Weird Food Combinations

[LaNiña]

I'm sitting here eating watermelon with feta cheese, which I realize in certain parts of the world isn't weird, but here, man, the reactions I get...you'd think I was eating a sheep's eyeball or something

What food combinations do you guys eat that are "weird?" I love cottage cheese with ketchup, for example...

[John Whiting]

Not strange food combinations, but unorthodox seasoning:

My father taught me how a light springling of salt brings out the flavor of a ripe melon.

Charles Shere had a breakfast suggestion published in Gourmet years ago: Hot toast with lashings of butter, liberally sprinkled with freshly ground black pepper.

I like mature farmhouse cheddar nibbled with strong hot black coffee.

[Sandra Levine]

See the thread on E Bulli.

[foodie52]

I like freshly ground black pepper on tropical fruit salad, one with minced serrano peppers in the dressing. Food is all about yin and yang....

[Suzanne F]

Oh, no, Nina!!! Richard M. Nixon used to eat cottage cheese with ketchup!!!!!

But watermelon and feta is a match made in heaven.

[B Edulis]

My first thought was salt on cantalope but John beat me to it. I've never run into anyone else doing this, John, I've thought perhaps it was a southern thing -- my "daddy" came from Virginia.

[Holly Moore]

Maybe it's a father thing. My father who grew up in Jersey and then California also sprinkled cantelope with salt.

A Hungarian friend introduced me to open faced sandwiches of soft, sweet butter and sliced radishes sprinkled with a little salt. Delightful addition to a summer table.

[John Whiting]

I'm surprised it's so unusual, although I've not encountered it elsewhere. My Dad wasn't from the South but lived briefly in Kentucky/Kansas. And it was precisely cantalope that he salted.

Of course there's the cook's axiom: a little salt with the sweet, a little sugar with the savory.

[tony h]

lighly cooked cold parma ham w vanilla ice cream (when no one is watching)

[John Whiting]

Raw oysters with chocolate sauce?

[rich]

My favorite sandwich - sardines, peanut butter and raw vidalia onion on pumpernickel toast. It really does taste very good.

[Holly Moore]

Halved strawberries, dabbed with natural peanut butter. I haven't tried this yet, but I suspect it would really be special if the peanut butter and strawberries were encased in a rich chocolate.

[coolranch]

I always salt my watermelon--always gets me some weird looks at picnics.

Feta and watermelon? Hmmm. I love Jean George Vongerichten's recipe for watermelon w/crumbled goat cheese, cracked black pepper and a drizzle of EV Olive oil--that is good stuff.

[edemuth]

Peanut butter, banana and Miracle Whip mashed together and eaten on bread or with crackers.

[southern girl]

salt on watermelon...definitely a "southern thang"

cottage cheese with barbeque sauce

and the old standby....chocolate ice cream and potato chips!

[stagis]

Watermelon with salt

Apples with salt

Apples dipped in peanut butter

Cheese dipped in BBQ sauce

Cottage cheese with horseradish (stuffed into a toasted pita)

Grilled cheese with mustard?

Pepper on anything sweet...

[bigbear]

Pretzles and ice cream.

[edemuth]

Macaroni and cheese, applesauce and potato chips, eaten together.

[B Edulis]

Coffee and peanut butter -- a delicious combo yet to be exploited by anybody that I know of! I really don't know how you'd combine them, but they taste great consumed at the same time.

[pariah_kerry]

My family salts their watermelon; we're in the midwest. My mom would make a 'salad' of a canned, halved pear with a large dollop of Miracle Whip, sprinkled with American cheese. Truly vomitous.

[foodie52]

I'm just sitting here , laughing: most of those combos sound like "The Munches" to me!

[Huevos del Toro]

I just LOVE jalapeno's stuffed with peanut butter!

[Huevos del Toro]

Nasturtium leaf sandwiches with mustard.

[firebellyfrog]

peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwhiches

sauted ham with fake maple syrup

grilled cheese sandwhiches with sliced cucumbers and cilantro

plain white rice with lavendar honey

[Aurora]

Every once in a while, I go to the fridge and get a spoonfull of sour cream and sprinkle it with salt and freshly ground black pepper.