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?

- Now that is something to aspire to.

Herb mustard & ketchup sandwich on brown sliced pan anyone?

As soon as I saw the Campbell's soup sauce and green beans I knew that this was going to be an American. I find eating at other people's homes here is a constant world of discovery re appalling and unpleasant food combinations.

That Paula Deen thing is hilarious - she has had diabetes for a while and has hid it because she was in total denial about the fact it is caused by the kind of food she champions.

Many restaurants over here put SUGAR in VEGETABLES!

Actually I ate the recipe at www.cookingnook.com/favorite-summer-salad-recipes.html. It was served to me at a lunch and I thought the same thing - how odd and it doesn't look very appetizing. Wrong! It was surprisingly delicious and I had a second serving. Everyone at the table loved it and got the recipe from the woman who was hosting. Maybe it seems odd in some countries but it really was good. Don't judge too quickly.

I saw one of those foody shows on telly from America.

It was all about 'classics' and there was a manufacturer of jelly/jello that people ate with their main course. It came in a big ring (looks like it would come in handy when you get piles!) of several flavours and didn't look very nice.

I just spent 7 years in the American mid-west ...thats a typical supper!

One of my favourites was a piece of quiche, a roll and a slice of watermelon!

Yum

The sauted potatoes I have eaten in an American breakfast context were called home fries. They were definitely different to hash browns because the Hungry Man breakfast I was eating contained both.

Was huge and delicious. I grieve for that breakfast I do...

Aaaaah, Home fries. They're amazing. It's basically roasties (well, sauteed, but they taste like roasties) with your breakfast. Absolutely delicious! And one of the reasons why, after seven years of living here, I weigh 2 stone more than I did when I arrived.

The american breakfast that I take visitors out to a diner for - pancakes/french toast, bacon, hash browns/homefries/grits, biscuits, gravy ... that kind of breakfast is basically carb-loading for a busy day's homesteading on the old frontier. No one who sits in an office all day (me) can actually eat like that and survive. But GOD it's delicious!

I've eaten so well in America (Manhattan is foodie-paradise, and Oh, New Orleans, when can I visit you again?!) but there is a fair bit of general cooking/nutrition illiteracy.

Just like back home in England, really!

We shared a student house with a girl from Illinois. Her party piece supper was a baked tuna and green bean casserole made with Campbells Mushroom soup. If you were Very Hungry Indeed, it was edible. But I'd not want to be that hungry very often. She also whipped up a series of odd salads that relied on what we'd call green jelly to hold them together and found it most odd that we preferred our salad to sit about, in a louche, disorderly and unjellified style.

As for American breakfasts, the home fries at Lowells in Pike's Place Market, Seattle - served with 2 eggs over easy - were so divine that I, too, grieve for theem.

"She also whipped up a series of odd salads that relied on what we'd call green jelly to hold them together and found it most odd that we preferred our salad to sit about, in a louche, disorderly and unjellified style"

Personally, I love a louche and disorderly salad.

I used to love banana and cheese toasted sandwiches.
Raspberry jam and fishpaste on bread and butter was my fave for a loooong time.

I am very tempted to try Doormat's dh's fish fingers and lemon curd (is the butty essential? I'm not so keen on that part, but maybe as a spread for one slice of b&b?) and I wonder if he has a preferred jam that he would recommend for the sausages? I like rice pudding far too much to add anything to it, I'm afraid.

May I recommend eggs with maple syrup, though? For anyone who hasn't had it, it really is gorgeous.

Oh, and strawberries with salt and pepper.

Strawberries with balsamic vinegar are just gorgeous, Jux, so I can see where you're coming from on that idea [yum]

Weirdest I have seen: breakfast buffet at a hotel in Rio de Janeiro.

All the usual stuff - cold meats, cheeses, eggs, pastries, fruit...plus burgers and fried chicken. At breakfast.

I'm an American living in the UK. My English husband is still trumatized by this dish which my American Auntie served at my Baby Shower called 'Ambrosia', a staple at any respectible Mid-Western family get-together:

allrecipes.com/recipe/mamas-ambrosia/detail.aspx?event8=1&prop24=SR_Title&e11=ambrosia&e8=Quick%20Search&event10=1&e7=Recipe

We still talk about the time a visiting American put butter and jam on fried bread.

Banana with a wedge of stilton, wrapped in thick bacon and baked is HEAVEN!
As is crumpets with crunchy peanut butter, marmite and pear and apple spread, yummy.

My friend eats yoghurt, scrambled eggs and blueberries mixed together with honey over it all!!

When I lived in south Korea on picnics we would eat sandwiches with thin omelette, strawberry jam and ketchup in! Tbh it was quite nice!

My Mum did the banana in ham with a cheese sauce. Seemed Ok at the time, late 80's but now it just doesn't seem right

Snoozin I was traumatized by a serving of Ambrosia when I first moved here. It was a bridal shower, but I assume that the same kinds of foods are served at both. Me fresh off the boat connected the word Ambrosia with the words creamed rice and expected some good rice pudding. Yikes was I ever wrong. I have been a little food shy of jiggly food and anything with mysterious things hidden inside ever since.