Strange Eating Habits

[Susan]

I have been known to use mashed potatoes as a dipping sauce for potato chips.  Personally I feel you can never get enough starch. 

That reminds me of something else I do. Whenever i have potato wedges or homestyle fries at a restaurant i like to dip them in my mashed potatoes

[Trevor]

  I am another person who hated my food being mixed: I wanted to see what was nice and what was yucky. I would eat the tasty stuff first and force down the greens later. Sweetcorn and mealies (corn-on-the-cob) still make me want to projectile vomit.

I normally gross people out big time when I order a pizza ~ I ask for flies and stinkbugs as a special topping. 

[dean]

So far nothing in this thread has made me too worried.

French fries in ice-cream is a classic, so no wierdness there.  Same with peas on mash potatoes or pepper on hot chips...

As for my own 'I think that's wierd' moment.  Quite a few people always wondered why I ate a sausage roll inside another roll.  The best for me was a cheese and tomato roll from the bakery [basically a flat-ish round roll with cheese and tomato paste plus herbs for those not in teh know] and I'd put the sausage roll in there with some tommy-sauce [ketchup] and voila!  Great lunchtime snack.

[Katie]

If you like mystery meat, give Scrapple a try.  Don't read what's in it just fry it up nice and crispy, add a little ketchup, and enjoy.
P.S. Spam is celebrating a birthday!

[JaseSF]

When I was a kid, I'd make a meal out of canned gravy and meatballs combined with Green Peas.

[DodgingGrunge]

People have pointed out to me that not everything makes a good sandwich.  I couldn't disagree with that sentiment more strongly.  I frequently make sandwiches out of anything leftover in the fridge: rice, pasta, soup, BBQ, etc.  Bread is a wonderful invention.  Haha.  And as an added bonus, it makes everything something I can eat with my hands.

[Derf]

Okay, I'm late to the discussion, but here's my contributions:

I love potato chips and chocolate. The chocolate can be in bar form or in a brownie or some such, but the salty/sweet combination that has been mentioned works for me. I rarely eat chocolate otherwise, but I tend to crave it with potato chips.

One of my favorite "meals" is salty french fries and a vanilla malt. I guess that equates with the "fries with ice cream" that has been mentioned.

I also like pepper on my fries. I never realized that was at all strange. Plus it keeps my wife and daughter (who hate pepper) from stealing my fries. I am particular about my fry dip, though. I prefer mayo on my fries overall (which I've heard is the norm in some parts of Europe), but not on McDonald's or Whataburger fries (I don't like anything on them). On Wendy's fries, I like ketchup.

I've joined the younger crowd around here in eating my pizza with ranch dressing, if that's considered odd anymore. A woman I know from Brazil says the norm there is to eat pizza with ketchup. That just doesn't work for me.

[Ash]

Speaking of pepper...
I put it on pizza all the time.

It has to be coarse ground pepper.
Not that dust stuff Susan mentioned.

[Mr. DS]

I found out I had high cholesterol and actually changed to eating a well balanced diet.  Still I cheat one day a week.  Heres my oddities;

1.) I do the whole fries in mayo thing. 
2.) Burgers I'm very particular on.  Every restaurant is different.  Example, i like a plain cheeseburger from Burger King and the ketchup can NOT be on the burger.  However I dip the burger in ketchup from the little packets.  Other places, mayo is a must.  Only at those places though.
3.) I make my own hot pepper from dried hot chilis and I put that on a lot of stuff including fries. 
4.) People make fun of me because I still enjoy fruit snacks.  I play into it by getting the most ridiculous ones I can find. (Disney Princesses was the worst one I ever got).
5.)

I am another person who hated my food being mixed:

I'm with you there. 
6.) Onions I LOVE on their own or in onion ring form but hardly with anything else. 
7.) I like tons of black pepper in my chicken salad.  To the point of sneezing uncontrobly when I make it. 

Thats all I can think of for now. 

[hellbilly]

Interesting thread. I never tried fries with ice cream before but I will next time I go to McD or BK.

I don't really have that many strange eating habits:

I like to dip potato chips in Nutella.
I always puree tuna with a stick mixer. It tastes better creamy.
I hardly ever drink soda without a straw.

Green olives and artichokes are a must on my pizza. And I eat pesto with about everything, always have a few glasses stocked in the cupboard.

[Psycho Circus]

My grandfather used to put mustard in porridge. 

[Pilgermann]

I don't think I eat anything too weird, but I love to eat cottage cheese topped with applesauce and I sometimes sprinkle some cinnamon on it.  I figure it's not too odd since people eat it with canned sliced peaches all the time.

Whenever I have Spam in my possession I've started to make what I refer to as a "Redneck Reuben".  I fry up a few thin (by Spam standards) slices of Spam, toast some white or wheat bread, put the Spam on it with hot sauerkraut and I use "fancy sauce" instead of Thousand Island dressing.  Swiss cheese is optional.

I also eat Campbell's chicken noodle soup (and a couple other Campbell's products) in condensed form.  I hate it with water added.  When I was a kid I used to eat canned soup or pasta at room temperature.  I'd just empty the can into a bowl and that was that. 

[Mr. DS]

I work with a chick who puts mayo on her pizza. 

[Leah]

i get fish sticks, sautated green onions, roast beef, fish, chicken breast, more beef, onions, shrimp, and crawfish together in a stew yes, i can cook

[retrorussell]

I almost always eat all the side dishes before tackling the main course.  If I got a plate of chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and gravy, fries, Coke, etc. (I'm a big eater), even though I love chicken fried steak to death I will normally eat it last.