Hmmm....
Don't see any replies yet. Maybe everyone's still trying to hold down their meals after reading about your strange combinations.[:P][:D]
Iv'e simple tastes so I've never gone for anythig too bizarre -
Toasted sandwich:
Banana, sultanas and peanut butter. If I'm fealling really brave a bit of cheese as well.
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James.[:P]
Chocolate chip cookies with a lil special something (mayo!). Sounds gross, but its great. It was an accidental discovery, a "go with it" moment after the mayo tried to escape but landed on a chocolate chip cookie.
James, yours sounds good but what is sultana? hehehe..[:D]
Wow..chocolate chip cookie with mayo.[:O] I like how you discovered it! I am gonna try that, just because it sounds soooo strange.[:P]
Nay
Ah... I remember the good ol' days, with bologna and peanut butter sandwiches. I seriously used to eat them daily, as they were absolutely delicious.
Not "weird" in a sense, but Mouthwatering!! Whip-cream topped chocolate milk! Add in chocolate chips for added goodness!
Bah. I was never one for really insane food combos... I hate CHICKEN, so I can't really make any good combos taste like chicken [|)]
~Squeek
Do you not have sultanas there? I wonder what they would be called then?
Basically dried grapes. Quite sweet - used in fruit cakes and fruit mince pies.
Ahhhhhh..that would be raisins [:D] Unfortunatly, now your sandwich sounds gross..HEHEHEHEHE.
Squeek..YAY, peanut butter and bologna!!
Nay
Raisins...ok. Do you have different size rasins?
I ask this because we also have raisins here, but they're smaller, harder and not as sweet as sultanas. If you're familiar with the larger currants, sultanas are between the size of raisins and currants.
I agree raisins would be yuck!
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I found this,
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sultana[suhl-TAN-uh]
Originating in Smyrna, Turkey, this small, pale golden-green grape was once used to make wine. Today, however, it's cultivated primarily for raisins. Its offspring in the United States is known as the Thompson seedless grape. See also RAISIN.
We must get to the bottom of this! [:P] We need pictures!
*dons her Sherlock Holmes, cap and pipe*
Nay [;)]
I'll dig up some piccies and give a "basics in dried fruit" lesson [:)]
I dunno, you Americans always have to complicate things.[;)]
I mean look at the space race back in the 60's. American government invests huge ammounts of money to develop a pen that has a pressurised ink cartridge so it will write in zero-G. What do the Russians do? Use a pencil!
[:D]
James.
[:D][:D][:D][:D]
Love to make you work hard, James. [;)]
This seems to have turned into our own little chat. hehe
I really find it hard to believe, not more people have a wacky food they eat..[:P]
Come on people...share! Plus we can learn about foods in far away places, look at James and his sultanas..[:D]
Here's another one of mine. I put potato chips in my ham sandwiches!
Take Care~ Nay
sultanas: a bag of grapes you've lost behind the toaster for three months.
sul - latin for "not", tana - raisins that are tanned
My wacky food combination - watermelon with chili sauce. No kidding. the cool and hot, yin yang taste sensation.
Thanks Moontingle, that sounds positively....err....yummy! [xx(]
Ok Nay, mystery solved! You can remove your Sherlock Holmes pipe......
.....but you can leave your hat on.....
Hmmm...where did that come from???[:o)]
Got the info you wanted - from a couple of online encyclopedias would you believe:
Sultanas are a variety of sundried grape, used in cooking especially in Australia and Great Britain. They are smaller than raisins and larger than currants, and they can be eaten as-is or used in baking. For some recipes, they are soaked in a liquid (fruit juice, alcohol, or water), making them plump, tender and juicy. They are similar, though not identical, to the golden raisins sold in North America, and the two can be substituted for each other in recipes without disadvantage.
Most seedless raisins, especially in California, are produced from the Sultanina, or Thompson, variety of seedless grape, known in international trade as the Sultana. A different variety, produced in California, is known there as the Sultana. The Muscat, a very ancient variety, is noted for its flavor and meatiness, but it has seeds and is somewhat sticky; it is commonly marketed in clusters for table use. Raisins of sharp flavor and firm texture are often called currants (although unrelated to the true currant) and are preferred for certain bakery products. Grapes have been dried for out-of-season consumption from ancient times and were important in early Mediterranean trade. Spain, Asia Minor, and Greece were long the centers of cultivation, but in the 20th cent. Australia is an important producer and California is the leading producer. Raisin production was introduced in California by Spanish missionaries in the late 18th cent. and began to assume importance after 1875.
There you go! So my lot didn't come up with the name, your lot did! So nyaaaa!
[:P]
- me.
Ok, got a weird combination for you.....
from my wife's aunt -
Mint sauce, low-fat cheese and red & green peppers (capsicum)
Mmmm-Yummm!
Well, my girlfriend eats orange jello with cauliflauer in it, if you'd consider that strange (I think it might be good, never tried it myself, but I also have an unhealthy love for broccoli and cauliflauer, the only 2 "veggies" that I'll eat raw, so...), but something else that involves jello that when she makes it I can't get enough of (that really should sound good to you!) is:
Jello Salad! Take some cottage cheese, some fruit slices (in this case we will use oranges), some tiny marshmallows, a bunch of your fruit flavored (orange) jello packs, and stir vigorously! The jello will stick to just about all of the marshmallows and the cheese and from all the stirring the fruit will orgasm making everything yummy with bursting fruit juice flavor! My mother has exact quantities for items, but use your disgretion and do a little experimentation on your own to get it yummy for you. After you're done with all that, refridgerate overnight and serve with a big glob of drool waiting for it to salivate in your mouth...ugh I so want some right now [:(]
Something easy to make for you, from a quick country snack I used to make every spring is a variation of a s'more. Take some sweet bread, like cinni-raisin or potato (or just regular honey), toast it, lavish it with peanut butter, top that with marshmallows and chocolate chips (or drizzle with hot chocolate or chocolate syrup if you don't have one or the other), nuke for 20 seconds, and enjoy! Don't get addicted.
Sorry, I'm not quite strange when it comes to food. I don't eat a salad on my sandwich, and am currently taking red meat out of my diets. Based on how picky I've always been, this leaves little room for experimentation.
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There you go! So my lot didn't come up with the name, your lot did! So nyaaaa!
Hehehehehehe.. *grabs James' tongue* didn't your mom ever tell ya to not pick on girls?..[:D][:D]
Ybom, those sound pretty good! Too bad I do not care for jello..haha, think it is a texture thing..[;)]
How about peanut butter on pancakes and waffles? yummmmmmmy..
Nay
potatoe chips and cottage cheese, cooler ranch doritos on ham sandwich, cocoa krispies and peanut butter..... uh oh i gotta go lata
I eat apples with rice. Is that strange enough?[:)]
How about cornflakes with beer ?
Yikk raisins , I only like "Energy raisins"[;)]
spaghetti sandwiches.... one of those pilsbury biscuts with spaghetti on it mmmmmmmmmm.... tasty[^]
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Originally posted by pyro4571
spaghetti sandwiches.... one of those pilsbury biscuts with spaghetti on it mmmmmmmmmm.... tasty[^]
Tuna on blueberry bagels.
Jessica
LOL..ok, does it make me wacky because I find alot of these combinations, worth trying?...[^]
Tuna on a blueberry bagel..my daughter will love that!
I do all of Pyro's combo's..hehehe. spaghetti sandwich! that is what the garlic bread is for, to make those sandwiches, yummmmy stuff.
Apples and rice...sounds like it would be good..but how bout rice and skittles..yep, skittles. Sorry wantsumrice, the cat is out of the bag. hehehe.
And last but not least...omg....beer in your cornflakes???? I was very scared by that, until the hubby read it and said.."oh yeah, absolutely taste great!" ugh..I still don't get it..[xx(]
Nay
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Man, no wonder I've had an upset stomach for past 3 days, I think I AP'ed into the future the other night and accidently read this thread. [xx(]
OK, I confess, I love to dip chips into whipped cream cheese. Any kind of chip will do, but Frito's corn chips or tortilla chips are best, and it has to be Philadelphia brand cream cheese.
Cold Ricotta cheese spread onto bread is great.
And a "Sicilian" recipe handed down to me by my mother. Any kind of pasta (preferably spaghetti, ziti, or macaroni though) with 2 big spoons of Ricotta. Heat it up on stove-top or in microwave, then pour grated Romano cheese all over. Better yet, add the grated cheese while it's heating up, and stir, add about a spoon of water, stir again. Makes it all nice and gooey. A cheese lovers dream, but it's quite heavy/filling. I call it "Sicilian Macaroni & Cheese"
I remember my mom used to eat vanilla or chocolate ice cream piled in the middle of hamburger buns (buns = sandwich bread for hamburgers, for those that don't know).
I still don't get why people love salads so much. They taste really nasty to me, sort of like when you let one of those gelcap pills melt in your mouth.
But something else that my mom and girlfriend love that sort of makes me go ??? is being able to palatte anything burnt to a crisp. I mean my mom does this with black toast and black bacon sandwiches with gooey cheese melted all over. I haven't asked my girlfriend (I actually think she'd disagree on this one) but my mother says they're even better when they have the metallic taste of the grill/pan as well.
This burnt food concept sort of makes me twitch...soooo ungraspable by me! Noooo....*twitch twitch* [xx(]
dude my mom does that too[xx(] she burns EVERYTHING..... she eve buts ritz crackers and bagle chips into the oven because they dont burn them at the factory... she burns bagels to a crisp[xx(] soo nasty... i hav tried it, its deadly[xx(]
*gags and drops dead*
when i was like in 3rd grade a lady came and sang wacky songs to us. one of them went, 'i like to eat eat eat mustard pancakes...' gross, huh? well the next day, i tried it. it wasnt as bad as i expected it to be. id rather have syrup, though! but if i run out i know where the mustard is!lol
you guys make one rrreeeaaally hungrey ever tried tried grated chocolate with sliced cucumber and dised chillies and garlick saammy,,quite yummie toasted or plane
did you just make that up??!!! lol sounds mouth watering[:P]!!
well actually not really but........ya know.[;)]
So...lets have 'em!
Those weird combinations that make our families and friends cringe, everytime we make it or speak about making it. [^]
I'll go first,
You toast up two pieces of bread,
put Mayo, peanut butter, and jelly on it.
Fry up some bologna, and a egg, add a slice of cheese, put
that on the toast and you have a great, Fried egg and bologna sandwich!! [:D][:)][:D]
What is yours?
Nay