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Things other people eat that you find strange

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ohxmastreeohxmastree · 22/04/2023 17:24

Inspired by the many threads I’ve seen over the years about foods YOU eat that other people find weird…

What ‘normal’ foods do other people eat that you just can’t get on board with?

For me, it’s pizza and chips. I think it’s such a bizarre combination for a dinner and wouldn’t ever put the two together. Nothing to do with the carb overload (I love garlic bread and lasagne…), I just think they don’t go! DP very much disagrees and says it’s a perfectly normal combo Grin

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Irequireausername · 23/04/2023 08:41

Shade17 · 22/04/2023 21:49

Personally, I much prefer to eat something tasty and nutritious (especially a soya based product), than part of a dead animal.

I can only eat dead animals, the delicious bastards escape if I try to eat them alive!

😂😂 pesky buggers!

mamaduckbone · 23/04/2023 09:11

Curry and chips or Chinese takeaway and chips - I just can't understand why chips are even on the menu (although ds17 says the chips from the Chinese takeaway are delicious because they have a tinge of Chinese flavour)

Strangelisa · 23/04/2023 09:21

BlackBarbies · 22/04/2023 22:11

I also don’t understand how people just eat a boiled egg on it’s own. No toast, nothing else with it. Just a plain boiled egg. Bizarre!

Me! Every breakfast 🍳

OhFFSthisAgain · 23/04/2023 09:25

'Curry and chips or Chinese takeaway and chips - I just can't understand why chips are even on the menu (although ds17 says the chips from the Chinese takeaway are delicious because they have a tinge of Chinese flavour)'

It very much depends on the chips!

MrBit · 23/04/2023 10:14

Energy drinks especially red bull, the smell makes me gag
Coriander
Aniseed
Liquorice
Marzipan
And >drum roll<.............Bananas

Optimalise · 23/04/2023 10:21

@LubaLuca ...can't stop laughing...even though I like prawns...🤣

Optimalise · 23/04/2023 10:26

Any kind of "fruit-meat" combo...I like all these items individually but...gammon & pineapple, pork and apple, pineapple & cheese, melon and ham...it just seems wrong..a bit like having your main course and desert on the same plate and don't get me started on pineapple on pizza 😝

OhFFSthisAgain · 23/04/2023 11:03

@Optimalise ham and pineapple is a match made in heaven though, the same with pork and apple etc, the fruit just cuts through the boriness (sp?) And hawaiian pizza is amazing, love apple/grapes on salads etc too, I'm getting hungry now!

OhFFSthisAgain · 23/04/2023 11:04

*'BlackBarbies · Yesterday 22:11

I also don’t understand how people just eat a boiled egg on it’s own. No toast, nothing else with it. Just a plain boiled egg. Bizarre!'*

Me too, and scotch eggs, stinky boiled egg sandwiches 🤢

DRS1970 · 23/04/2023 11:12

Eggs

SpringViolet · 23/04/2023 11:24

Animals, birds, fish, octopus, shellfish etc.

Anything that was a living creature really.

VegemiteSammich · 23/04/2023 11:36

Mashed potato. Just eew. It’s like eating someone’s vomit 🤢

black pudding. Isn’t it just scabs and blood 🤐

reindeer. Can’t believe the Americans actually eat reindeer

slowquickstep · 23/04/2023 11:48

Stravaig · 22/04/2023 20:16

Carb on carb, beige on beige. Ugh. Deathly dull and sits like cement.
Foods masquerading as other foods. Eat vegetables, not plants tortured into fake 'meats'!!!

However, a chargrilled burger topped with peanut butter and banana is normal and delicious; so is a hummus and crispy seaweed on wholegrain sandwich. I have spoken.

You have just inspired my dinner tomorrow, burger with peanut butter and banana sound fantastic. I put peanut butter in curries so don't know why i haven't thought of topping a burger with it.

LadyPenelope68 · 23/04/2023 11:55

ohxmastreeohxmastree · 22/04/2023 17:24

Inspired by the many threads I’ve seen over the years about foods YOU eat that other people find weird…

What ‘normal’ foods do other people eat that you just can’t get on board with?

For me, it’s pizza and chips. I think it’s such a bizarre combination for a dinner and wouldn’t ever put the two together. Nothing to do with the carb overload (I love garlic bread and lasagne…), I just think they don’t go! DP very much disagrees and says it’s a perfectly normal combo Grin

Absolutely agree, sane goes for lasagna and chips, they just don’t go together.

Shade17 · 23/04/2023 12:00

reindeer. Can’t believe the Americans actually eat reindeer

Why wouldn’t you? Lots of other countries eat reindeer as well and it’s easy to get in the UK. It’s very tasty and lean. If you like venison then it’d be bizarre to exclude some of it because Rudolf.

waterlego · 23/04/2023 12:04

I ate reindeer in Norway. I believe it’s commonly eaten there. It was very tasty!

PrincessHoneysuckle · 23/04/2023 12:56

Raw tomatoes.Taste horrible and hate the texture of the phlegm inside

x2boys · 23/04/2023 13:20

BarelyLiterate · 22/04/2023 20:24

Instant coffee.

I understand that, back in the day, not everyone could get real coffee or the equipment to make it, so they settled for heavily marketed instant, despite the fact that it tastes disgusting. But nowadays, we all know what decent coffee is supposed to taste like, affordable ground coffee is sold in every supermarket in the country, a serviceable cafetière costs a few quid, and using it doesn’t take any longer than making instant.
So WHY do people still drink instant muck?

Why do.people drunk.coffee at all.,horrible bitter,stuff.

MolkosTeenageAngst · 23/04/2023 13:23

Eggs.
Offal.
Shellfish, especially molluscs.
Mayonnaise.

SnapBang · 23/04/2023 16:21

Was in a cafe today when a man ordered jacket potato and beans and I thought immediately of this thread! 😂 Dull, dry potato covered in dull beans. There were so many delicious options in the place too. Yuck!

Notellinganyone · 23/04/2023 16:35

BeaLola · 22/04/2023 18:47

Broad. beans
Baked Beans
Bananas
Custard
Rice pudding
Creme caranel
Panettone
Anchovies
Sardines
Herring roe
Kidneys

We must be the same person! I hate all of the above. But I also hate cake.

Stravaig · 23/04/2023 19:50

slowquickstep · 23/04/2023 11:48

You have just inspired my dinner tomorrow, burger with peanut butter and banana sound fantastic. I put peanut butter in curries so don't know why i haven't thought of topping a burger with it.

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Excellent! I'll be trying peanut butter in curries.

Cherrysherbet · 23/04/2023 19:52

Meat and fish.

denmans · 26/08/2023 08:55

Battered insects, including spiders as a roadside snack in Cambodia. I declined.

mydogisthebest · 26/08/2023 09:45

Chips with curry. I have moved from the South to the North and almost everyone here seems to eat chips with their curry and they dip the chips in the curry! Yuk.

Gravy is one I don't get. Horrible stuff that makes food soggy. Why on earth pour gravy over foods like roast potatoes, yorkshire pudding, chips etc that are meant to be crisp? Also makes food taste of the gravy.

Again, where I live now people seem to want gravy (and tons of it) and just about everything. Gravy on fish and chips!!! Disgusting.

Thankfully DH feels the same way and we don't have gravy on anything. We like our food to taste of what it is, be crisp if it is meant to be and we don't need or want to eat baby food mush