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?

and not ans

perhaps she wanted to use redcurrant jelly and didn't have any so went for the nearest thing? Or just weird. Raspberry jelly (jello) is just weird.

I used to get sneered at by schoolfriends for some of my sandwich combinations - but I didn't think they were that odd:
Bovril and cheese
Cream cheese and apple
mincemeat (like in mincepies) and raspberry jam - ok that one was a bit sickly
brie and blackcurrant jam

They were pretty good! :)

My mum makes "jelly mousse" - tinned raspberries set in a red jelly, then another red jelly made up with milk to make a mousse on top, scattered with chocolate buttons. It sounds a bit weird but is actually very tasty!

She doesn't serve it with soup or a roast chicken or anything, so I think we escaped something there...

I've often read US based references to "jello salad" and wondered what on earth they were talking about - I know now!

As soon as I red the list of food I knew you the host must be American. I avoid all wiggly foods with strange things suspended inside at parties here Usually I find the jelly/jello is green and in schools this is served with fish fingers Blergh!. Theres a whole host of weird food combos. One times I saw Apple pie with cheese sauce. I thought it was custard at first.

That was read not red

I once coloured semolina blue with food colouring (why I did this, I cannot remember - maybe a colour theme) and none of the kids would touch it.
Really strange: it tasted fine, but the colour even put me off

My dad once was given in a pay-off bought an industrial-size bag of Victoria sponge mix. We got so bored with the stuff - this was the 70s and I can still remember how artificial and vile it tasted - we were putting food colouring in it to try to make it more interesting.

Green sponge with strawberry jam - yum!

Staying in a hotel in New York, the breakfast was buffet style with a massive amount of different things that you'd normally expect to have, but one of the more unusual choices was saute potatoes. I thought it was a bit weird to have potatoes for breakfast, but actually it was bloody marvelous as we were there in December and it was snowing - just the thing to stoke up on before a day's sightseeing in the cold.

The meatballs in Ikea come with what looks like soup and they ask if you want jam.

I'm American (as MmeL well knows ) and that's weird food. Even for the mid-west!

However, I despise jello or jelly or anything that wiggles when I eat it. ::shiver::

Tits - that's gravy in ikea and redcurrant jam - perfectly normal wit meat

I went yesterday just to have it

Oooh! Actually, I remember a breakfast in Bruges cafe once.

We'd gone for a day trip so arrived ridiculously early and I was tempted by their "full English breakfast".

It turned up as a semi-raw bacon and mushroom omelette, with the egg still runny. Yuk!

Note to self: Always stick to local cuisine.

I have loads of those America salad recipes. DS2 is forever nagging me to make one.

They have things like pecans, pineapples and carrots in orange jelly with sour cream or green beans, carrots, raisins and peaches in green jelly!

I HATE wiggly food.

Are you sure the red stuff wasn't jellied cranberry sauce (American cranberry sauce without cranberry pieces)....it's yum

Just FYI, the salad someone linked above is known as Slime Salad in my family. It's got mayonnaise, cottage cheese, marshmallows, celery and something red in it and is freakin delicious. Can't believe that people who eat marmite, fish pastes, and mushrooms for breakfast can really count any food wierd.

My friend swears by banana and wotsit sandwiches. Sounds gross to me but she promises it works.

It's an American thing. There are several variations on it, it's called Jello Salad. And it counts as a vegetable.

Utterly vile.

OlaRapaceFru saute potatoes for breakfast are called Hash Browns. And they are one of the better food legacies the Americans have bestowed on us.

Mind you, the French think the Brits are weird for serving redcurrant jelly with roast lamb. They regard it as jam with meat.

And as for bread sauce ....

Thanks GeorgeE, I knew they had another name - just couldn't remember it - but they were delicious [yum emoticon]

I've never used soup as a sauce but here's the site for Campbell's soup recipes. I guess they are handy if you use the slow cooker a lot.

I'm not sure I'd have the patience to make this though

Oh, I love hash browns.

Funnily enough, I was in London with an American friend last week and she refused to eat baked beans for breakfast, declaring, 'beans are not to be eaten before lunchtime and you Brits are totally weird for suggesting it'

She would not be persuaded that a full English breakfast was great with beans.

Was definitely jelly, DS had some a whole plateful.

Ikea meatballs with gravy and that berry sauce is lovely. Yum

It had never occurred to me that hash browns were eaten at breakfast time

MmeL, I was wondering what Americans think of some our our food combos too. Do they think Yorkshire puddings are odd, I wonder?

Every time we eat at my dads he does meat, one veg and at least 4 different kinds of potatoes

Americans think Yorkshires are weird...until we eat them!

And I agree about baked beans. But I don't like British baked beans at all only Boston Baked Beans.