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to think this was a weird food combination?

120 replies

MmeLindor. · 02/06/2012 00:09

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?

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OlaRapaceFru · 02/06/2012 10:03

What's the difference in taste, Tee?

LadyTeeAndBiscuits · 02/06/2012 10:06

Ola Boston Baked Beans are slow cooked, in an earthenware pot with molasses, brown sugar and pork fat. So they are carmally and sweet instead of tomatoey and savoury.

OlaRapaceFru · 02/06/2012 10:08

Blimey - sounds yummy. Can you buy them over here?

LadyTeeAndBiscuits · 02/06/2012 10:08

B & M Baked Beans

LadyTeeAndBiscuits · 02/06/2012 10:09

According to one site I just saw, you might be able to get them in London.

OlaRapaceFru · 02/06/2012 10:11

Oooh, lovely, thank you. I'll have a look in Waitrose!

NettoSuperstar · 02/06/2012 10:21

I made boston baked beans recently. They were delicious, and dead easy. Biscuits and gravy are on there too (Scuse the awful photos)

OlaRapaceFru · 02/06/2012 10:39

Fantastic, Netto. Thank you. (Your photos look fine, BTW!)

Mummy2FE · 02/06/2012 10:54

When I was pregnant we visited a relative who prepared a main meal of chicken in a creamy jar sauce, Yorkshire pudding and cabbage.

It made me retch then and just thinking about it now, still does!

doormat · 02/06/2012 10:54

dh eats

ice cream butties

sausage and jam on toast

fish fingers and lemon curd butties

rice pudding with tomato sauce

effing gippingGrin

OlaRapaceFru · 02/06/2012 11:01

doormat, do you have to go into another room so you don't have to watch?

I think pizzas with toppings like pineapple, sweetcorn or, particularly, chicken tikka are odd. Italians must think we're bonkers Grin. Having said that, I love pizza (say a cheese and tomato or cheese and mushroom) with slices of avocado on it - so the avocado bakes. Smile

I also used to love fried bread with Rose's lime marmalade on it.

GeorgeEliot · 02/06/2012 12:22

When we were kids my dad used to eat toast with marmite, peanut butter and jam.

Not because he liked it, but because he wanted to gross us out.

We could not believe he could put it in his mouth!

MmeLindor. · 02/06/2012 14:28

Doormat
your dh is weird, if you don't mind me saying so

Tee
They sound interesting. Thanks for the recipe, Netto

I've been waiting for 30 mins for my lunch and this is making me hungry.

DS eats leberwurst and nutella sandwiches

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zukiecat · 02/06/2012 14:44

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treas · 02/06/2012 16:46

Back in the 80's dh was served banana wrapped in ham and covered with cheese sauce - never again he says.

Psammead · 02/06/2012 16:56

I am 5 months pregnant and this thread is making me drool.

Apple pie in cheese sauce? Yuuuummm...
Creamy chicken, yorkshire pud and cabbage? Groooowl.

I have to try some of these.

EverythingInMjiniature · 02/06/2012 17:09

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Psammead · 02/06/2012 17:11

Nothing in my book, except I don't have it in front of me right now.

daisydoodoo · 02/06/2012 17:22

We went to one of the ponderosa chains in orlandO last year for breakfast. It's a buffet style restaurant and they had popcorn chicken, tortilla chips, strawberry and chocolate marbled cake, blue, green and red jello and some kind of angel delight type desert. All on a breakfast buffet.

We heard some American voices and asked if they really did eat jello for breakfast and she said yes they gave it to the children with cottage cheese!!

Calabria · 02/06/2012 17:22

Years ago a friend was given fried eggs and radishes for breakfast in a guest house in Holland.

We were talking about it some time later while at breakfast in a hotel in Birmingham. One of the waiters leaned over and asked me quietly if my friend had a sense of humour, so I said yes. 10 minutes later my friend was presented with a plate of fried eggs and radishes. I thought he was never going to stop laughing.

MmeLindor. · 02/06/2012 20:19

Calabria
ha. That is brilliant

Someone take Psammead out of the kitchen before she starts making weird stuff.

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DamnBamboo · 02/06/2012 20:22

What's wrong with the chicken, yorkshire and cabbage?

I loves cabbage I do!

tyler80 · 02/06/2012 20:24

Hash browns and sauteed potatos are totally different things in my world, although I think either are acceptable at breakfast.

tyler80 · 02/06/2012 20:26

When i lived in the midwest however home fries were the potato based breakfast choice

KitchenandJumble · 02/06/2012 20:29

Giggling a bit at the thought of the English claiming culinary superiority over anyone.

The meal the OP was served does sound a bit odd. It is by no means a typical American meal.