What's the weirdest thing you enjoy eating?

February 9, 2025 2:41 PM

Recently tried something pretty odd on a whim and it was surprisingly good. I'm wondering what else I'm missing out on! I'm particularly interested in anything you came up with on your own by following your cravings.

The weird thing I tried was plain nonfat greek yogurt mixed with leftover chili, heated up in the microwave (yes, I put yogurt in the microwave and yes, it felt wrong). I did this in an effort to find a super healthy substitute for a casserole my Mom makes. It turned out more like a taco dip type thing, but was definitely good and definitely felt way less healthy than it actually was. But your suggestions don't have to be healthy, I want to hear about anything unusual you like.

posted by Eyelash to Food & Drink (107 answers total)

Well I like cold KFC dipped in plain yogurt (not Greek, it’s too thick) but I don’t think it’s weird.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 3:15 PM on February 9 [2 favorites]

A slice of whole wheat bread with lots of plain yogurt spread on top, and a bunch of pineapple chunks on top of that, eaten with a fork.
posted by SageTrail at 3:15 PM on February 9 [2 favorites]

Peanut butter and cheese toasted sandwich
posted by freethefeet at 3:15 PM on February 9 [3 favorites]

I'll eat anything on a grilled sandwich. if I were a dog, that's where you'd put my meds.
posted by j_curiouser at 3:18 PM on February 9 [14 favorites]

Best answer: Watermelon drizzled in hot honey. Peaches work, too.
posted by mochapickle at 3:32 PM on February 9 [3 favorites]

Peanut butter on pickles.
posted by coffeecat at 3:36 PM on February 9 [5 favorites]

I see your peanut butter and pickles and raise you Camembert and Kim chee.
posted by clockwork at 3:38 PM on February 9 [5 favorites]

Best answer: OK. It's weird. Homemade chicken soup and vanilla ice cream. Two separate bowls but i scoop a bit of ice cream, leaving room on the spoon and then scoop up some Chicken soup on the same spoon.

My gram did it for me as a picky eater about 1970. Whenever I make a batch of chicken soup I have some.
posted by ReluctantViking at 3:38 PM on February 9 [15 favorites]

Flour tortillas with peanut butter are a leftover from my starving student days. I'm munching on one right now.
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 3:39 PM on February 9 [3 favorites]

I used to think it was weird, but I started making snack food omelets, generally with cheese and maybe some kind of meat if I had anything on hand. "Snack food" would be potato or corn chips or something similar. Just through experimentation, it felt like spicy snacks worked better, and snacks with a bit more crunchiness to them would hold up better in the omelet, so that gradually led to Flaming Hot Cheetos being the ideal ingredient if I were going to do that kind of thing.

But now there are taco shops all over town that make Flaming Hot Cheeto burritos, so...
posted by LionIndex at 3:39 PM on February 9 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Burgers with peanut butter and jalapenos are surprisingly good.
posted by Redstart at 3:46 PM on February 9 [3 favorites]

So, I don't do this anymore,

but I used to enjoy eating sheets of Nori seaweed with sour cream spread on them, then rolled up like a Swiss Roll.

Sadly, these days cream and I are no longer friends.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 3:52 PM on February 9 [11 favorites]

I used to stir heaps of dry hot chocolate powder through vanilla yoghurt for a kind of fake chocolate mousse.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 3:53 PM on February 9 [4 favorites]

On a road or airplane trip, take a bag of Skittles and dump it into a bag of Cheez-Its, and you’ve got a gas station fruit and cheese plate. (Trust me, the combo works).
posted by moosetracks at 3:55 PM on February 9 [11 favorites]

Best answer: I like scrambled eggs on toast with jam - savory and sweet and surprisingly good. I also like kimchi with spaghetti.
posted by ichimunki at 4:01 PM on February 9 [3 favorites]

pieces of a west coast baked mini sourdough boule dipped into sour cream
posted by brujita at 4:08 PM on February 9 [1 favorite]

What is it with us and dairy?! I also want to give a shout out to my invention, it’s a small bowl of kefir, natural yoghurt or similar, with a big lump of kimchi in it. Especially good with tortilla chips. So yeh, chili and dairy, someone should tell Mexico ;)
posted by Iteki at 4:26 PM on February 9 [4 favorites]

Best answer: Also a fan of dairy and nori. I like a small sheet of nori rolled inside and outside with cottage cheese. The nori keeps its shape and the dairy keeps the seaweed from ripping the inside of my mouth off from dehydration.

Watermelon dusted with pomegranate powder, chili lime, or cranberries.

Cranberry and tomato soup or roasted tomatoes with cranberries.
posted by effluvia at 4:30 PM on February 9 [3 favorites]

I don't think this is weird but my family members do: I like to eat chips and dip, and the chips are potato chips and the dip is peanut butter.
posted by The corpse in the library at 4:34 PM on February 9 [3 favorites]

I haven't had it in probably 15 years now, but the chicken curry sandwich at Judie's (RIP) is one of the most memorably weird-yet-delicious things I've ever eaten. Chicken, bananas, shredded coconut, raisins, peanuts, apple butter, cranberry sauce, curry sauce, mayo, all on a popover.

A friend of mine put banana slices on Cool Ranch Doritos a lot in high school.
posted by Pandora Kouti at 4:40 PM on February 9 [3 favorites]

A sweet, peeled carrot mashed into a paste of any blue cheese and creamy blue cheese dressing and then bitten off, reloading carrots until the blue cheese paste is gone. You use the blunt end of the first carrot as a mortar with a teacup as a pestle to create the paste.

Very palatable, so might not be unusual, but my perspective is limited.
posted by the Real Dan at 4:51 PM on February 9 [3 favorites]

When I was in college, I would dip Zeiback toast into Marie's Creamy Italian Garlic salad dressing. I could finish it all off in one or two sittings, which was horrible for me but it was an addiction.

When I get take-out sushi, I almost always intersperse bites of sushi with bites of sharp white cheddar cheese.
posted by The Wrong Kind of Cheese at 4:52 PM on February 9 [1 favorite]

Saltines and milk, with sugar.

My daughter likes peanut butter & jelly & tuna salad sandwiches.
posted by Admiral Viceroy at 4:56 PM on February 9 [1 favorite]

Weetabix on cotttage cheese, chunks of cucumber garnish. It's a texture experience! Also a surprisingly refreshing lunch.
posted by blnkfrnk at 4:57 PM on February 9 [1 favorite]

Somebody handed me a slice of pickle pizza the other day, and it was delicious.
posted by Sing Or Swim at 5:27 PM on February 9 [1 favorite]

One day I was out of breakfast cereal, so scrounged around in the cupboards to see what I could make. Ended up having popcorn & prunes for breakfast. My flatmate thought I was weird.
posted by HiroProtagonist at 5:38 PM on February 9 [2 favorites]

Pickled ginger and cream cheese on fresh brown or dark bread
posted by Barbara Spitzer at 5:44 PM on February 9 [3 favorites]

I sometimes put soya sauce on my Mac ‘n’ Cheese. My family is always horrified, but they are missing out!
posted by ThatCanadianGirl at 5:45 PM on February 9 [3 favorites]

“Cranberry and tomato soup or roasted tomatoes with cranberries.”

I feel like this is the most strange and surprising one!
posted by haptic_avenger at 6:01 PM on February 9 [3 favorites]

Sauerkraut is good.
Braised/roasted sauerkraut is much more delicious.
But the best is toasted rye smothered with mayo with leftover braised sauerkraut heaped on top. Breakfast of champions.
posted by Kabanos at 6:35 PM on February 9 [4 favorites]

Kimchi, pan-fried tofu, nondairy cheese, and just a touch of maple syrup in a taco. I've made this many times.
posted by MagnificentVacuum at 6:36 PM on February 9 [2 favorites]

My mum's Christmas cake with Wensleydale cheese .. well, that's the ideal, but actually any rich fruit cake with any sharp cheese is a great combination; a thick slice of cake and a thin slice of cheese eaten together.
posted by anadem at 6:57 PM on February 9 [5 favorites]

I didn't think it's weird but people call it weird when I tell them, but onion sandwich. Very thinly sliced onion, butter on one side, a little mayo on the other. So good
posted by Carillon at 7:06 PM on February 9 [6 favorites]

Doritos (the basic nacho flavor) dipped in cottage cheese!
posted by BlahLaLa at 7:12 PM on February 9 [1 favorite]

Jam and Cheese sandwiches. Strawberry jam with kraft slices.

Peanut butter and butter sandwich.

One thing I love is to put a stream of honey on a plate and then lay fried eggs on top. Someone told me this sounded gross and out of nowhere I said, "It's how they do it in Azerbaijan," which was a complete fabrication, but now I call them Azerbaijan Eggs.

My aunt's favorite sandwich was peanut butter and onion. I have not tried it.

I love slicing Hachiya Persimmon into cottage cheese.
posted by dobbs at 7:31 PM on February 9 [2 favorites]

Best answer: Steel cut oats with parmesan, garlic salt and butter.
posted by mecran01 at 7:47 PM on February 9 [6 favorites]

Very thinly sliced onion, butter on one side, a little mayo on the other. So good

Vidalias, Walla Wallas, and sweet yellows are good. Best of all are fresh green onions pulled right out of the garden, salted, between two slices of heavily buttered bread.

Everybody says ick, but the best bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwiches have chunky peanut butter instead of mayo. Eat it once, you'll never go back
posted by BlueHorse at 8:00 PM on February 9 [6 favorites]

Butter and sugar sandwiches on white bread.
posted by tristeza at 8:03 PM on February 9 [2 favorites]

Best answer: Toasted pumpernickel rye bread with guava jelly and cream cheese.
Lox on a blueberry bagel.
Celery cut thinly on the bias, celery leaves, fresh mozzarella, walnuts, and Bosc pears with salt, pepper, and olive oil.
Runny egg yolk on honeydew melon with hot sauce.
Roasted trout in a packet with tomatoes, green onions, and blackberries.
posted by Mizu at 8:06 PM on February 9 [3 favorites]

OOOooh, date bread with cream cheese!! I forgot how much I LOVED those as a 70s kid.....
posted by tristeza at 8:13 PM on February 9 [6 favorites]

Back in my childhood soccer/softball/tennis days, my mom would make me a peanut butter & bacon sandwich on toast. SO good – and an amazing protein/carb load before sports/intense workout. I haven't eaten bacon in 30 years, but if there was one thing to get me to go back, it'd be this sandwich.
posted by Molasses808 at 8:14 PM on February 9 [3 favorites]

(Molasses808, I had one of those TODAY - perennial favorite...I might have to go make another. Try the Morningstar Farms facon as a sub, it's not bad!))
posted by tristeza at 8:18 PM on February 9 [2 favorites]

Steel cut oats with parmesan, garlic salt and butter.

mecran01, do you cook your oats in chicken broth? That's how I do mine, then add a beaten egg when they're almost done, nuke it for ~90 seconds on medium power, and then load it up with hot sauce, Himalayan black salt and, sometimes, parm. Yum!
posted by kate4914 at 8:23 PM on February 9 [4 favorites]

Stilton cheese and (raw) sliced onion sandwiches. It might be fairer to say it works for me. Other blue cheeses work too (but they're never as good as Stilton), and it works on water crackers too at a push (slightly messy though).
posted by How much is that froggie in the window at 8:38 PM on February 9 [2 favorites]

I like chalky textures per this askme
posted by St. Peepsburg at 9:01 PM on February 9 [1 favorite]

My grandpa used to love a peanut butter and raw onion sandwich.

I don't actually think this is weird, I'm surprised most people don't do this, but I always mix a tablespoon of peanut butter into instant noodle soup. It makes it a much more satisfying meal.

If you find yourself with some caramel corn, do yourself a favor and drop some chili crisp in the bag and shake it up. It's absolutely the best addition to caramel corn imaginable. Just next level addictive - don't do it if you have a ton of caramel corn because you will eat all of it and regret it.
posted by potrzebie at 9:10 PM on February 9 [4 favorites]

Strawberries dipped in sour cream and then in brown sugar. (My grandmother did this.)

A slice of ripe pear topped with pickled white anchovy and a shaving of idiazabal cheese (a recently closed Catalan restaurant did this.)
posted by vunder at 9:13 PM on February 9 [5 favorites]

The Mar-Mar sandwich , which is marmite and marmalade. Picked because I like them individually and they are stereotypically British. People tend to be horrified or intrigued when I describe it. I mentioned it here recently and someone said their grandmother also enjoyed them!
posted by SaltySalticid at 9:31 PM on February 9 [3 favorites]

Carillon, when I was a kid we ate that exact onion sandwich (usually purple onions though) and called it a Myrtle May!

Strawberries minced and tossed with fresh black pepper and balsamic vinegar is an excellent relish.
posted by blnkfrnk at 9:33 PM on February 9 [3 favorites]

- French bread topped with cottage cheese.
- Mix well-drained cans of spinach and tuna, add lots of diced dill pickle. Tops Ritz crackers well, but they're not necessary.
- Mix one whole banana with one whole egg, use like pancake batter. (When eggs used to be affordable.)
posted by stormyteal at 9:57 PM on February 9 [2 favorites]

Dipping French fries into a milkshake. Shockingly delicious.
posted by danceswithlight at 10:03 PM on February 9 [4 favorites]

Peanut butter and marmalade sandwich.

Pics is good, just peanuts and a dash of salt, and any good breakfast marmalade.
posted by unearthed at 10:25 PM on February 9 [2 favorites]

Raisin bran with orange juice instead of milk.

I refuse to consider this weird, but I know other people do: bread with jam and cheese. (Aged cheese with berries (strawberry, blueberry), young Gouda with apricot.)
posted by demi-octopus at 10:50 PM on February 9 [2 favorites]

Peanut butter, siracha and onion on Martin's egg bread.

Peanut butter and mustard with jalapenos on a sammie.

Hot sauce in my beer.

Pasta with butter and ketchup

Mac and cheese with Trader Joe's crispy hot sauce.

Cream of Wheat with hot sauce.

Oatmeal with bits of bacon and an over easy egg on top.

Bagel dipped in a combination of wasabi and soy sauce (sushi but with a bagel instead.)

I pretty much consider any food as a potential delivery vehicle for some sort of hot sauce.
posted by JohnnyGunn at 10:54 PM on February 9 [2 favorites]

Best answer: I recently had to bring dessert to a party and didn't have enough time to bake from scratch. I made brownies from a mix I had in the pantry but swirled a quarter cup of tahini into the batter, leaving it as pale unicorporated streaks. The mellow unsweetened swirl of tahini made the brownies prettier and more delicious.
posted by ojocaliente at 11:11 PM on February 9 [7 favorites]

My mom used to eat bananas topped with peanut butter and mayonnaise
posted by waving at 12:56 AM on February 10 [2 favorites]

SaltySalticid reminds me that I loved Marmite and honey sandwiches (with butter) when I was a kid. New Zealand Marmite is a bit different in taste to UK version, I think. Something about salty umami and the bite that both marmite and good honey have...

Apart from that, I like to microwave slices of cheese in a bowl until the edges have gone beyond melted into crispy lace, and then just eat molten crisp cheese with a spoon. I mean if you like melted cheese, don't mess about with excuses.

Balsamic vinegar is good on strawberries too.

If you have whole fish and you leave the skin on when you fillet it, the tail and the fin on the wing will crisp up deliciously in the frying pan and I enjoy crunching them.
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen at 1:00 AM on February 10 [2 favorites]

I used to save the oil from several jars of Napoleon artichoke hearts, pour it cold from the fridge into a bowl, crumble saltines into it and eat it with a spoon like breakfast cereal.

Slices of candied ginger root with a chunk of blue cheese on top are excellent finger food.
posted by jamjam at 1:11 AM on February 10 [2 favorites]

Best answer: Pitted dates cooked in a microwave until they're 2/3 crunchy and 1/3 chewy are unbelievable.
posted by jamjam at 1:19 AM on February 10 [4 favorites]

Sheep muesli aka Connolly’s RED MILLS 17% No.3 Sheep & Lamb Cooked Mix (Steam Cooked Barley, Maize Gluten, Rapeseed Pellets, Soya Hulls, Molashine, Beet Pulp, Steam Cooked Maize, Soya Bean Meal, Micronized Peas, Micronized Faba Beans, Connolly Sheep Minerals, Sodium Chloride, Limestone Flour).
. . . is pretty good. I often have a nibble from the bucket when I'm off to feed the sheep: sweet, chewy, with a hint of salt.
posted by BobTheScientist at 1:59 AM on February 10 [11 favorites]

There was a time in my life when I used to enjoy going into a McDonalds and asking for the regulation dose of hot fudge sauce to get put inside my Big Mac instead of on the sundae. First time was a five dollar dare, but I found the experience so enjoyable that I just kept doing it even when none of my idiot friends were around, just to explore the reactions.

Between the Special Sauce, the pickles and the bun, there is already so much sugar in a Big Mac that an extra dose of their "chocolate" fudge sauce makes almost no difference to its flavour. And it's not like I was asking for a variation in the quantity of anything they were offering at their listed prices, merely a bit of rearrangement.

At about one McD's in ten the counter staff would just sell me what I asked for without raising an eyebrow. Usually they'd look at me like I came from another planet and then do it. A few times I got somebody who flat refused, and one time a manager saw them do that and told me to fuck off, which I thought was a tad unprofessional.

Sheep muesli aka Connolly’s RED MILLS 17% No.3 Sheep & Lamb Cooked Mix ... sweet, chewy, with a hint of salt

Gumnuts is pretty good stuff too. Handy if I run out of breakfast cereal and probably more nutritious.
posted by flabdablet at 4:14 AM on February 10 [3 favorites]

Seen elsewhere online just now:

"New best friend for flavour in vegan sauces is rooibos tea. Today it's going in the Burritos."
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 5:03 AM on February 10 [2 favorites]

One time I was at a party and there was a dessert that was

silken tofu + bananas + chocolate (thrown in a blender all together and then the mixture chilled in the fridge for hours like cheesecake) and it was DELICIOUS.

The silken tofu adds a really rich creamy texture.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 5:04 AM on February 10 [2 favorites]

Crispy fried egg on hot buttered toast—smeared with mango chutney.
posted by EXISTENZ IS PAUSED at 5:23 AM on February 10 [4 favorites]

The other contender for universal spread besides peanut butter is hummus. Goes with any relatively neutral starch: bread, rice, pasta, potatoes (roasted, mashed, fried, any preparation really), paratha, crumpet, donut, tea cake, cold pizza, you name it.
Vegemite, peanut butter, and cheese in a toasted sandwich is also quite a thing. Add jam or sweet chili sauce to level up.
posted by threecheesetrees at 5:51 AM on February 10 [2 favorites]

I had this flatmate in college. Toby. One time I was in the kitchen at some point in the evening but not late enough in the evening to justify what happened next. So Toby comes in, right, and he boils himself a hot dog on the stove, and he gets out a plate and the bottle of Hershey’s syrup, and he puts his hot dog on the plate and a splodge of Hershey’s on the side, and he sees me watching him, and he says, I want to know what it tastes like. So he dips the dog, takes a bite, and tells me it does not taste good at all. I don’t remember whether he ate the rest of the hot dog with or without the sauce.

What I do remember is a few months later, I’m in the kitchen again, and Toby comes in and makes himself a hot dog. Then he gets out the Hershey’s. So I’m like, Toby. And he’s like, what. And I’m like, you’ve done this already. And he says, I’ve forgotten what it tastes like.

I hope he’s still out there somewhere eating a hot dog with chocolate syrup about twice a year just so he can make sure he always knows what it tastes like.
posted by cabbage raccoon at 6:26 AM on February 10 [19 favorites]

Bolognese sauce on top of cheese toast.
posted by Ms. Moonlight at 6:26 AM on February 10 [2 favorites]

I once made myrrhshmallows -- myrrh-flavored marshmallows. They were delicious -- a bit anise-y.

Oh, and after I roast a chicken, usually the skin isn't crispy enough, because I brine and also because I run my oven at 60% humidity. So I take the skin off the bird and put it on a plate, and then microwave it until it gets crispy. Paper towels on top to absorb the grease and prevent splatter. Ends up like a slightly chewy chip.

I haven't made it in a while, but chicken stew with canned green peppercorns is delicious. The peppers are pretty spicy, but it's piperine instead of capsaicin so it's a slightly different sensation. Lemon zest and juice, capers, chicken stock, roux. I don't know why black pepper is on every table but canned green peppercorns are a specialty item.
posted by novalis_dt at 7:20 AM on February 10 [6 favorites]

Yesterday for lunch I had some instant pho bo with half a can of tuna added (instead of beef, I'm lazy and poor) and a big scoop of guacamole (thanks, superbowl BOGOs). Since I was already adding basil, cilantro, chili garlic sauce, and a squeeze of lime to the soup, the guac seemed like not such a huge leap -- but I didn't expect it to become my new favorite thing.
posted by SynapseCracklePop at 7:20 AM on February 10 [2 favorites]

Banana wrapped in (white) American cheese. Learned it from Mr Rogers.
Potato chip crumbs are an ice cream topping.
Plain yogurt as a Dorito dip. Got that one from an Iranian-American family in the early 90s.
posted by cobaltnine at 7:24 AM on February 10 [3 favorites]

Root beer float, but a lemon-lime soda like Sprite or 7-UP instead of the root beer.
posted by JoeZydeco at 8:06 AM on February 10 [2 favorites]

Tortilla chips dipped in barbecue sauce.

I also like adding soy sauce, sriracha, rice vinegar (if I have it), sesame oil (same) and furikake on top of cottage cheese. (It's also a great topping for oatmeal.)
posted by edencosmic at 8:22 AM on February 10 [2 favorites]

I make a salad of grated carrots and hummus.

My Dad would put Worcestershire sauce on soft bread, ideally the heel, and have that as a snack, and I do that sometimes.
posted by theora55 at 8:32 AM on February 10 [2 favorites]

Best answer: Dr Pepper Pepper, optimally fresh jalapenos dropped in Dr Pepper soda, but also works with pickled jalapenos.
posted by The_Vegetables at 8:37 AM on February 10 [5 favorites]

Sambal Oelek (Indonesian chili paste) on toast or rusk. Other sambal varieties as well.
posted by Stoneshop at 9:16 AM on February 10 [2 favorites]

Yes, yogurt goes well in lots of savory things like chili: spaghetti sauce, taco meat, curry, cajun, shepherd's pie, lots of different kinds of soup or stews.

I like hummus as a sandwich ingredient--it's great swapped for mayo.

Carrot sticks dipped in mustard.
posted by indexy at 9:23 AM on February 10 [3 favorites]

When I was a grad student I used to walk to a family owned Chinese restaurant 3 blocks from my house early on Sunday afternoon when there were usually very few other customers and eat a lot of food, including a couple of plates of short ribs.

One day I was eating my ribs and accidentally bit into a bone — and sheared right through it. It tasted good, really good! And the texture and consistency were unique and somehow very satisfying.

So I ate all the bones, and when the kid who was my server picked up my plates after bringing the next round did a double take and looked at me with shock on his face, I blinked and tried to look innocent.

After that I always ate the bones, and I've often thought about trying to replicate those ribs at home, but I never got around to it.
posted by jamjam at 9:40 AM on February 10 [2 favorites]

After that I always ate the bones, and I've often thought about trying to replicate those ribs at home, but I never got around to it.

The bones in my mom's ribs were soft like that because she pressure-cooked them first before the final cooking . . . broiling or roasting or BBQing or something like that.
posted by fimbulvetr at 9:54 AM on February 10 [2 favorites]

You people frighten me. With exceptions I will decline to mention. I am on the fence about jamjam, who must have been a honey badger in a previous lifetime.
posted by y2karl at 11:03 AM on February 10 [4 favorites]

novalis_dt, crispy chicken skin is a traditional Ashkenazi Jewish food.
posted by brujita at 11:37 AM on February 10 [2 favorites]

- Beans (especially Heinz curry beans) on toast. (This is normal in the UK, but I get nothing but weird looks and comments as an American willingly eating it!)

- Peanut butter and marmalade (together) on waffles

- As a kid, I was fond of ketchup & potato chip sandwiches on white bread

- Tater tots dipped in mustard

- Candy corn mixed into vanilla yogurt (which I discovered in college as fuel for 10 mile bike rides)
posted by aecorwin at 12:13 PM on February 10 [2 favorites]

Marinated herring, the kind that comes in a jar.
Also boquerones — similarly preserved anchovies in a jar or can.
Split pea soup Dutch style — with rye bread topped with slices of kielbasa or similar sausage.
SALT LICORICE. The saltier the better.
Can you tell I'm Dutch?
posted by beagle at 12:14 PM on February 10 [5 favorites]

C o l d p i z z a and peanut butter. For breakfast.
posted by meemzi at 12:25 PM on February 10 [2 favorites]

Salmiakki! Black licorice with ammonia salt. Just the right amount makes my nose tingle in a fun way, but too much makes my whole face burn. This is a packaged snack and I'm not sure it qualifies as "the weirdest" but I've never met anyone else who likes it. It's Finnish and I live in the US, so maybe I should relocate?

I *love* honey on chili. To me this seems perfectly reasonable but it baffles my husband. Honey is good on cornbread, cornbread is good with chili, so by the transitive property of tastiness honey is good on chili.

When I was a kid I ate chocolate cake mix straight out of the box with a spoon.
posted by esoterrica at 12:34 PM on February 10 [5 favorites]

It intrigues/amuses me to think that favorites in this thread can have at least three meanings:

- yeah, I eat that too!
- that is indeed extremely weird
- I must try this
posted by demi-octopus at 1:02 PM on February 10 [4 favorites]

goiabada (a guava jelly-like dessert) eaten together with chunks of cheese to cut the sweetness
posted by umbú at 2:33 PM on February 10 [2 favorites]

Peanut butter on pickles.

The other contender for universal spread besides peanut butter is hummus.

One day at Burning Man many years ago we were stuck at camp during a sandstorm. So, we decided to try our jar of Nutella on all the other food items. It worked quite well on most items (bacon: good combo of salty and sweet; melon: tastier than I would have guessed, liked the texture combo; cheddar cheese: would have worked better with a sharper cheddar but not bad; etc).

The one thing it did *not* work on: pickles.

To actually answer the question, the combos I'm more likely to go with are cream cheese related, such as bagel/cream cheese/ dark chocolate (good quick dessert), or bagel/cream cheese/ cucumber. I don't think either of those is strange, though.
posted by nat at 8:58 AM on February 11 [2 favorites]

Reddi-wip spray whipped cream on restaurant style white corn tortilla chips. Man, that salty sweet is perfect.

French fries dipped in a chocolate Frosty.

Grilled watermelon or grilled pineapple.

Watermelon with balsamic vinegar drizzled over it.

Indian Butter Chicken or Chicken Tikka Masala served over french fries (add some cheese for wonderful twist on poutine).

Standard poutine gravy and cheese curds served over grits or polenta!
posted by msladygrey at 9:02 AM on February 11 [4 favorites]

Sardines on toast with a bit of cream cheese, capers, and pickled red onion.

Yes, I realize this is adjacent to bagels and lox, but you'd think I was committing a human rights violation just by opening the tin of sardines around here. Never have so many howled for so long over so little.
posted by jquinby at 9:08 AM on February 11 [2 favorites]

I add Bombay Mix* to vanilla ice cream.

It's insanely delicious and I do not understand how it's not "a thing". I know at Indian grocers you can get ice cream with all kinds of various assorted things added, but it's more reminiscent of an Italian Spumoni and it has rarely the crunchy bits you find in namkeen*. Anyway, it's nothing like a handful of dry namkeen tossed into ice cream. I challenge anybody who likes things like, say, chai or chocolate covered pretzels to try it and tell me it's not amazing.

*Bombay Mix is just a generalization as it's only one kind of popular "namkeen", a bagged salty crunchy snack sold in the junkfood aisle at any Indian grocer. In reality, I have found a sweeter namkeen is better, something with at least 1 or 2 g of sugar per serving. Bombay Kitchen's brand has Tastee Mix and Masala Magic. Khatta Meetha (various brands) usually has some sweet to it as well, but it's heavy on the "cereal" feel and doesn't have all the nuts and stuff as the previous too so you'll want to add some raisins or something. You don't HAVE to use something with sugar, but the more salty it is, the more clashing the flavors become in my opinion. You want some clash but you don't want flavor "dissonance".
posted by engelgrafik at 10:46 AM on February 11 [4 favorites]

My girlfriend thinks my breakfast is weird.
I make steel-cut oatmeal usually with mace and coconut bits added. Then I throw in some garlic sautéed kale with lemon. Add some hummus and avocado slices. Top it off with a poached egg and I let the egg seep into all of it. Oh and add Aleppo Pepper and smoked Paprika. Honestly, I don't think it's weird... it's like some parallel universe keto wannabe-bibimbap maybe but nobody thinks bibimbap is weird, right?
posted by engelgrafik at 10:54 AM on February 11 [5 favorites]

Toast saltines or other crisp crackers in a pan, then pour scrambled eggs on top and let set. Flip, finish cooking, enjoy. Whyyy is that so good?

I save salmon skin from roasted salmon, then pan-fry on both sides until crispy (maybe with a spritz of oil if needed, but usually not). It's like salmon skin bacon.

Soak apple slices in pineapple juice. Enjoy.

Strawberry or raspberry jam/preserves on chicken breast or turkey breast.

Dip dumplings in sour cream.
posted by dabadoo at 11:31 AM on February 11 [3 favorites]

Too pertinently to y2karl's comment perhaps, but I used to chew road tar as a kid in 3rd and 4th grade. You had to wait several hours for it to really set up, but much longer than that and it wouldn't peel up very easily, and there were likely to be dangerous amounts of grit and gravel in it.

It tasted acrid and awful, but I needed something chewier than bubble gum and there was a long lasting ethereal sweetness to it that developed after a few minutes. No one knew I was doing this and I was kind of ashamed of it, but there was a black licorice gum on the market that gave me cover, I thought.

I also used to love pecans in the shell partly because it took so much work to eat a satisfying number of them, but after I ate the meats I always went back and ate all the pith I'd picked out of them. It was very bitter, and I had a deep-seated craving for that.

On a more appetizing note, until I developed celiac disease I loved heavily buttered Triscuits with a 1/4 - 3/8" slice of honeycomb on top.
posted by jamjam at 1:40 PM on February 11 [3 favorites]

In my youth:
Bologna and peanut butter on white bread sandwich.
Hot dogs, straight from the freezer, eaten like popsicles.
Uncooked spaghetti, full length eaten bite by bite.
Fried eggs and peanut butter on toast (this one continues).
posted by Techmudslinger_ at 4:57 PM on February 11 [1 favorite]

I have not had, but have been convinced by this article to try, a pineapple and mayonnaise sandwich.
posted by babelfish at 6:45 PM on February 11 [1 favorite]

dabadoo, your 1st is similar to matzo brei, another ashkenazi jewish dish.
posted by brujita at 11:54 PM on February 11 [2 favorites]

White rice (basmati or similar) with salted butter and castelvetrano olives.
posted by LKWorking at 10:15 AM on February 12 [1 favorite]

Rain City Hot Dogs in Seattle does a PB & J hot dog, I love it:

"[The PB&J Hot Dog] is regular peanut butter, roasted raspberry-chipotle jam, cream cheese, and slices of bacon.," said owner Chad Ostrom. "The bacon is what makes it." (source)
posted by jpeacock at 10:49 AM on February 12 [2 favorites]

I regularly put plain yoghurt on Cheerios and microwave it for breakfast. Nice and runny!

And my oddest thing recently is ketchup on bananas. Really quite good.
posted by mdoar at 10:57 AM on February 12 [1 favorite]

Not all that weird at all in retrospect, but in 2008, my place of work had a "recession dessert" contest for our department potluck dinner: total ingredient cost had to be < $10. The winning entrant made box brownies and put cooked bacon on top.
posted by vitia at 1:42 PM on February 12 [2 favorites]

Premium plus soda cracker, a dollop of mayonnaise, and a great big pinch of pork fluff [seriouseats].
posted by porpoise at 11:33 PM on February 12 [1 favorite]

I like to eat kimchi on hot dogs, with Chinese mustard if I have any. Works best if the bun is toasted first.

I have never tried a peppermint pickle, but I think it's the weirdest combination I've ever heard of. I saw it mentioned in Tayari Jones's book An American Marriage and went down a rabbit hole to find out if it was really real. I love both these things on their own but consider the idea of them together as akin to toothpaste and OJ.
posted by dlugoczaj at 10:18 AM on February 13 [1 favorite]

OJ tasting bad after toothpaste isn't about the mint though, it's about the sodium lauryl sulfate. If you get a toothpaste without it, it's not so bad. (I'm still not sure I'd *recommend* it, but it's not so bad).
posted by nat at 12:09 PM on February 13 [1 favorite]

Peanut butter and mustard sandwiches have been a favorite of mine since I was a kid. They go equally well with milk or with Tang.
posted by greenmagnet at 2:01 PM on February 13 [1 favorite]

NB: this is not my recipe. Used with permission.

The Amuse Bouche to end all Bouches:
* One Wheat Thin
* One eight of an inch slice of high quality, but small diameter pickle. Bubbies Dill Pickles are best.
* One smoked almond. Blue Diamond historically.
* A bottle of real-deal Sriracha.

Stack the slice of pickle on the wheat thin, the slice of pickle, then the almond.

Top the almond with a single, small dollop of Sriracha.

UNREAL
posted by Freen at 12:53 PM on February 14 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Wow, you guys really came through even more than I expected. Thanks for all the weird ideas! I marked some best answers that I plan on trying (or plan on trying a variation of), but these were all fascinating.
posted by Eyelash at 11:47 PM on February 15

An old flame liked Wheat Thins with Pace Medium Salsa. I thought that was so weird--but it's strangely good! Thirty years later and it's still a super-satisfying go-to snack.
posted by AnOrigamiLife at 11:50 PM on March 10