Thread: Odd food and drink combinations.

Here's the combo: peanut butter, jelly, ham, cheese, mayo. Technically it is called a Mikewich after my esteemed friend Mike that eats them all the time.

Mrs. Brewman's favorite sandwich:

Peanut butter, mayo, and dill pickle. I won't go near the combo.

Not exactly sure what my own strange combo would be. When I was younger I remember being served butter and sugar sandwiches by my mother. No wonder my I had 6 cavities on my first dental visit.

Remember the movie "The Breakfast Club"?
Ally Sheedy made a sandwich out of Capn' Crunch cereal and dumped a Pixie Stick or two in, and washed it down with a can of Coke.

Surprised that didn't send her into a diabetic coma.

Great Topic, I do not have one but it is good reading. What ever possed each of you to try some of these things?

octopus and sapporo, butter and jelly sandwhich, mac n cheese with chopped up hot dogs ummmm

My dad grew up in the hills of Tennessee in the '30s and had ten siblings. They used to fight over who got to have the squirrel brains scrambled in their eggs. I grew up in the Columbia Basin where squirrels are thankfully in short supply, so I've never tried it myself.

Originally Posted by Doc

This is Doc's wife, I like open-faced peanut butter sandwiches with bacon on them. Put them in the oven on broil for just a bit to toast the bread & that's tasty.

This actually sounds good to me!

SCRAPPLE BABY!!!

I know, it's not so uncommon. I actually haven't had it in years since I refuse to eat it outside of Philly. Just wanted to think of something "odd".

My favorite food is actually Escargot prepared the way the French eat it with a garlic/basil butter in the shell.

Originally Posted by JMS

Originally Posted by Doc

This is Doc's wife, I like open-faced peanut butter sandwiches with bacon on them. Put them in the oven on broil for just a bit to toast the bread & that's tasty.

This actually sounds good to me!

Peanutbutter and bacon used to be sold together -- as in blended together, in one of those sausage-shaped plastic skins.

I made my own once, and found it's tasty! The two things that seem to go with just about anything! Together!

I don't really have a list of strange things I like.

People in high school found it strange that I enjoyed the pickled (in wine) octopus from a local Greek restaurant.

Some coworkers thought it strange that I (a Louisiana native) liked raw oysters, so much that they'd order it for me whenever I was their designated driver to Hooter's just so they could watch me eat them.

A friend got me started on Cajun fries (or spicy fries, depending on the source) with a Wendy's Frostie (or chocolate shake, or chocolate ice cream if the former was not available).

But really nothing strange.

Of course, if you've ever had Tony Chachere's seasoning, you've eaten sand. One of the top ingredients on the list is Silicon Dioxide. Sand. And I'm sure there are others out there with the same.

There's a fine restaurant in Montreal whose specialty is pig's feet stuffed with foie gras and glazed with maple syrup. Yummy!

In the UK, in a small ENglish hamlet called Bray, is a restaurant called the Fat Duck, run by a man called Heston Blumenthal. It is a Michellin
star restaurant (maybe even 2- or 3-star) for years, and in the past has won the accollade of being the top restaurant in the world (whatever THAT means! )

Anyway, HestonB is famous for his approach to food -- he treats it like chemistry class. He takes a lab-coat scientific approach to combining flavours and building textures, to the point where he will use liquid Nitrogen to prepare some foods etc. The one the got me was bacon and egg ice cream, which I'm told tastes great.

Snail porridge is another hit there.

If you think I'm kidding, have a look here.

I've been wanting to go for years, but my wife won't do it. I mean, who can resist ROAST FOIE GRAS "BENZALDEHYDE"?