You are what you eat. My wife has a dish that she loves that I fondly refer to as “crap pasta.” It’s comfort food from her childhood, a mixture of noodles, tomato soup and cheddar cheese. What’s your favorite weird food combo?
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Cream cheese and strawberry jam burritos. Mmmm, good.
I’ll eat cottage cheese with olives piled on about 5 slices of pizza which in turn is sitting on a big mess of mac ‘n cheese, spaghetti, and other various pastas, with a side of mushrooms, salad, eggs, more cheese, and a big glass of tomato juice. Sometimes with a foot long sub.
This is one of my favorite meals, especially since you can make it in nearly any buffet. Of course, all my friends will look at that and wonder:
1) how can I eat all that and not get sick
2) how can I eat all that 3 times a day and still be 140 pounds.
I’ll usually say something along the lines of “the anime diet”
My friends and I used to have “salad parties” at school as an alternative to the normal pizza-chips-cookies-soda potlucks. In my opinion salads exist as an excuse to eat other things while making your concience believe you’ve just consumed something healthy, and we took it to the extreme. Anything in our refridgerators was fair game, including any varieties of meat, cheese, nuts, fruits, cookies, sauces, pasta chicken egg tuna and potato salads, vegetables, crackers, olives, breads, and condiments we could get our hands on, just as long as there was at least Italian dressing on hand to pour all over it. My favorite salad of all time contained leftover London broil, edamame, pine nuts, blue cheese, provolone, salami, a handful of other things I have forgotten about, and Asian sesame dressing. In lieu of all this not-so-healthy goodness, a restaurant side salad with blue cheese or ranch dressing should not be consumed without being covered in crunched up saltine crackers.
A Penut-butter & omlette sandwich
CHOLESTEROL FTW!
Fried eggs with salsa and cheese. In college I’d eat pepperoni cheddar cheese and ranch dressing sandwiches.
I have two, peanut butter and olives, and grapes and cheese.
If you think that’s gross, then don’t talk to my sister, miss peanut butter, jelly, bolonga, and cheese sandwiches. I lost my appetite when I saw her eat three… ech.
I really, really like blueberry bagels with tuna, cheese, and mustard.
My brother used to eat apple sauce mixed with ketchup on slices of bread.
A friend once dared me to eat a peanut butter and tuna salad sandwich. It wasn’t bad, just very salty.
My best friend in college ate pickles with yogurt. I don’t have anything to top that.
…Ketchup and potato chips.
Ice Cream on saltine crackers. My Grandma, who worked in an ice cream parlor as a teen, turned me on to that, or a bowl of ranch with half a bag of chedder cheese stired in.
Chicken, rice, corn, and ranch dressing.
Marmite and milk chocolate, surprisingly tasty
my dad is crazy when it comes to cooking. ocassionaly we have this strange dish that he likes to call “cream of chicken” but I swear it’s like hommade groul… only good… its just grey stuff with chicken in it or rice, and as disgusting as it looks it’s ammazingly good. I don’t know the exact recipe, but it has like mayo, and horseradish, and an odd amalgimation of strange things like that… also, when he’s bored he just puts sliced tomato and mayo on bread… I don’t like that one so much…
lol, I meant chicken and rice… whatever
Waffles and caviar. Lovely lovely food.
Weirdly enough the “crap pasta” is EXACTLY what I tend to go to as a comfort food too. Macaroni, tomato soup (usually Campbell’s) and cheddar cheese. Mmmmmm. Not exactly a balanced diet, but good stuff all the same. That or the same thing but with cream of mushroom instead of tomato. Ghetto mac and cheese. Still miles better than the Kraft boxes though!
I’m totally bookmarking this page so I can come back and try some of these… ‘foods’ people apparently eat and enjoy.
My contribution to the culinary chaos is:
Peanut Butter and Honey Sammich, eaten with Hot Chocolate. Take a PB & Honey sammich or two (some people think that alone is odd), and a cup of hot chocolate. Dunk the sammich in the drink (like one might do with oreos and milk) and eat.
Peanut Butter and Tomato Sauce Club sammich. Toast 2 pieces of bread, butter them and add Peanut butter and tomato sauce. Put an untoasted piece between them and eat. I swear, I’m not making this up. I have eaten this since I was in high-school (many years ago).
The only other thing I eat that’s odd may be hard for people to picture, as the ingredients are unfamiliar. Weet-Bix and Marmite + sugar.
Take weet-bix (adjust brand name to regional), and spread on as much Marmite (Vegemite can go die in a fire) as you dare. Personally, I like it, so it goes on fairly thick. Do this to 3-ish of them, and lob them in a bowl, and pour in milk, then sprinkle some sugar over the lot, and ‘enjoy’.
For those that haven’t enjoyed the experience, Marmite is effectively black salty death. It’s potent. And salty.
My favorite strange food combination is Sharp cheddar cheese and ranch dressing….. it sounds weird but its soooo delicious
One of my cousins would only eat a few select foods when we were kids. Once we had a very interesting snack of Oreos & Goldfish crackers together in the same bowl, while drinking orange juice. I’ve actually thought about trying it again recently.
I used to dunk my breadsticks from Pizza Hut into my root beer. (I rarely go to Pizza Hut any more, though)
My cousin used to dunk her chicken nuggets from Wendy’s into her “frosty” (soft-serve ice cream in a soda/pop/cola cup, essentially, for those of you who don’t know).
Ramen noodles for me. I love them to death. One drawback, I refuse to eat them without lemon juice, hot sauce, crushed red peppers, ground red peppers, basil, garlic powder, and half of the bag of seasoning that comes with the noodles. Then there are the other five or so spices that I use to vary the flavor. Yummy noodle time!
potatoes and applesauce, id take half a spoon of potatos and the rest of applesauce it was so good the contrasting hot potatos and cold applesauce
also those “on the go or whatever” packets of frosted flakes with mtn dew poured in them, id let it get soggy, crush it and drink it
Pizza, with anchovies and fried shrimp.
Surprisingly good.
hmmm….
My step-dad eats Ham, Jam, Tuna, Cheese and Brown sauce on toast.
I personally prefer marmite and fries or maybe fries dipped in coke.
mmmm…. fries….
Peanut butter in tortillas (spelling?)
Sauage gravy on a slice of toast, usually abreviated to S.O.S. or this morning’s caramel-covered waffles. (Hey, there was half a jar of caramel sauce and no ice cream left to put it on… can’t always just eat it straight from the jar with a spoon.)
my comfort food is crackers. my best friend argues with me and tells me its ice cream. no. that is my favorite food but not a comfort food. theres a diffrence. my fav is Town House crackers. mmmm. now i have to see if we have any….