Chefs can take years to prepare and streamline perfect and precise menus and recipes. Each scent, each tiny ingredient is a piece of the magnificent, nourishing puzzle. Certain dishes make titans in the food industry because of these orgasmic amalgamations. However, if you're just a regular hungry, bored human you can look in the fridge and see what's left over when you're too lazy to shop. Then suddenly mayo and.... whatever is a masterpiece. No matter how skin crawling it sounds.
Redditor u/Gfuelmaster64 wanted to discuss a few menu ideas for the future by asking..... What is a food combination that sounds disgusting in theory but is actually really delicious?
Pot Sticky
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Fried potatoes and maple syrup.
Sweet potato fries with honey. Had a ranch convince me to try it, and I'm never going back.
Edit: a ranch hand at a dude ranch we visited ( and will be visiting again). Not going back to salt and ketchup.
Chips Ahoy
Potato chips on a PB&J.
Fritos on a PB&J. Mmmmm.
Or potato chips on a bologna sandwich.
Artisanal
Apple pie and sharp cheddar cheese.
There was an amazing restaurant in NYC that was all about cheese. It was called Artisanal. They had an Apple pie made with strong cheddar cheese in the pie crust. Amazing. Loved that place.
The Glaze
Balsamic vinegar and vanilla ice cream.This works best with more aged balsamic, which has sweeter notes.
Strawberries and balsamic is an amazing combination too. I put balsamic when making strawberry jam every summer.
Edit: I use around 0.8 kg of sugar and one lemon for each kg of strawberries. Mix the halved (or quartered) strawberries with the sugar and leave in a bowl overnight.
The next day, bring this mix to a boil and add the lemon(s). After 5 minutes remove the strawberries and cook the syrup for 5 more minutes. Add the strawberries back in and repeat this process twice more. On the last syrup cooking I may cook it for longer if it's too watery.
Once you add the strawberries for the last time, cook for one minutes and put a tablespoon of balsamic vinegar for each kg of fruit. Finish cooking and proceed to canning.
For canning, please refer to this guide. I had a quick look at it and it seems pretty comprehensive.
Sweet Pizza
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A friend of mine offered me 3 days ago pizza with sweet potato as a topping. Thought he was crazy and I tried to pass, but he kept talking about how good it was, so I tried it and it was honestly the best pizza I have ever had. Gonna remember this one.
'disgusting in theory'
Mangos with crushed mustard seeds and salt don't add too many seeds or too much salt.
In Thailand they enjoy green manhood with a salt, sugar and chili mixture.
...welp, that's definitely fitting the 'disgusting in theory' part, but I don't want to put it into practice...
Kid Me
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Put a chocolate chip cookie inside a cheeseburger. Kid me would do this all the time and it's amazing.
"Guberburger"
Back when I lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, there was a restaurant that put peanut butter on a burger. Had it a couple of times, weird combo. I'd be more inclined to try with a cookie, tbh.
That sounds pretty good! There is a restaurant about an ~hour away from me that will do a peanut butter burger. Haven't had it.
There was to be a restaurant (Wheel in Drive In in Sedelia, Missouri) a couple hours away from me that specialized in that. They called it the "Guberburger."
the reaction
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Peanut butter and onion sandwich.
There's a chemical reaction that causes the sulphur in raw onion to dissipate to a degree leaving it sweet and lightly spicy. If you use too much you lose the benefit of the pb.
Viola....
Sour cream with cut up strawberries with a little bit of sugar.
Roll the strawberry in sour cream, and then roll it in raw sugar.
It's amazing.
My dad would make something similar but to the sour cream he'd add brown sugar and a dash of nutmeg. I think maybe a pinch of cinnamon too?
Simmer Yes!
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Pork belly, coffee, vodka, miso.
Simmer in water for 1.5 hours. Best damn pork belly you'll ever have.
YAASSSSS!!!
Goat cheese and honey!!
This makes sense considering goat cheese goes great with strawberries and balsamic reduction. Put that crap on a salad. OMG.
Pickles Away!
Peanut butter and pickle sandwiches.
Peanut butter and pickle burgers. Mmmmmmm. There is also a food cart near me that does peanut butter, pickle, and thai chili sauce burger. It's my absolute favorite.
I'm Intrigued....
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Soy Sauce and Vanilla Ice cream.Seriously surprised me with how not terrible it was.
I might try it. What I do now is eat ice cream (any flavor I like at the time) out of the container with pretzel rods instead of a spoon. No dishes.
Whatever....
Well, if you mix brown sugar and ketchup and cook it on a pork chop, it tastes really good with rice. Also, jelly with garlic bread.
You realize Ketchup + brown sugar is pretty much just bbq sauce... right?
Nope, but I have been told it's a weird combo all the same so... Whatever, right?
Satisfied....
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Plain Lays potato chips and cottage cheese as the dip. My favorite snack.
I thought me and my mom were the only ones who liked this, but an ex loved it. Funny how many people like it. Such a satisfying snack.
Hot & Chic
I actually like hot Cheetos with Chic-fil-A sauce.
It has that sweet and spicy with some crunch I kinda enjoy.
That makes me think of my sister. She will eat salt and vinegar Pringles with McDonald's sweet and sour sauce.
Not so Thanksgiving....
A can of jellied cranberry sauce, a jar of marinara sauce, a can of sauerkraut, 1/2 cup sugar. Heat and add pan baked browned meatballs. Serve over rice. Nobody will have any idea what's in it, and they will love it, even if they hate cranberry and sauerkraut.
I like to do jellied cranberry sauce and salsa mixed together and poured over turkey meatballs. I usually try to use a pineapple salsa when I make them. I also puree the crap out of the sauce so there are no lumps.
Get a Test....
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Candied orange and horseradish... but honestly I might be pregnant 🤦♀️.
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In fact, some mistakes are so astronomical that they're remembered for decades afterwards, leaving the one who made the mistake a legacy of being a dumba**. Here are a few of them!!!
U/ronjans24 asked: What was the biggest mistake in human history?
Some may argue that the existence of the Universe was a mistake. I disagree. It was clearly Zayn leaving One Direction. But these next few were pretty bad too.
If you do the math, this is also the reason why Hentai exists.
I'll say the wrong turn Franz Ferdinand's driver made that went right in front of Gavrilo Princip.
EDIT: yes I'm aware war may still have broken out even if Franz Ferdinand wasn't assassinated
Imagine you're Gavrilo Princip. The assassination plot you and your friends had been cooking up for about the last year or so has been a complete and total disaster, just a monumental f*ck-up of the highest degree. You're staked out at this deli thinking maybe, just maybe the car will pass by, and by some stroke of sheer luck, it does.
If you're Princip, this is nothing short of serendipity.
Petition to return to the ocean.
Ocean Surf GIFGiphy"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans."
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams
This was, in fact, a monumental mistake.
Sears not beating Amazon to the punch.
Blockbuster not buying Netflix.
You thought THOSE were bad? Well gear up for their next few, because they are 100% accurate. Except the one about Cats, that movie slaps.
I don’t know sports, but sure.
Seahawks not running it.
I used to wear a Seahawks jersey whenever I took a test because I knew I would pass when I shouldn't.
CATS is great, y'all are just boring.
GiphyThe Emoji Movie.
That live action movie about Cats is also up there.
Very fair point.
Social Media.
Humans are not wired to have that many social interactions and maintain that many relationships. Plus the echochambers it allows people to create for themselves, no matter how conspiratorial or vile their beliefs, means that stupid/evil people are no longer shunned into changing their mind.
Not sure it was worth being able to see what a celebrity had for lunch or what new "dance" your younger cousin and her tween friends are doing.
But in all seriousness, some horrible things may now have happened if the right thing was halted at the right time.
Washington called it.
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Big oops on that one.
Barack Obama mocking Donald Trump at the Correspondents Dinner might have led directly to his 2016 run....
"Now, I know that he's taken some flak lately, but no one is happier, no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than The Donald," Obama said. "And that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter — like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?"
Then he turned serious: "But all kidding aside, obviously, we all know about your credentials and breadth of experience. For example — no, seriously, just recently, in an episode of 'Celebrity Apprentice' — at the steakhouse, the men's cooking team did not impress the judges from Omaha Steaks. And there was a lot of blame to go around. But you, Mr. Trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership. And so ultimately, you didn't blame Lil Jon or Meatloaf. You fired Gary Busey. And these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night. Well handled, sir. Well handled."
This is the best Star Wars and no one can change my mind.
I'll take 'Star Wars Christmas Special' for $100.
That atrocious pile of manure gave us Boba Fett, so without the Christmas Special there won't be The Mandalorian.
Wow, in this article, I openly admitted my love for Cats AND The Star Wars Holiday Special. So maybe my existence was the biggest mistake of all.
ANYWAY, I hope you enjoyed, and I hope you all feel a little bit better about yourself. Because when push comes to shove, at least you didn't accidentally start World War I