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What is your favorite odd food?

Hi Everyone:

I thought a poll might add some cheer to the threads area, everyone always likes to share. Anyway, I was thinking this morning about how I adore under-ripe bananas. A little green around the edges is just great, but once they get a brown spot I am saddened and don't enjoy them nearly as much.

What's your favorite odd food?

Wed. Feb 1, 11:42pm

bison salami. yummy!!! I'll grab a few slices as a snack... or have it with mozza on brown rice/flax/quinioa/sesame crackers...

Thursday, February 02, 2006, 12:10 AM

My boyfriend's favorite is an applesauce sandwich with grated parmesan. I thought it was worth noting. Mine is anything to do with peanut butter.

,-->Thursday, February 02, 2006, 12:20 AM

definitely peanut butter, especially on apples.

,-->Thursday, February 02, 2006, 3:18 AM

I love slightly green bananas too! Wow, I thought I was the only one! I also love beets, just love them. Mmm.

And that norwegian goat cheese - jetost? I don't remember how it's spelled. That is so good on wasa crackers.

And eggplant, anything eggplant for me too!

,-->Thursday, February 02, 2006, 6:31 AM

everybody thinks i am weird for this but i like avocado sandwiches with spinach on them. its really healthy and yummy to me.

,-->Thursday, February 02, 2006, 9:10 AM

odd food

My favorite snack is definitely odd. My friends would say "eeewww" when I ate it until I got some of them to try it. Now a lot of my friends eat it. My odd snack is a peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwich. It really is good. My mom got me started on it when I was little. I said "eeewww" to her that first time, too.

,-->Thursday, February 02, 2006, 9:14 AM

Well, one of my favorite foods isn't odd to me because of myChinese heritage, but I've seen Fear Factor use them in their food challenges because it's more of an ethnic food.

I like "thousand year old eggs"--which are regular duck eggs that have been preserved in a special chemical process. It makes the whites turn a glossy dark brown/black and the yolk turn a dark green. It has a rich flavor which I cannot discribe.

I like eating the eggs sliced and sprinkled with a sauce of soy sauce, vinegar & sesame oil (sometimes with garlic chili sauce or green onions on top). I will usually it it with bowl of rice "congee" (boiled rice porridge) and a type of canned food called "fried gluten and peanuts" (basically it's little balls of wheat gluten fried up, with boiled peanuts and in oil), and another canned fish called "Fried Dace with black beans".

No, it is not particularly healthy food, but It makes me think of my family, so I like having this every so often in the winter time--kind of a quick weekend lunch or a late night snack and sort of a "comfort food" to me...

,-->Thursday, February 02, 2006, 9:21 AM

pasta with lowfat cottage cheese. my friends thought I was crazy and now they all eat it.

,-->Thursday, February 02, 2006, 9:25 AM

hummus and yves veggie baloney sandwiches on wheat bread or just the hummus rolled up in the baloney... don't knock it till you try it!

,-->Thursday, February 02, 2006, 9:47 AM

My favourite odd snack is something I don't really indulge in now since I don't really eat chips anymore but I used to ADORE eating plain chips (ridged or regular) with cottage cheese.

It was salty because of the chips but kinda creamy because of the cottage cheese....Oh man, it was good.

,-->Thursday, February 02, 2006, 9:54 AM

The comment about the peanut butter and mayonaise sandwich brought back childhood memories. I don't eat them now, but as a kid we also put dill pickles on them! I could still eat them as an adult, but don't.

I like really ripe bananas. Yes, brown spots and all. Not black but as long as they're firm, I'll eat them.

,-->Thursday, February 02, 2006, 9:57 AM

Fat free feta cheese, straight from the container! And green olives, love them!

,-->Thursday, February 02, 2006, 10:36 AM

favorite odd food

Graham cracker-peanut butter-Nutella sandwich: spread peanut butter on one cracker and Nutella on another. Put together: Yummm!! Or, Nutella and banana sandwich (white bread, toasted). Yeah, I have a mild Nutella fetish.

,-->Thursday, February 02, 2006, 10:50 AM

cold pasta with lowfat cottage cheese

i am so with you!!! i love that!

my old Jewish grandfather used to eat egg noodles in cottage cheese, so I actually think this might be a "thing"....

Thursday, February 02, 2006, 11:52 AM

Most of my odd foods were in childhood...

Green grapes with a pretzel stick (the little ones)
White bread, grape jelly and american cheese sammichs
Fresh red raspberry from our bushes with a fresh green pea from our garden sutffed inside

And fried spaghetti. LEftover spaghetti (must have been refrigerated overnight, wiht the sauce and pasta together), in a skillet...turn the heta up and crack an egg over it, and stir stir stir till the egg is cooked (like fried rice kind)

Oh and spaghetti sandwhiches. Leftover spaghetti, inside white bread, and toasted in my sammich maker machine.
*drools*

,-->Thursday, February 02, 2006, 1:04 PM

Wow... to the last poster above, those ARE odd combinations!

,-->Thursday, February 02, 2006, 1:24 PM

I love pickled okra with ranch dressing. :D

,-->Thursday, February 02, 2006, 2:22 PM

OMG it must be the era of our parents!

My mom was all about the pb and mayo sandwiches too! I say eew, but ocassionally have them but she adds pickle relish and lettuce to it.

My mom is from SoCal, LA, old LA family... maybe a west coast thing?

,-->Thursday, February 02, 2006, 3:32 PM

i know three people who like pb and mayo sandwiches. One is from the West Coast. All three are geniuses. Make of THAT what you will!

,-->Thursday, February 02, 2006, 6:15 PM

I am also a genius who loves PB & mayo
also, PB and bacon
... and I love to suck on a salted lemon

,-->Thursday, February 02, 2006, 6:48 PM

Peanut butter an lettuce sandwich with a few raising, maybe some shredded carrots. Don't knock it until you've tried it!

,-->Friday, February 03, 2006, 5:23 AM

I'm a midwestern girl who grew up with pb & mayo sandwiches.

,-->Friday, February 03, 2006, 8:36 AM

peanut butter any mayo

I started the peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwich post. I am so glad there are other people who grew up on them too. My mom was from New York state. I made straight A's in school and I am currently making straight A's in college so maybe these sandwiches are brain food:o)

Friday, February 03, 2006, 9:49 AM

I used to make peanut butter and Caro syrup (aka straight corn syrup) sandwiches as I kid. Totally sweet and delicious.

,-->Friday, February 03, 2006, 12:24 PM

Fun topic! I loved to eat elbow macaroni with canned tuna and a dollop of ketchup all mixed together. It sounds gross, and I don't know how (or why) my mother came up with this recipe, but my siblings and I totally think of it as comfort food. I haven't eaten it in years (probably for the best), but I still think of it fondly.

I'm also a green banana lover. Can't STAND bananas with brown spots on them!

,-->Friday, February 03, 2006, 12:37 PM

okay, here goes

seared liverwurst, cream cheese and caper sandwich on pumpernickel

,-->Friday, February 03, 2006, 1:26 PM

It's funny because my roommate and I were just talking about this the other day. I was telling her how as a kid I would put a peppermint stick down the middle of a sour pickle. She says I can now never say anything else about what she eats. Another one that I don't eat anymore is plain Lays potato chips with Texas Pete. I would just dump Texas Pete into the bag and shake it up. Loved it!!

,-->Friday, February 03, 2006, 1:34 PM

peanut butter honey banana sandwiches

as a kid I used to eat those horrible individually wrapped slices of cheese, with peanut butter.

organic unfiltered apple juice with granola (in a bowl... using apple juice instead of milk)

my partner puts ketchup on mac-n-cheese!

,-->Saturday, February 04, 2006, 7:25 AM

Egg and ketchup sandwiches.

-->Sunday, February 05, 2006, 5:39 AM

fried bologna sandwich

,-->Sunday, February 05, 2006, 9:20 AM

I love hot pretzels, however, I don't like them with yellow mustard, and much prefer them with ketchup.... (almost impossible to find at most hot pretzel places!)... Don't know why, but I think it's because I prefere honey or dijon mustard to yellow mustard.

How about French fries dipped in mayo and ketchup--or dipped in Mayo & Salsa.... or grilled cheese sandwich dipped in mayo & salsa (and NO, obviously, this is NOT a diet food!)

,-->Sunday, February 05, 2006, 12:52 PM

The oddest food I've ever SEEN eaten was someone in college who poured himself a bowl of Fruity Pebbles Cereal and then proceeded to pour a glass of Mountain Dew over it and ATE it!!!

(Yikes, a sugar & caffeine addicted person, I'm sure!)

,-->Sunday, February 05, 2006, 12:54 PM

my fav odd food

Although I dont eat them anymore...a subway sandwhich with a layer mayo, layer lettuce, layer mayo, layer lettuce. Repeat twice more, and that is my favorite sandwhich! That was all I would put on it, it is SO unhealthy (i also put it on white bread) so I havent had it in years, but sometimes I still think about those yummy ol' days! ;)

,-->Sunday, February 05, 2006, 1:54 PM

Before I was lactose intolerant, my favorite odd food was a slice of white toast with cream cheese spread on it, rolled around a few breakfast sausage links.

Not a real healthy thing to eat, huh.

,-->Sunday, February 05, 2006, 2:43 PM

Peanut Butter!!

I am the queen of eating Odd food. I eat Peanut butter on everything.

slice of Apple, peanutbutter and pepperjack soy cheese.

I also used to make this tofu french toast which is basically just pan fried (just the spray stuff on the pan) Tofu strips that have been dipped in a soy milk, eggwhite splenda and cinnamon sauce. Beause its tofu, it doesnt really absorb as well so I pretty much end up adding the cinnamon and spenda to the top later on.

How about Non fat plain yogurt with cocoa powder and splenda

or small peices of unsweetened bakers chocolate with peanut butter and apple

,-->Sunday, February 12, 2006, 10:16 PM

peanut butter in yogurt :)

,-->Sunday, February 12, 2006, 10:33 PM

Its funny I haven't really thought of any of these things as odd. I had a friend who used to eat pizza dipped in mayo, that I thought was odd.

,-->Monday, February 13, 2006, 2:33 AM

Ha! That is odd :)

,-->Monday, February 13, 2006, 6:29 AM

My favourite all time meal od meal is salted duck egg, with super orange yolk mashed up evenly with hot steaming rice. Roll the rice in your hand into a ball and pop it into your mouth.

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barbara_j,-->Monday, February 13, 2006, 7:24 AM

When I was a kid - I lived off of Bologna and Ketchup sandwiches. Ick.

CoffeeGal

,-->Monday, February 13, 2006, 9:45 AM

my son eats just the bologna and ketchup-no bread
he also eats hot sauce on everything
he dips his pickles in hot sauce

,-->Monday, February 13, 2006, 10:03 AM

PB, lettuce and MAYO

also, PB and bacon....and my mom is from Ohio!

Everybody at work was looking at me strangely when I brought up these sandwich combinations :-)

I guess some things should remain behind closed doors

eye,-->Monday, February 13, 2006, 6:38 PM

Pizza and vinegar

Don't eat this anymore, but as a kid I'd eat plain cheese pizza with balsamic vinegar. Sounds strange, but really tasted great.

,-->Monday, February 13, 2006, 6:58 PM

pasta w/ cottage ch

tried it! it was great and my 3 yr old loved it too. we used "chive & toasted onion", ground some pepper and served it on the barilla healty blend pasta.

,-->Monday, February 13, 2006, 8:34 PM

A great sandwich from my grandmother..........

I LOVE this sandwich! I used to only eat it when i eas over her house or when i was in collgeg.
Pbuttter and balony sandwich.
When we were kids, my sis used to eat toasted tomato and cheese sandwichs.
Im going to call her and remind her of it! Thanks for the thread ;)

,-->Monday, February 13, 2006, 8:36 PM

Peanut butter and lettuce sandwitch, no bread, use the lettuce as bread.

,-->Monday, February 13, 2006, 8:42 PM

My Son

I am the poster that said my son eats hot sauce on everything. Yesterday he got his Valentines candy out and put hot sauce all over it and then scarffed it down! The kid has to have a cast iron stomach:o)

,-->Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 8:45 AM

peanut butter and bacon rocks!

i also like really aged balsamic vinegar on vanilla ice cream. yum!

,-->Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 5:01 PM

p.s. New jersey

,-->Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 5:02 PM

When I was a kid, my siblings and I would spread peanut butter on a banana and wrap it with american cheese slices...mmm...I want one now!

,-->Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 6:01 PM

Odd Food

I dont eat mine anymore because its too fatty, but I love peanut butter and bacon sandwiches........ awesome :-)

I also LOVE hamd and cheese on a grilled bagel with pickles and mustard, its odd because I HAVE to eat it like 2x a week...... I do low fat version now though

,-->Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 8:25 PM

smoked oysters on saltine crackers.....everyone in the house screams when I open a can because it makes the kitchen smell...(and my husband refuses to kiss me).

,-->Thursday, February 16, 2006, 9:59 AM

Peanut Butter Madness

I like peanut butter(creamy style), mushroom and swiss cheese omlettes with a side of bacon. Whoever came up with this poll/post has made a bright spot in my day.....thanks!

,-->Thursday, February 16, 2006, 1:41 PM

Canned tuna mixed up with mayo and crumbled saltine crackers.mmm. Not necessarily odd, it's just easier than putting it on individual crackers :)

,-->Thursday, February 16, 2006, 2:24 PM

another tuna add-in

I also crush up crutons and out in in my tuna w/ italian salad dressing- yum!

,-->Thursday, February 16, 2006, 2:34 PM

i love salsa . .salsa w/ tortilla chips, salsa on eggs, salsa w/ a grilled cheese . .i have even used salsa w/ some light sour cream as a salad dressing!! haha! i can't get enough of it!

,-->Sunday, February 26, 2006, 1:28 AM

french fires dipped in chocolate shake (usually Wendy's fries in one of thier frostys) so good!
corn with butter and parmasian cheese
tortilla chips with chedder cheese melted dipped in ketchup or tortilla chips sandwhiches made of two chips with a little chedder cheese and deli chicken breast inside and then dipped in ketchup...really yummy.

,-->Monday, February 27, 2006, 1:54 AM

ketchup and crackers, sometimes with a little horseradish.

Sometimes I crave this casserole with shrimp, eggs, tomato sauce and celery.

,-->Monday, February 27, 2006, 6:13 AM

peanut butter and lettuce sandwhichs are the best ever!

,-->Monday, February 27, 2006, 1:12 PM

omg french fries dipped in wendy's choclate shaket are the best ever!

,-->Monday, February 27, 2006, 1:12 PM

It started out as a "dare" when I was a kid, but my siblings and I ate cream cheese on rice cakes with diced hot peppers (the kind you get on deli sandwiches). It's good!

Monday, February 27, 2006, 1:45 PM

Anything with wasabi!

,-->Monday, February 27, 2006, 3:29 PM

ketup and fried eggs, and plain potato chips and ketup

,-->Monday, February 27, 2006, 7:04 PM

ODD FOOD

Taco bell sauce on saltines. mmmm.....

,-->Monday, February 27, 2006, 9:27 PM

odd foods

I had a friend in high school who would put vinegar on his pizza.
My older brother and I used to love to eat peanut butter, bologna, and cheeze whiz sandwiches.
I have a thing for cheese sandwiches but instead of mayo I will often use sour cream.
My uncle is a peanut butter fanatic... he likes it on his hotdogs.
My son will dip anything in ketchup including his carrot sticks or apple slices....

,-->Monday, February 27, 2006, 9:38 PM

pb and onions

my dad love peanut butter and onion sandwiches especially the big red ones or the large sweet white ones.

And for the poster about the hot sauce.... I had a friend in grade school.. I can not believe I remember this she would take saltines, put a touch of margarine or butter on them and several drops of hotsauce.....it was her favorite snack..

,-->Monday, February 27, 2006, 9:44 PM

I just started eating that snack last year! I had this awesome hot sauce from Belize and it was so good on a cracker w/a little bit of margarine!!

,-->Monday, February 27, 2006, 10:36 PM

Tabasco sauce on stick prezels
Cottage cheese and scrambled eggs
Tortilla chips and cottage cheese
Nestle's Quik sprinkled on vanilla ice cream
Hey, I wonder if Nestle's Quik on peanut butter would be good?

I hate green bananas! My grandmother would eat black ones. (Yuck)
I had a childhood friend who would eat peanut butter & jelly sandwiches on white bread with a layer of Fritos inside

,-->Wednesday, May 31, 2006, 1:01 AM

I'm sorry, some of these aren't odd at all!

I like peanut butter on pancakes, although I no longer eat them this way. I've met quite a few people who do, though, so maybe that's not odd either.

Dill pickle and cheese sandwiches with mayo.

Oranges rolled around until they're soft and bruisy (juice released), then punctured and the juice sucked out through a soft peppermint stick.

My kids eat Top Ramen plain out of the package--that's right, crunchy--sprinkled with the seasoning packet. Not if I know about it. But they do love it, and I know they have eaten it a few times behind my back...

My favorite cornbread is an unusual combination but very good. Must be cooked in a Dutch oven. It involves caramelilzing onion slices in a little olive oil, sprinkling them with brown sugar, then pouring the cornbread batter over the top. While it cooks, I also cook four chopped nectarines with two or three T white sugar and a sprig of fresh basil--right in the oven with the cornbread--so that the juice thickens into a jam. Take out the basil sprig and chop in some more fresh basil right before serving the nectarine jam with the cornbread. The combination of basil, nectarine, and smoky-sweet onion is incredible.

I once got into an interesting discussion when a member of a children's-writers group I belonged to asked us all what we ate on our French fries (her characters were eating together in a fast-food place and she needed this info for their dialogue). Chocolate shake was a common one. Ketchup was common everywhere in the States except certain areas of the West (Utah, Idaho, parts of Wyoming and Colorado and Montana) where we eat more "fry sauce" (a blend of ketchup and mayo, often with a touch of mustard or horseradish). Outside the fry sauce belt, this combination is held in great disgust. I know I have been frustrated at fast-food restaurants in Oklahoma and Missouri and Kansas when no fry sauce was available, and I had to ask for ketchup and mayo and mix my own. East Coasters will use ketchup but were more likely to salt-and-vinegar their fries. The weirdest, though--and unlike fry sauce, this one seemed to win converts whenever it was given a chance--was "poutine." The Canadians will recognize this: Fries topped with cheese curd and smothered in gravy! I'm sorry--I'm an American and we have a reputation for eating some of the fattiest and most disgusting foods on earth, but this dish makes my arteries recoil in horror! LOL! And yet...everyone who had dared to try it loved it...

Wednesday, May 31, 2006, 12:38 PM

-i get strange looks from coworkers when snacking on a plain green or red bell pepper. i'm not sure why this is odd though. i guess most people cut them into strips or something.
-i also LOVE bananas with pretzels. i push pretzel sticks down into the banana. the mushy-sweet + crunchy-salty combination is amazing!
-i really enjoy Mrs. Grass' chicken soup cold. i don't know why. i cook it and then refrigerate it & when i'm ready to eat it i just nuke it for about 30 seconds. delicious.
p.s. once i saw my great-uncle put parmesan cheese on an ice cream cone. i'll never forget.

,-->Wednesday, May 31, 2006, 1:29 PM

pretzels dipped in bbq sauce and
plain chips dipped in mustard (or ketchup)
are both very yummy

,-->Thursday, June 01, 2006, 4:33 PM

dark molasses straight out of the bottle-- it's super good!

,-->Thursday, June 01, 2006, 5:41 PM

1:29 poster--I eat bell peppers that way too! Orange are my favorites. Once I took my daughter on errands and had promised her a treat. She chose a red bell pepper, which she ate out of hand as we wandered through MIchael's. I was stopped by every woman in there. The older ones--"Is that a pepper she's eating? Good JOB, Mom!" The younger ones--"What IS that? How do you get her to DO that?" The younger yet ones--"Oh, yuck, look what that girl is eating!"

,-->Thursday, June 01, 2006, 7:27 PM

Peanut butter and cottage cheese sandwich......talk about protein!!!

,-->Thursday, June 01, 2006, 8:02 PM

I guess "odd" is relative term...

my all-time favorite comfort food: saltines dipped in apple sauce

I also like pretzels dipped in cream cheese.

Also, bananas on soft oatmeal bread (plain - w/ no peanut butter)

To the person who posted this sandwich:
"seared liverwurst, cream cheese and caper sandwich on pumpernickel"
That sounds REALLY good!! I'll have to try that!

,-->Sunday, June 04, 2006, 6:42 PM

Some personal childhood favorites and some more recent

As a kid - I luvd dry ramen noodles - ate them like crazy. I also liked having a paper cup (2 oz size) with dry mintue rice and a lot of soy sauce - don't know what those did to my insides as they swelled up ....

My Mom taught me to eat miracle whip, chedder cheese, and sliced sweet pickle sandwiches - something from her grandfather. I still eat these once in awhile.

In my teens, I really liked candian bacon wrappped around a hunk of cheese with ketchup on top and then nuked until the ketchup started to burn.

In Mississippi and Lousianna area the oddest combo I heard was when I was asked if I wanted French Dressing with my pizza. When I finally tried it, I didn't like it.

I still eat ketchup on my mac & cheese - I can't stand that dish without it.

I guess odd is to the beholder.

,-->Tuesday, June 20, 2006, 3:32 PM

I absolutely LOVE oysters on crackers!!!

,-->Wednesday, June 21, 2006, 10:20 AM

Odd Foods

Noodles with cottage cheese baked with beaten eggs is called a Kugel. Very classic E. European Jewish cuisine, but I always find it bland. As a kid I loved fried salami with ketchup on raisin bread. Around here (IA) sandwiches on raisin bread are making a comeback. My husband's odd one was rice-a-roni sandwiches. PB and hot sauce or salsa is the VERY BEST.

,-->Wednesday, June 21, 2006, 1:15 PM

sweet pickles, and green olives. Not necessarily at the same time, but those are my two fav snacks! I also love capers!

,-->Wednesday, June 21, 2006, 2:33 PM

How fun!

Canned corn, sliced pickles, chopped tomatoes, and mayo in a bowl with lots of sprinkled dill. A really good cold, summer salad.

,-->Saturday, June 24, 2006, 11:13 PM

I don't remember if I've posted this, but I Love my hot pretzels (the soft kind) with KETCHUP... :-)

,-->Saturday, June 24, 2006, 11:27 PM

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