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!
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'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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....
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."
I had one ex who used to get upset whenever I ate cold food and would scold me for it. Like, dude, I'm the one eating this shit, what's your problem? Lol
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
They jelly can absolutely be made into a mint sauce for lamb, or just slathered on as is too. But more or less yes, I enjoy the mint flavor with the peanutbutter a bunch! It also tends to be a less sweet jelly than store bought strawberry or grape. Those are sickeningly sweet
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.
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!
Peanutbutter sandwiches with spicy, vinegar-based condiments instead of sweet ones. Mustard, cilantro chutney, peperoncini, that kind of thing. It's fantastic.
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.
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'.
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.
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.
This sounds interesting. I’m gonna try it right now. I’ll edit with my thoughts.
Edit: Didn’t have any Tabasco but did have some Franks. Very interesting flavor. Sweet and tangy. The back heat it’s nice and the texture of the apple with this flavor is quite nice. Will do it again.
You'd fare well in Mexico. Remember the gaspacho police? Well, gaspachos have fruit like apples and tasty chili! And also cheese for some reason but that's mostly unique to Michoacán state afaik.
I'm used to the smell at this point, but eating it still makes me gag. There's some flavor compound in there that, with anything other than a tiny bite, tells my body that this thing needs to be expelled.
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.
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.
mm yeah. I like sea urchin too. and raw oysters. Both of them, if they're fresh, just have that flavor/feel like you're consuming and becoming one with OCEAN
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.
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.
Cannibalism?! Oh my god why the heck would you treat New Zealanders that way?!
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.
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.
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!
Pretty sure they're trolling. I love frying beef bologna in butter until the edges start getting dark/crunchy. Underrated meat candy. But it has to be beef, just like with hot dogs.
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 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. 🙃
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. 😄
Last time I made it, I fried the bread in a little bacon grease.
The point is that you don't want the bread to distract you from the core ingredients. Bacon and cream cheese are magical, the way they complement each other.
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.
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.
Love uncooked wholewheat spaghetti! You can easily select a given diameter and it's easy to eat. I think the wholewheat version has this nice earthy flavour and it's a little more brittle than normal pasta. Craving some right now!
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.
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
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
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).
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.
Whipped cottage cheese is one of my favorite dips. I like and have all the other things you listed for your dip, so I will have to try this over the weekend
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.
The Curry Guy has a recepie as jumping off point. I don't know about local brands to you, but Patak's is a staple here, their hot lime pickle is what got me onto the concept. I still get a jar every now and then, but the flavours are the intense kind that I get bored of and forget about, till the jar goes moldy.
So when I buy one, I kinda force myself through the last third. On bread, off a spoon, on pasta, some ungodly creations I swear.
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.
Shrimp heads, especially when they've been deep fried. So much flavor, and nice and crunchy. Fried fish fins are similar in this regard. Oh and fish eyeballs - my wife thought I was nuts until I got her to try it, now she really enjoys them.
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.
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.
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.
I love to jerky heart, so I'll cut it into very thin ~2-3mm slices, marinate it in soy sauce and brown sugar to taste for 8 hours and then put it on a tray over a box fan and air dry it, it is my favorite jerky.
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:
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.
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 :/
I grew up making tiny spaghetti-on-garlic-bread sandwiches whenever we had both. Noodle sandwiches are definitely a thing in Japan (yakisoba pan is one)