Unexpectedly pleasant taste combinations

Growing up I’d spread peanut butter on toast and then make a sandwich with either a fried egg or an omelette. It was delicious.

Gin and regret

licking a dingleberry encrusted asshole...,

Strawberries macerated in balsamic vinegar and sprinkled with coarse black pepper.

A slice of apple pie with a slice of cheddar cheese on top. Very mid-western and very good

White cheddar and caramel - popcorn flavors, that is. I thought it would taste horrible, but it's delicious.

R4 my mom used to make that; however, without the black pepper. I think the black pepper would definitely add something delicious to the mix.

I have friends who dip French fries in their Frosty at Wendy’s

Roquefort and black cherry preserves. So good.

Also, chocolate with red wine.

And also, feta cheese and watermelon

At lunch in grade school, they would give us hamburgers and orange juice sometimes. One flavor enhanced the other. I can still taste it.

You can put all kinds of things into a pot of chili: chocolate, fruit jam, cinnamon, pumpkin puree, etc. I'm not talking about some type of authentic Tex-Mex chili.

Blue cheese goes with other fruit (e.g. apples, pears, dates) so that doesn't really surprise me.

MDMA or cocaine drip in the back of your throat and apple juice

Fig jam, Brie and French bread.

Gingersnaps spread with cream cheese.

Most of these examples have been fruit + cheese.

Prosciutto (or shaved ham) and cantaloupe.

As kids, we used to squirt canned whipped cream on saltine crackers. Quite tasty.

Also, salt on watermelon.

Strawberrriesw dipped in sour creme, then in brown sugar! Peanut butter and curry sandwiches.

Matzos spread with butter and a little bit of salt.

Sour cream with pumpkin pie

Caprese Salad: Thick slices of tomato and mozzarella, flavored with fresh basil leaves, olive oil, and a balsamic reduction. Looks simple but tastes so good.

How is that unexpected, r22? It’s a menu staple at restaurants everywhere

Yeah R23 and you unimaginative fat whores, some of these combinations are as unexpected as cheese on a hamburger.

Popcorn and Junior Mints.

Grape juice and cola. Also makes a good mixer with vodka. Sweet and tasty.

Fried eggplant + goat cheese + honey

Guacamole and hummus sandwiches.

Milk and popcorn. Also good with cold pizza.

My husband, as a child, loved white bread spread with mayo then topped with salted peanuts, folded in half, accompanied by an RC Cola.

Speaking of Watermelon and Feta as r9 suggested:

Watermelon Pizza by Chef John. His manner of speaking is an acquired taste, lol.

R19 that's basically Strawberries Romanoff

Cream cheese and chick peas sandwiches

Dark chocolate and port

Cornbread with sour cream instead of butter. Tried completely by accident and now I'm addicted to it.

Maple syrup mixed with scrambled eggs. Got mixed with them when I put it over my bacon (which I guess used to be an “unexpected combo” but isn’t really anymore) and I love it.

2 oil and someone else’s fingernails

EVOO000000000.

I worked in London for a couple of years last decade. I told my colleagues that chicken with oatmeal was a popular breakfast item in the South (completely making it up). Then some of them started bringing it to work for breakfast and thanked me for turning them onto it LOL.

I've no idea how it really tastes but sounds disgusting.

I just finished the book Leave the World Behind in which the characters eat and enjoy Brie and chocolate chip sandwiches. I’ve never tried that.

Ketchup on vanilla ice cream - so tasty

Bread and butter pickles dipped in mayonnaise.

Really I put mayonnaise or some mayonnaise type aioli on almost everything, so I could devote a whole thread to this.

Air fried chicken coated in ground pork rinds with an egg wash to hold them on. If you have leftover pork rinds after coding the chicken, you can mix it in with the egg wash, put the batter at the bottom of the air fryer, fry it with the chicken, and make a tasty pancake.

[quote] Really I put mayonnaise or some mayonnaise type aioli on almost everything, so I could devote a whole thread to this.

R39, the thread below is all for you! Post away, you mayonnaise fool!

Tuna salad and bananas. Hear me out: I once ordered a fruit salad (with cottage cheese) plate and because I don't like cottage cheese they substituted it with tuna salad. During the course of my meal a bit of tuna salad got on a banana slice and I found the combination to be surprisingly good. I wouldn't make tuna salad with chopped bananas mixed in but a bit of tuna salad on banana slices (like crackers) are pretty tasty!

Genoa salami & graham crackers

Booze and dope

Weed + anything in your kitchen.

tonic water and vodka, it's really, really good.

I had chocolate fig ice cream in Ireland and it was amazingly delicious.

Whipped cream and the donkey penes.

Salty pretzels and peppermint ice cream.

Peanut butter and bacon.

Peanut butter, and dill pickles.

Steak with honey, and salt.

Honey with over easy fried eggs.

Peanut butter, and nacho cheese Doritos sandwich.

Feta cheese, red onions, and strawberry jam rolled up in flat bread. With mint tea to drink.

Dried figs and stewed beef or lamb. Not weird if you have an Iranian mom like I do, but my friends thought it strange until they tasted it.

Peanut butter on a hamburger

R52 I went to a catered happy hour for work, and they had hamburger sliders with peanut butter, grape jelly, and bacon. It was actually not too bad.

Pineapple chunks wrapped in bacon.

plain (not crunchy or sweet) peanut butter on angel food cake

Coke and cheap red wine, aka the Kalimotxo

A judicious addition of either baking chocolate or prunes will make a much richer, more aromatic beef stew. The chocolate melts, of course, but I use a scissors to mince the prunes so that no one suspects them. I've also had a surprisingly good baklava flavored with cumin: it combines really well with the honey and walnuts.

A quesadilla made with mango chutney, brie cheese, and slices of fresh pear.

[quote] A quesadilla made with mango chutney

Mango chutney?

Licorice and Haribo gummy bears

Peanut butter, aged cheddar cheese and sliced boiled eggs on toast

Beer and licorice

Mousse aux chocolate, passion fruit and yoghurt dessert

Brussels sprouts and Indian curry

Candy Corn & Peanuts.

Tastes like a Payday Bar.

A friend of mine made me a sandwich of strawberry jam and sliced onions on a slice of buttered rye pumpernickle bread while we were both stoned on vacation in a beach cottage in Holland. It was during the 80s iirc and the hashish was very good ... as was the sandwich.

Celery stuffed with peanut butter or cream cheese.

I usually hate oreos, but they taste good with peanut butter on top.

I make mashed potatoes with 1/2 butternut squash and 1/2 potatoes. Season with salt, pepper, nutmeg, add a stick of butter and a dash of full cream milk.

Dark chocolate peanut butter cups with stilton cheese. So good!

r65, that sounds good

Try it R67, it's really nice!

R54 Sort of like a deconstructed Hawaiian pizza.

Fried okra and cherry Jello.

Poop with a pee reduction.

[quote]Grape juice and cola. Also makes a good mixer with vodka.

r26, where I'm from vodka and grape soda is known as a "Purple Jesus." And yes, I've enjoyed quite a few of them.

I grew up loving peanut butter, mayo, bread & butter pickle, and iceberg sandwiches on crisp toast, but haven't had that in years. I'll make one and report back.

Chef John appears to have the market cornered on that particular vocal tic, R29. That's like NPR upspeak, with a singsongy twist.

As mentioned above, watermelon with salt, also salt on peaches. Also, cantaloupe with black pepper---makes it even sweeter.

Pretzels and vanilla ice cream.

I put cigarette butts in my Cookie Crisp cereal.

Coke and tonic.

Pepsi with a splash of cream. Tastes like a soda.

Olive oil on vanilla ice cream

Baked honey and fig cheesecake

Beef and rose water

Sliced avocados with a light crumble of blue cheese and a drizzle of aged balsamic vinegar from Moderna.

It was a salad from some fancy restaurant I went to years ago, I still make this at home.

Pink grapefruit and avocado slices topped with chopped fennel root, blue cheese, and walnuts.

Pretzels and ice cream. Discovered this as a kid, still do it.

Rib-eye steak on a bed of mashed potatoes topped with fresh sliced tomatoes and balsamic vinegar.

Lobster bisque and almond milk.

Blood orange, red onion and basil salad.

A tuna melt with chili and Doritos on the side. It’s got everything - Creamy, crunchy, spicy. One of my favorite diner meals.

R20 Matzo isn't a taste. It's the anti-taste!

Most of these aren't "tastes", they're entire dishes.

What is a dish, if not a combination of flavors??

I tried a peanut butter, lettuce and mayo sandwich with and without the bread and butter pickles today and decided it's better without. Crisp toast and iceberg do make it better. Turns out, this is a southern thing but I never knew that until running into the article at the link.

(Most of) you guys should get together and publish a cookbook!

Tuna and kimchi sandwich.

Peanut butter and pancake syrup blended together and sopped up with hot buttered biscuits.

Melted ice cream and melted lard, blended into a delicious smoothie.

[quote] (Most of) you guys should get together and publish a cookbook!

It's...it's a cookbook!

I think figs & honey are as old as The Bible.

[quote]Pretzels and ice cream. Discovered this as a kid, still do it.

Great combo but I prefer Saltine or Townhouse crackers and ice cream. Someone needs to recreate the Ice Cream Sandwich with a salty crust rather than a graham cracker crust.

And much older, I'm sure, R98. Ancient Greeks mention figs and honey, and cave paintings in Spain from 8000 years ago show honey foragers.

[quote]The origin of the common fig is debated. Some believe it to be indigenous to Western Asia and then spread by human activity throughout the Mediterranean.[2] Despite uncertainty about its geographic origins, [bold]most archaeobotanists agree that the domestication of the fig tree occurred around 6500 years ago in the Near East. Scholars agree that the domestication of the fig tree came long before the domestication of other fruit crops like grapes, olives, and dates.[/bold]

[quote]Researchers have found significant evidence of fig cultivation at many different late Neolithic and Neolithic sites along with Bronze Age, Assyrian, and Egyptian sites. But [bold]evidence for the first cultivation of figs has been found in the Lower Jordan Valley in an early Neolithic village known as Gilgal. This evidence dates back to the 12th millennium BP and suggests that the widespread cultivation of figs pre-dated the domestication of cereal crops by almost one thousand years[/bold]

Well, cheddar cheese and tuna. AKA a Tuna Melt.

[quote]Tuna and kimchi sandwich.

I just threw up in my mouth. That shit smells like farts by the way. Kimchi is nasty.

Mostarda (Italian fruit preserved in mustard syrup), wrapped in cured ham, skewer on toothpick, given a whirl in the microwave. cool a bit so as not to burn your mouth on molten syrup.

R102: I stayed in a holiday apartment one above a Korean restaurant once. The smell did not arrive to the flat but the entrance and stair for the apartments put me off the idea of Korean restaurants forever I think.

Stinky foods with strong tastes combined with less(?) stinky foods with contrasting taste don't work for me: I'm thinking of all of the mentions above of stinky cheeses paired with something nicer, yes it improves the experience but only because it lessens the intensity of the stinky cheese. No amount of honey will improve upon kimchi.

Beef jerky eaten with tortilla chips and string cheese. Tortilla chips with garlic and herb Boursin cheese. Stoned wheat crackers with butter and a sprinkling of fox point seasoning. Or Greek goddess dressing seasoning.

R105 just sound high.

PB and cherries

Watercress, Kim chee and kamaboko (fish cake) sandwich.

Popcorn, furukaki and arare mixed together.

Popcorn and dried, shredded cuttle fish mix.

I do love pineapple in a pizza, although the pizza has to be salty enough. I used to give my father grief for loving it but at some point I realized myself that the combination is great.

How to eat a pineapple pizza

Ketchup and cottage cheese.

I can’t stand Jamie Oliver, but this weird combination of his is good. Slices of a nice bitey cheese, topped with instant coffee granules and honey. It’s bitter, sweet, salty and crunchy.

Dill pickles and cheddar cheese.

Avocado and dark chocolate play well together.

My great aunt used to bring out a tray of crackers with a tasty dip spread on them. It was sort of a complex flavor that was hard to pinpoint similar to pate. Later I learned it was a blend of peanut butter, ketchup and onions.

Peanut butter, mayonnaise, and potato chip sandwich on white bread.

Fries dipped in mayonnaise and apple sauce. Have been eating my fries like that since I was little.

[quote] That shit smells like farts by the way.

Something is either horribly wrong with your kimchi or horribly wrong with your digestive system.

Pizza with pineapple & pickled jalapenos (and cheese & tomato sauce).

R80 (sort of similar). Years ago I had a cheesecake that was made with feta cheese (unsure if it was a 1/2 and 1/2 combo of cream cheese and feta or just feta). It was served with a drizzle of warm honey and freshly cracked black pepper. It was so damn delicious.

Brie and dried pineapple slices. It's DIVINE.

Smegma chased with day old dingleberry. A DL delicacy.

Goat semen and prune juice

Cottage cheese and prepared horseradish.

Peanut butter and Ruffles.

Onion bagels with strawberry jam (no cream cheese).

Thinly sliced deli ham swigged down with Minute Maid orange juice. I discovered that in sixth grade.

hot dog and peanut butter

R105 I agree. I once ate an entire sleeve of Stoned Wheat Thins and to this day can remember being mind blown by how goddamned good they were.

And yes, i was high af.

R129 those crackers are also great with any kind of cheese!

Onion bagels toasted with melted Monterey cheese. Yum!

Hard candies --> butterscotch and peppermint are surprisingly good together in your mouth.

When I was a child, I loved eating my mother's gold chains. I have eaten 4 or 5 of them. I used to hide behind the stove to do the deed. They are surprisingly chewable.

Watermelon and feta cheese salad with some balsamic vinegar drizzled on top.

You had me until "drizzled," r134.

In any case, lime juice, lime zest, and honey are better with watermelon and feta than balsamic.

Jello shots and hard boiled eggs

Two slices of fresh brioche with a deep wipe of young man's ass between them like a pâté.

A glass table and what I like to call my eponymous eggs.

Gin and no regrets.

Brain and brain.

An Anjou Pear sliced and served with Stilton cheese.

Blood and Clearasil

[quote]When I was a child, I loved eating my mother's gold chains.

I once ate a pearl necklace.

liver and fava beans, preferably with a nice chianti

What's another word for "drizzled"? I kind of understand why people don't like the word ("drizzled"), but what's the alternative? Sometimes, the word "drizzled" describes exactly what you want to do. You're not "pouring" on vinegar.

1 cup ketchup combined with 1 cup grape jelly, used as a marinade for meatballs (store-bought, frozen) in a slow cooker. The meatballs plump up and absorb most of the liquid. Serve with toothpicks on a platter, warm.

A suburban garbage food staple!

Adderall and cheeseburgers.

Anything with anything.

Avocados and cottage cheese are great together.

R116's aunt is onto something. PB works real well with tomatoes and spices. A stupid easy sauce I make is a can of tomato soup, or tomato sauce or puree and add it to sauteed onions and garlic, maybe some diced bell pepper, and some cumin and coriander (seed). Then a spoonful or 2 of PB and simmer awhile longer. Careful because PB scorches easily. You can simmer anything in it, meat or veg, and it will taste good. For vegetarians I made falafel and after frying simmer in this sauce. Carnitarians get whatever flesh is around.

When I was a kid, my favorite sandwich was: peanut butter, jelly, salami and cheddar cheese. Still tastes good, but I'm not much of a jelly fan anymore.

I had heard about pineapple on pizza for years but never tried it because it sounded so ridiculous. When I finally tried it, I thought it was delicious, tasted nothing like what I expected. I guess it has something to do with how the tomato sauce interacts with the pineapple.

The all too common apple and peanut butter, almond butter and banana, celery and peanut butter.

All of those above are gross together and should never be mixed. Watery and thick together equals gross.

So, I misread the question. I feel dumb.

I deserve a peanut butter and banana snack.

Toasted everything bagel with crunchy peanut butter and bacon bits.

Running her finger along Melania's snatch, then sticking it in Trump's peehole would probably give Ivanka a tangy taste sensation.

R5, that’s considered breakfast in Vermont.

A salad made of oranges with olive oil, salt, and pepper

fennel in Nutella

R152: U right, pineapple on pizza is DELICIOUS. My favourite pizza, although I think it's the pineapple, the sauce, AND the cheese (and the ham, which can't be flabby/wet) all together that makes it so great.

R153: U wrong. Nut butters and apples/bananas are great what the hell is wrong with you?

[quote]U right

[quote]U wrong.

[quote]what the hell is wrong with you?

U dum. What the hell is wrong with you?

McDonalds’s fries dipped in one of their sundaes.

I originally hoovered up everything, including the containers, but that particular mélange struck me as pleasant before it slipped down my gullet.

As a dauntless researcher, I have repeated the experiment under stricter conditions and with much larger sample sizes.

I still eat the containers.

Do forgive the extra ‘s’: choked on a nuggets box...

Maybe not wildly adventurous, but raisins and sultanas added to a nice coconut curry lentil soup is heavenly.

Curried apple pie is also unexpectedly delightful, particularly with a rye-based crust.

Also, a splash of pickle juice to just about any broth/based soup adds a subtle layer of tangy depth, I have found.

I made a sandwich for lunch with leftovers and ingredients I’m trying to finish. It came out quite delicious to the point that I will now recreate the same sandwich. Toasted sourdough baguette roll, generous spread with organic apricot fruit preserve on one side and light spread of goat cheese on the other. Sandwich filling: baby greens, thinly sliced red onion, teriyaki baked tofu, and sliced cucumbers.

That sounds so good, R164.

Dates and philly cream cheese

Guiness, Bacardii Black and grain alcohol. Don't quite remember the results, but assume it was wonderful.

Saltine crackers, sardines and yellow mustard.

A slice of fresh quince with a sprinkle of salt.

Bacon, dates and goat cheese.

Crisp bacon on a toasted bagel with cream cheese.

R171 lol...oh, the irony.

Are bagels exclusively Jewish?

Ooooh, my neighbour is Jewish. *clutches bagels to chest*

[Quote]Are bagels exclusively Jewish?

Well...they used to be. But cheer up, one of life's real pleasures is pork roast and matzo ball soup. I swear to god, it's heaven.

Apple butter on cornbread. Especially if it's not very sweet cornbread.

Dark chocolate peanut butter cup with Stilton cheese.

There is nothing remotely unexpected about salt and sweet or sweet and savory being pleasant. It is the very definition of expected.

Cap'n Crunch cereal with chopped bacon on to

^^^^p^^^

Once at an office bagel morning I had an onion bagel with some sort of cream cheese on it, then I saw a bag of cheetos for some reason, and I put them on the cheese. It added extra crunch. My office friends asked, "Are you high?"

Coarse black pepper on grapefruit! Mayo with Sriracha as spread for any sandwich, esp. with Pepper Jack cheese and veggies chopped coriander , crushed garlic on hash browns

Peach blueberry crumb pie with Strawberry ice cream.

Cum and jam with a fist!

Everything bagel (Toasted) with cream cheese and roasted red peppers (the kind that come marinated in a jar)

I put toothpaste and chewed gum on ritz crackers

R78 basically milk and Pepsi. -Laverne

I have my own set of flavors that go well with just about everything: bacon, olives, sardines, anchovies, feta cheese, goat cheese, capers. I'm sure this list isn't complete.

Yesterday I watched a video of Padma Lakshmi making and eating an open-faced sandwich of Jif peanut butter and pomegranate seeds on a big slice of sourdough toast. It looked so good. I bought a pomegranate today and plan to make the sandwich tomorrow.

I may already have posted this, but I love a tuna melt with chili and some tortilla chips. It's all the perfect combo of spicy and mayonaissy, mushy and crunchy.

This is not considered as unexpected by many people now, I am sure, but I still remember the first time I ate chili and chocolate together and being amazed at how fucking good it tasted.