Odd Foods You Love

[Sarlon]

I don't think I have to many strange tastes....

I LOVE liver and onions made the way my mom makes it.

LOVE sushi and samashi too.

[Barracuda]

Pickled daikon and carrot.

[Gizmo]

I hate ketchup. Despise it. Love tomatoes, hate ketchup.

However, as I'm a Southwesterner, I do love salsa on my eggs. Will that count as a non-travesty to you folks?

That will do friend.

[BroSCFischer]

I like to put mustard on my bagels (it tastes like a soft pretzel to me). I have also been known to eat and enjoy raw oats.

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[Dentarthurdent]

Uncooked elbow noodles. Seriously used them as road trip food once when I was driving across the country. My grandma used to give them to me out of her big canister o' noodles when I was a kid and was hungry before meals. So the memory association is comforting.

Wasabi peas. The odd part about this is I can go through an entire can in maybe three sittings.

I like to melt shredded sharp cheddar or taco cheese in a bowl so it gets crispy around the edges and eat it with a fork. Comfort food, especially when I'm drunk.

From a young age I ate ketchup on green beans. Guess I thought they were green French fries. I still do this on occasion.

I can't bear to eat sweet potato fries without dipping them in barbecue sauce or Heinz 57 Sauce (which is superior by far to barbecue sauce for the purpose, but I don't usually have any).

I learned from a friend to dip popcorn in Sriracha or whatever hot sauce you have to hand. Only a tiny bit at a time.

When I was younger I'd often pull out a piece of bread and roll it into bread balls. I claimed they tasted better when the bread was compressed that way.

I also used to take those peanut butter cracker packs and scrape out all the peanut butter and roll it into a huge ball and eat it separately after I'd eaten all the crackers.

I hate ketchup. Despise it. Love tomatoes, hate ketchup.

However, as I'm a Southwesterner, I do love salsa on my eggs. Will that count as a non-travesty to you folks?

I may love ketchup...but...why the hell would I put it on eggs? It goes on hash browns.

[EricKei]

Exactly...I could never understand putting ketchup on eggs. Tastes like blasphemy. Like putting mustard on hot dogs (or anything at all, really). Eugh.

[dalesys]

... ketchup on ...

I have it on good authority (My Dad) that persons who have survived military chow halls for long periods of time will put ketchup on *everything* ... including ice cream!

[mathnerd]

I can't have ketchup because of the tomato allergy. I use honey mustard dressing with foods where most people would use ketchup of BBQ sauce. Some people say that's weird.

[BlaqueKatt]

Not sure if I've had braunschweiger or not. No idea what sprats are.

Braunschweiger is a kind of ground liver sausage/pate spread. Wisconsin has a large german population so it's quite common there.
Sprats are smoked fish packed in oil, usually taken from the can or jar and eaten on bread to absorb the oil. I was introduced to these lovely fish by the russian national I was engaged to, he bought them by the case for his lunches, can of sprats+loaf of farm bread(baked by me). I was averse to them because they still have tails, scales, bones(being smoked the bones are edible similar to canned salmon), but I grew to love them because unlike a lot of smoked fish they weren't dry because they're packed in oil.

And yeah, anchovies are an occaisional thing, maybe one or two cans a year with a box of club crackers, and a gallon of water!

[Cia]

Sweet potato fries or regular French fries dipped in mustard. Ketchup is to sweet for sweet potato fries.

Chocolate ice cream and Dr. Pepper floats.

Goat cheese, pesto, onion and black olive pizza.

Toasted cheese sandwich with chopped onions and a slice or two of tomato.

Roasted red pepper goat cheese and dried tomato stuffed omelet.

Ranch dressing and mashed potatoes.

My sister likes to put raisins in a glass of milk, eats the raisins using a spoon than drinks the milk. I upchuck just thinking about it. -blarg-

[ZumZum]

Growing up we had a special dip for our potato chips:
Sour Cream
Onion soup mix
and a can of tuna fish.

Don't knock it till you try it!
I'm in my 40s and still crave it all the time.

[Heksubah]

I'm late posting to this, but I just got a chance to post after my holidays and I got a chance to eat this at a dinner with my dad. Escargot. Dear heavens, I love escargot. They named the restaurant we were going to have dinner at and that was the first thing out of my mouth, "Oh! That's the place that has escargot!"

They cook it in a plate with a circle of little cups built into it in a ring and one in the center and each cup has a snail in it with garlic butter sauce. They then put a bit of puff pastry sort of topping over the top of the whole dish and you break through that to get the snails out. Mmm. The waitress brought over rolls too and suggested that people like it for the garlic sauce afterwards so I tried it. Dear heavens, a roll dipped in snail garlic butter... is so tasty. I'm drooling now. Anyone have escargot? I need some more now! *runs off in search of snails*

[fireheart]

For more Aussie-ish foods:
We all like vegemite, of course.
Musk candy, also available as lifesavers.
I love a meat pie that's topped with mashed potato instead of a pie crust, and has mushy peas just under the potato. UK folk will know 'mushy peas'.

You would LOVE a pie floater then (meat pie in pea soup).

Things I absolutely LOVE:

-Farmers Union Iced Coffee. I've tried other brands of iced coffee, but Farmers Union still actually tastes like coffee and isn't overly sweet. Fun fact: FUIC outsells Coca-cola in my state.
-I used to like Lifesavers as a kid, ditto for fruit tingles.
-Chocolate-coated jelly snakes/frogs. (Uniquely an SA thing)
-Yabbies. Their meat has an interesting texture. I can't stand most fish, but yabbies are quite nice. As is salmon.

-Scrambled eggs with tomato sauce.
-Vegemite (of course!)

White vinegar on just about ANYTHING. When I was little and I went to cafes and restaurants with my mum and sister, I would ask for vinegar to dip my food in.

Finally, balsamic dressing. My boyfriend thinks I'm weird, but I LOVe balsamic dressing on my salads.

[telecom_goddess]

Chocolate ice cream and Dr. Pepper floats.

Ohhh I never would have thought of that but it sounds GOOD!

My weird foods that I like include:

raw hamburger. Been eating it since I was a kid
raw potatoes. Love them. Usually only eat part of one though.
Milk toast. Basically toast white bread, spread with butter and sugar, and pour hot milk on top. YUM.
I like those creamy chicken ramen noodle things, and adding a ton of saltines to it. Till it's thick with them.

My mother ate the nastiest thing ever, which was a sandwich of white bread, mayo, and cold cheese. Blech.

[NecessaryCatharsis]

Eggs and salsa is not weird, love that!

Whenever I make stir-fry I add fruit salad at the end, any fruit except banana

When I make noodles I add paprika and pepper flakes to the flour before mixing (I know, sacrilege! I don't care, it's yummy)

Spicy lemon jam (boil down lemons with simple syrup, lemon rinds, and a cheesecloth bag of sliced hot peppers, remove peppers, add a little gelatin), good on pancakes, sandwich s, crackers, pie crust rolls and almost anything else