Always looking for new food ideas.

  • Hugh_Jeggs
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    Had a pizza in Spain yesterday - pear, walnut and gorgonzola

    Was absolutely stunning

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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      I used to work at a pizzeria that had fig, pistachio, and arugula dressed with truffle honey. It was very popular.

    • CryophiliaOP
      1028 days ago
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      Okay now THAT is weird. How did they prepare the pear? Big slices or little?

      • Nakedmole
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        That has always been a pretty classic combo on cheeseboards. Probably that is why they came up with the idea to put it on pizza. My favorite pizzeria has it on the regular menu too. They make thin slices of halved pears for it, so the pear is not raw after baking.

        • CryophiliaOP
          628 days ago
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          That’sactually a good point. Maybe not as weird as I thought.

          • Nakedmole
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            Not that weird, just relatively uncommon. I can recommend it, try one if you can :)

          • Bahalex
            228 days ago
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            Jazz up a quesadilla by adding a little thin sliced apple or pear. Good ol super market cheddar is an excellent cheese choice.

    • Today
      628 days ago
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      I love that sweet and salty. Sea salt caramel. Prosciutto fig pizza. Chocolate pretzels.

    • oxjoxEnglish
      528 days ago
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      I’ve had similar pizzas in the US. “Sweet pizzas”, so to speak, were all the rage in the mid 2010s. More often, they were branded as flatbreads.

      I’ve made pizza topped with a brandy peach sauce (peaches sautéed in brandy, nutmeg, butter), bourbon blueberry syrup, and taleggio. Even better is peaches, arugula, and brie.

    • JustEnoughDucks
      328 days ago
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      I’ve had a similar one too! Very good. Non citrus fruit + funky cheese, + nuts is always a great combo.

    • Alenalda
      328 days ago
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      My favorite kind of pizza is a bacon lettuce tomato, with a mess of mayo to top it off. Chefs kiss*

  • kingshrubb
    1828 days ago
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    pizza with jalapeños and pineapple, the spicy-sweet was pretty good

  • CodingCarpenter
    1828 days ago
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    Peanut butter on hamburgers. Really nice contrast especially if you also include pickles

    • anon6789
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      This is the one I came here to post. Tried it at a brew pub I liked, I figured they wouldn’t steer me wrong.

      It’s a bit messy once the burger starts really melting the peanut butter, but it reminded me of satay w/ peanut sauce.

      No pickles for me though, I can’t seem to get with the taste of cucumber in any form I’ve tried.

  • unlogic
    1428 days ago
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    Not unusual but not common is fish sauce on your fried or scrambled eggs.

    • RandomStickman
      828 days ago
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      I have also seen someone added fish sauce into their chili. Not a lot, just a splash for the whole pot. It works.

    • ValenThymeEnglish
      428 days ago
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      fish sauce and a little cornstarch (optional) in your scrambled egg mix and then dump it into screaming oil for 30 seconds and you get a basic thai omelette. Sooooooo good with sriracha.

    • CryophiliaOP
      428 days ago
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      I love adding fish sauce to my stir fry with eggs, this sounds like it would work similarly

    • merari42
      227 days ago
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      I rather go for soy sauce and a bit of starch in the beaten egg to make really thin umami omelette type things.

  • Stargazertony
    1328 days ago
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    A can of condensed tomato soup, 1 can of milk, pad of butter, 1/2 cup(or more) instant rice. Lets soup come to near boil, turn off heat, add rice., cover and let steep for about 8 minutes.

  • 7uWqKj
    1328 days ago
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    French fries with vinegar. Ok, not unusual if you’re British, but delicious even if you aren’t.

    • WorxEnglish
      728 days ago
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      Why the fuck did we colonise 90% of the world if you’re not putting vinegar on chips? Did we teach you nothing?

      • Furbag
        1128 days ago
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        Conquer half the world for spices.

        Use absolutely none of them in authentic British cuisine.

        Just the way His Majesty intended.

      • Jimmybander
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        We put ketchup on our “French Fries”, governor.

          • WizEnglish
            527 days ago
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            Fun fact: Ketchup is any table sauce that is made from a vinegar base. We just think of the default as “tomato ketchup” but there can be other kinds! Mushroom ketchup used to be the default.

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup

          • Jimmybander
            227 days ago
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            Vinegar is missing quite a bit from Ketchup, though.

    • thejoker954
      328 days ago
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      I am the only one in my family who likes vinegar on fries.

      I do prefer apple cider vinegar over regular vinegar, but I’m more than happy to slather any available vinegar I can on.

    • a4ng3l
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      I discovered the vinegar as a condiment with vinegar salt potato chips. Then I found out the fries. Sooooo good.

  • Nakedmole
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    • Vanilla ice cream and/or raspberry sorbet topped with pitch black, salty sweet licorice sauce. (common only in Denmark afaik)

    • “Birnen, Bohnen und Speck”, a stew made from pears, green beans, bacon and a herb called satureja/savory. The pears in this one are a certain old breed, that is pretty hard and sour before cooking. (This is a local delicacy from the city of Hamburg in northern Germany)

    • Watermelon and feta cheese, especially during hot summer days (common in mediterranean countries)

    • Pickled cucumbers and feta cheese (those are eaten as a combo around the black sea afaik)

  • Kerb
    928 days ago
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    i like to dunk left over fries in vanilla icecream.

    my coworkers thought i was mad when they witnessed me doing that.

    • ChihuahuaOfDoom
      1228 days ago
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      Back in the day when Wendy’s served steak fries I used to dip them in my frosty.

      • BalooWasWahoo
        528 days ago
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        Aye, this is the classic way to eat out at the red-haired chick’s place.

    • FrickAndMortar
      528 days ago
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      I don’t go to McDonalds much any more, but I’d get fries and a vanilla shake to do that with, as a treat!

      • Venator
        127 days ago
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        I always get a chocolate Sunday and dip the fries in.

    • CryophiliaOP
      228 days ago
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      I’ve tried that, not my thing but some people swear by it

    • thejoker954
      128 days ago
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      I like to do it with ‘fresh’ fries. The hot fry and cold vanilla shake/ice cream combo is amazing to me.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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    928 days ago
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    Avocado in chicken soup. Add to the bowl, not the pot. You’ll never eat it without again.

    • JohnnyEnzyme
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      I sort of accidentally discovered that when dining at the local cantina.

      The restaurant did something neat in serving an appetizer of guacamole on top of pico de gallo. For whatever reason I decided to dump the whole thing in to the bowl of spicy, chicken-black bean soup I was having. The contrast in flavors, and cooked vs fresh, spicy vs cool was an instant game changer. Indeed, I never looked back from there.

  • BrerChicken
    928 days ago
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    Pepperoni and pineapple pizza. The sweet and tangy go sooooo well together!

  • Maven (famous)
    928 days ago
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    This might sound wild But buttered chicken/curry is a fantastic dipping sauce for pizza.

    Order a pizza, order some curry, eat the whole pizza It’s so good

      • Maven (famous)
        328 days ago
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        Seriously! You gotta try it! We did it with both cheese and pepperoni pizza and both were some of the best things I’ve ever tasted.

  • Fondots
    928 days ago
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    A Puerto Rican coworker turned me onto hot chocolate with cheese in it. I believe the traditional method is basically just to put some cheese in the cup and you end up with a melted glob of cheese to eat with a spoon as/after you drink it. I’ve played around with that as well as actually incorporating the cheese into the drink itself, melting it all together on the stove.

    Kind of gets you some of that well-tested sweet/salty/savory combo. I dig it in a Mexican hot chocolate with some cinnamon and chili powder.

    I believe the traditional cheese is edam, I’ve tried that as well as cheddar and a few other cheeses, they all seemed to work pretty well, try it at your own risk if you go for anything too funky

      • Fondots
        628 days ago
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        That’s kind of the point of this thread though isn’t it? Weird food pairings that sound crazy but actually work if you’re brave enough to try them

        Elsewhere in this thread you’ll find a lot of sweet/salty/savory pairings, one that’s particularly relevant is adding chocolate to chili. Lots of chili will end up getting served with some shredded cheese, or some sour cream (sour cream is kind of next door to cheese when you think about it) so not too far off from a Mexican hot chocolate without the meat.

        Cheese is dairy, and there’s no shortage of milk and chocolate creations, like hot chocolate itself

        Cheese can go with sweet things just fine, plenty of great fruit and cheese pairings, cheese and honey, etc. (if you haven’t tried it, some warm apple pie with some sharp cheddar cheese on it is great, also sounds crazy to some people but if you ever do a cheese fondue odds are you’re going to be dipping apple slices into cheese)

        You’re probably even familiar with a couple pairings of chocolate and other cheeses, things like chocolate chips in cannoli, chocolate cheesecake

    • chunkystylesEnglish
      327 days ago
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      When I was in high school, we had a class potluck. I accidentally got some cheese dip (Rotel and Velveeta) on one of my chocolate chip cookies.

      I figured, “Why not? and tried it. Surprisingly good.

    • garbagebagel
      228 days ago
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      MMM I used to put choco krispies (think chocolate rice krispies) into my quesadillas. That shit was fire.

  • 0ops
    927 days ago
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    Grapes in a chicken/tuna salad sandwich. Totally different experience with the diced grapes

    • hakobo
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      Apples too. But I’m not sure this is unusual. Even Arby’s sells a chicken salad sandwich with grapes and apples in it.

      • 0ops
        127 days ago
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        Dang, did not know that, I’ve only been to Arby’s once