Strange Eating Habits

[Susan]

Ok the hot dog thread got me thinking of the strange food combinations people make. Sometimes i don't realize mine are strange until someone points it out. Of course, since when is it weird to eat potato chips with cream cheese?

What are some unusual food combinations or ways that you eat?

Examples, and feel free to try these because they're good:

• French Fries dipped in hot fudge sundae from McDonalds. I used to make a run to mcdonalds after renting a movie and pick up just these two items. Something about the saltiness of the fries mixing with the sweetness of the ice cream and fudge....
• Lays potato chips in my sandwhiches. The more the better, and preferably where mayo is used vs mustard
• Ghetto pizza: Ahh..single life when you eat yourself out of house and home. In deseration i've made this: Where i take two flour tortillas and fill it up with pizza sauce, cheese and pepperoni. I butter the outsides and sprinkle with garlic and slap it on a hot skillet. yeah, i know
• pretzel sticks on pringles
• Also i don't put syrup on my pancakes. just butter. i have a side bowl of syrup to slightly dip but not big on syrup or ketchup or anything sugar that drowns the flavor of food. Incidentally i also pepper my french fries
• TV dinner mashed potatoes must always be eaten with the fingers
• Louisiana hot sauce and homemade popcorn. Yep, i still like the standard butter but somehow i got used to the hot sauce and i have no idea where i got this from
• blow pops and suckers are best consumed when dipped in a soda drink
• Also when i get pizza OUT, i always eat it work a knife and fork. This is because i have to pick off most of the cheese (i get sick if i eat too much fake restaurant cheese). I have no problem with homemade pizza, i don't tihnk those places use 100% real cheese. But i always get stares when I do this and frankly get really irritated everytime i have to explain myself

[flackbait]

Potato chips with catchup to dip them in is actually not bad, but I haven't tried them for a while.

[Zapranoth]

Hey, Susan... why are you eating that pizza with a fork and knife?    Barbarian.   

My brother in law used to make...  puke...  peanut butter and Karo syrup sandwiches...

One of my favorite things is a smallish cup of milk (usually skim or 1%, go figure) with some chocolate chips in it.   I spoon the chips out and eat them with a little milk on them.   The milk must be cold, though.

When I was little I used to crunch dry pasta, too.  You know, eating dry spaghetti noodles.  Eating the lasagna noodles dry was kind of painful, but I did it anyway.  Don't know why.

[Ash]

French Fries with ice cream are awesome!  
Especially Wendy's Biggie fries dipped into a Frosty. 


Sometimes I eat "spaghetti naked".

No...I don't eat spaghetti without clothes on...

I eat it with just butter and parmesan cheese.  No sauce.
Apparently around here, if you don't put sauce on your spaghetti, it's known as "spaghetti naked."

And yes, I too eat pizza with a fork.
Most times, pizza is just too hot to handle and I'm too impatient to wait for it to cool.
When I went down to Australia, they always gave me a hard time about that.
They would say, "Pizza is finger food dummy!  You don't eat it with a fork!

Even worse...my sister will eat creamed corn with Tabasco sauce. 

[Zapranoth]

When I was in school, my wife worked with a nurse who would eat mustard by the spoonful...

Or in soup...

[RCMerchant]

 I put hot sauce on almost anything...in soup,on spahgetti,fries,chicken burgers,sandwhices,potroast,eggs,you name it...yes...with veggies too...I like the EL Yucateco Green Chile Habenero Sauce...but will use Jalepeno in a pinch.
I also like potato chips on bologny sandwhiches,with peanut butter(CRUNCHY!),or with horse radish.
I also have a tendencie to mix together every thing on my plate...like if we have taters,meat and veggies,I cover it all with gravy and hot sauce and stir it up. "Your ruining my food"-Tara Sue,my wifey.
When I drank whiskey,I would mix it with canned fruit,or soda,tea,coffe,kool-aid....I would carry a pint in my pocket,so when we would eat out,I could sneak some in to whatever I was drinking.
  I must sound like some kinda backwoods hick...(oh,yeah...Lawton,Michigan...heh,heh..).

[Andrew]

Knew a Marine once, he would put Tabasco on everything and I mean everything.

My wife stopped my mother from feeding my daughter a spoonful of pure mayonnaise once.  My mom does not have the best eating habits.  Presented with something healthy, she will ask for baloney and mayo - or go off the deep end and want Fruity Pebbles.  My wife makes good fajitas (from a recipe given to her by Todd's wife).  My mom didn't want one.  She wanted a baloney and cheese sandwich on white bread, slathered with mayo.

Mom also thinks that eating a Big Mac calms her stomach.

One of the few things I do that seems to throw people off is apples and good German beer.  Apples go really well with beer, both sliced apples or stuff like potato pancakes with applesauce (apple strudel does too).

[Snivelly]

"Naked spaghetti" or any other pasta isn't so strange.....that's the only way my kids will eat it.  I don't think I have any "weird" eating habits of my own, other than eating crunchy peanut butter on apples and an insane craving for spicy foods, but taking my kids out to eat is a nightmare.  One will not eat any meat unless it's turkey bacon or chicken nuggets from McDonald's only, and the other, who will eat some meats, will order pizza but only eat the cheese and toppings, not the crust.  Oh, and the only cooked vegetable they'll eat is corn, all others must be raw.  They won't touch things most other kids love, like hot dogs or hamburgers. 

[Susan]

French Fries with ice cream are awesome!  
Especially Wendy's Biggie fries dipped into a Frosty. 


Sometimes I eat "spaghetti naked".

No...I don't eat spaghetti without clothes on...
Well, I think I might have one time...
(just gave you a bad mental picture didn't I?)
Actually, I think I was wearing only socks.

I eat it with just butter and parmesan cheese.  No sauce.
Apparently around here, if you don't put sauce on your spaghetti, it's known as "spaghetti naked."

And yes, I too eat pizza with a fork.
Most times, pizza is just too hot to handle and I'm too impatient to wait for it to cool.
When I went down to Australia, they always gave me a hard time about that.
They would say, "Pizza is finger food dummy!  You don't eat it with a fork!

Even worse...my sister will eat creamed corn with Tobasco sauce. 

Try fries with a hot fudge sundae from mcdonalds - it's really good when you get some of the hot fudge on the fry. Y ou know that's another beef, mcdonalds now puts the fudge on the top only, back in the day they used to put it on the top AND bottom (because nothing is better than reaching the ooey gooey bottom)

I spend so much time picking the cheese off it gets messy so I use a fork and knife to do it, it's quicker to eat my pizza that way than to pick off some cheese, pick it up and take a bite, grab the silverware again...  I eat some of the cheese just not ALL of it. It's got a rubbery consistency and i've had pizza on the east coast. HUGE difference, real cheese. i don't know what the hell places here are using.

btw, naked spaghetti isn't so weird. Lots of people eat pasta just drizzled in olive oil - including italians. ;-)  I never eat spaghetti, i prefer vermacelli.

[Susan]

I put hot sauce on almost anything...in soup,on spahgetti,fries,chicken burgers,sandwhices,potroast,eggs,you name it...yes...with veggies too...I like the EL Yucateco Green Chile Habenero Sauce...but will use Jalepeno in a pinch.
I also like potato chips on bologny sandwhiches,with peanut butter(CRUNCHY!),or with horse radish.
..).

My scrambled eggs are not done until they are well cooked and orange from the hot sauce, then i pepper them heavily with crushed pepper and bacon bits.  I discovered potato chips in sandwhiches when i was a teenager. I used to come home, watch 21 jumpstreet and make myself one giant hogie with ham, lettuce, hogie bread and lots of lays (which i found are the preferable chip for a sandwhich. Crunchy but not too thick)

Also - i've too have been known to eat lots of mustard. If i'm using it for dipping purposes i'll put extra on my plate so i can eat some by itself. love mustard 

btw, not so strange but if anyone wants to try a REAL soda get some Goose Island from Target. It's the only soda i ever drink at home. All sodas use High Fructose Corn Syrup (vs sugar) and i'm not going to go into a long story about what that is you can google it. This brand is one of the few that uses pure cane sugar, the way soda's used to be back in the day.

[Katie]

The french fries with ice cream is more common than you might think.  My best friend (the original Katie B. aka looking for a midget to marry gal) turned me onto this in Jr high.  I think the craziest thing my husband think I eat is Pb, bacon and cheese on toast.  My dad use to make it for my brothers and I as a kid and it is great.  I have stopped eating it since the fat content is a little scary.

[Menard]

Sometimes I eat "spaghetti naked".

I am officially grossed out. 

Knew a Marine once, he would put Tabasco on everything and I mean everything.

Tobasco sauce, the serviceman's food source. My father was regular Army and he was like that. His favorite snack was thick sliced bologna, cut into chunks, with tabasco sauce on it.


Some of my bad food habits include:

Peanut butter on ice cream.

Jello (the powder, not prepared) mixed with peanut butter.

Waffles: they have to be buttered and have a slice of cheese melted between each layer and on top.

I'll take hash brown patties, soy crumbles (veggie ground beef), and margarine, microwave them, and mash it all together. It would be better with veggie sausage crumbles (which are hard to find) and some eggs (but I don't always remember to buy the eggs).

There was this vegetarian sandwich spread (a mix of garbanzo beans, peanut butter, and black olives) that I used to buy and mix mayonaise into it; alas, I haven't seen it in a while. The non-vegetarian version would be to mix mayonaise with potted meat or deviled ham, and, optionally, add minced black olives.

And any type of chip or cracker dipped in beer cheese.

[Shadow]

Apparently I have no weird eating habits, as almost everything mentioned in this thread does not sound appealing. I was a very picky eater as a kid, so as an adult I find that I prefer my foods simple and not mixed together with something else. Maybe that's strange in itself.

[Susan]

Apparently I have no weird eating habits, as almost everything mentioned in this thread does not sound appealing. I was a very picky eater as a kid, so as an adult I find that I prefer my foods simple and not mixed together with something else. Maybe that's strange in itself.

are you one of those people who doesn't like their food to be touching on the plate?

[Zapranoth]

Snivelly, do your kids eat their pasta dry and uncooked?  (Uncooked is the word I should have used)

Anybody  ever  try the pixie stick and cap'n crunch sandwich for themselves?