What's something you enjoy eating that other people think is super weird?
I don't think I've made a post on here about food, so here goes! 😃
I'll go first...I just love eating uncooked pasta. It has such a satisfying crunch and the tomato pasta and wholewheat pasta are my faves! This has been a habit that I've had ever since I've had teeth and people are always surprised that I haven't damaged my teeth doing this. I enjoy pasta cooked too!
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uncooked pasta, uncooked noodles, flour, sugar, whole apple (with seeds and that wood thingy on apple), nails (not eat but chew and spit out), coffee beans. There might be more but can't think of right now.
Raw flour is not recommended for direct consumption because it can actually carry foodborne illnesses. I suppose you could “cook” it in the oven with no other ingredients to have a similar experience but killing any potential pathogens.
But it tastes good :3
Yes, but cooking it at low heat can add a nice nutty flavor to it!
It really does. I'm one of those who like cookie dough more than actual cookies, especially when it comes to chocolate chip. Leave out eggs, add like a tablespoon more butter, and toast the flour beforehand, and you wind up with a truly excellent edible cookie dough. In my book, the nuttiness of the flour is makes it even better than regular dough.
I think it's possible to pasteurize eggs to make them safe to eat like they do with eggnog. Don't quote me on that, though.
Also make sure to brown the butter if you want an even richer, nuttier flavor.
For sure it's possible. Like you said, they do it for eggnog. I used to work for an ice cream company and we'd do it by thoroughly whisking them and then slooooowly stirring them into a hot mix of cream and sugar and whatnot. Not totally sure how you'd do it for this but I'm sure there's a way; maybe if you're getting the butter hot you could use that? But also not sure what benefit eggs would impart here. Maybe an extremely subtle flavor but as far as I can tell their purpose in cookies is their structure, which isn't all that relevant for an edible dough.
Browning the butter is an interesting idea, I might try that. I worry it could reduce the moisture content though; the reason I add extra is to make up for the lack of moisture from eggs and there's already so much, I wouldn't want to add even more butter or oil lol. Maybe I could straight up add water but then I usually freeze it and idk if that would be a problem long term
I wouldn't recommend adding too much non-fatty liquids in a cookie dough if any, as that will result in gluten formation. For cookies, oil should be the sole source of moisture (or in the case of butter, mainly oil). Eggs don't really have the same effect as water-based liquids.
I've made cookies many times with vegetable oil instead of butter, and it works out very well.
My grocery store sells whole pasteurized eggs in the egg section. It's only one brand but neat that's even an option.
I can relate, eating the whole apple is so efficient, even the wood thingy.
Nice! Do you have any particular favourite noodles or pasta shapes to eat?
No
Please elaborate
If they meant nails like fingernails I'm completely lost. But I used to with regular nails for the metal taste. I almost died as a kid because I used to suck on small nails and screws. Surprisingly that's not what stopped me from sucking on them. It was because i unconsciously bit down one once and that shit hurt. Used to do coins too but when I found out what germs were and how many germs are on money I stopped immediately.
That is definitely why I asked 😅thanks!!
That sounds a lot like you were dealing with iron deficiency.
I cut my nails and chew it and spit it out later
Thank you! 🔨
This is uncalled for, to say the least. The very idea of someone chewing on (clipped) nails was problematic enough
Same for the apple! I also eat pears that way.
I'm the opposite, love overmicrowaves spaghetti, mac n cheese, noodles, etc.
Not me, but an ex-girlfriend. She would fill a bowl with potato chips (crisps to you Brits) and then pour ketchup all over and eat it like a bowl of cereal with a spoon.
This is why she's an ex right
That and she couldn't keep her mouth off another guy's dick.
But mostly the chips thing, right?
Look, there are some things I can overlook in a relationship.
But eating a bag of lays with half a bottle of heinz ketchup poured on it? WITH A SPOON? 🤮
Honestly doesn’t sound like a good time, don’t think the ketchup would be enough to save his dick from the chips in her mouth.
If I could upvote this 50 times...
Kinda similar, I’ll finish off the shrapnel from a bag of corn chips with a spoonful or two of salsa in the salsa bowl. Spicy cereal, I guess?
This wins so far.
Home made potato chips and ketchup are a really good combination. I've tried it with different brands, styles, and flavors of store bought chips and it's okay-ish when I'm in the mood. I've never tried to eat them like a bowl of cereal, though.
Fine, you’re only half crazy.
I like dipping meat sticks, preferably Peperami (brand here), into fruit flavoured yoghurt sometimes.
Upvote because I cannot process this.
If you were to cut a hole in your skull and press your finger into your brain in just the right spot, you can probably convince yourself this is just a really creative take on meat, cheese, and fruit charcuterie....
Ill take your word for it
It makes the meat taste a bit fruity with a milky note to it. It's basically a poor man's milk steak.
The fruity flavor is like a side of the finest jelly beans.
Jail!
Milk mixed with orange juice looks terrible but tastes like an orange creamsicle.
That's a very popular drink here in the Dominican Republic, probably in Puerto Rico and Cuba too, you have to know the trick so the milk and orange juice mix well tho. It's called "morir soñando" (which means "to die dreaming" in Spanish) look it up if you feel like to.
What’s the trick?
I honestly don't know since I've never done it myself, would have to ask my mom or something.
Ask her
Not OP, but I was curious about it, so I watched a video tutorial (in Spanish).
Basically, you prepare a mixture of evaporated milk, condensed milk and regular milk with some ice and vanilla extract, and in another bowl just orange juice with ice.
The secret is that both liquids need to be cold so they get mixed properly. She didn’t mention what temperature was necessary, just that 20 minutes in the cold did the trick.
Yeah dude, ask her.
Yeah, it's pretty good, especially in the summer time.
On topic for the thread, the way I make it has pretty much always gotten a "WTF are you trying to feed me?" look from Dominicans. Okay, more of an "Ay dios mío, este muchacho" eye roll and a "¿Qué es este menjunje que tu tá inventando allí?" from them, if I'm being honest. For the ones I've gotten to actually try it, though, they all agree it's pretty good.
I have the usual mix of milk and orange juice, add in some sweetened, condensed milk, vanilla extract, and then I add jam/preserves instead of just sugar. I'm partial to cherry preserves, but if chinola jam were a thing I could get here, I'd probably just stick with that. Toss it in a blender with some flaked ice, and 30 seconds later, you're that much closer to developing diabetes. Depending on the sort of night I'm having, I might toss in some spiced rum, too.
Damn, that sounds awesome. I'm gonna have to try that.
How does this not curdle?
It does slightly, but way less than one would think.
It does a little, so stir vigorously to break up clumps.
Holy shit... This comment is my least favorite comment
Add a little vanilla, and yeah, that's a Creamsicle!
Or, blend frozen OJ, milk, ice, and a bit of vanilla extract and you've basically got an Orange Julius. (Do those places still even exist....?)
Top tip: add in some powdered sugar. In addition to adding some sweetness, powdered sugar has cornstarch in it which will act as a thickener making for a more unctuous mouthfeel
Mother of the groom gave an impromptu speech at the reception about how her son is like milk and orange juice. It was as meandering as it was long.
My wife's dad held a 15 minute speech about South American partisans and guerillas at my wedding. No one knew what he was trying to say, and my wife's bridesmaid pulled him from the stage before he was finished.
Is he from South America?
No, he's German and has never been to South America.
The groom looked like chunky vomit?
Quite the opposite, but maybe his mom feels like she just drank milk and orange juice when she sees her son? I suppose we'll never know for sure.
That's just an orange julius
Tinned fish on toast — mackerel or sardines. Criminally underrated dish
Fully agree, ideally sardines in oil or mackerel in tomato sauce with peas (not sure the latter is a thing outside of northern Europe?).
Toast needs a health layer of butter to keep the sauce from mushing it up as well.
Mackerel in tomato sauce is my go to snack. I just eat it with a fork straight from the tin
gasp that's a wonderful idea! I should try that.
Actually that sounds awesome.
Can't go wrong with spiced Nuri's
I'd like to try that on a crunchy baguette.
But that's not weird at all!
This is very much a regional food around here, but if you’re not from here, with previous generations from here, it will seem like a strange food: the banana sandwich. This is peanut butter, banana, and mayonnaise (Duke’s Mayonnaise for any proper Southerner). People are generally on board until you mention the mayonnaise. I get that it sounds weird but is actually really good.
I hear it called a Southern thing but don’t know if it’s just a North Carolina thing or extends farther across the South. It is definitely a thing, though. I remember years ago one of the larger news outlets posted a question on their Facebook page, asking if people sliced their banana into planks or circles for their sandwiches and it got hundreds of comments in response with people arguing for one option or the other. I’ve always been a circle person myself. I can see a theoretical appeal for planks in having less open space but am so used to circles that I’ve never quite figured out the logistics of cutting straight planks out of a curved banana.
You lost me at Mayonnaise. But just peanut butter and bananas is amazing.
That’s where we always lose people. It’s actually good! It works!
You know what I'm going to take a chance on it, I'll report back later.
It's been 11 hours, guess they're dead.
I was out of Bananas until now. BUT its not for me, its also not gross like i get why its liked.
After trying it, I get why its liked, but its not for me not gross, so if i wad randomly offered one i would eat it still.
It won’t be anytime soon, but I promise to try this. And if I remember maybe I’ll update.
I’m impressed at your willingness to try; almost no one does. I hope you like it!
Does Duke's mayonnaise taste of mustard or is it bland fluffy oil like other American mayonnaises?
No mustard... Just regular bland fluffy oily stuff. But different brands of mayo are weirdly different, and some have cult followings.
Peanutbutter sandwiches with spicy, vinegar-based condiments instead of sweet ones. Mustard, cilantro chutney, peperoncini, that kind of thing. It's fantastic.
I can see that. I like pb and cheese and I think some banana peppers would kick it up a notch
Pb+cheese??? Wtf?
Yeah dude my favorite is a slice of sharp cheddar but swiss or provolone also work for a more subtle flavor profile
As a lifelong practitioner of all things peanut butter, I guess I will try it! What's the ideal ratio, 1:1?
I just do a normal pb sandwich amount of pb and then slap a slice of your cheese of choice!
I can kind of see it.
That one actually looks ok :o
What's cilantro chutney? I'm picturing some cilantro leaves flavoured relish.
I'll try with a mix of hoisin sauce and vinegar. With some cilantro leaves and crushed peanuts.
One of my fav sweet toasts is jam + extra hot sriracha. Have you tried it?
It's a South Asian condiment, usually paired with tamarind sauce. It's a bright green paste and fairly spicy.
Ok, tonight I'm making this with some pakoras.
drools
One that I like is toasted peanut butter sandwiches with an onion slice in the middle. And dipped in tomato soup is so delicious.
I've heard this before, but have yet to try it!
Dry sandwiches. I don't like most condiments on anything that I eat cuz I think it ruins the flavor. Most condiments are overpowering and just make food taste like condiments. Don't put them on anything. Not hotdogs, burgers, or sandwiches. The only exception I make is hot sauce.
I stopped eating condiments because in high school one of my classmates stopped as well (based on his nutricionist recommendation). He was a bit on the chubby side and he was looking great by the end of the year.
That and I have no clue WTF is on margerine, mayo, etc. I rarely eat ketchup and mustard but recently fell in love with 'Schiracha'.
There's a huge variety in condiments.
Mayo is egg, vinegar, and oil.
Fats (oil) are super complicated. Some are very bad for you like canola oil (but they're also cheap) while some are very good for you like olive oil (EVOO) (but it's very expensive).
Some Mayo varieties will have these three ingredients and an emulsifier to help it stay nice on the shelf.
Others will have heaps of sugar and bullshit flavours.
The difference in nutritional value is huge.
I take it easy on all of them. Spices though... gimme some!
Two slices of toast, one with butter one with grape jelly. Slice a boiled egg, put the egg slices on the toast, give it a little bit of salt, complete assembly and boom, my breakfast egg sandwich.
It's really good and I don't understand why people are so weirded out by it. Eating a boiled egg and some toast with butter and jelly is fine for breakfast, but! Put them together as a sandwich and now I'm the weirdo.
I give my kiwis a good rinse and sorta "scrub" their skin (is it called a peel on kiwis?)with my palms before I bite into them skin and all like am apple. I have had more than one person audibly gasp and ask me what the hell I'm doing when they see me eating kiwis that way.
The spoon and digging as a kid was fun, but as an adult the time lost to cutting and spooning kiwi flesh from its skin just isn't worth it. And if a kiwi is properly ripe anyway the bitter skin actually contrasts the sweet fleshy insides quite nicely.
This is the objectively correct way to eat kiwis whether society is ready or not.
I am ready. You are ready. I think it's time. We now eat kiwis with the
skinpeel still on.I just rinse them off and eat them whole.
Cannibalism?! Oh my god why the heck would you treat New Zealanders that way?!
It's only cannibalism if you're from New Zealand.
The skin on kiwis is high in oxalates, so if you are prone to kidney stones, be careful.
Well now I'm terrified. Am I about to be pissing gravel?
Sorry to scare you. I'm not by any means a doctor, but from what I understand it tends to be an issue more with people who are already predisposed. So it's probably not something most people have to be too concerned about.
Unfortunately you put the idea in my mind so now I'll never be able to enjoy a kiwi again lol.
I am petrified of kidney stones. It's why I stopped drinking energy drinks almost entirely. Every time I drink one I am reminded of my doctor telling me that those drinks are dangerous to drink often and part of that is the significant increased chances for kidney stones.
I appreciate you letting me know though. Better to have knowledge and have it changed your habits vs being blissfully unaware all the time. Though being blissfully unaware does seem awful tempting these days...
Oxalates and oxalic acid are common in a lot of different foods. Anything that has the little tart taste like arugula generally contains it. So its in a large number of fruits and vegetables a lot of which are delicious. As long as you are drinking liquids on a regular basis and aren't eating something like Yellow Wood Sorrel daily which is super high in oxalic acid you will be fine.
Oh no not the yellow wood worrel! My favorite late night snack!
Jk. Thanks for the additional context. Yeah I did a little more research on the stuff and I am less worried now lol. I drink a lot of water every day and I only have things like kiwis on random occasions. Never a consistent thing.
I've been doing some native / foraged foods and they always have disclaimers about plants high in oxalates might cause kidney stones. They wild grown foods typically contain 10 to 100 times more concentrated vitamins, minerals and other both helpful and unhelpful components per ounce than traditional vegetables.
The real issue isn't the kidney stones but that oxlatic acid is an anti-nutrient that stops the body from absorbing calcium. But there is not issue unless you eat in large quantities daily. It grows in my yard as a weed so I like to eat some of it while I am weeding. Its delicious and besides its anti-nutrient effect on calcium pretty healthy for you.
It’s a peel
By the way, if you run a knife down the peel and cut into it around the kiwi and then again at a 90° angle, you can just peel the skin off. Very easy.
But the skin is nutritious!
Not very appetizing though.
It doesn’t bother me on a peach 🤷
It tastes good on a peach
Some of us think it tastes good on a kiwi, too. Probably an acquired taste.
Yeah but all that work just for me to lose out on nutrients. I'll just watch the thing whole.
Just a big chunk of brie cheese, something I'm currently eating now.
Black licorice.
Balut
Just kidding, don't Google that
Couple weeks ago my friend brought a balut into a bar and did a balut bomb (cracking it into a pint of beer and chugging/swallowing it)
We all almost puked
Slight cartilaginous crunch?
I'm picturing something like eating the bones at the end of poultry wings. It sounds eatable.
I want some roast flavoured eggs now :c
This is something I'd try if I had the occasion.
Ass.
At this point eating ass is just sexual currency in today's dating culture.
I personally beg to differ
My partner and I are not gooners but we’ll eat each other’s ass any day. I would never eat my own ass, but I’ll still kiss them immediately after.
Stuff is weird.
oh but I caaaaan
It’s amazing BECAUSE it’s dirty
but when we do stuff like that, we’re also ON ecstasy so there’s that
Mustard with Poutine. That stuff is amazing
Mine is an 'everything' poutine ... it depends on who makes it and where you get it .. but up in some northern Ontario towns and highway places its usually a base of fries topped with fried onions, fried peppers, corn, peas, cooked diced carrots, hot peppers, jalapenos, ground beef, bacon bits, ground sausage, fried steak strips, pulled pork, two or three types of cheese and cheese curd smoothered with lots of hot gravy. If the place is good and generous, they layer it by placing a few fries, then the toppings ... the repeating it one or two more times.
I'm sorry...mustard with poutine, or poutine with mustard.
The way it's written it looks like mustard in the main item and you add a bit of poutine to it.
One of the mustard plants is actually a close relative of the broccoli/cabbage/cauliflower/the rest of that set, and it gets used as a vegetable (as opposed to just the seeds being made into a condiment) in a fair few places
...I don't think that's actually what they meant, but it's possible!
That actually sounds pretty good!
There is a cheese in my country- olomoucké tvarůžky, which is in itself acquired taste.
But I made "Loštický zázrak" which is this cheese pickled in beer, as a homebrewer I used half fermented beer. So smelly cheese fermented with beer.
You can smell this concoction in whole house when the jar was opened, but the taste was amazing.
Reminds me of Spanish 'Manchego' cheese. It's a semi hard gourmet cheese in most commercial places and it has a slight strong flavour. During a holiday once in the south of Spain, we went searching for authentic Manchego cheese in the Sierra mountains of Andalusia. The cheese we found was a very strongly flavoured hard cheese that was the consistency and taste of hot weathered plastic. Strangely enough, combined with strong Spanish onion slices and it was delicious .... and then mixing it again with strong Chorizo sausage, specifically the ones they make in the mountains which taste like well worn and sweated gym socks and it was a whole other thing to get accustomed to.
Manchego is delicious, but it doesn't usually have a plasticky texture. That one must have been aged for a really long time.
This was high up in the mountains of the Sierra Nevadas ... a mountain road that took us all the way to the highest village where they cured the best cured ham in the region. The ham was great but it was so well cured and dry that you could have used them as wedges for woodworking, the same for the cheese, it was hard like a plastic scrapper for auto body work. It might have something to do with the altitude, humidity and temperature because all the cheese we ever saw down at sea level were hard but not that hard.
Hello, I'm here to die on the hill that pineapple is a perfectly valid ingredient to put on a pizza, and would like to argue that any ingredient is valid to put on a pizza.
Americans just don't realize how sheltered their definition of pizza is. There are people out there committing food crimes you can't even imagine.
I've never met anyone IRL who understands how good a peanutbutter and nutella sandwich is.
this is an interesting answer to me.
I'm literally the only person in my life. I know who doesn't like peanut butter and Nutella mixed together, but everybody I know loves the combination.
I could see that working. I never liked PB&J due to texture issues, but always liked the idea of sweet + salty/savory.
it's awesome.
I call it "snickers sandwich"
Really? You can buy a mix of nutella and peanut butter here in one jar (not mixed through but in the same jar like the colors of toothpaste)
That sandwich goes hard. Sometimes I add marshmallow creme for a fancy fluffernutter.
It never occurred to me to create a peanut butter and Nutella sandwich, but now that I think about it, it sounds really good!
I’ve never tried it but you won’t have to convince me!
Beetroot juice and beetroot based dishes, pikled lemons and other citrus fruits, sweet meat.
I like to experiment with food in general, try some old recipes like before american vegetables old.
Beetroot is great when winter comes round. It fits so well in those hearty roasted dishes
What do you think of Max Miller's youtube channel?
I have somewhat mixed opinions on Max Miller; his acting is a bit over the top, and history fragments sometimes have weird details that he had misunderstood during research or misread. I would have liked his videos a lot more if he actually talked about the history of the recipe more and not something tangentially related to it. In general he is ok. 🙃
That makes sense. Not something to be taken too seriously, but a bit of fun engagement with the past in a space where it's not hurting anyone if the details are wonky
I’ve had lemon rind stuffed olives and kinda blew my mind
For a second I read that as sweetbread. That is a very VERY different thing.
I only know sweetbread from Dwarf Fortress, and still have no idea why it's called that.
Edit: And sweetened bread can be called sweetmeat, WTF?
I learned only relatively recently that borsch (which I love for the beets) was originally made without beets. I still haven't found a recipe I like and we don't get sorrel here.
You can grow sorrel at home, if you really like it.
Histrically borshch probably was a name for anything that was more or less drinkable and non-alcoholic, there were no original recipe, like there is no original recipe for other common dishes, they were just made with whatever was available and whatever people ate at the time. AFAIK there are similar dishes in countries that were part of lithuanian commonwelth, which were based on different kinds of kvass as well.
Personally I really dislike kvass based borshch, like it's vile. 😄
Frozen gummi bears.
Salt and Vinegar Chips
cum
PB&H.
Peanut butter and honey instead of jelly.
This one might be a little different.
I eat only once a day, but it's a big one, right before bed.
When I order takeout from... say my favorite burger place in town, usually a double cheeseburger, I ask that they apply no mayo, mustard nor ketchup, as I will reheat it all on the air fryer/toaster oven then apply condiments, don't want the bread to be getting soggy for hours before dinner.
I also tell them to put the lettuce, tomato, onion and pickles on the side, for the same reason. I bring my own reusable containers for the separate things, to create no plastic/styrofoam waste. That includes tiny ones for the dressing and for the runny cheese for the fries.
Which reminds me of the fries - back home, hours later, I will refry them for a minute or two, they come out almost as good as new.
But this all being home, I can also play around with the burger. Such as stuffing it with a full onion, thinly sliced and caramelized on low heat with olive oil, pepper and a dash of Lawry's seasoned salt. Maybe also sliced mushrooms sautéed in butter. I'll also add a few extra slices of yellow heirloom tomato.
One last thing: while the onions are caramelizing on the toaster oven, I'll also put another tray with a handful of asparagus in olive oil, pepper and garlic salt.
Like a friend described it, I like tuning the burger!
As in "car tuning", custom burger mods.
How the hell you gonna work like that and not just cook your own patty?!
Yea at that point just cook it yourself lol
This was an excellent read. Thank you.
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And the more people hate it, the better for those who love it cause it keeps the quality up and costs lower.
Personally, I don't think this is all that weird, but I like cold leftovers. My preferred breakfasts are things like cold pizza, cold mac and cheese, cold mashed potatoes, etc.
For some reason, my friends and family think it's gross and they always say things like "I don't know how you can eat that cold."
Peanut butter and hot dogs
You can't just stop there and not elaborate. Do you put the hot dog in a bun then spread just peanut butter on it and nothing else?!?!?!!
Dipping the sausage directly in the jar, it's low carb ಠ_ಠ
Bun, peanut butter then hotdog in the middle. My delectable warcrime of a meal
Based on the comments in this thread I guess I need to try more peanut butter combos 🤷♂️
Like... Together? In the same dish?!
Yes
This truly is the darkest timeline.
PB&J with mint jelly. For some reason people find the mint really weird
I'll eat almost anything so there are plenty of examples but I'll pick one of my favorites: chicken hearts. They're tasty and have a satisfying springiness to them! Organ meats in general get unfairly hated upon, I feel.
Boiled peanuts!
Now that's the first time I've ever heard about eating peanuts boiled!
Yes, they are super tasty! My parents grew up in the state of Georgia. But I moved to California as an adult and no one here has even heard of them. I get strange looks when I make them (homemade is best!) but I force people to try them and I've never had a single person or walk away impressed.
I've had them in Nigeria where you basically just boil them peeled in salt water and then mix into freshly boiled rice and eat it with some type of beef stew as a main course, and in China where you boil them with their shell in a mixture of water with black tea leaves, dried chillies, Sichuan peppers and salt, then let them cool down and eat as a snack.
Now you probably mean this in the American way, but omfg boiled masala peanut salad???? I could eat that shit for days and never get sick of it
I do mean it in an American way but also boiled peanuts masala salad sounds right the fuck up my alley.
If you ever get the chance, do try it. It's an incredibly refreshing and pleasant dish
Super common in Vietnam. And from I’ve learned from Stephen Colbert also common in the south.
Oh how I love boiled peanuts. I eat the shells too.
The tip of the fried chicken wing alongside with the bone. So crunchy.
Not me but on The German cannabis community (C/[email protected]) we recently had a post of someone eating yogurette (chocolate with fruits) with mustard while being high. It also included a rating of different mustard variations and how well they work for this.
I have 2.
Peanut butter and pickle sandwiches. Best served on the lowest tier white bread you can find.
The second is onion rings and maple syrup. I wish someone would do maple battered onion rings because those would definitely be delicious.
Maple onion rings sounds good
Back when Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan had their podcast they would always do a segment where they’d try different foods and had a guest on who’s favorite thing was peanut butter and pickle sandwiches (forget who the guest was). Gotta admit it made me curious because they both liked it too but I wanna know the specific brand of pickles, peanut butter, and bread to get to have the proper experience.
My favourite PB and P sandwiches are built on the junkiest white bread you can find. I'm in Canada, so my top picks are Pom or Betty bread, which are cakey and sweet like Wonder bread. I use unsweetened chunky peanut butter (Kraft brand), and Bick's garlic dill pickles. I slice my pickles up and blot them so they don't sog up my trash bread.
These are my favourite brands of peanut butter and pickles outside this monstrosity, so I'd say you can't go wrong with what you already like.
Uncooked potatoes. Always gets me weird looks.
Because that's not weird; it's unsafe. Most people will get an upset stomach from eating more than a small amount of raw potato and if you eat a large amount, you could get solanine poisoning.
Yes yes, I know. I don't eat kilos of the things, just a few pieces of while I'm cleaning them.
There was some news story i saw a long time ago where a crazy christian married couple were still virgins and the guy said every time he gets hot and bothered he just bites into a raw potato. Then shows him doing it. I laughed my ass off
That sounds like the plot of a sitcom.
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Tell people it’s an heirloom apple variety called “de Terre”.
I really enjoy creamy chicken pot pie with white vinegar on top. I also enjoy sauerkraut on my tuna melts...
I like acid.
Fresh sauerkraut on a tuna melt sounds amazing. I will definitely be trying this.
i put Kimchi on my tuna melts lol. The acid really helps
Sauerkraut acidhead... sounds like any of the members of Can, Amon Düül or Neu!
I too like to hallucinate.
I've been making my own infused apple cider vinegar over the last year or so. I have been using it for cooking and making my own Shrubs (vinegar based drinks). I have been loving vinegar recently and pickling vegetables as well. Delicious all the ways
Not super weird but I usually get looks from others when I bust out a tub of cottage cheese as a dip for my chips. Spruced up version; Cottage cheese, chopped pickles, (Cholula chili garlic)hot sauce and a small dap of sesame oil is like the perfect ruffles dip.
I used to hate cottage cheese which I think was because people used to eat it within a cantaloupe as a diet food when I was younger. But had it recently and it is amazing. I was eating it with pepper but something spicy and vinegary would be great
I definitely prefer adding savory things to cottage cheese, not sweets. Some of my most frequent additions are salsa, everything bagel seasoning (preferably without salt), or red pepper flakes & garlic powder. Oh! Fresh green onions are also good. Also, full fat cottage cheese is way better than the lower fat versions, and I definitely prefer some brands over others.
I enjoy a tart apple with a sharp cheddar but in general cheese and sweet doesn't always mix. I am going to have to try fresh green onions when my garden is up and running since I have garlic chives running wild.
Also what kind of monster eats low fat cheese? Cheese is just milk fats and milk proteins. Why would you remove half of that? Its the kind of terrible diet food that just tastes awful and seems like a punishment. I would never
Pretty much everything. My partner thinks it's weird that I like to eat...
Pepperocinis, Baby corn, Pickled ginger, Any kind of olives (green, black, kalmata, oil-cured...), Cheese hotdogs, Hot sauce on soup, Hearts of Palm, Cincinnati-style chili,
I guess the curse of my German/Swedish heritage is, if you soak anything in brine and vinegar long enough, I'll probably eat it.
Soylent original.
it's so plain. I love it. I could switch to it almost entirely. I could get fat on it.
I like drinking diet tonic water straight. As far as I know, it's not generally-consumed as a drink, just used as a mixer. More sour than most sodas.
I don't know if it's super weird, but I don't believe that it's the primary intent for the thing.
I don't know where you're from but in my country drinking tonic is kinda popular, the Schweppes brand is seen as the coca cola of tonic (obviously not as a common soda as coke or even Fanta).
In the US. I've never seen it served as a drink or in a soda machine, and most carbonated drinks, aside from birch beer, are sweeter.
Bacon and cream cheese sandwich on white bread.
It's the second greatest sandwich ever.
Black olives from the can
White cheddar macaroni and steamed green peas mixed together, particularly with fish sticks
You had me in the first half lol
Moncton represent?
I do this with tuna instead of fish sticks and it’s pretty solid
Frozen corn, by the handful..
Somehow the fact that it's frozen takes me from negative to neutral on unprocessed corn.
I eat chicken wings with the bones. The whole thing. And I love picking at the meat that is on the bone!
Give me a pork chop, T-bone steak, chicken thigh and I’ll gnaw at that bone like I’m a fully grown dog. Granted I don’t do it in public, but I feel like leaving meat in the bone is a waste and it’s sometimes tastier!
I haven't had this since I was a kid, but I used to take two pieces of toast, put Nutella on one slice, and margarine and Vegemite on the other… and then sandwich them together and chow down. Sweet and savory and umami all at the same time. Don't know if I would do that these days, though.
Not incredibly weird but mist people are surprised when I eat multiple breakfast cereals together, like a salad, rather than just one. I like Wheatabix with shredded wheats, raisin wheats and fruit and fibre often. I do usually have it with almond milk though, rather than plain, so not too weird.
Mmmm hmm.
Shrimp heads and and fish heads, but only non-Asian people think it's weird (I'm not Asian myself--I just eat a lot of Asian foods).
Marmite.
I love natto. Which isn't that weird IMO, but people sure seem to think it is.
Even when I lived in Japan for a little bit, people there would be like "a GAIJIN that likes NATTO!?" Sure, it's stinky, but yum.
Sea urchin, lobster roe.
Peanut butter or yellow mustard are viable pretzel/chip dips
Anchovies on pizza, I wouldn't say that I love it but sometimes I get strong cravings for that salty little fish on my pizza.
Apple pieces with three to four tabasco drops on each of them.
God I'm addicted to this.
Lasagnchiladas.
Layer of lasagna, layer of enchilada, keep stacking until baking dish is full.
It's a bit more work since you're making two whole dishes but it's the one thing that such from Epic Mealtime inspired experiments.
Peanut butter and sweet pickle sandwiches...
Peanut butter, deli Turkey, and vanilla yogurt...
Chili and a peanut butter sandwich...
I like peanut butter.
Mustard on lasagna. Not even fancy mustard, just the yellow deli stuff.
It's been a staple in our family for about 10 years after my sister tried it as a joke
probably heart for me these days.
it's my favorite cut of meat, and everybody agrees if I cook it for them, but until they try it I always get weird. looks or blank stares and confused questions.
How do you cook it? I've never tried heart but I've been curious to do so.
every way, haha.
a few of my favorites are:
i bought a counter deli meat slicer just for jerky after I made so much, and it was totally worth it.
heart meat is very flavorful but doesn't have any fat running through it, so it's really easy to get a lot of good, flavorful slices for jerky, because you can't really jerky fat, or rather the drying process for fat isn't worth it to me.
Hot pot, ~1 mm slices(deli meat slicer), Just a big old plate piled high with slices of heart, throw a quarter or half block of Hot pot base into a rice cooker, get your other dishes, once The hot pot is simmering, enjoy.
stir fry: cut as thin or thick as you like. I really like the flavor of the meat itself with heart, so I will slice pretty thick, ~6mm, Chuck it in a pan with some onions for a couple minutes, Cook to your liking with some beef tallow/oil, and then at the end throw in the flavoring and shut off the heat and mix it in. I've taken to pre melting a 1x1 in block of hot pot base and pouring that on right at the end mixing it onto the stir fry.
this type of hot pot base, the brand isnt too important as long as it looks similar to this:
Your foods are totally up my alley. I make my own jerky as well and even have a dehydrator, so I will definitely give that a try. And I'm having that style of hot pot for dinner in a couple of hours! Sadly, I don't have a heart on hand, but maybe next time.
perfect. definitely give it a try, it's it's such a great cut of meat, very deep flavor, satisfying texture while still being easy to bite through, and super versatile.
Chicken or beef hearts?
both, I haven't had a heart I don't like. I started eating barbecued chicken hearts first, and then I realized they sold pork and beef hearts in the supermarkets so I started buying those and those are such good cuts of meat for stir frying or Hot pot or whatever, such a stronger flavor and perfect texture for me since I like lean meat, so yeah if I see a heart, I'm eating it.
Do you have a way of cooking them so they aren't too chewy, or is that the texture you like?
I always found chicken hearts to be a bit chewy, but they were probably overcooked.
Edit: never mind, didn't scroll down far enough.
Chicken hearts in particular are usually cut with the fat left on them and it's a pain to remove because they're so small, but pork or beef hearts are really easy to cut the fat away and then you just have firm, lean flavorful meat.
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I don't have them as much, but peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches are great. Add some cheese (non-cheddar for me, thank you) slices and I've got a good sandwich.
I also am the type of person to make tortilla "wraps" with just ketchup or ranch and nothing else. Real middle of the night or there's nothing else good to eat type food for me.
Cannot say I'm a fan of uncooked pasta, though, but slightly undercooked pasta is pretty good.
Peanut butter and sweet onion (Walla Walla onions where I live) sandwiches. I prefer them on a plain bagel.
I agree!! Crunchy uncooked spaghetti or lasagne sheet is a forbidden treat! I do rather enjoy it despite it being "horrifying"
My other nomination is Cheese and Jam sandwiches (jelly for americans) - a little savoury squish with my sweet is just lovely!
I love dried shrimp. They smell very strong, are quite salty and I think full of cholesterol, but when I start a pack, it's difficult for me to stop eating
I have always gnawed on raw pasta, too. Love it. People always think its weird that I eat the leaves with my strawberries.
I love raw pasta. I like to give it a little nibble. I mostly love raw doughs. Pie and biscuit are my favorite
Ass
Toasted peanut butter and banana sandwiches....with a violent application of Sriracha.
Venison, with kudu being tops. Love the gamey meats, so lamb, goat, elk all get a thumb's up.
Beef is for pleebs!
Biscuits and gravy...
Covered in raw onions, radishes, banana peppers, jalapenos, or any combination of the above. Try it. You'll like it. Just give them a moderate to fine chop first.
Apparently Rally’s/Checker’s fries with honey mustard 🤷♂️ I don’t like those seasoned fries by themselves, but they’re bomb af with honey mustard. But they don’t seem to carry honey mustard anymore at the location closest to me :/
Blue cheese crumbles in ramen or pumpkin soup. Soft blue cheese on a water cracker, topped with a drizzle of spicy honey. Maybe not super weird, but a lot of people just don't like blue cheese to begin with.
Gonna have to try the Cheese,cracker honey combo, that sounds pretty good.
For anyone that doesn't like blue cheese, a brie works nicely too. I've also seen similar concoctions with traditional jams/jellies and pepper (spicy) jams/jellies.
Thickly sliced cucumber + mustard on top <3
Lime pickles. They're delicious, I can't get through a jar on my own but I'll get no help.
I eat kale or broccoli for breakfast, usually with mustard or pepper sauce.
Broccoli for breakfast is so underrated. Broccoli and eggs were my breakfast staple for years.
The last time I had sushi from Wegman's, I had it with ranch dressing. It's good.
Spinach (like the ground, frozen version) is the perfect sauce for pasta, rice and fries.
Grasshoppers
I don't think I eat anything that in and of itself is too weird, but I've gotten side eyed over the volume of breath mints I eat before
Same here with the para, but I enjoy dry instant ramen instead. It's so good!
Durian.
Imho it tastes kinda like a threeway between pineapple, jackfruit, and garlic.
Fermented crab. That lao crab, papaya, and chilli salad is one of my guilty pleasures.
Small fried river fishes. They're eaten whole and a bit crunchy.
Pineapple pizza iff it's extra spicy.
Apparently eating the cartilage on a chicken wing is weird in the USA. Everywhere else I've lived it was pretty par for the course.
Canned sardines on saltines. Dad was poor for awhile, eating straight from the can was passed down.
Hawaii toast with mustard.
It goes toast (preferably whole grain) -> large heap of mustard -> ham -> pineapple -> salt -> gouda
I have only ever heard my mom eating it that way but have since co verted a few people.
Pickles and spaghetti
I've started putting Everything Seasoning on almost everything I eat. I mix it into mayo for sandwiches, throw it on burgers on the grill, sprinkle it on chicken in the pan. Try it.
Orange peels are yummy.
Spaghetti with bread
My entire family eats spaghetti with bread, everyone else finds it weird
I also eat fries with bread, mamaliga with bread, and bread with bread
EDIT: a friend used to intentionally make the strangest sandwiches they could to eat
Leather.
Velveeta cheese and apple casserole.
https://www.literatureandleisure.com/2015/01/recipe-cheesy-apples/
It's so fucking good.
Pork rinds seem to gross out some people.
Vegan meals
Pickled herring and liver pate
Toast or peanut butter sandwich dipped in milk.
Cottage cheese with a little dollop of peanut butter. I'd say for a bowl of cottage cheese, 1-1.5cup or so, about a heaping teaspoon of pb.
So. Friggin. Good.
Blue cheese and kimchi quesadillas.
Strawberries and balsamic vinegar on vanilla ice cream,