo strawberry sauce (the same stuff the used on the waffles)
Dip the bread in the batter. Cook one side. Flip over one piece and assemble sandwich as follows: slather on mayo, put down turkey, swiss cheese and then ham and more mayo. Flip over other piece of french toast cooked side down on top of mayo. Once bottom piece of french toast is done, flip over whole sandwich to cook final side. Cut into quarters, poke with toothpicks, sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve with the strawberry sauce and a mess of greasy fries.
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Whoa, whoa, wait just a minute. Monte Cristo does not have turkey!! What the-- The Monte Carlo is the one with turkey and the Monte Cristo has ham!! Am I in the dark here??? When you have both, that's like a Club or something... Am I right, or am I right?
"Although Wendy's doesn't have the best fries..." EXCUSE ME?!?!
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"Although Wendy's doesn't have the best fries..." EXCUSE ME?!?!
I'm not really a fan of fast-food fries. My favorite right now are the eegee's fries dipped in ranch. In 'n Out has decent fries as well. I prefer Sonic's tots to most places fries. I'm just glad I can get the mandarin oranges at Wendy's now! mmm....
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Like, who goes to fast food for fruit?? Not me, girl. I have mandarins at home. It's the greasy fries and jr. bacon cheeseburger for 99 cents that blows my skirt up. No, wait... that's the chili.
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Like, who goes to fast food for fruit?? Not me, girl. I have mandarins at home. It's the greasy fries and jr. bacon cheeseburger for 99 cents that blows my skirt up. No, wait... that's the chili.
With a free severed finger in every bowl! BTW, I specifically went out and bought Wendy's chili after that story came out. Not because I was hoping for a severed finger, but because I wanted to show support for Wendy's
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Whoa, whoa, wait just a minute. Monte Cristo does not have turkey!! What the-- The Monte Carlo is the one with turkey and the Monte Cristo has ham!! Am I in the dark here??? When you have both, that's like a Club or something... Am I right, or am I right?
"Although Wendy's doesn't have the best fries..." EXCUSE ME?!?!
I've had it both with just ham and with ham and turkey. I also prefer a blackberry, boysenberry, or raspeberry jam. The best Monte Cristos are deep fried with the egg batter. Makes a nice tempura like shell. HMmmmmmmmmm!
Like, who goes to fast food for fruit?? Not me, girl. I have mandarins at home. It's the greasy fries and jr. bacon cheeseburger for 99 cents that blows my skirt up. No, wait... that's the chili.
With a free severed finger in every bowl! BTW, I specifically went out and bought Wendy's chili after that story came out. Not because I was hoping for a severed finger, but because I wanted to show support for Wendy's
And here we thought it was to show support for coco by letting it blow your skirt up too!
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
I enjoy eating Cheese Nips and chocolate pudding tandem, but not mixed together.
Monte Cristo sandwiches are so yummy. I've never had them with any kind of jam, though. Just dusted with powdered sugar. Mmmm!
I tend to like anything that mixes sweet and hot, or sweet and sour, or sweet and salty, or sweet and bitter. Dyany once got this raspberry chipotle sauce at Costco that I thought was killer (on a cracker with cream cheese. Divine!). I think I was the only one that was really crazy about it, though.
I wonder if they still have that stuff?
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I actually love going to Wendy's because of the Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger. Last I checked it was up to $1.29 again though. It fluxuates and when it's $.99 is the best. I guess I'm just a picky potato eater...
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