to think this was a weird food combination?

[MmeLindor.]

We were invited for dinner and the hostess served:

chicken in Campbell's Soup sauce
rice
green beans

and

...

raspberry jelly.

Not as a dessert. With the main course. On the same plate.

What is the weirdest food combo that you have eaten/been served?

was the host/hostess drunk?

Nope, can't beat that one - did it taste nice?

Are you sure it wasn't redcurrent jelly? That's normal to accompany chicken.

nope. Was definitely jelly.

Jello.

They were American.

The kids LOVED it. I politely declined the jelly.

American. Well that explains it....forrin muck! Peanut butter and jelly/jam stuff. Yuk.

aaaaaaaaaaah american

that explains it
they eat some odd combinations

Very normal over here.

Try this:
www.cookingnook.com/favorite-summer-salad-recipes.html

On second thoughts, don't. Not unless you want to eat something that looks like toothpaste mixed with phlegm.

lol at forrin muck. We use that expression too.

I did ask my American friend, and she was shocked too. She said it was abnormal, even for Americans.

In a very posh hotel in the Swiss Alps, broccoli, tripe and cutted up toast, all in a weird breakfast stir fry.

1950sHousewife
That is not a salad!

That actually sounds quite tasty Bagofholly

Chicken in the soup sauce I get. As a student (90's) there was the revival in that soup brand when they advertised recipes. To this day every time I pass the soup displays in the supermarket and think about buying a tin, then know I will never get round to googling how to use it.

Itd be a good base for a camping/ self catering meal.

Who knows about the jelly! Was it a condiment or pudding portion? Not that a recurrent jelly goes with a cream sauce....

Apparently, my Nanna managed to use daffodil bulbs instead of onions in a pie once.

I could go with a breakfast stir fry if it didn't involve tripe.

We had kidneys by mistake in Geneva - a translation error. We didn't eat them (and neither did the dog, which made us feel better)

Ok, I am American, I have not heard of this dish. I agree, sounds odd. Sounds like a bizarro world thanksgiving meal. Midwestern style.

In the US Midwest, there is just too much weird food, IMO. I put it down to historically too many different peoples with no money sharing recipes.

Goolash
it was with the main course, on the same plate.

Lol at daffies instead of onions.

DS had eggy bread spread with marmite and maple syrup for supper.

Toxic
My US friend did whisper the words "white trash" when I told her. And they ARE from the midwest!

Funnily enough, we were invited to two families houses from the midwest. One was the BEST EVER meal I have ever tasted (Thanksgiving) and the other was this weird one.

Bagofholly.

I would hate that but could see it making a good sensible breakfast. My husband would love it.

'Tis a bit white-trashy.
My family always has a couple of variations at holidays.

The pièce de resistance is the "orange jello, mixed with tomato soup and floating bits of carrot, celery and cucumber". It looks like what's on the pavements outside a kebab shop in a town center on a friday night.

Midwest? There you go

MmL, thanksgiving is generally the BEST time to be American.

Housewife, that orange jello thingy sounds awful, but quite possibly is ok. I have never understood the charms of colloidal-suspension salads.

Toxic - I can assure you, it is farkin' awful. It's not even 'so bad it's good'. It's just 50 shades of wrong.

I sort of collect old-ish cookbooks, esp local WI-type ones. An American friend gave me one from Floydada, Tx and it was full of sweet jelly/jello recipes (made from packet mixes) with fruit and/or veg in them, for example peaches and cucumber, which were meant to be served alongside savoury dishes (think tuna noodle casserole) in a buffet style meal or 'pot-luck' supper. Many date fron the 50s to 70s I think. Also my Canadian aunt used to send us little locally produced cookbooks with lots of 'home-making' hints and tips, every Xmas and these included the same sort of recipes too.

chocolate frogs on logs - celery with honey ans raisins - actually works!