What things sound like an awful combination but are surprisingly good together?

Well, here in Italy they complain a lot about pineapple on pizza but then eat ham on melon

Nutella and orange marmalade on an English muffin

Rice and milk. (Sometimes called rice pudding)

coca-cola + hefeweizen = colaweizen

Sounds vile, is really tasty.

Grilled Cheese and Worcestershire sauce.

- Dip. It's a very thin liquid, so it soaks into the bread fast.

Alcohol and power tools.

Salt and anything sweet. Salt is a flavor enhancer and can make sweet flavors pop even more.

Also coffee. It doesn't make bad coffee good coffee, but it makes it less bad. Doesn't help Starbucks coffee however, nothing can.
Mmm, salmiak... when you get that perfect hit of sweet and salty at once! 😋

Salsa with cream cheese. Looks like vomit, which is actually a plus because you don't have to share!

My grandma used to make this. We call it pink slime.
It's delicious.

Eggs on hamburgers are awesome, especially over easy!
I tried the peanut butter on my hamburger, and it is okay, but the peanut butter overpowered the hamburger imo. I'd prefer a grilled PB&J to be honest.

Toast with peanut butter and sriracha. It's almost like a satay flavour, really good drunk snack!

Similarly, peanut butter & sambal on toast. It's basically savoury & spicy peanut sauce. Absolutely delightful.

Liquorice (or even better, salted liquorice) and coffee.

Sounds alien, I know. You just gotta trust the process though.

I'm gonna go with game genres, specifically roguelikes and rhythm-based games. They sound terrible together and yet, Crypt of the Necrodancer (and also Cadence of Hyrule) is the shit.

Strawberries and black pepper.

Slice the strawberries and dip them in a bit of black pepper.

Peanut butter on bread with cheese duritos. Sounds weird, but taste amazing. Has to be the American duritos, other countries don't taste the same for some reason

Peanut butter and jelly sandwich with cheetos OR cheddar ruffles.

Reminds me of the story of 'Fool's Gold Loaf'
"It consists of a single warmed, hollowed-out loaf of bread filled with the contents of one jar of creamy peanut butter, one jar of grape jelly, and 1 pound (450 g) of bacon."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fool%27sGoldLoaf
As strange as this combination sounds ... I will attempt it one day

I always hated the idea to put beans and bananas together. It is a fairly common habit in my country, tho, but it's a no-no for me in general.

But once I tried a Nigerian dish that had beans, bananas, shrimps and pepper and I absolutely fucking loved it. Seriously, the flavor was from another world.

Forgive the spelling but I think that's called Egusi and the bananas are plantains, which are more savory than bananas. Really lovely fried!

Strawberry jelly on tortilla chips! The contrast of salty and sweet create a wonderful blend of flavors in your mouth.

Hamburgers with peanut butter and jalapeno.

I once added a bottle of cherry Pepsi to my crock pot when making pulled pork and it was damn good.

I've only ever tried it once, and no drugs were involved but a Irish o garlic bratwurst, and a Hershey chocolate bar. Sooo good.v

Bacon milkshake. Got to make sure the bacon is cooked proper to get some nice crumbles and it adds an amazing salty savory that really makes the milkshake flavor pop. Doesn't work with all flavors

Peanut butter is a massively underrated burger condiment.

A burger isn’t supposed to be sweet though…
- Not sure if all peanut butter variants are sweet? The only ones I have tried tasted savory, and some even felt somewhat salty. Maybe some have sugar added to them?

A shower and an orange. You can just devour that orange like a caveman without worrying about the mess. Shower beer is good too, just because it is nice to have a cold beverage under a hot shower.

Pineapple on pizza

Not sure if it was a worldwide thing or only in my country, but there used to be a Coke/Coffee blend we had here. It sounds terrible but I absolutely loved it, they stopped carrying it a year or two ago though.

Ketchup-flavored pringles is also apparently not a common thing in other countries, but it is the best flavour.

Coffee and fruit juice. ☕🥭

It's a common add-in with some Tiki drinks with juices including pineapple, orange, passion fruit, and lime. When my SO makes something, he'll commonly toss the excess volumes into a glass sans alcohol for me to enjoy.

I always get a cup of coffee and glass of irange juice when I go out to breakfast, the acidity cuts through the coffee, it's so nice

Orange slices and salt. 🧂🍊

Peanut butter goes really well in chicken flavor ramen.

Also peanut butter and pickles.
- Allllso peanut butter and jelly.
We used to have a dude in our college dorms who used to sell Cup of Noodles with a spoon of peanut butter inside for like 3 bucks. It's a GREAT and cheap meal after those late nights at the bar.

Black coffee and diet coke, I used to get it a lot like that hit or miss from McDonald's drive thru before they started selling it in a can.

It was pretty good! I like sweetened coffee but I also am a carbonation fiend so it really scratched both itches at the same time

Yea, this is surprising nice!
Have you tried coffee with light beer? (Lagers/pils, not the usual stouts)
Example: https://www.changbeer.com/chang-espresso-lager-wins-at-the-world-stage-for-fine-flavours-and-true-asian-design/
On the fence for these 🙃

Froot Loops cereal with chocolate milk. Just trust me.

What’s surprising about that?

French fries and mayo

That is... completely normal. Chilli aoli is actually the good one.
- In the US, it's not very common unfortunately. That sounds delicious!
Half Europe does that :-)
In France people use (Dion) mustard with fries, strong but interesting.
- expired

A pickle back! Pickle juice chaser with a shot of Jameson. i thought a pickle back was the most disgusting sounding thing until i tried it. it's a fantastic chaser for a shot of whiskey.

I ordered one once and the waiter didn't know what I was talking about so I just got a beer. He comes back later with a big smile on his face holding a glass with some liquid in it saying he brought me a pickleback. It was premixed. I shot it, it was a lot of liquid, and only once it was in my mouth did I realize they had used bread and butter pickle juice.
- Lol! Oh man, that actually sounds awful.