Food combinations that others might think are weird

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  • Biblioklept
    Biblioklept Online Community Member Posts: 640 Trailblazing

    Oooh I love marmite and I love cucumber, can even imagine cucumber sticks with marmite, but for some reason the idea of them together in a sandwich is not hitting right for me!

    How did you discover it??

  • Otteline
    Otteline Online Community Member Posts: 63 Contributor

    @Biblioklept as a child I can remember eating it at a neighbours house back in the 60s. My mum then starting making them and we have passed the love onto my son. Yummy, I fancy one now.

    I enjoy artisan bread nowadays but for some reason this sandwich tastes nicer if made with packaged white sliced bread 😄and the cucumber needs to be very thinly sliced.

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Posts: 4,147 Connected

    When we were young we used to eat 'pobs' - bread broken up with hot milk and sugar, it was gross. Had to eat it for breakfast when we had no cereals. And sugar butties ! Ha, wouldn't eat either now.

  • Albus_Alumni
    Albus_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 11,423 Championing

    Got to be crunchy for me. Smooth just ends up sticking to the roof of my mouth.

    Ooh, that's one I like; Fishfingers, crunchy peanut butter and franks hot sauce, in a plain white bread sarnie. 😋

  • Albus_Alumni
    Albus_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 11,423 Championing

    Another one is Marmite pasta. Sis is addicted to the stuff, but t's certainly an acquired taste, even if you like marmite.

    Cheese and marmite toasties are delicious though.

  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,410 Championing

    @Ranald

    I agree with you about the core bottles, but some of their more niche ones do taste a bit like acetone, iodine, bandages and such

    I imagine Charlie has been a patron ever since he crash landed his plane at their distillery about 30 years ago and caused £1m in damage … I guess they felt compelled to forget about the cost and he felt compelled to give them his warrant 😆

  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Online Community Member Posts: 1,366 Championing

    Laphroaig is the only whisky I like, to me it taste smoky & a little fruity, but, that's just me! 😆I have syphoned petrol, but wouldn't say it has those notes, just the burn.

    @Santosha12, I also had bread sop as a kid, but with cold milk & the sugar sandwiches too! Oh, those were the days!!

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Online Community Member Posts: 1,063 Championing

    Growing up with a functioning alcoholic father who would stop off at the pub for a half pint of whiskey (literally in a 1/2 pint glass) the smell alone is enough to turn my stomach … would rather drink petrol 😁

    Marmite crisps, love them but couldn't eat the real thing.

    All this talk of cucumber … love it, but an hour later even with my GERD tablets it hates me with a vengeance. A bit of a mickey take really when I'm religiously looking after 3 cuc' plants for my wife to have them

    With food, if I don't like the texture the taste doesn't matter

  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,410 Championing

    @JessieJ   I love a Laphroaig but in the winter. We live in a modern house without a fireplace and it makes me feel like I’m sitting in my granny’s old cottage with the fire roaring 😊

    @Ranald   Are you a bit into whisk(e)y? I’m fortunate to have had something from most of the distilleries in Scotland and Ireland, and would enjoy recommending some smaller/boutique/craft distilleries

    There’s a tasty world to explore outside of well-known brands, not to mention so much more value for money! I’ve sampled stuff from Glenfiddich, Macallan, Dalmore etc. which were perfectly yummy, but didn’t do more for me than £50 lesser-known brands. If I’d paid £400 of my own money for a bottle of one of these I’d honestly have felt quite let down

    That said taste is definitely subjective! 

    @WelshBlue   that’s funny about texture, I can relate! Have you ever liked a taste and felt sad you couldn’t appreciate it because the texture was a  barrier? I had that with porridge as I love the oaty taste but not the texture

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Online Community Member Posts: 1,063 Championing
    edited July 2025

    @66Mustang … definitely … love scampi - hate prawns because of the texture. Love peanuts - hate peanut butter for the same reason. Love eggs poached/ fried/ boiled - hate scrambled and omelette

    Biggest hate - twiglets. My brain just rejects the texture before even going in my mouth to the point I gag at people eating them in front of me

    It's weird really cos' in the past I've thought nothing of eating a sandwich with all sorts of oils and chemicals on my hands that you can taste let alone smell

    Not that I'd ever order a cheese and onion sandwich with a dressing of hydraulic oil or potassium nitrates 🤣 … no wonder my stomach is in bits …

  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,410 Championing

    @WelshBlue I kind of get it I think, I've been through similar periods of having a strong stomach and putting very stupid stuff in my mouth, and then others of being super sensitive to the point that brushing my teeth made me gag… 😆

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Online Community Member Posts: 1,063 Championing
    edited July 2025

    We're all weird in our own ways 😛

    Texture can extend to touch with me … don't mind raw pork or beef … give me a raw chicken breast and it's radioactive.

    I think I would be the most squeamish serial killer in history 😂

    … but actually got more important things to worry about … shaved half my face and head - then the clippers have packed in. And have to be somewhere in an hour. Will have to film people' reaction lol

  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,410 Championing

    @WelshBlue my mum is like that, she used to be a nurse and she said after working in theatre she can no longer cut raw meat as her mind imagines the likeness to human tissue … she's fine cooking and a brilliant cook, just someone else has to cut chicken and stuff

    I hope you have a good day. 😊

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,558 Championing

    Salt in coffee!!!

    I do think my coffee tastes less bitter, as the article said it would. I certainly can't taste the salt 😊 I don't use sugar and always heat the milk to make that a bit sweeter.

    Plus, since Mustang has finally returned, I should mention this is Japanese coffee - I didn't know there was such a thing but the packet was damaged and I paid a quarter of the original price.

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,558 Championing
    edited August 2025

    As coffee isn't strictly a food, I'll also mention the banana and white pepper sandwiches my dad introduced me to 😄

  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 15,455 Championing

    in South Africa we have rice with everything even on Sunday dinners

  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,410 Championing

    @durhamjaide2001 I once saw some South Africans ordering chips with their curry and rice… with the naan bread, having 3 kinds of carbs at once seemed wrong to me 😂

  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,410 Championing

    @WhatThe

    How much salt do you use? I'm assuming you don't measure by the teaspoon like with sugar!!

    Sadly I'm not a coffee drinker anymore as I'm taking new meds which react with caffeine so I've switched to tea… I can have the odd coffee so will have to try it with salt

    How did you find the Japanese coffee compared to normal?

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,558 Championing

    Haha just a pinch! It was good and strong (Japan's no 1 coffee it boasts). I would only add the salt with fresh ground though. I recommend decaff Colombian as I could barely detect any difference in flavour.

  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,410 Championing

    Thanks @WhatThe oh just an idea, it might be what you meant from the start, but if you grind your own beans what about adding coarse salt crystals in with the beans before grinding? 🤔