What's something you enjoy eating that other people think is super weird?
I don't think I've made a post on here about food, so here goes! ๐
I'll go first...I just love eating uncooked pasta. It has such a satisfying crunch and the tomato pasta and wholewheat pasta are my faves! This has been a habit that I've had ever since I've had teeth and people are always surprised that I haven't damaged my teeth doing this. I enjoy pasta cooked too!
uncooked pasta, uncooked noodles, flour, sugar, whole apple (with seeds and that wood thingy on apple), nails (not eat but chew and spit out), coffee beans. There might be more but can't think of right now.
Not me, but an ex-girlfriend. She would fill a bowl with potato chips (crisps to you Brits) and then pour ketchup all over and eat it like a bowl of cereal with a spoon.
This is very much a regional food around here, but if youโre not from here, with previous generations from here, it will seem like a strange food: the banana sandwich. This is peanut butter, banana, and mayonnaise (Dukeโs Mayonnaise for any proper Southerner). People are generally on board until you mention the mayonnaise. I get that it sounds weird but is actually really good.
I hear it called a Southern thing but donโt know if itโs just a North Carolina thing or extends farther across the South. It is definitely a thing, though. I remember years ago one of the larger news outlets posted a question on their Facebook page, asking if people sliced their banana into planks or circles for their sandwiches and it got hundreds of comments in response with people arguing for one option or the other. Iโve always been a circle person myself. I can see a theoretical appeal for planks in having less open space but am so used to circles that Iโve never quite figured out the logistics of cutting straight planks out of a curved banana.
Peanutbutter sandwiches with spicy, vinegar-based condiments instead of sweet ones. Mustard, cilantro chutney, peperoncini, that kind of thing. It's fantastic.
Dry sandwiches. I don't like most condiments on anything that I eat cuz I think it ruins the flavor. Most condiments are overpowering and just make food taste like condiments. Don't put them on anything. Not hotdogs, burgers, or sandwiches. The only exception I make is hot sauce.
There is a cheese in my country- olomouckรฉ tvarลฏลพky, which is in itself acquired taste.
But I made "Loลกtickรฝ zรกzrak" which is this cheese pickled in beer, as a homebrewer I used half fermented beer. So smelly cheese fermented with beer.
You can smell this concoction in whole house when the jar was opened, but the taste was amazing.
I eat only once a day, but it's a big one, right before bed.
When I order takeout from... say my favorite burger place in town, usually a double cheeseburger, I ask that they apply no mayo, mustard nor ketchup, as I will reheat it all on the air fryer/toaster oven then apply condiments, don't want the bread to be getting soggy for hours before dinner.
I also tell them to put the lettuce, tomato, onion and pickles on the side, for the same reason. I bring my own reusable containers for the separate things, to create no plastic/styrofoam waste. That includes tiny ones for the dressing and for the runny cheese for the fries.
Which reminds me of the fries - back home, hours later, I will refry them for a minute or two, they come out almost as good as new.
But this all being home, I can also play around with the burger. Such as stuffing it with a full onion, thinly sliced and caramelized on low heat with olive oil, pepper and a dash of Lawry's seasoned salt. Maybe also sliced mushrooms sautรฉed in butter. I'll also add a few extra slices of yellow heirloom tomato.
One last thing: while the onions are caramelizing on the toaster oven, I'll also put another tray with a handful of asparagus in olive oil, pepper and garlic salt.
Like a friend described it, I like tuning the burger!
As in "car tuning", custom burger mods.
Hello, I'm here to die on the hill that pineapple is a perfectly valid ingredient to put on a pizza, and would like to argue that any ingredient is valid to put on a pizza.
Americans just don't realize how sheltered their definition of pizza is. There are people out there committing food crimes you can't even imagine.
Personally, I don't think this is all that weird, but I like cold leftovers. My preferred breakfasts are things like cold pizza, cold mac and cheese, cold mashed potatoes, etc.
For some reason, my friends and family think it's gross and they always say things like "I don't know how you can eat that cold."
Not me but on The German cannabis community (C/cannabis@feddit.org) we recently had a post of someone eating yogurette (chocolate with fruits) with mustard while being high. It also included a rating of different mustard variations and how well they work for this.
I'll eat almost anything so there are plenty of examples but I'll pick one of my favorites: chicken hearts. They're tasty and have a satisfying springiness to them! Organ meats in general get unfairly hated upon, I feel.
Not super weird but I usually get looks from others when I bust out a tub of cottage cheese as a dip for my chips. Spruced up version; Cottage cheese, chopped pickles, (Cholula chili garlic)hot sauce and a small dap of sesame oil is like the perfect ruffles dip.
I haven't had this since I was a kid, but I used to take two pieces of toast, put Nutella on one slice, and margarine and Vegemite on the otherโฆ and then sandwich them together and chow down. Sweet and savory and umami all at the same time. Don't know if I would do that these days, though.
Pretty much everything. My partner thinks it's weird that I like to eat...
Pepperocinis,
Baby corn,
Pickled ginger,
Any kind of olives (green, black, kalmata, oil-cured...),
Cheese hotdogs,
Hot sauce on soup,
Hearts of Palm,
Cincinnati-style chili,
I guess the curse of my German/Swedish heritage is, if you soak anything in brine and vinegar long enough, I'll probably eat it.
I eat chicken wings with the bones. The whole thing. And I love picking at the meat that is on the bone!
Give me a pork chop, T-bone steak, chicken thigh and Iโll gnaw at that bone like Iโm a fully grown dog. Granted I donโt do it in public, but I feel like leaving meat in the bone is a waste and itโs sometimes tastier!
it's my favorite cut of meat, and everybody agrees if I cook it for them, but until they try it I always get weird. looks or blank stares and confused questions.
I don't have them as much, but peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches are great. Add some cheese (non-cheddar for me, thank you) slices and I've got a good sandwich.
I also am the type of person to make tortilla "wraps" with just ketchup or ranch and nothing else. Real middle of the night or there's nothing else good to eat type food for me.
Cannot say I'm a fan of uncooked pasta, though, but slightly undercooked pasta is pretty good.
Shrimp heads, especially when they've been deep fried. So much flavor, and nice and crunchy. Fried fish fins are similar in this regard. Oh and fish eyeballs - my wife thought I was nuts until I got her to try it, now she really enjoys them.
I love dried shrimp. They smell very strong, are quite salty and I think full of cholesterol, but when I start a pack, it's difficult for me to stop eating
Blue cheese crumbles in ramen or pumpkin soup. Soft blue cheese on a water cracker, topped with a drizzle of spicy honey. Maybe not super weird, but a lot of people just don't like blue cheese to begin with.
I've started putting Everything Seasoning on almost everything I eat. I mix it into mayo for sandwiches, throw it on burgers on the grill, sprinkle it on chicken in the pan. Try it.