Not-Such-A-Good-Idea Food Combos
 

Some things are just made to go together--ham and swiss, lox and bagels, fruit and cheese---the list is endless. You wanna know what doesn't taste too great together? Chocolate and diet ginger ale--Yeeeeeech!

Well there's always a certain twinge from brushing your teeth (at least with mint-flavored toothpastes) and then drinking orange juice.

I think it's Crest that makes an orange-flavored toothpaste now and it doesn't clash with OJ, coffee or cigarettes. Dang spiffy, if you ask me.
:D

This morning: Listerine followed by Alavert (allergy tablet). Never to be repeated again.

I have a friend (with a PhD in Computer Science, which proves he's smart, but sometimes lacking in common sense) that specializes in this. (His dad built the Killer Baby Carriage)

A couple that I remember off the top of my head ...

Oatmeal with Onions (it was all he had in the house)
Lime Sherbert with Butterscotch Topping (ordered to freak out the Friendly's waitress)
Coffee with Parmesan Cheese (just because it looks kind of like creamer dust doesn't mean it acts like it when added to a hot beverage)

Well I always thought E128 and E84 were an odd combination. But the markets will prove me wrong. You can even get E566 mixed with E900 these days. Tsk, the things people will eat.

butter isn't a good substitute for coffee creamer, either- trust me :sick:

Dealing with a nature identical flavorings account, are you?

SonofV once proudly displayed his PB&J sandwich that he made himself (the boy loves pb&j). When I took the half eaten sandwich to the kitchen as I cleaned up later, I found that the grape jelly had not been opened, and he used red instead. Well, the only red jelly in the fridge was labeled "Heinz". You can work out for yourself what flavor it was. But he did eat half the sandwich, no complaints!

did you ever ask him about it? poor thing :) how old was he?

Well, I did ask him! He was about 5 at the time. I called him into the kitchen and asked him what jelly he used, and he showed me the ketchup bottle. Incredulous, I asked him why he used the ketchup and not the jelly. He said he couldn't open the jelly. And besides, ketchup is a lot like jelly, they both sit in the refrigerator door shelf, the both go on bread, they're both pretty colors, they both pour/spread. Not a bad substitute, but not for me. :)

God Bless 'im, I was really proud of his lateral thinking and his refusal to quit when the first obstacle came up. And although peanut butter and ketchup is a good fit in this thread for me, he had no problem with it. No preconceived notions to overcome. Of course, like a lot of kids, ketchup is a choice condiment. Sometimes his portion size for ketchup transcends "condiment" and approaches "side dish".

And the nice people in the New Jersey State Legislature would be just fine with that, since tomatoes are now the official state vegetable. Anything to get the kids to eat their vegetables.

well.. on a side note... what does butter NOT go well with? the only things I can think of (and I've asked this to quite a few people in my proffesion) is soda and salad (then again... salad can be worked around) woo! 300! (damn I need a life!)

oh... and and here's a story.. the being 5 thing made me remember it..

when I was 5 my fathers birthday was coming up.. and well I knew he liked radishes.. and cookies.. so I set about the task of making him something for his birthday.. well.. radish sugar cookies didn't work out so well... okay not much of a story.. but I've been working on candieng (sp?) radishes for the past 5 years.. finally have that down! so! the next step is making the cookies actually work! (I can do this.. just at the place I am working now.. creativity is severly squashed.. so... next job)

Butter does not go with:

Ice cream
Hard candy
Pickles

*ahem*
Butter Pecan Ice Cream
Butter Toffee
...
Ok, no butter on my pickles, and I refrain from suggesting Bread and Butter Pickles as they have no butter in them, but on the bread...

You forgot Butterbrickle ... and Butter Rum ... Butterscotch topping ... one must admit, though, that these uses of butter involve other ingredients and processing before introducing to the ice cream.

As an ingredient, sure, and not as a separate element on the dish itself. But in all the cases, the taste of the butter is still a prominent and important part of the confection.

ranch dressing with pizza
ranch dressing with cookies
ranch dressing with pretty much anything.

a nicely made sandwich with pickle juice soaked into the bread, making it soggy. :P

Oh no, ranch with pizza is awesome. So is blue cheese. During the poor college days (sorta), my roommate and I would sit around and engorge ourselves with frozen pizzas, corn dogs and QuikTrip spicy chicken sandwiches (then $1 apiece) smothered in ranch or bleu cheese. Awesome.

But back to the subject at hand - I've never liked apples and cheese, unless it's a particularly sweet cheese like ... um, yeah. :greenface

ranch with pizza rocks.
ranch with french fries rocks.
ranch goes well with most anything.

Ranch dressing tastes like puke.

I am not even considering the possibility of adding it to food that I like.

Wow, another soul in this world who doesn't swear by the milky yuckiness that is ranch dressing.

I also find mushrooms and coconut so aversive as to cause projectile vomiting.

I can only buy the candy that comes with a map, because I won't risk contact with coconut. I cannot drink Pina Coladas, even though the Pina is one of my favorite flavors.

The guys at work know that if they order mushroom pizza there is NO FUCKING WAY I'm going to be even considering snitching a slice off them.

One that works with everything: A1. It is never a mistake. ...almost. It does not work with pork products, but it can make a shoe edible.

I also find mushrooms and coconut so aversive as to cause projectile vomiting.

Yeah, yeah, we're all sorry your tastebuds are broken. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm craving a massive portabello filled with scrambled eggs, cheese, and baked to perfection.

i don't get people who have to have ranch on everything... it's just weird. I can't stand eggs paired with anything... Eggs are probably the worst food in the whole world and pretty disgusting when you think about what they really are and where they come from.

Coconut is the Devil's food.

I recently moved into a new building. The property management company here uses coconut scented liquid soap in the soap dispensers. It's not particularly strong smelling, but strong enough to be noticeably unpleasant for me. I am always having the dilemma after I take care of business. Do I wash with soap, or just rinse with water? If I'm feeling particularly unclean, and choose to wash my hands with soap, I must take an extra 45 seconds to thoroughly rinse off my hands. Like some sort of obsessive compulsive freak, I'm scrubbing, scrubbing, scrubbing, until there is no hint of remaining coconut flavor.

No coconut?? But what about the Girl Scout's famous Caramel deLites! They're only the BEST cookie EVER! And I bet they'd be even BETTER if you dipped them in ranch! Ok, maybe not.

At dim sum last week, I *had* to order a second plate of chicken feet, and it came just as my dining partners grabbed a few plates of almond and coconut jello from a passing cart. Try putting those all together. Yum! :spam1: :thumb:

Celery in Jello... never have been a big fan.

Ah. See I do this on purpose. I can't have the pickles themselves due to Crohn's disease. So, I dribble pickle juice on the meat before closing up the sandwich.

I don't drown it though.

Carmel duhlites?!?!

First, it's a SAMOA, not that doppelganger. Second, it's a freakin cookie, why does it have to be "lite"? If you're counting calories, just cut down from two boxes to one (there was an understandable, but unfortunate misprint on the Nutritional Information Label on the boxes). Why suck the goodness out of the cookie? Where's the sense of personal responsibiitly here? Sh*t, if it's a problem for you, I'LL eat your other box of SAMOAS for you and save you from yourself.

Remarks from others who know the truth (and some bleating and grunting from others who somehow found their way to a keyboard).

BigV, I don't like them for their lite-ness. I like them because they're yummy. Plain and simple.

They make me puke too. And are especially horrid because of the additional temptation of chocolate and caramel and shortbread. They would have been FINE cookies without the coconut. The Girl Scout Mom at work leads off with ... well, I have lots of these but I know you can't stand them ...

If we had coconut flavored soap at work, I'd play the allergy card and demand it's removal.

Oh, and yeah, I think pickles are icky too.

Just for you, wolf, glatt. By the way, can I have your ration of Samoas?

if you click on "shop in U.S. dollars" on that site, it appears to be FREE!!

There's a Jewish deli by me that gives you pickle wedges and ketchup to dip them in while you wait. :thumbsup: I prefer to dip mine in ranch. Seriously, ranch makes so many things so much better.

But since I'm lactose intolerant, I have to be careful.

Great link! I've been looking for something compliment my tuyo, daing, and inihaw na bangus. :biglaugha

I visited a friend a couple weeks ago and he has a friend that is some way hooked up with the trucking of Scout Cookies. There were several cases of cookies he was using as dog treats.
I took the case of deLites. :blush:

tell your friend not to give his dog the chocolate ones- chocolate is toxic to dogs. Actually, what kind of friggin dog treat is any kind of girl scout cookie??

I just tried something that I thought would be gross. It turned out delightful. Heineken and chewy Werthers. Nice flavor.

I'm mostly indifferent to Ranch dressing--but sour cream, I could add that to ANYTHING. There's a hamburger place here that servers a swiss-n-mushroom burger with sour cream. They call it a Boodieburger. It is heaven. :yum:

Pickle juice is also used as a marinate for ribs before they are dry cooked (Memphis style). Deeeeeeeeeeeelicious!!!

I just don't know who you are anymore.
:apickle:

i don't know why i keep visiting this thread... I've been sick for 4 days - mono for the second time since december and i always feel pretty bad after i read some of these. But granted, it's human nature to be drawn to gross stuff.

It's like the Saturday Night Live skit where the family is sitting around the table drinking the spoiled milk. Ewww... this is so gross - You try it!

Interesting insight.

Sour Cream is gross too.

Unless it's in french onion dip.

I don't know why it's acceptable in that form and revolting in all others.

*gasp* Not Bubbies though, right??? :eek: They are pure joy. (especially with a little peanut butter or cream cheese)

They're still pickles, aren't they??

I've tried them all. I still can't manage them. I didn't just up and decide I don't like pickles, like I know not every hot dog is an Oscar Mayer, there are brand variations. But it matters not from whence it came ... Heinz, Claussen, Vlassic, breakfast pickle-on-a-stick at the RenFaire, Deep Fried Pickles (every thing is supposed to be better deep fried, isn't it?) or even the vaunted nirvana of the big barrel at the deli ... they are still pickles. I smell pickles in brine and I lose my appetite. I cannot order a McDonalds Cheeseburger as it comes and just pick the pickle off. The juice is still there. It touched the meat, and more importantly, the bread. The pickles that every restaurant insists you have with your sandwich is also anathema, as there is an excellent likelihood that it will at least spoil some of the chips into a mass of gooey pickley wetness, but there is danger that it may also touch and soak into the bread of a perfectly good club sandwich. Chik-Fil-A has at least come up with the "Chik-no-Pic" order, which allows me to enjoy that wonderful, crunchy sandwich. Anyone who has been with me at Michael's Deli knows for sure i can't stand pickles. I am NOT one to pass up free food ... I make them put the bucket of free pickles in front of somebody else

Um.

I don't like pickles.

I empathize completely, wolf. I am right with you on pickle hatred. It's that smell, taste...even picking up and moving a pickle to someone else's plate is gross to me. Not to mention, I have to quarantine any of the ruined food that sits next to where the pickle once was. Why do restaurants just assume we want that mess on our plates? I order McDonalds cheeseburgers with "ketchup only", as I have hatred with the same passion for mustard. Blech. The onions are just not prepared correctly on their food, IMO.

Anyway...pickles are nasty.

While I am bitching about foods, I wanted to mention that cottage cheese is about the most digusting food I have ever dared to consume. Put it with fruit, put spices on top, put it in lasagne, blend it in a blender with other disguises, I don't care...I can't handle it. There is something about the texture that makes me think of the nastiest spoiled milk I have ever seen.

Another thing...why the hell do restaurants insist on making everything in huge portions and refusing to let me order from the kid's menu in protest? I would much rather have a simple grilled cheese or corn dog than a super duper over-grilled burger with a million things to put on it and a mound of french fries the size of my head. I often order just an appetizer at restaurants, so I can pawn off some of it to my family and so I don't end up with endless decisions about salads, potatoes, vegetables and shit that I am not going to eat anyway. :mad:

Thanks for letting me rant. Now back to your regularly scheduled thread. :3eye:

I cannot stand idly by while the beloved pickle endures such a vicious, malicious and sacraligious attack. I like dill pickles. No, I *love* dill pickles! The diller and saltier the better. I marinate beef in pickle juice. I eat 'em right outta the jar!

BUT, there outta be a law against sweet pickles. I mean seriously: sugar and pickles together? That pretty much wins the "two things that don't go together" award if you ask me. YUCK!!!!

Give me dill or give me death.

Case, I'm right with you on the mustard thing ... I order Mickey D's (and BK and Wendy's) burgers plain, and put on my own damn ketchup. I eat my pretzels plain.

I have to confess to a fondness for the cottage cheese though. It's a form of cheese. One that you can add jelly or fruity goodness to.

Have I ever mentioned to you that I never get enough cheese?

I am one of the crazies who rarely has much to do with cheese or milk (except parmesan, or whatever ends up on my pizza). I guess I must not like cow secretions. I do like "cheese food" though...like spray cheese and velveeta...you know what I mean.

Pickles are just unnatural. Let's just leave it at that. A cucumber was not made to be saturated in that puke flavored liquid. And I will not call it dill, because I like dill...just, not in liquid form, saturating innocent cucumbers.

Other abominations include: radishes, brussel sprouts, turkey, calliflower, olives (especially the black ones that remind me of HotWheels tires and taste like them), tofu (sorry, can't do the texture, no matter what it is saturated in), anything so hot/spicey you can't *taste* it, pecans, walnuts, jalepenios, lemon flavored things, blue cheese (double blech!), cranberries and thera-flu.

There are other moderate aversions in my appetite, but those are the big turn offs. Hell for me would be all of those things in a blender drink I was forced to consume. It would probably be full of protein, though.

Oh yeah, I was going to mention that I use to order my cheeseburgers plain, but I found that the cheese would stick to the top bun and break up the bread, which annoyed me when I went to put the ketchup on, so I started ordering them "ketchup only".

Pretzels plain is the best way. They put too much fucking salt on those things! I mean, 2 grains of salt on those things is too much, because they are so large and potent. And the cheese is always like a watered down version of velveeta with jalepenio flavor in it.

[quote=case]Other abominations include: radishes, brussel sprouts, turkey, calliflower, olives (especially the black ones that remind me of HotWheels tires and taste like them), tofu (sorry, can't do the texture, no matter what it is saturated in), anything so hot/spicey you can't *taste* it, pecans, walnuts, jalepenios, lemon flavored things, blue cheese (double blech!), cranberries and thera-flu.[quote]

Well, clearly, you are insane.
Oh, and sweet pickles are great with your peanut butter sandwich. Or, cream cheese sandwich. OR peanut butter AND cream cheese sandwich! So there! :yum:

You are sadly mistaken. There are very few things in this world that are not improved by a good long soak in a vinegar/dill bath. mmmmm... pickled hot peppers.

Why waste a perfectly good hot pepper in that manner?

It should be sliced and added to just about anything savory, stuffed with cream cheese, breaded and deep fried, or just eaten in all of it's raw and crispy goodness.

Yep. I do that too. It gives 'em a good tang to go with that oak and hickory smokiness.

Oh GOD! YESS! :yum: :yum: :yum:

You, you....anti-pickleites!

Nothing beats a good Vlassic Zesty Kosher Dill. Except maybe the great big dill pickles we used to get in the A&P food stores they had in the big wooden barrels. Anyone remember those? Our Mom used to get us each one of those as soon as we went in the store and we wouldn't bother her the whole shopping trip, munching on the pickles! :yum:

Never try an appetizer of mussles before an entre of Fajitas.

I'm having a fried corn tortilla sandwich with peanut butter and fluff.