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The other day my housemate questioned my unusual habit of putting strawberry or blueberry jam (jelly) with my sausages.

I told him it's just like putting cranberry sauce on turkey - i first picked up the habit when i was travelling - sometimes you just have to make do with what's on the free shelf in the hostel. The other one that has stuck is chocolate spread with salami in sandwiches.

Anyone else discover unusual food combos that work?

Red wine + Fanta orange soda = a passable Sangria substitute.

Also, for those that like Canadian bacon & pineapple pizza, that same flavor combination works of you add pineapple to the recipe when making lasagna.

Mmm -- soy sauce on vanilla ice cream. Sounds gross -- it is delicious.

Also: Corn Chex, heaped into a good sized cereal bowl, a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top. Pour milk over the ice cream, then top with strawberries. Enjoy!

The only way to make that breakfast better is if you were to have a mimosa. Or straight gin. But everybody does that.

Cracked black pepper and/or balsamic vinegar on strawberries.

A friend of mine puts mayonnaise and peanut butter together but I can't even think about that one without getting the dry heaves

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Also, for those that like Canadian bacon & pineapple pizza,

I have read, and I believe, that is the second most popular pizza ordered in the US(after pepperoni of course). I find it to be one of the most disgusting combinations of food ever conceived. Oh well....

I love pineapple cold though, and am in fact working right now near Valencia,(Bukidnon, Mindinao) Philippines at a 2500 acre pineapple plantation. It's all you can eat here for me. They dig holes in the ground and bury about 20 tons of substandard pineapples per week here while hungry local people watch...

I've seen pines weighing 3 kilos being trashed.

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Originally posted by braslvr:
I love pineapple cold though, and am in fact working right now near Valencia,(Bukidnon, Mindinao) Philippines at a 2500 acre pineapple plantation. It's all you can eat here for me. They dig holes in the ground and bury about 20 tons of substandard pineapples per week here while hungry local people watch...

I've seen pines weighing 3 kilos being trashed.

Is there anything you could do about suggested those get donated Braslvr? Perhaps you could present it to management as community outreach and excellent PR for the company, to donate the substandard pineapples to a school or just give it away to the community, something that could be the subject of a press release to newspapers .... whatever's going to make sense to the corporate bottom line, if that'll get them to not be so heartless.

That is just criminal that food is being buried while people go hungry. I used to work at a fast food in Florida and they were funny about giving away the food too -- afraid of being sued. It was a little sickening how much perfectly good mashed potatoes & fried chicken & other stuff they just threw into the garbage every night.

christina, My 2 co-workers who have been here off and on for several months have been trying, as have I since I've been here. I don't think it's going to happen. They do sell at a cheap price(15-25 cents per kilo) a small portion of the substandards to locals for resale, but most of the nearby people are so poor they cannot afford to buy even at that price. It's sad.

Back to the odd food combos:
Brie and sweet cherry jam - surprisingly tasty

Pickles wrapped in cream cheese and ham

its strange how many of these involve jelly/jam...

either way, i dont know how weird it is, but any sort of jelly/jam on ice cream. Its really amazing! like i said, it isnt extraordinary, but i had never thought about it until my friend showed it to me just recently.

I think this one is quite well known - chilli powder in with your hot chocolate - gives it a great kick on a cold winter's day.

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Originally posted by everett:
I think this one is quite well known - chilli powder in with your hot chocolate - gives it a great kick on a cold winter's day.

This sounds like a great idea! I'm going to have to try this one.


Mine is (now, be open-minded here): french fries dipped in a Wendy's Frosty. Something about the salt and chocolate combination make them great together. So bad for you, but oh so good.

Peanut butter on bread with honey over it.

Tuna fish with a mini can of corn mixed in. A Brazilian girl told me about it.

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Tuna fish with a mini can of corn mixed in. A Brazilian girl told me about it.

One of THE most popular pizza combinations in Northeast Brazil.

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Originally posted by houseblend:
fries dipped in a Wendy's Frosty.

Ex-GF used to do that... sounds like PMS food to me...

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Peanut butter on bread with honey over it.

One of my favorite combos ever, sometimes also with jelly. When my roommates saw me do it, they gasped and moaned... apparently Europeans don't understand peanut butter.

Peanut Butter with Nutella, also excellent. Like a Reese's sandwich...

And my newly found invention, chocolate Vla with kruidnoten. Vla is the Dutch version of pudding... but very thin and watered down. Not very good on it's own. Kruidnoten are like little bits of gingerbread. Also not particularly good on their own... but mix em together...

Peanut butter and onion sanwhiches with a cold brew. Absoltly wonderful.

1. A toasted cheese sandwich isn't complete for me until I put sour cream on it.

2. My post-drinking meal: yogurt, cottage cheese, and Grape Nuts all mixed together. Coats and soothes the gut rot that comes with too much alcohol.

3. Pizza (topped with spinach, ricotta cheese, and tomatos) has to be topped with honey mustard salad dressing.

I could keep going with this list but it just gets more and more odd--at least in my friends opinions.

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Red wine + Fanta orange soda = a passable Sangria substitute.

In Sevilla, those are called "Tinto de Veranos." You can also use Fanta Limon. They are delicious and all we drank when I lived there.

[quote]Mine is (now, be open-minded here): french fries dipped in a Wendy's Frosty. Something about the salt and chocolate combination make them great together. So bad for you, but oh so good.[quote]

I thought my family were the only folks to do this. It is one of my dad's favorites, so he taught it to me & my brother...so not really a PMS thing, Nero. I love it. The salt & the sweet. Yum.

My favorite is what I had in Sweden for breakfast. Bread, Swedish cheese (I have no idea what type it is, but it is ubiquitous in Sweden) and strawberry jelly. Again, the combo of sweet & salt, it was the most delicious! I wish I could find that cheese here!

Pancakes and scrambled eggs (with syrup). Waffles and eggs are good too.

Peanut butter and banana sandwiches.

Chocolate powergel and pretzels. Oh yum!

I have found that sausages are good with syrup...But only if the syrup accidentally gets on the sausages. I have tried to approximate the event on purpose on my plate to enjoy this, to no avail. Sausages with accidental syrup are good.