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![]() It wasn't until college, when I asked one of the cafeteria staff for sour cream at breakfast time, that I realized other people did not eat sour cream in their oatmeal. Oatmeal with sour cream and salt has been a tried and true breakfast tradition in my family for generations. I once told this to a Russian teacher of mine, she said "Ju are Russian; Russianz put zour cream on evertying." I'm not sure I'm ready to lay blame on the former Soviet Union for my strange eating behaviors, but I will consider that perhaps everyone has some strange eating skeleton in their closet. An eating habit that they thought was completely normal until one day, WHAM, they're getting dirty looks from the guy at the omelet stand. Think of it this way: the idea of mole is sort of weird in theory right? Chocolate sauce on meat? Really? You want me to eat that? But it's good. Chicken and waffles. French fries and mayonnaise. Cheddar cheese and apple pie. Watermelon and salt. Pineapple on pizza. (Okay, I'm going to go ahead and say that fruit on pizza is just plain weird to me, but I'm obviously not one to judge.) There are lots of odd couplings in the food world that we've gotten used to and now accept as normal. I'm asking you to share your not-so-run-of-the-mill food fetishes. This is a judgment-free zone. Your crazy food concoctions are safe and loved here. Plus, I'm always looking for new food porn. 39 CommentsLeave a comment |
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I do the pineapple on pizza, dill pickle slices on pizza, salt on french toast and pancakes (blame my father on that!) popcorn with chocolate chips mixed in, butter and sugar on cheerios (one bowl of plain cheerios, spoonful of margarine, melt in microwave, stir, and sprinkle with sugar) and bananas swirled with honey and chocolate syrup. They are all pretty good, the cheerios can be a little "rich" if you add to much butter.
My father's parents were from the Ukraine, and indeed, we grew up eating sour cream on our oatmeal. Real oatmeal, not instant. Savory, not sweet.
My super favorite sandwich in the world, (beside BLTs), is brisket and potato salad on a kaiser roll. Roast beef can be substituted when absolutely necessary. Somehow, that combination of tastes do it for me every time. They never fail to make me smile.
Ham sandwiches with homemade peach and basil jam!
I grew up in a house whose staple sandwich was toasted bread, peanut butter, a slice of american cheese, and a fried egg. I still remember making the sandwich for breakfast the morning after I slept at a friend's house and seeing her horrified expression. "What? This isn't normal?"
I've gotten weird stares for pouring vinegar on French fries, but I choose to believe that's only because my friends are unenlightened in the ways of boardwalk-style fries.
Also weird: flamin' hot cheetos sprinkled into cottage cheese. Perfect blend of spicy and tame. That, and whipped cream on Carr's wheat crackers. Both of these habits I picked up from a friend.
Not mine, but my ex-husband's, passed on from his mother: Miracle Whip (NOT mayo) schmeered on corn-on-the-cob.
I'm all about the pineapple on pizza: I think it's a West Coast thing, because it's standard on pizza menus all over Oregon and Washington.
I get made fun of at work all the time for mixing low fat cottage cheese and natural peanut butter into my oatmeal. But it's so good! And protein-y and good for you, too.
Mayo (not Miracle Whip) on a hot dog.
Kinda tame, but my then-boyfriend's little brother told me, "That's so gross!" To which I replied, "It's not in my family!"
My mom fed us raw, peeled potatoes as a snack. Love them! I got so many weird looks for that in college. My father's family also eats raw onions as a side dish with supper.
Don't know how my mom let us get away with this, but we used to eat slices of Lebanon bologna (also called sweet bologna or summer sausage) smeared with chunky peanut butter and rolled up. Greasy as hell but really yummy.
Cream cheese with chives was another topping. We also used that for baked potatoes. I didn't realize sour cream was the standard until I was in high school.
Also, I could take or leave pineapple on pizza, but I once had pizza with corn on it and found it really tasty.
A British friend looked at me cross-eyed when I asked for jam on my bagel instead of something savory like egg salad.
Maple syrup on eggs. You know, like when you have eggs and pancakes and some of the syrup just drifts over? I've institutionalized this.
Kraft Mac & Cheese and a can of corn all stirred together. Serious.
I can't really do this anymore and when I did, it was only on special occasions..
Reese's Peanut Butter cups WITH DORITOS!!!!!
Yes, it is a beautiful symphony, much like Wendy's Frosties with their French Fries..
I got a thing for sweet and salty, obviously. If you put Cream Cheese with the Doritos (but NOT with the p.nut butter cups, that would be overkill) it is truly an amazing and wonderful thing!!!
But, yeah, I can't do that anymore and putting white chocolate chips in your rice krispie treats as the marshmallow melts??
AWESOMENESS!!!
Course, I can't do that anymore, yes, I realized I've said this multiple times. Now my absolute (but not wonky) food obsession ATM is Peanut Butter and Apples, Peanut Butter and ANYthing really, but I have to watch it over here..
Sauerkraut and Canadian Bacon on pizza.
Believe it or not, this was actually a popular house special at the midwestern pizza chain I grew up with (Happy Joe's). And when done right, it is out of this world.
This is probably a heart attack waiting to happen - but fritos and ranch dressing. All crunched up and mixed together in a bowl. This is what being raised by a single father will do to a girl. :)
Okay, where do I even start!!! Some of these come from my students and former summer campers, the rest comes from traveling with weirdos.
1)Ranch on doritos -- super yum.
2)Mayo and ketcup and worchestershire sauce (all at the same time or separately) on pizza -- very good (hmmm...and I wonder where those extra 30 pounds magically appeared from!)
3)Yummiest salad in the world - watermelon, feta and basil. Divine! Sweet and tangy goodness.
4)Peanut butter on a Fudgesicle -- yeah honest! You gotta try it! Tastes like a peanut butter cup. Ooooh and Fluffernutter sandwiches! I didn't realize those were just an East Coast thing till I moved to Colorado.
Now I'm craving fluff........big time!
Hee. My dad ate a whole jar of marshmallow fluff on a bet, as a kid...and could never look at another one. BUT he put peanut butter on everything and anything, during his bachelor-father cooking phase. I have had it on hot dogs, and on a tuna melt. Both of which are tasty; the latter is sort of vaguely Thai-like. Very vaguely.
Don't like pineapple on a pizza, but we used to have a cat who loved it. I'd pick mine off and give it to her!
I'm sure I have more that I am forgetting, but:
Angosturo bitters on vanilla ice cream.
Bacon, banana and peanut butter sandwiches.
Fritos and Mayo on Wonder Bread sandwich.
Egg over medium, american cheese, and strawberry jam on fried bread... ah-mazing.
Cooked noodles with ketchup and butter, also ah-mazing.
Cottage cheese and Cheez-its, awkward to eat, but ah-mazing nonetheless.
Raw hamburger. I completely grossed out a college roommate when I walked by her with a bowl of raw hamburger and ketchup! I still love raw-ish meat and was thrilled the first time I went to a nice restaurant that had steak tartare on the menu.
Raw cauliflower topped with peanut butter
Hot dogs dipped in hershey's chocolate sauce.
MMMMMMMMM
Salt on cantaloupe is even better. Throw a little pepper on, too.
Popcorn + chocolate. Eat popcorn and a plain chocolate bar or chocolate chips or those little Dove chocolates. Good stuff, Maynard.
My parents loved maple syrup; my mom used to stir it into peanut butter and dad put it on his cottage cheese. I've tried both and the peanut butter definitely wins that war.
For me, it's salt on watermelon--it's the whole sweet/salty thing. Mmmmmmm....
I have a thing for steak SWIMMING in lime juice.
Same applies for hot-dogs, sausage, grilled chicken, fish, or any meat. Must be swimming in fresh lime juice (and if no one is watching, after I'm done eating the meat, I will LICK the plate to get all that sour yumminess)
Texas Pete on ANYTHING, including but not limited to: eggs, french fries, spaghetti, pizza, mac & cheese, salads, soups, and grilled cheese.
I'm also a huge fan of peanut butter, mayo and banana sandwiches.
When I was kid, my sister and I would microwave cheese, pour of the grease and eat the rest. Yum!
As a kid, ham and butter sandwiches (I'm a vegan now). I cringe to think I was eating fat spread on meat fat, but its GOOD. My mother taught me this. And not even real butter (don't like it) but soft greasy cold margarine. The ham has to be sliced off the haunch, leftover Easter dinner or whatever, this as you like it, then spread the margarine on the top slice, also fairly thick. It's the texture, not the taste, that's so amazing..
And mayo on a hot dog? I don't eat them any other way. Mayo, ketchup and mustard, always.
wow, what an impressive list!
here are mine:
worcestershire and/or A1 sauce on anything...french fries, baked potatoes, vegetables
carrots dipped in mustard
i can eat an entire jar of sauerkraut with mustard mixed in...
salt on grapefruits!
my boyfriend cuts up peices of mexican tamarind candy and squeezes lime over it, then salt...then eats it as a snack, drinks the juice...everything.
i love (this is so gross, i know) Chef Boyardee spaghettios with tabasco sauce :-)
Peanut Butter on pancakes.
Toasted sunflowerseeds in scrambled eggs. Adds some crunch!
I love love love plain pizza with soft-baked chocolate chip cookies on top. People look at me like I'm insane when I eat it -- usually only at parties where both items are available -- but I don't care. They can have their weird food and I'll have mine!
PB&J Omelette
mayonnaise in my mac and cheese (with red pepper too!)
saltine crackers topped with peanut butter... all topped off with a dill pickle slice. yummy.
I LOVE and will only eat hotdogs with mayo. I have heard many times from random people that this is weird/gross. Im happy to see there are so many other fans of this food fetish on this list.(Phew!)
My other unique creation is strawberry yogurt on homemade waffles...yum!
Toast (either white or whole wheat, doesn't matter) with smooth peanut butter and cinnamon thickly sprinkled on top. I haven't had it in ages, but there was a period where I ate it for breakfast everyday without fail.
I saw someone else post about french fries dipped in Wedny's Frosties. Delicious! Works great with Burger Kings milkshakes too. And those restaurant packets of honey. When I was little I'd dip one end in the honey and the other in the ice cream, and thought it was the best thing ever.
My family has always enjoyed ketchup on top of scrambled eggs. At a pancake breakfast held at my old high school some mother came up to my sister and i and asked what was wrong with us because we were adding ketchup on our eggs.
Also enjoyed is fries dipped in cheese or mayo.
Sausage dipped in syrup and eggs mixed with cream cheese and crackers! YUM!
Oh man, peanut butter and syrup on waffles. And not just a little syrup either.
A1 on mac and cheese.
Ketchup and syrup on eggs, sausage, and/or bacon.
Que Homer-Simpson like drool.....
It's probably not so special but I LOVE mayo and curry ketchup on everything.
One of my favorite fast foods is ramen noodles (I cook them until the water is gone), topped with baked onions, curry ketchup, mayo and a fried egg.
I have fond memories of eating as a kid for breakfast peanut butter toast with slices of bacon hot off the griddle on top. Oh, so yummy because the hot bacon kinda melts the peanutbutter...hmmm no wonder I need to lose XX pounds!
Also, peanutbutter sandwiches (NO jelly - just straight pb) on white bread eaten (dipped into) chili con carne...another yum.
Saltines spread with butter (real softened butter), then peanutbutter - try it, its grossly greasy good.
Anybody think it is weird that many of our food fetishes involve peanutbutter?! I should buy stock in Jiffy!!
A non-peanutbutter one is popcorn eaten with Happy Cow cheese. You take a kernal of popcorn and drag it across the wedge of Happy Cow
My favorite breakfast layered bottom to top:
Waffle
Cheddar Cheese
Ham
Fried Egg (salted and peppered)
Mrs. Butterworth's
And comfort food-
Mac and Cheese with applesauce. I put them each in one half of the same bowl and then eat from the center.