What's a strange food combination you love?

Sprite and milk. 1 part milk to 2 parts sprite give it a creamy after taste
- Jail.
- What the fuck.
- Username checks out.
- It's almost like what used to be a popular drink in Ontario and Manitoba, but nearly unheard of anywhere else I've asked. It's just Pilk with alcohol.
  The Paralyzer:
  1 part milk
  2 parts pepsi or coca cola
  1 ounce vodka
  1 ounce coffee liqueur
- Isn't this basically an egg cream
  
  I guess? Now I know what an egg cream is so now I have something I wanna try
- My dad used to make this for us when we were kids
- Sounds better than Pilk.
  
  That actually sounds good. I'm gonna try it
  
  What's wrong with potato milk?
- Honestly at first I was like WTF however I do love Sprite vanilla ice cream floats.
- That kinda came up watching Brutalmoose play Nancy Drew yesterday. Everyone was ignoring him once the subject of Dirty Cola came up, and everyone just wanted to talk about that. I guess it’s a Morman thing?
  
  As a Spanish speaker, Dirty Cola hits different.

I tried pickles on a grilled cheese sandwich last week. It was good.
- Ooohhhh, yes. I’ve done that since I was young; very good
- That's not weird though. Cheese and pickle sandwiches are a thing. Now if you were to throw sauerkraut in there...
  
  Kimchi grilled cheese is incredible, I would absolutely try sauerkraut grilled cheese.
- Also try ketchup and mustard. I tried this after watching a contestant on Taskmaster New Zealand utterly fail to ruin a grilled cheese, to the point where the "judge" said it was one of the best grilled cheeses he'd had.
  Fantastic breakroom sandwich, if you have a toaster oven.
  
  yeah, ketchup, pickles, and (most?) mustards have an acidic component that works really well in contrast to fatty things like cheese.
  
  Thanks! I'll try it!
- Sort of like a failed Cubano

It's not exactly food but drinking a dr. Pepper while smoking weed leaves an after taste in my mouth that is exactly like a fig newton.
- You just brought me back to Uni in a VERY serious way.
- I need to find a Dr Pepper and test this.
- I will crush some diet dr. Pepper. Idk why, it probably causes 8 different kinds of taint cancer what with the chemicals , but fuck it's delicious!

Slice of ham, leaf of lettuce, coleslaw. Roll that sucker up like a little burrito. Nom nom nom.
- Coleslaw makes anything delicious. It's more of a condiment than a dish imho...
  
  Agreed. I wouldn’t eat it alone tbh.
  It’s best in a hotdog
- That’s not weird at all lol
- Redneck lettuce wrap. Sounds good

Cucumbers and honey is considered weird in other countries from what I gather

Mac and Cheese with Gojuchang hot sauce.
- I’ll have to try that sometime, but Mac and cheese goes great with each type of hot sauce I’ve tried so far
- Gochujang is my new favorite hot sauce, I've been putting it on everything. I've also made Gochujang caramel sugar cookies, which are fricken amazing.
- Ok I’ve done something similar to this and it actually goes crazy. 10/10, would recommend
- I throw diced Hatch chilis and in mac and cheese

Cheese with jam
- We put chilli jam on our cheese & crackers, especially good combo is: cracker+cheese+slice cabanossi/salami/etc+slice of gerkin+chilli jam dollop.

Peanut butter and thick-sliced raw onion slices on whole wheat bread.
Soy sauce on vanilla ice cream.
Salami and apricot jam.
Hawaiian pizza with black and green olives.
- Peanut butter and thick-sliced raw onion slices on whole wheat bread.
  Sssssssssssundae....
- I love PB and (sweet) onion sandwiches, but I like them best on a plain bagel. I mostly eat them when the walla walla onions are in season.
- Will second soy sauce on ice cream. I learned this at a Chinese buffet that had a soft serve machine and absolutely no dessert toppings.

Chocolate cake w mustard.
Ya, I know.
- Yellow or brown mustard?
  
  ¿Porqué no los dos?
  
  Yellow!

Cottage cheese, apple sauce and pickled red cabbage. Or sub out the cabbage for pickled beets.
I have my reasons.
- Cottage cheese and apple butter is a traditional Pennsylvania Dutch (I believe) combination. It works really well well together. Anyway the more intense flavor of the apple butter over sauce, probably does the same as your pickled whatever
  
  Oh I would probably love it

Before lactose intolerance set in, BBQ-flavored potato chips dipped in cottage cheese. Also Doritos dipped in cottage cheese. Absolute fire.
- I think you may just like cottage cheese
  
  I do, but I need something with a different texture to go with it, otherwise it's too slimy and gross. I'd never eat just cottage cheese straight up.
- Absolutely love any corn chips with cottage cheese!

As a kid I made a PB, banana, mayo, and potato chip sandwich pretty often. I fucking loved it. As an adult I'd never eat that, but occasionally I crave it.
- I don’t know about the mayo component, but I’m on board otherwise.
- Hold the mayo, and swap the potato chips for granola, and I can chop firewood all day long on one or two of those.

I put mustard on 50% of all my food.

Maybe not that strange, but I love natural peanut butter and locust honey on whole grain pancakes. I also love an ice cream float made with Sprite and chocolate ice cream.

Not mine but my dads: His favorite snack is cold hot dogs dipped in peanut butter. I was 10 before I convinced him to stop dipping in the communal jar of PB.
I don't like it but its also not as bad as you'd think.
- https://youtu.be/fG9IHqwHYgI
- I might let this one slide if not for the dipping, if He dips in the jar it's a crime.

Unsweetened cold brew coffee, fresh orange juice, and sparkling mineral water. It sounds most foul but tastes so good, sparkling smokey orange.
- Some fast food place, I don't remember which, used to serve orange juice mixed with hot & bitter spices. That was really good.
- Oh it's the Orange Joe.
- What ratio? I'm curious to try this.
  
  About 1:1:2, coffee, juice, sparkling water. I really like it a lot. Has to be fresh orange juice.

My childhood nostalgia food is pasta with a bit of butter, powdered sugar and cocoa…

Watermelon and bacon
- That's reminiscent of the Prosciutto e Melone that my Italian wife has taught me to enjoy!

Peanut butter is a big one for a lot of weird combos, goes well with burgs, fruit, cereal, etc, hummus is a good substitute too
Mustard has some weird ones eggs, mayo, salty stuff like chips and pretzels
Waldorf salad is basically fruit, mayo, and nuts it was popular enough you can still find it some places
- Is Burg a hamburger? I've had peanut butter on a burger one time from...devil dawgs I think. It was really really good.
  My mom used to make Waldorf salad. I hated it. Might like it now though
  
  Yeah hamburgers with a little pb on top is great, hummus works good too
- Yellow mustard is great with popcorn

Doritos and chocolate milk.
Don't ask me why or what it reminds me of, but the nostalgia portion of my brain goes haywire with that combo (maybe a good memory that's locked away with some bad ones? I dunno).
- I actually came here to post an eerily similar one.
  Chocolate milk and buttered popcorn.
  
  Or maybe, chocolate milk is just amazing no matter what you're eating.
- Same, but flamin hot cheetos.

Weird Al came up with the Twinkie Weiner Dog, which is a hot dog with a Twinkie as the bun topped with spray cheese. It's surprisingly good.

Any type of fried tofu has a unique texture when cold that I really love. So cold fried tofu.
- I could see this. I honestly think chicken wings are better cold too
- inarizushi my beloved

Cool ranch doritos + Chocolate.
Generally any sweet and savory combo does nothing for me, but as strange as this one is, I dig it. It's not bad.

On a cracker, usually a Breton (made in Canada) I place a thin slice of aged cheddar then I top it with peanut butter a smear of mayo and a drop or two of hot sauce. I used to use Franks now I use Valentina (Mexican) Anyway it's amazing.
- you just caused me to remember my sister making peanut butter and mayo sandwiches when we were kids. I had forgotten all about that. I did PB and pickles, but stopped short of the mayo...

Liverwurst and pickles on cinnamon raisin bread. The salt and savory work with the sweet bread IMO. Gotta use the good liverwurst though. It's so goddamn hard to find these days. Kahn's.

Eating a banana while drinking coffee. Perfectly complimentary flavors.
- I love chocolate-covered banana chips and coffee as an afternoon snack.
- Does that balance each other out in terms of intestinal flow?
  
  The coffee certainly makes me need to poop!

Applesauce and white bread. Potato chips and ketchup.
- Get you some all dressed chips and blow your mind!

Bread and fries
Popcorn and orange juice
- The Chip Butty is a British classic, but I don't know popcorn and oj. What's the appeal, just a refreshing drink to sip with popcorn? Or is this some crazy oj cereal type thing?
  
  Im not sure why, but I think the buttery taste makes the citrus in the oj incredibly sharp. This might just be a "me" thing. I do it religiously even if it gives me stomachaches.

Peanut butter + Raw Carrots / Cucumbers / Apples / Bananas / Cottage Cheese / Pickles / Raisins / Raw Celery
Yes I absolutely love peanut butter and eat huge quantities of it.
- PB and apples is pretty common and one of about 2 ways I actually like peanut butter. It’s that and PBJs

Chocolate bar dipped in nacho cheese.

French toast and ketchup and maple syrup
Steak, cottage cheese and ripple potato chips
Peanut butter sandwiches and chicken noodle soup
Sweet potato fries or perogies with Miracle whip.
- Okay so far these are the only really weird ones. The thought of ketchup and maple syrup gave me an involuntary shudder and I have eaten Tarantula.

Saltines crackers with whipped cream
- Wait, did you grow up in my trailer park?
  
  no 😂
- Are you from Texas? There was a restaurant chain there back in the day that served a pie very similar that consisted of a crisp whipped cream meringue(?) mixed with crumbled saltines. It was absolutely divine, I found the recipe a few years ago but I failed to make the pie of my rememories.
  
  I am, actually, but I grew up mostly in England, where I first had it. I can't remember who first introduced it to my siblings and I.
- How about saltines with butter? My wife introduced me to that white trash treasure.
  
  I don't believe I've tried that combination, but I'd imagine it'll be a bit too rich for me. I assume you at least use unsalted butter?

Applesauce and sausage gravy.
It shouldn't be a surprise since pork pairs so well with sweet foods, but it's as essential to biscuits and gravy as hot-sauce.

Rockstar energy drink and a heath bar, for whatever reason they complement each other so well
- I have a sugar free rockstar and chocolate a few mornings every week because of how weirdly good they compliment each other but I never really put thought into it being a weird combo hahaha, but you’re totally right!

Macaroni and tuna, but you have to use the liquid cheese kind, not the powdered abortion.
Cool ranch Doritos and sour cream, saw this mentioned before and had to try it. Worth every penny.

I am actually about to head out and get some smoked salmon and Västerbottenost, that is a very good combo.
Current dinner plans are "Stoy's Special Swedish Wrap":
You need:
Soft Swedish tunnbröd
Cold smoked salmon
Grated Västerbottenost
Lettuce
Tomato
Cuecumber
Lime
Start by placing smoked salmon on the Tunnbröd, sprinkle Västerbottenost over it, squeeze some lime over it, put two leaves of lettuce on the samlon, take two thin slices of tomato on top of the lettuce, add thin slices of cuecumber, roll it all up, enjoy!
- Is that you, Edward Blom?
  
  Nope
- I feel like I'm listening to one of Rose's St Olaf stories.

Little chocolate chip cookies as a cracker for hummus. The sweet biscuit texture with the cool, tangy lemon and garlic hummus is amazing. But sadly, most people are not ready for such truths.

Tahini and Sriracha.
Best sauce for a burrito, but also great on salads.

In-n-out french frys dipped in their vanilla shake. I got my kids to love it too. My wife still thinks I'm crazy.

Coffee after ive eaten a very spicy but still tolerable dish/hotsauce.
Tried using cayenne when making coffee but isnt quite the same. Might be the challenge flavour itself that i don't like as much

Graham crackers and sharp cheese

I don't eat animal products anymore but something I had previously was a pimento cheese and pickled watermelon rind sandwich and that was unusual.

It looks like most of the strange combos in the thread are variations on the theme of sweet + savoury. Lives up to the premise - that's weird and bad and wrong.

Ketchup and peanut butter

An apple with peanut butter.

Peanut butter and spinach sandwich. Not too much spinach though

PB and cheese sandwich, ideally with toasted bread. I don’t know why I love it so much. I swear it started as a hungry teen thing and not a weed munchie thing.

I've been told that it's strange, although it seems like an obvious combo to me:
Pan fried potatoes, mushroom, and onion. Served with tomato sauce to dip it in.
- Whoever thought that was strange needs to get out more.
- Yea this sounds like a normal ass hash mix to me. I personally hate mushrooms (wish I didn't), but its not weird to mix those together.

American cheese and grape jelly on an English muffin egg sandwich was* my shit when I was a tween
*(it probably still is but now I'm hilariously lactose intolerant and developed an aversion to eggs)

Toasted bread with peanut butter, bacon and a thick slice of raw onion. Mmmm...

Apparently mint and orange juice is a no go for a lot of people because of toothpaste and orange juice?
I like my mint chocolate cookies and orange juice though.
- Sounds like the forbidden chewing gum and potato chip type of combo.

Dried onion rings in sugar.
When I have a cough I make onion syrup by laying a sliced onion on a platter, covering it in copious amounts of sugar and then collecting the resulting liquid.
One time, after collecting the liquid, I forgot about it. A couple days later it had hardened and completely dried up. It was like candies!
- Interesting! My family did daikon radish cubes in honey as cough syrup when I was a kid.

Peanut butter + chocolate ice cream

Mixing watermelon and vanilla

Cream corn and ham. Sweet and salty!