2y ago

What do you eat that other people think is odd?

I'll start: pesto as a bagel topping.

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Shredded cheese crisped up in a skillet.
According to my ex, who politely asked me to stop doing that, it makes the entire house smell like particularly foul body odor.
- Nah that's delicious. Ex made "keto nachos"- pork rinds and cheese in toaster oven, now that smells nasty
- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Chupaqueso
- I know, for fact, that's delicious. Mmmmmmm.

Sometimes I put a tiny bit of mustard on an Oreo to have a sweet and tangy snack.
- Angry upvote.
- Fried pickles?
  
  I think you might have responded to the wrong comment, but yeah, I like those- but only the chips, not the full dill

Bean dip on pizza. It sounds super weird, and it is, but it's also delicious 🤤
- This sounds like the bean base for a taco pizza. Not sure how wide spread it is, but where i am from in the Midwest it is pretty popular. Pizza Hut has a Taco Bean and a Taco Beef Pizza. Add cheddar cheese, pop it in the oven, after it's done baking, add lettuce, more cheddar cheese, tomatoes, chushed up Doritos, and some sour cream. So good.
- Maybe I'm also crazy, but that sounds kind of good....
- Pizza with Hollandaise for me. Works until it starts to cool.
  
  That hadn't occurred to me, but dipping pizza crust (and pizza) in garlic butter sauce isn't unusual. Hollandaise is just a lemon butter sauce. Sounds good to me.
- As a topping? I've done this and agree, but it's important to get the bean dip spread evenly on the crust.
  
  Yeah, just right on top of everything. Delivery pizza, spread a little bean dip on top.

My partner thinks it’s disgusting and my biggest red flag: I make peanut butter sandwiches on white bread and dip them in ranch dressing 😩 the reason I do this is because of growing up a millennial in NKY where a weekly lunch option was a bowl of chili, served with a peanut butter sandwich, and carrot sticks w a side of ranch….I hate raw carrots, always have lmao but I love all the other items….one day I was staring at the sad unused ranch and thinking as I was already keen to dipping the PB sandwich in the chili, that maybe it would be as good as the PB in chili so I tried it and I’ve just done it and liked a PB sandwich dipped in ranch ever since 😓 my partner has even tried it for me and hated it 🤷🏼‍♀️ at least they loved me enough to try it 🥹
- You win
  
  Seriously.. I couldn't even finish reading that paragraph

My friend recommended eating kiwis with the skin on. It takes a second to get used to the fuzzy skin, but they are SOOOO much easier to eat! Plus you get some extra fiber ;)
- I love the pop texture of with them skin on. And it is gives a nice bitter light note to the sweet fruit.

Raw garlic, just once in a while, as a little treat. Sometimes I’ll mash it up in some bread but most often… plain, raw garlic.
I have also not met a single thing I won’t try to pickle at least once, and for some reason people around me think that it is Terrifying hahaha. Personally, I find pickling to be a fantastic way to rescue produce that’s otherwise about to go off. Instead of making food waste, I’m making delicious snacks and toppings. Pickle everything!
- Pickle everything! I've come up with some pretty interesting pickles, and also ferments. Worst outcome is food that was going to go bad is bad. Best outcome is delicious surprise!
  
  Ooh, experiments in fermentation are high on my list but I haven’t tried yet. Do you have any good tips for translating one’s pickling skills to fermentation? Or any fermentation tips in general - I’d love to know more about your process if you feel like sharing!
- I'm assuming you've had pickled garlic, then? I just picked up 2 jars of it recently. I have to stop myself from eating too much sometimes. Raw garlic is great for me when I have a bad cold and need to clear out my sinuses.
  
  I have, and I'm with you - pickled garlic is so good. I also love that it's super easy to toss in a few (or more than a few) cloves of garlic alongside whatever else is going in the pickle jar, or to put them in some leftover brine after the original batch of pickles is finished.
  Since you mentioned liking raw garlic for your sinuses when you have a cold, have you ever tried saving the brine from your pickled garlic for similar purposes? If not, I'd highly recommend it. I've found that sipping or gargling pickle brine works wonders when I need some relief from a sore throat, and if the vinegar is strong enough I've found it helps my sinuses as well.

I some time thaw frozen dumplings in the fridge, and then eat them cold on hot days.
- Like gyōza dumplings? Those are raw homie
- Not gonna lie, that sounds awful. Slimy.

I love making steamed artichokes stuffed with pecorino cheese, garlic and bread crumbs. A recipe from my grandmother.
https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/baked_stuffed_artichokes/

I eat prunes daily. some people think it's a laxative for old people. sure, there's fiber in them and fiber helps you stay regular but just the same as eating most fruit. prunes are just dried plums and they're delicious
- I eat prunes every morning myself. In my defense, I am one of those old people.
- It's not only the fibre in prunes that helps your digestion -- the 'sorbitol' also acts as a laxative.
- Prunes are sorely under-appreciated in my opinion! I don’t eat them often, but my family has a tradition of making prune pierogi sautéed in an onion butter sauce for special occasions and it is an absolute sweet-savory delight. I look forward to them all year.
- I do love prunes and figs
  
  my man
- Prune juice is good too
  
  Mr Worf calls it "A warrior's drink"

My favourite pizza topping is pepperoni and flaked tuna, the good stuff too so it's meaty oily tuna.
Love it but so many people think I'm odd for it. The meaty flavours compliment each other!!!
- I'm not even sure I need to read the rest of the thread after this comment. You win by default! I guess it makes as much sense as anchovies on pizza though.

Sauerkraut.
By itself, out of the jar, with a fork.
- I can put down a can of Frank's in one sitting.

Baked onion with salt. Just a singular baked onion
- ...do you erm
  bite into it like an apple?

Peanut butter + mayo + pickles on bread.
It's apparently a Depression era recipe, but I crave it once every two months or so
- Are you continuously pregnant?

Toasted Cinnamon Raisin bagel with peanut butter, cheddar cheese, and bananas. - the cheese + bananas is what gets me looks.
- People put mayo on cheese sandwiches and banana sandwiches, so why not?

During a time where I would eat really utilitarian for lunch, this meal was my daily go to:
-half a can of skipjack tuna
-some amount of chopped cabbage
-steamer bag carrots and peas
-rice seasoning from the local Asian market (I don't know which one it's just labelled "rice seasoning")
-hot sauce
I try to not eat like a serial killer anymore

A more general answer: Meals without meat.
For some reason this really confuses people, and often makes them concerned or upset.

Toasted Cinnamon Raisin Bagel with Cheez whiz. Everyone in my family loves it. You will too. 😂

Brewed tea leaves, think they're the best part. There's a good number that are terrible (the cheap CTC blacks especially) but think most green teas and floral oolongs are great.
Weird to brew a cup of tea and then eat the leaves but there's also some legit recipes with tea leaves. Burmese tea leaf salad and longjing shrimp are two. There's also matcha.

I enjoy ginger beer and will try to cut it into random other alcoholic beverages like red wine.
- I'd try it

A friend once turned me on to peanut butter and tuna sandwiches.
I... do not know why I thought that was good at one point, now that I think about it.
- Salt, fat, sugar, protein, your body craves that stuff.
- My family all enjoys peanut butter and bacon sandwiches (a habit my English mother picked up in New York in the '50s). They are glorious!
- That's revolting. This wins the thread, I think.

Frozen corn.. Straight from the bag.
- That actually sounds like a great snack on a hot summer day!
- Did this all the time as a kid. … And as an adult, sort of. I have a recipe for a chilled corn and edamame salad with a soy sauce/sesame dressing. I make it with frozen veggies and sometimes if I’m feeling impatient I’ll eat it without fully thawing them.

This may sound weird, but I like eating sour cream with a spoon sometimes
- I always eat the sour cream from off the spoon after I use it for tacos or pierogi.
  
  Oh, I meant I sometimes specifically buy an entire cup of sour cream just to eat it by itself

Ham sandamoni and cheesewich
Macaroni and cheese, plus shredded ham, plus mustard
It tastes incredible, but nobody else EVER wants to try it. Their loss!
- I toss some mustard into mac and cheese when I make it, so you might be on to something
- If you want to go up a level in your additions, I would recommend you try haggis mac & cheese - it's the best!
  
  Oooo, thanks for the suggestion!
- Lightly toasted bread, right? I can see how that would be tasty (I already add a bit of mustard to my macaroni cheese) but I bet it would work even better with cut-up bacon in place of ham - you want something that's going to cut through all the creamy richness.

Haven't eaten it since I was 16 or so, but I loved toast (white bread) with ketchup and nutella (yes, spread on the same side, not like one half ketchup and the other half nutella)
Edit because it came to my mind: My girlfriend finds it really weird that I like to spread mayonnaise on my meat-bread (like proper bread with salami or other sliced meat sitting on top of mayonnaise)

Cracker, sardine, tomato, cottage cheese, ground black pepper *chef’s kiss. The perfect snack.

Grasshoppers, they're delicious with lemon.
- All the ones I've bought in the West were dry and dank/powdery unlike the fresh and crunch of SEA street food crickets/hoppers.
  What brands do you like?
  
  Ah, I have a weird international grocery near where I live that's unique and as a result i'd dox myself if I gave the information to you, and you likely wouldn't be able to obtain them, sorry!

My wife introduced me to Tuna mixed with Mac & Cheese, and now I totally enjoy it myself, other people have found it a little strange.
- My dad used to make this! I forgot until your comment. I never liked it much myself, but it was okay.
- I do this too. My Mac & Cheese usually always has broccoli and hot peppers or other veggies and whatever extra meat I have.... brisket, rotisserie chicken, salami, tuna, chilli, etc
- Have you added sweet peas to it as well? Thats how we eat it at my house and it's my favorite simple meal!
- I personally enjoy baked beans mixed with mac & cheese.
  
  Hmmm might need to try this.
  
  That is not far off of chili-mac, which was a staple quick meal growing up

I actually consume kiwis without peeling them, because I find it much more tasteful.
- Also, mealworms. Fried ones. I bought them for my pet rats and ended up gorging on them sometimes.
  
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  You win.
  
  I've had fried mealworms, I remember them tasting somewhat of Fritos.
- The hair is initially tough to get over, but I also eat kiwis this way. There's a tanginess just under the skin that otherwise gets cut off.

I basically eat all sandwiches on cinnamon raisin bagels if I can. Eggs, bacon/sausage, and cheese for breakfast? Yes. Pastrami and Swiss with mustard and sprouts? Yes. Tuna salad with Swiss? Yes. I get so many weird looks. But whatever. I like it. :)

In a similar vein, muffaletta as a bagel topping.
- That sounds awesome, actually
- Muffaletta is a whole ass sandwich. Do you mean tapenade?
  
  Your not wrong lol! But they sell the preserved veggie stuff that goes on the sandwich in grocery stores, and for some reason that's ALSO called Muffaletta? It's basically giardiniera but diced finer.

chips + jam
specifically, kettle chips (plain salted or unsalted) with a nice strawberry or blackberry jam to dip them in...
where it really gets controversial is that I like to do this with the bonne maman jams 🙈
- I could imagine the sweet and salty goes well together. I like when a charcuterie has a nice jam and brie. A cracker or piece of bread with brie, prosciutto, and jam, I could eat so many of those.
  
  exactly! sweet and salty plus CRUNCHY (the best texture). it's heavenly.
  also: hard yes to baguette with brie, prosciutto, and jam. i also love using an apple slice as the base for those toppings.

Cheez-its dipped in melted chocolate

Pesto on a bagel sounds good as hck tho
I’m one of the teeming dozens who like circus peanuts and necco wafers. I may, however, be the only one under fifty years old to do so.

french fries dipped in mayo? 3/4 Coffee w/creamer 1/4 Diet Dr.Pepper mixed?

Lobsters and crabs are essentially overgrown bugs that live in water. At one point they were only fed to prisoners.
- On the way coast of Canada, going to school with lobster in your lunch bag was something to be ashamed of.

Pickles and peanut butter
- I do pickled chilies with peanut butter!
  
  We should be friends.

peanut butter belongs in curry! even squid curry, I don't care what food wars says
- Almond butter is also fantastic in curry. I regularly use it in lentil curries.
  
  I'm getting 'ungry

Nutella bacon crepes
- That sounds yummy.
- That sounds good and it's hard to go wrong adding bacon to anything.

Probably the most tame one in here, but I love to mix mayo with a little mustard to dip my french fries in. Baked potatoes with butter, sour cream, seasoning salt, and malt vinegar are also really good.

I love eating a raw potato like an apple, for whatever reason. Any time I'm cooking a dish with potatoes, I'll wash and peel one for me to eat. My boyfriend looked like I had grown a third arm the first time he saw me do it.
It's the perfect mix of crunchy and juicy, but not sweet.
- Raw potatoes are like semi toxic. Do you not get any GI upset from doing that?
  
  No, never. AFAIK they aren't toxic, just that the starch is poorly digested. Either way, I've never gotten sick from it, so 🤷
  It's odd because I have had digestive issues off and on through the years, but the potatoes have never precipitated it. (It's mostly anything spicy, which sucks as I love spicy food-- it's a price I pay willingly sometimes)

I like pineapple on pizza, but I think there's only one specific sort of pizza where it's actually good. You need a good barbeque sauce base, jalapenos, and some sort of meat (I prefer chicken and bacon). The usual ham, pineapple and tomato sauce version can get in the sea.
- I like it as well, and for me does not need all the extras. Pineapple and pepperoni or salami is such a good combo

My wife would say: Kipper Snacks
Stinky fish is delicious.

Greek yogurt and natural peanut for breakfast. Not really that odd in my opinion but the face of the people I tell that too say otherwise.
- I just started doing this, it's sooo goood! The PB cuts the sourness of the greek yoghurt. It's like super creamy PB.

Pizza with hollandaise sauce base instead of tomato sauce. My father almost disowned me for it.
- I've heard of white sauce base, garlic sauce base, hell even bbq sauce base, but hollandaise? The eggs benedict topping?? I'm about to disown you too
  
  eggs benedict
  Dude, I'm gonna be super controversial right now, just to tick you off...
  Doughy base with toppings and sauce? Remind you of anything? What if eggs benedict are just a type of pizza? Ever think about that?
- Have you ever tried French fries in hollandaise? I've had it once and it was the greatest fry topping I've ever had.
  
  Or bearnaise 🥹🤤

When you've been terribly poor, you get creative.
I once got tired of packet ramen and put some free milk I pilfered from a hotel into the broth to make it more like a creamy sauce. Black pepper and peanut butter can also do wonders. It's not 5 star dining, but it was better than you'd think. Especially after the 8th day in a row eating Raman and stolen fruit.
Ive done it again on the rare occasion, even now that I don't have to. My partner goes green when she sees it.
- There's nothing weird about those. Ramen may not lend itself to creamy sauces as Italian noodle dishes, but it's not like it would change the flavor immensely. As for peanut butter and pepper, spicy peanut sauces (e.g. satay) are pretty common in Asian cuisine. You're doing nothing unusual, just improving instant ramen.
  
  Finally, vindication after all these years.
- As I've learned more, I do think it could be made really good for cheap. Make your Raman first, and remove your noodles. Make sure to use whole milk.
  If you're using peanut butter, you've got your work cut out for you because it doesn't like to mix. I never tested this, bit I think you'd do well to add bit of extra starch (like corn starch, which is cheap) to better emulsify it. Mix the starch with cold water outside of your pot first to make a slurry.
  This is a cheap meal built with not a small number of stolen parts. If you have the cash though, use sesame oil (go slow with it. It's expensive and it's easy to overdo it). I've noticed that the combined nuttiness of sesame oil and peanut butter is much stronger than the sum of its parts.
  Eggs are pricey still I think? I used to get them at like $1 for those 32 packs though. Add an egg. If its as cheap as it used to be, they're just free calories and always good with Raman. Doesn't matter how you do it really, but if you're feeling lazy, just put it right in there while the Raman cooks. I'd go towards the end, or you get some ugly strands of egg white I don't love, and it doesn't mix well. Maybe try after the starch slurry?

Bees

Plain sour cream.
- My husband cringes every time I do it.

If I find a good bell pepper, I will eat it whole like an apple.
When I get a beverage/food garnished with an herb like a sprig of mint or rosemary, I like to nibble on them. My friends and girlfriend sort of lost their minds when I took a bit out of a cinnamon stick from a cocktail.

Peanut butter and jelly (aka jam) with white sandwich bread with a generous amount of Doritos or cheez-its in it. One of my favorite meals!
Toasted sandwich bread with tomato slices, salt, and mayo. I could die just thinking about them. Add corn on the cob as a side.
A slice of sandwich bread with mustard, American cheese, and onion. Stick in the broiler to melt thecl cheese and brown the bread, and serve. RIP grandma.
- I've definitely heard of tomato sandwiches before, and I'd go as far as to say I'd love to try one with a perfectly ripe and juicy tomato. I think I've heard of the bread, cheese, and onion combo before? Either 1:1 or something similar? Ploughman's lunch sorta thing, I think.
  But I've never heard of the PB&J with Cheez-Its before. I need to hear the scoop and what the appeal is. I think I could see myself doing it with a less sugary PB and a more savory or spicy jam 👀?
  
  Honestly I dont think cheez-its are super noticable flavor-wise, as with Doritos it's mostly about the crunch!
  I do hope you try a tomato sandwich, they are soo good!

Taco chips with peanut butter.

Make a bowl of chili, make a peanut butter sandwich, drop the peanut butter sandwich in the bowl of chill, eat it. I think this is a midwestern thing and everybody else thinks I'm nuts until they try it.

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