This is very much just a MY family thing. But most of my family members cannot stand when I eat kimchi in the house. I love it so I’m not going to stop but gosh, they get so grossed out.
I can only eat blue cheese when everyone else is out of the house.
My favorite is to stuff dates with blue cheese and bacon. So much sweet, rich, fatty, salty, and umami that it is almost unbearable. But, it’s also kind of like chewing on the toes of a fresh mummy if blue cheese isn’t your thing.
I like 100% dark chocolate. Like Lindt 100% cocoa dark chocolate. I once pranked my office. I got reactions from “This is chalk. I fucking hate you.” to “I like dark chocolate, let me try some… What the FUCK!! This tastes like burnt tires!”
When I was a kid, I was eating cereal and toast. A piece of toast fell in the cereal and me, being a kid, I just cut it up with a spoon and ate it anyway.
To my surprise, it made the milk and cereal warm and buttery, and made the toast slightly soft and milky. It was delicious!
And so ever since then, when I have cereal and toast, I dunk the toast in the cereal. Everyone thinks this is weird. EVERYONE!!
To which I reply “Great! More for me!”
Sounds like you basically discovered Milk Toast
Normally the milk is warm or they get fancier and make a bechamel kind of sauce, and maybe add some sugar and/or spices
I had it once in a while growing up, haven’t thought about it in years but I do remember liking it a lot, maybe I’ll have some as a late night snack when I get home
As for my own weird food thing, when my wife is out of town I often grab myself a jar of pickled pigs feet. Not a common thing in my neck of the woods so I can’t always find them. And it’s not that my wife wouldn’t be upset about me eating them or anything, it’s just that I’d probably be cooking actual meals instead of sitting around in my underwear fishing chunks of meat out of a jar
Haggis is delicious and I like anchovies on pizza.
Any time we eat spiral cut honey ham (a couple holidays a year) my favorite thing in the world is eating it with a metric fuckton of extra hot horseradish. Im not a huge fan of hot peppers, but the particular heat and sweetness of horseradish with the super sweet and savory of the honey ham… it’s incredible
Oh I also get judged for my Thanksgiving plate. I mix up my mashed potatoes, gravy, a little stuffing, and turkey, and then shove this mix into the middle of a roll and eat it that way.
There’s a steakhouse chain in Vancouver BC called The Keg. Been around for decades. They have a wild horseradish that no other “extra hot” jar I’ve ever found has come close to.
Not sure what the secret is, I suspect it might be made in house, but it is so good! You get that crawling sinus thing going on and it’s awesome. Highly recommend if you are ever out this way
That sounds amazing 😶
Oh I also get judged for my Thanksgiving plate. I mix up my mashed potatoes, gravy, a little stuffing, and turkey, and then shove this mix into the middle of a roll and eat it that way.
With the exception of the mashed potatoes that’s just standard Boxing Day supper in Newfoundland. Similarly, and even more popular, start with bread, then turkey and gravy on top, to make a hot turkey sandwich, then on the side start with fries and top with stuffing (we call it dressing here) and gravy, and you’ve got a side of FDG (fries dressing and gravy) which is the greatest thing on earth. I love me some poutine but fries dressing and gravy beats it out every time.
my shit friends hear I like horseradish and give me mayo based horseradish sauce
Why would anyone look down on the perfect Thanksgiving bite?
My peanut butter and jelly and egg and bacon and cheese and hot sauce and maple syrup sandwiches
All at once, or are those two different sandwiches?
I’m curious about whether or not maple syrup is going to get drowned out by the jelly. It actually seems like it could work
All on one sandwich, and yeah you can leave the maple syrup off.
Your actions are proud and you should feel proud! (I will admit I’m having trouble getting in board with the person who likes miracle whip. The applications they described are legit, but MW’s ingredients are just so terrible, I can’t bring myself to endorse its use. Surely there are more natural alternatives?)
Surely there are more natural alternatives?
It’s a highly processed mayonnaise which they dilute with water and modified starch, then increase its volume by blowing nitrogen into the mix.
Fun fact:
It was invented during the Great Depression, for people who couldn’t afford real mayonnaise.
And mayonnaise was allegedly invented during the Siege of Fort St Philip in the 7-Years-War, because real cream wasn’t available.
So Miracle Whip is a poor man’s version of a wartime alternative to whipped cream.
Mayonnaise. Yeah yeah yeah a white chick from the Midwest loves mayo, but like it’s tangy, it’s creamy, and it’s incredibly versatile
cold sauerkraut. Personally i think its weird as fuck to serve hot or lukewarm pickled cabbage but what do i know?!
Either way is good. I eat it cold straight from the jar but prefer it hot and soft if it’s going on a sandwich or with sausage.
I’m with ya here. It’s like kimchi. you wouldn’t warm kimchi. The exception for warm sauerkraut would only be a rueben sandwich for me
I love to put kimchi in ramen to give it a bit of acidity.
Same! It’s awesome in bibimbap too. I mean it’s awesome in pretty much anything but still lol
Kimchi is warmed regularly from use in kimchi fried rice to kimchi jiggae and beyond.
Oh my, I hadn’t heard of that before. It’s gonna be cold here so I am definitely making this soon!
You’re in for a treat, it mellows out when heated but still brings great umami and texture. Enjoy!
This reminds me of a lunch food item back when I was in middle school called sirloin steak. Basically a thick patty made of ground beef with gravy.
It is unfortunately in the distinct shape of doo doo and all the kids laughed at me for it but I couldn’t help myself. It tasted so good I got it anytime it was on the menu.
I think you might be referring to salisbury steak, as sirloin is a specific cut of beef. I totally agree, though! It’s really easy and delicious to make at home, and anyone who judges you for it that eats burgers is a damn hypocrite.
Salisbury steak was the king of TV dinners when I was a kid.
Yes! That’s exactly it haha. It was so long ago! I gotta make it for myself now!
Anchovies. I wouldn’t say judged but I’m alone in my love for them. Everyone in my house likes kimchi. It is loud smelling, I can sort of understand your family.
Make them a kimchi grilled cheese, or the kimchi/butter noodles - sometimes having it cooked lets it “click” for people, that was the gateway kimchi for everyone else in my house.
At work it’s licorice, though the old lady directly across from me does like it. I can imagine not liking it, but yum it’s my second favorite candy.
I recently made some kimchi marinated paneer. Fucking amazing as I love both paneer and kimchi.
I just cubed up the paneer and tossed it into a ziplock bag with enough kimchi and juices to cover, turning it over everyday for a few days(had things come up and it sat in the fridge for 3 days before I was able to use it)
Absolutely delicious, I’m going to do it again but this time do panneer kimchi tacos
Everyone thinks I’m crazy for loving anchovies especially on pizza but they’re amazing. I’m sorry I doubted my mom for so long when she said how great it is
Anchovies are great! I usually try to explain that they’re not really fishy, just a lovely burst of salty umami greasiness. No one will share my anchovy pizza though.
Headcheese
Pizza snobs are the worst when it comes to judging people over food they like.
Actually, wait, there is a worse group. The people that lose their minds when someone else likes a steak “well done”.
High percentage dark chocolate. I also dip salt and vinegar chips into more vinegar
My poor stomach with its acid problems just gurgled at the idea of those chips lmao
I definitely get looks for it haha, I think I must have some deficiency or something with how I crave vinegar
Oh it sounds delicious! My mouth loves the idea, stomach hates it lol
Nothing tbh, not in the sense you mean. Mainly because anyone that judgy isn’t allowed to stay in my life long.
However, I do have one oddball thing I enjoy that has never been enjoyed as much as I do by anyone. Tbh, lukewarm “it ain’t so bad I’ll waste it” is about the best I’ve ever gotten.
Peanut butter, bologna, and bread & butter pickle sandwich. Just a thin layer of pb on each slice of bread, a slice of bologna on each side, then sliced pickles in between. Sometimes I did the bologna only on one side, and it hits different.
It sounds like it should fail hard. But it’s synergistic. It’s like throwing cheddar on your pb&j, or your apple pie. Or dunking tortilla chips in your chili.
Now, I can’t say it’s some kind of taste explosion, it isn’t. None of the ingredients are a flavor bomb. But the way the pickles cut through the fats, and the textures rumble through the mouth make it a good treat now and then.
Also, I have had heated discussions about how and when both margarine and miracle whip are useful, or even superior, in specific cases. I despise food snobbery to begin with, but there’s people that just get so fucking smug about those two things that it’s ridiculous. Nobody has to like them, but don’t be a dick. And don’t pretend like they don’t have properties that are distinct from similar products.
Like, margarine is never going to taste better than actual butter to the vast majority of the human species. But it does react different than butter, shortening, or lard when baking. If you want the range of spread and texture it gives, good luck nailing the right mix of other fats from batch to batch. It’s possible, but a pain in the ass. It also works very well as a spread, so if you don’t mind the chemically flavor, it works well on toast.
Miracle whip, yeah, sweetish mayo seems weird. But any application where you’d be adding something sweet to begin with, it tends to be more evenly sweet. So, sweet pickle juice as an ingredient is awesome, but can be overpowering as well as uneven for salads and some sandwiches. A teaspoon of MW alongside a tablespoon of your mayo of preference in a salad, or deviled eggs, lets you adjust things more finely.
It’s also really nice on sandwiches where really strong mustards are present. That hint of sweet alongside the usually egginess works. Extra so on hot sandwiches. Not gonna put it on a blt where it would drown out the maters, but a thick roast beef with a horseradish mustard? Yeah, it’s pretty fucking bomb there.
Fries. They’re my absolute favourite food. Apparently that makes me common.
