Weirdest food combo somebody would swear is a real thing.

Speaking of Ragu, In my college days I discovered the combination of leftover spaghetti and the frozen Banquet pot pie.  It ended up making a blush sauce with some vegetables.  The crust (usually cooked it a few minutes extra - oven - no microwave) gave it a nice soft crunch at times.  I cannot get my family to try it despite the fact that we love both spaghetti and pot pie (wife makes a mean homemade pot pie).

Rice with spam and eggs outside of the 50th state.

Staying with the spaghetti and asian theme. I have also heard of this.

http://www.seriouseats.com/rec...spaghetti-sauce.html

Blood soup and pirogi

Cuba: Staying at a Casa Particular where you are "allowed" to stay at someone's government registered home. (before relations were re opened) Went to the market one day with the owner and she picked up a bunch of pigs ears...I mean literally just taken from the pig with hairs sticking out all over them.  She cleaned them, took out the hairs and made the best chicharrones known to man...but at the market I questioned this meal greatly!

Hash (various pig parts, including the brain) served over a bed of rice. #NoThanks

Yuk, I can't stand rice.

PGStaff posted:

Yuk, I can't stand rice.

Exactly!

Moved out when 17.  Would buy a case of macaroni and cheese and a case of tuna fish and could go more than a month before next food purchase.

Go44dad posted:

Moved out when 17.  Would buy a case of macaroni and cheese and a case of tuna fish and could go more than a month before next food purchase.

Same here, but I also bought a case of peas, and mixed them in with the mac n' cheese and tuna.

A co-worker used to say chocolate and garlic are the two universal foods.

Every other food in the world goes well with at least one of them, but not both at the same time.

Only exception I could think of was grapefruit, but my co-worker over-ruled my objection, insisting that chocolate and grapefruit are fine together. I've never seen it or wanted to try it.

I used to make elbow noodles and put them in a bowl and then cover it with maple syrup.

LOL

PGStaff posted:

Yuk, I can't stand rice.

Them's fighting words.

Swampboy posted:

Go44dad posted:

Moved out when 17.  Would buy a case of macaroni and cheese and a case of tuna fish and could go more than a month before next food purchase.

Same here, but I also bought a case of peas, and mixed them in with the mac n' cheese and tuna.

Well, guess that makes you a health nut.

Crunchy peanut butter and bacon sandwich, chased with a glass of tomato juice.

Fuel for the fire, man.

Anchovy and Jalapeno pizza?  I swear, try it.

My FiL tells me my wife used to have peas and romano cheese.... for breakfast....

Go44dad posted:

Moved out when 17.  Would buy a case of macaroni and cheese and a case of tuna fish and could go more than a month before next food purchase.

Same, it was a staple growing up, we called it "tuna fish casserole" and would occasionally melt cheese over it as well.  We also served it with apple sauce on top. The applesauce is usually what makes people go EEEWWWW!!!!

smokeminside posted:

PGStaff posted:

Yuk, I can't stand rice.

Them's fighting words.

Rice is icky, can't get past the texture.

Maybe we were just poor but we used to have mac and cheese with canned tuna all of the time growing up.  My kids also eat peanut butter and bacon sandwiches.

Tomato juice is just plain gross.

PB & Bacon sounds like something Elvis had on the menu.

my dad eats nilla wafers with mayonnaise smeared on them...and I like biscuits and gravy with ketchup.

Go44dad posted:

Moved out when 17.  Would buy a case of macaroni and cheese and a case of tuna fish and could go more than a month before next food purchase.

Poor Boy Tuna Casserole.  

Wow looks like the Mac n Cheese with tuna is common.  I thought I was a chef when I was 18 in my first apartment and combined the only two things left in the cabinet.  Became a regular part of the menu as a young adult.  LOL  

I also discovered mayo and mustard sandwiches are pretty darn good.  Drained Top Ramon and Ketchup can be passed off as spaghetti.  

Wife when she was pregnant...  Waffles with peanut butter and cottage cheese or with cottage cheese and apple sauce.

real green posted:

Wow looks like the Mac n Cheese with tuna is common.  I thought I was a chef when I was 18 in my first apartment and combined the only two things left in the cabinet.  Became a regular part of the menu as a young adult.  LOL  

I also discovered mayo and mustard sandwiches are pretty darn good.  Drained Top Ramon and Ketchup can be passed off as spaghetti.  

Yeah, that one is pretty common.  I ate that quite a bit in college and I also added the peas like the other poster said.  

Canned refried beans, eggs and spicy V-8 juice?  (just reminiscing)

As a kid, I used to eat cheese and grape jelly sandwiches.  Just don't ask me to try one now.

Goin_yard posted:

As a kid, I used to eat cheese and grape jelly sandwiches.  Just don't ask me to try one now.

I like a good sausage biscuit.  What I don't understand are folks who slather grape jelly on the sausage.

I have never tested this theory but I once heard that you can combine any jelly and any cheese into a sandwich and never get a bad combo.

When I was a kid I used to make peanut butter and bologna sandwiches and man they were good! I would also spread peanut butter on bologna and roll it up and eat it. I don't remember what lead me to try it. I've mentioned this combo several times over the years and people just turn up their noses. I would still eat it today. In fact, just thinking about it I might just go out lunch time and get some! Don't knock it something until you've tried it...

When we were kids, we used to eat peanut butter, mayonnaise, and banana sandwiches.  As an adult, my wife introduced me to Pot Pies - hot out of the oven - with cottage cheese on top - cottage cheese is cold out of the fridge.  Now I love my pot pies with cottage cheese.

rynoattack posted:

When we were kids, we used to eat peanut butter, mayonnaise, and banana sandwiches.  As an adult, my wife introduced me to Pot Pies - hot out of the oven - with cottage cheese on top - cottage cheese is cold out of the fridge.  Now I love my pot pies with cottage cheese.

If you skip the mayo, you end up with a pretty healthy sandwich that travels well.

Please let us know your favorite brand of pot pies.  It seems they all now come in some type of cardboard so you can microwave them.  I always liked the double crusted one that come in the aluminum foil - able to really get the crust cooked all the way through in a conventional oven.  If you are out of cottage cheese, try it with some leftover spaghetti.

When me and my wife were very young, we got invited to dinner at our neighbors (downstairs duplex).  We were making small talk about the meal - lasagna - when the husband says some people use "that ricotta cheese", but they preferred cottage cheese.  Didn't have quite that authentic Italian flavor but he was convinced his choice was far superior.  We stuck with the ricotta to this day.

Slow-roasted barbecued skunk ankles, served in a bowl with navy beans, Swiss chard, hen-of-the-wood mushrooms, and fetchingly smoky bacon broth. 

A couple things that I had in Vietnam that I thought were amazing -- Fried eggs seasoned with soy sauce instead of salt.  and french fries dipped in a mixture of mayo and hot sauce.  Oh and white rice topped with gravy from KFC.