(Soup and Graham Crackers) Weird Food Combinations

[NDR2]

And again, if I mention anything you’re not familiar with (and Googling isn’t one of your strengths), tell me, and I’ll try to explain.

 

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I found the idea of having biscuits with soup a bit weird, when I first read the thread title I thought of what some Brits call a biscuit which is more like a scone or a bread roll. Here's a weird one that's actually pretty good:

Bread and Butter Pudding.

Make a whole heap of jam sandwiches and stack them neatly in a baking dish. Pour milk and custard powder over the top, enough to cover everything, a little sprinkle of cinnamon on top and chuck it in the oven until the top is golden brown.

In all the pictures I can find on the net they've put sultanas in it, I think that would ruin it. This was something my Mum made often when I was a kid.

 

[Kalinychta]

My dad used to eat saltine crackers with ice cream. He was in the Navy (Vietnam), and that’s how they ate it. Apparently he liked it.

 

[Forest Cat]

One thing I thought sounded weird, was pancakes with ice cream. The first time I was in Denmark I walked into a place that sold pancakes with ice cream. They took a hot pancake, placed a scoop of ice cream on it and rolled it up. It was delicious! Surprisingly good.

 

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My dad used to eat saltine crackers with ice cream. He was in the Navy (Vietnam), and that’s how they ate it. Apparently he liked it.

I haven't seen these around for a few years now but they used to be very popular when I was growing up. It's salty dry biscuits (crackers) with a sweet lemon paste in the middle. I always liked them.

 

[Forest Cat]

I haven't seen these around for a few years now but they used to be very popular when I was growing up. It's salty dry biscuits (crackers) with a sweet lemon paste in the middle. I always liked them.

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I wonder if that is almost the same as this, Gull Vafler. It means "Gold Waffles". It's dry biscuit with a layer of lemon paste in the middle. It's very good.

 

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I wonder if that is almost the same as this, Gull Vafler. It means "Gold Waffles". It's dry biscuit with a layer of lemon paste in the middle. It's very good.

Might be similar, waffles are usually either sweet or tasteless though. The Lemon Crisps were a proper cracker type biscuit with crystals of salt on them. We don't use the word Crackers here, we call them Dry Biscuits.

 

[NDR2]

Now how about peanut butter sandwiches? (Another mainly US thing.) I’ve always preferred plain peanut butter sandwiches, which is considered normal. It’s also considered normal and typical to have other things on peanut butter sandwiches like jelly or jam (most popular), raisins, or bananas – some people even have bacon or pickles on it, and that's also part of the norm and may not seem too bad (I don’t know if I’d personally like peanut butter and pickles). However, I once saw in a small book of recipes using oranges (it may have been a Sunkist orange recipe book) a recipe for “Peanut Butter, Bacon, and Orange Sandwiches.” Doesn’t sound good with oranges.

Also, my mother said that when she was a child, she’d eat peanut butter and marshmallow sandwiches. Marshmallows on bread? That doesn’t even sound healthy.

In this video, someone tries eating peanut butter cookies (or biscuits as some people may call them here) with pickles. (I’m actually a vegan, too. So even if I mention animal foods here, and although I did eat them in the past, I don’t eat them now.)

The cookies do look like they’d be good by themselves.

 

[Stuttermabolur]

As a non-American, peanut butter with jelly/jam always seemed bizarre to me. I have no idea how such a weird texture combination became a food staple. If it wasn't popular in US pop culture I totally think mixing those two on bread would be seen as strange (and someone might even post about it on this thread!). I do admit that peanut butter is great, and I wish it was more popular in my home country.

 

[grommet]

I was playing the True or False game here, and I put a statement for someone to answer true or false to: “You serve graham crackers with soup.” Somebody responded false and commented that they presumed I was joking, which I was. I know graham crackers are sweet and meant more for dessert. But my statement actually wasn’t an original idea.

I was in a couple of special education schools as a child, and in both places the work was generally below my level. In one of the schools we had a home economics class where we would make recipes that looked like they were copied from a cookbook written for kindergarten age children. One time we made “Chicken Vegetable Soup” with instant chicken soup mix and canned mixed vegetables. I didn’t want to try it (I didn’t like canned vegetables then). But the teacher passed around some graham crackers with it. I don’t know if she seriously thought that was normal, or she thought we were stupid and didn’t know better.

Anyway, what are some weird food combinations – either eaten together or combined – that you’ve heard of or seen (or, if you want to admit, that you like yourself)?

Spaghetti and strawberry yoghurt with walnuts. It is good to me. The hot pasta warms up the cold fruit yoghurt and it all blends so well, nice gloopy textures with some crunch from the nuts.

Oatmeal with canned salmon and lots of black pepper. I love this so much for a while. Now I do not think I could eat it.

Hot oatmeal with fruit yoghurt and nuts. I really liked that.

Hot oatmeal with walnuts, Parmesan cheese, avocado oil and lots of black pepper. That used to make me happy inside. Like a friend feeling. I cannot explain that.

Put marshmallows in the microwave in a bowl and heat until they blew up nearly out of the bowl, with walnuts on top. Have to eat it quickly because the marshmallows get hard again. Sweet gloopy hot and crunchy. I liked that.

Cheap vegetable soup with oatmeal, hot pepper flakes, cayenne, Tabasco and avocado oil. I get the vegetable soup free from a food donation barrel so it is affordable.

Fondant. I wanted to try what I thought was the best part of a fancy cake. It is the stuff bakers use. They roll it flat and press it into shapes like leaves or letters, all sorts of things. They can also use it to make a skin to cover a whole cake. I just wanted to eat it to see. I am glad I tried it. I do not keep doing it. It was exciting though, like wondering and finding out what something is really like by itself.

Oatmeal, wheat flake cereal, walnuts and milk. Heat it all up and the cereal flakes cook soft into the oatmeal. I make it with as little liquid as I can. I like very stiff or gloppy oatmeal. I thought it was pretty good.

Canned tuna in vegetable soup. The tuna has a strong smell I do not like but somehow that makes eating the soup interesting.

Beans and oatmeal. With lots of black pepper and some avocado oil. So starchy and gloopy. I really liked that. I like starches. There was a joke on the Simpson cartoon tv show about a white rice sandwich. I never ate one but it sounded really good to me.

Vegetable soup with roasted edamame beans, lots of sunflower seeds, Tabasco and avocado oil. I did not like that too much but I like it enough to eat it every day for a while. The edamame beans are very hard but soften in the soup when it is warmed.

Chocolate protein powder with not much liquid and some walnuts in it.

I think I am forgetting lots of other things.

 

[Kalinychta]

As a non-American, peanut butter with jelly/jam always seemed bizarre to me. I have no idea how such a weird texture combination became a food staple. If it wasn't popular in US pop culture I totally think mixing those two on bread would be seen as strange (and someone might even post about it on this thread!). I do admit that peanut butter is great, and I wish it was more popular in my home country.

What about spreading Marmite on bread? I’ve never had it, but the idea of spreading such a substance on anything makes me nauseous. I can definitely see how peanut butter on bread would seem weird, too.

 

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Another weird one I'm thinking of buying for lunch in a few minutes. Imagine describing a Chinese spring roll to a Scotsman without showing him a picture. The result is sort of the same except instead of using pastry he used batter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiko_Roll

 

[Mary Terry]

To me pancakes were always a sweet thing. Smear them with butter while they're still hot then sprinkle some sugar over them and add a squeeze of lemon juice.

To me, potato pancakes are always savory like hashbrowns or fries. No sugar is added to them when the patties are formed for frying. Flour or wheat pancakes usually have sugar in the batter, so they taste sweet by themselves and are traditionally served with a sweet topping of some sort.

 

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To me, potato pancakes are always savory like hashbrowns or fries.

As a cultural generalisation we tend to go more for the savoury tastes than the sweet in Australia, I struggle to imagine anything made from potatoes that's sweet. To me peanut paste is a savoury thing and I can't imagine putting jam with it in a sandwich, I tried it when I was a kid and it was disgusting.

And yes, I love Vegemite.

 

[NDR2]

Does anybody remember ZOOM from the 1970's? Some of the recipes they made on the show looked rather disgusting. Here's one example:

At 5:42. What are crunched peanuts anyway?

 

[GrownupGirl]

Sometimes I've made s'mores with graham crackers, marshmallows and chocolate. If you're actually tired s'mores, should they be called s'nuffs?

 

[NDR2]

Sugar sandwiches?

 

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A new and strange taste sensation.

I just bought a hamburger with the lot for lunch, normally it would have both mayonnaise and tomato sauce on it. The girl making my burger accidentally used tartare sauce instead of mayonnaise.

It was really nice.

A real Aussie hamburger: Toasted bun, large home made beef patty, lettuce, tomato, cheese, onion, bacon, egg, tomato sauce and mayonnaise. (no, they don't even have pickles in the shop, we don't do that here, disgusting things)

 

[NDR2]

I remember an episode of Mister Rogers where Mr. McFeely brings him a delivery from Chef Brockett, the owner of the neighborhood bakery. It’s a box with a banana and a slice of cheese inside, and there’s a note inside that says, “Wrap cheese around peeled banana and eat right away.” He does and says he likes it. I never really cared for bananas or cheese, but would you want to eat them together?