Just tried pouring some ginger ale in my lemonade (homemade). 10/10, much better than I wouldn’t thought
I have recently combined my love of (real) mayo and spicy brown mustard on sandwiches and burgers and the shit is 🔥.
Just tried pouring some ginger ale in my lemonade (homemade).
I like orange juice with diet tonic water. Sort of shifts things in the direction of a sour grapefruit juice.
I don’t know if I’d call either of them weird, though.
My mom used to give this to us whenever we had a cold. Are you from the Southeast by any chance?
Nah, it wasn’t something that — as far as I can recall, at any rate — I picked up anywhere, started doing it on my own. I also like drinking diet tonic water straight. In general, most Americans prefer a very sweet orange juice — which I’d swear has gotten sweeter over my lifetime — and this ramps up the sour a bit.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/02/american-orange-juice-crash/681566/
European oranges skew tart because locals like their juice sour, while American varieties cater to the nation’s sweet tooth.
I distinctly recall grapefruit juice being more sour when I was younger. Unless it’s just my sense of taste changing. shrugs
Hmm interesting.
Tangentially related, I like adding Tonic water to sodas as a way of making them more bitter/less appetizing as a way of forcing me to drink less and slow down. Usually a 50/50 mixture and it effectively turns a 6pk of bottles into a 12
Date palm (its fruit) cut in half and peanut butter spread inside, surprisingly
Popcorn and pickles. Worked with a pregnant lady who had a craving for these together and, well, she wasn’t wrong.
Wouldn’t that make the popcorn soggy?
Not if you eat it right away!
Yeah but soggy popcorn is good.
Whiskey and black licorice.
Right after too-salty popcorn, this is one of my go-tos when watching a movie–especially with a peaty scotch.
Orange chicken with a side of chocolate milk. I stand by this, even though none of my friends are willing to give it a shot.
Half pure orange juice and half cola.
Sounds similar to “Spezi”, a mixture of cola and orange soda, which is quite popular here in Germany.
Fuck u/spezi
Oh wait, sorry, knee-jerk reaction. Carry on.
Orange soda is very different from pure orange.
Extra tip: use pulpy pure orange so you get little bits floating around in the brown drink. It adds extra texture. It looks absolutely disgusting, but it tastes great.
I have a 200 item list of grazing board foods that I’ve personally mixed and sampled every single 2 and 3 item combination and curated every item to be acceptable to delicious in 3 part combos.
By far the two strangest combos to any guest are the spicy salami and the dark chocolate on baguette bread or the rum dates and stone stone-ground mustard on butter cracker.
The sweet and bitter of the chocolate mixes so well with the oilly spice of the meat, and the baguette bridges the textures to provide a comfortable mouthfeel by soaking it in.
For the second, the vinegar and tang of the mustard heighten the rum without taking away the sweet paste of the dates and the cracker provides enough texture to not feel like you’re eating sauce and enough salt to soften the vinegar and alcohol bite.
Honestly, it’s my favorite dinner even because it’s so much fun to watch people look at you in horror when you suggest they try something, then try it and see that horror melt away into absolute wonder.
Are you willing to share the curated list? 🤞🏻
I believe this is a multi choose problem. 200C2 is 19,900. 200C3 is 1,313,400. You’ve tried all 1,333,300 combinations? More actually for the items that were tried but didn’t make the cut. I want the list this sounds like a culinary masterpiece
Strawberries and black pepper. You’re welcome.
Basically everything sweet with hot seasoning. One of my favorites: Mango with Chili! :-)
Your Hispanic is showing
lol I take it as a compliment, because my country of origin is not known for its kitchen. :-P
it is a compliment XD
One of my favorite grocery store salsas is spicy mango!
Currently I have a spicy pineapple salsa but that’s not as good because it’s “white” salsa, no tomatoes
Sadly, strawberry season is gone where I am and I can’t wait to try this out. This year, i discovered that coriander goes very well with strawberries to make pesto. I ate 10 times more strawberries this year than my previous average.
My toddler insisted on putting pepper on her strawberries the other day.
I laughed and said she was welcome to try, but “start on just a couple slices so you don’t ruin all of them”.
She said it was great, but I didn’t believe her, so I tried it. And then we put pepper on all of them.
Just tried this for the first time after learning about it from your comment. Pretty good! 👍
Vanilla ice cream with good quality evoo and kosher salt.
I had a hankering for vanilla ice cream and wasabi
I enjoyed that for a while and would like to find a dairy free substitute to try again
evoo
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kagis
Extra-Virgin Olive Oil? With ice cream?
Yeah, really. Give it a shot. Just try a little, maybe one scoop of ice cream, a little drizzle of evoo, and just sprinkle with salt (kosher is best but any will do). It makes it savory. You gotta try a couple of bites though, at least two (this is a rule I try to stick to, sometimes it takes a sec for your taste buds to figure out wtf is going on). If you hate it, you can wash the flavor out with a fresh bowl of ice cream.
With a name like Zagam the Vile I’m not sure I can trust you… 😂
Ha! You’re not wrong there. But really, you’ll only be out a scoop of ice cream and a tea spoon of evoo. I like it, my wife does not. I don’t like it enough to do a whole bowl of it, but it does make a good sometimes-treat.
PB & J, I mean yeah, tried and true, but it’s odd that peanuts and berries go well together when both are squished 😅
Try sunflower seed butter and honey!
Wait til you try PB and cheddar
If I try this and it doesn’t taste good, so help me, I will write a strongly worded letter. I might even say “heck”.
You better wash your mouth out with soap after that vulgar display. This is the internet, we are only kind and happy towards others!
Pasta and custard
Both of these are established dishes, so I don’t know if I could call them unexpected, but:
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Jalapeno chocolate fudge cake, tried on a whim at a restaurant. Thought it might be a disaster, but hot stuff and sweet (and fatty) stuff works surprisingly well together. I suppose that it’s kind of closer to how the Mesoamericans used to originally eat cocoa, which could be with chilis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_cuisine#Cacao
Chocolate could be prepared in a huge variety of ways and most of them involved mixing hot or tepid water with toasted and ground cacao beans, maize and any number of flavorers such as chili, honey, vanilla and a wide variety of spices.[31]
The ingredients were mixed and beaten with a beating stick or aerated by pouring the chocolate from one vessel to another. If the cacao was of high quality, this produced a rich head of foam. The head could be set aside, the drink further aerated to produce another head, which was also set aside and then placed on top of the drink along with the rest of the foam before serving.
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Five Guys does a milkshake with bacon sprinkles that I thought sounded like it could be pretty gross, but crunchy salty apparently works with fatty as well. Goes somewhat downhill as the bacon looses its crispness, though. Be interesting if there’s some sort of waterproof coating that one could put on it.
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I never tried it myself, but one of my favorite crime writers had something in one of his books and I’ve never forgotten it.
The name of the book is “Out On The Rim” by Ross Thomas. The combination is a Bloody Mary with lemon meringue pie.
Even if you don’t try the combination, you’ll like the book.
Chicago corn (cheddar popcorn mixed with caramel corn). Sounds weird - is awesome.
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