I’ll start: pesto as a bagel topping.
Octopus salad; it’s a go to in our house since we are Mediterranean mutts - most people I tell (or who have seen me eat this) think its too gross to bear, lol.
My favourite pizza topping is pepperoni and flaked tuna, the good stuff too so it’s meaty oily tuna.
Love it but so many people think I’m odd for it. The meaty flavours compliment each other!!!
I’m not even sure I need to read the rest of the thread after this comment. You win by default! I guess it makes as much sense as anchovies on pizza though.
Raw garlic, just once in a while, as a little treat. Sometimes I’ll mash it up in some bread but most often… plain, raw garlic.
I have also not met a single thing I won’t try to pickle at least once, and for some reason people around me think that it is Terrifying hahaha. Personally, I find pickling to be a fantastic way to rescue produce that’s otherwise about to go off. Instead of making food waste, I’m making delicious snacks and toppings. Pickle everything!
Toasted Cinnamon Raisin bagel with peanut butter, cheddar cheese, and bananas. - the cheese + bananas is what gets me looks.
People put mayo on cheese sandwiches and banana sandwiches, so why not?
I love eating a raw potato like an apple, for whatever reason. Any time I’m cooking a dish with potatoes, I’ll wash and peel one for me to eat. My boyfriend looked like I had grown a third arm the first time he saw me do it.
It’s the perfect mix of crunchy and juicy, but not sweet.
Raw potatoes are like semi toxic. Do you not get any GI upset from doing that?
No, never. AFAIK they aren’t toxic, just that the starch is poorly digested. Either way, I’ve never gotten sick from it, so 🤷
It’s odd because I have had digestive issues off and on through the years, but the potatoes have never precipitated it. (It’s mostly anything spicy, which sucks as I love spicy food-- it’s a price I pay willingly sometimes)
Solanine is a glycoalkaloid poison found in species of the nightshade family within the genus Solanum, such as the potato, the tomato, and the eggplant
Raw potatoes certainly are mildly toxic, it’s not just undigestible starches.
Most home processing methods like boiling, cooking, and frying potatoes have been shown to have minimal effects on solanine levels. For example, boiling potatoes reduces the α-chaconine and α-solanine levels by only 3.5% and 1.2% respectively, but microwaving potatoes reduces the alkaloid content by 15%. Deep frying at 150 °C (302 °F) also does not result in any measurable change.
They’re no more toxic than cooked potatoes, unless you only eat microwaved ones.
My partner thinks it’s disgusting and my biggest red flag: I make peanut butter sandwiches on white bread and dip them in ranch dressing 😩 the reason I do this is because of growing up a millennial in NKY where a weekly lunch option was a bowl of chili, served with a peanut butter sandwich, and carrot sticks w a side of ranch….I hate raw carrots, always have lmao but I love all the other items….one day I was staring at the sad unused ranch and thinking as I was already keen to dipping the PB sandwich in the chili, that maybe it would be as good as the PB in chili so I tried it and I’ve just done it and liked a PB sandwich dipped in ranch ever since 😓 my partner has even tried it for me and hated it 🤷🏼♀️ at least they loved me enough to try it 🥹
You win
Seriously… I couldn’t even finish reading that paragraph
chips + jam
specifically, kettle chips (plain salted or unsalted) with a nice strawberry or blackberry jam to dip them in…
where it really gets controversial is that I like to do this with the bonne maman jams 🙈
Pizza with hollandaise sauce base instead of tomato sauce. My father almost disowned me for it.
I’ve heard of white sauce base, garlic sauce base, hell even bbq sauce base, but hollandaise? The eggs benedict topping?? I’m about to disown you too
eggs benedict
Dude, I’m gonna be super controversial right now, just to tick you off…
Doughy base with toppings and sauce? Remind you of anything? What if eggs benedict are just a type of pizza? Ever think about that?
my fiancé eats this food called balut, it’s like a half grown chicken or something… definitely odd
It’s a chicken embryo still in the egg. I already find eggs to be revolting (it’s a nearly-forty-year food aversion) but that pushes it beyond. I get that it might be considered a delicacy in SE Asia (the Philippines specifically, iirc), so I won’t yuck their yum and just say that it en’t for me.
In the wise words of GradeAUnderA regarding Balut, “but apparently it’s pretty tasty… yeah I think I’ll pass”
Rice porridge with milk instead of water. It’s a thing where my parents are from but I’ve never heard of anyone else having it before. It goes great with nuts. I prefer bbq flavoured peanuts, but anything sweet and salty will work.
Common enough in Sweden that you can buy it ready-made in grocery stores. We eat it with cinnamon and a bit of sugar.
Ooh, that’s neat! Any chance you remember what it’s called?
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Not quite, but that does sound delicious! What I’m referring to is probably more of a Chinese thing, as that’s my ethnic background.
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I’m not sure if there’s any official name to it, we call it 奶子稀饭 (naizi xifan). “Milk rice porridge” feels like the most accurate translation!
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