I’ll start: pesto as a bagel topping.
A more general answer: Meals without meat.
For some reason this really confuses people, and often makes them concerned or upset.
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I’m not vegan nor vegetarian either, but if I ever became one I think I would be happy eating mushrooms, beans and peas as alternatives, for the rest of my life.
My wife introduced me to Tuna mixed with Mac & Cheese, and now I totally enjoy it myself, other people have found it a little strange.
I personally enjoy baked beans mixed with mac & cheese.
Hmmm might need to try this.
Have you added sweet peas to it as well? Thats how we eat it at my house and it’s my favorite simple meal!
I do this too. My Mac & Cheese usually always has broccoli and hot peppers or other veggies and whatever extra meat I have… brisket, rotisserie chicken, salami, tuna, chilli, etc
My dad used to make this! I forgot until your comment. I never liked it much myself, but it was okay.
My favourite pizza topping is pepperoni and flaked tuna, the good stuff too so it’s meaty oily tuna.
Love it but so many people think I’m odd for it. The meaty flavours compliment each other!!!
I’m not even sure I need to read the rest of the thread after this comment. You win by default! I guess it makes as much sense as anchovies on pizza though.
Probably the most tame one in here, but I love to mix mayo with a little mustard to dip my french fries in. Baked potatoes with butter, sour cream, seasoning salt, and malt vinegar are also really good.
Grasshoppers, they’re delicious with lemon.
All the ones I’ve bought in the West were dry and dank/powdery unlike the fresh and crunch of SEA street food crickets/hoppers.
What brands do you like?
During a time where I would eat really utilitarian for lunch, this meal was my daily go to:
-half a can of skipjack tuna
-some amount of chopped cabbage
-steamer bag carrots and peas
-rice seasoning from the local Asian market (I don’t know which one it’s just labelled “rice seasoning”)
-hot sauce
I try to not eat like a serial killer anymore
peanut butter belongs in curry! even squid curry, I don’t care what food wars says
Almond butter is also fantastic in curry. I regularly use it in lentil curries.
I’m getting 'ungry
I actually consume kiwis without peeling them, because I find it much more tasteful.
Also, mealworms. Fried ones. I bought them for my pet rats and ended up gorging on them sometimes.
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I’ve had fried mealworms, I remember them tasting somewhat of Fritos.
You win.
Why though? Mealworms are part of a human diet since the dawn of time. It’s just meat.
I could feel all of the “hairs” in my mouth because of your comment. Thanks I hate it.
Hey, it’s a feature. You could also shave them!
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The hair is initially tough to get over, but I also eat kiwis this way. There’s a tanginess just under the skin that otherwise gets cut off.
I used to eat onion and mustard sandwiches years ago. They’re not bad, actually.
I could see this slapping with cooked onions and Dijon on a nice crispy bread
I love making steamed artichokes stuffed with pecorino cheese, garlic and bread crumbs. A recipe from my grandmother.
https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/baked_stuffed_artichokes/
That actually sounds and looks delicious though.
I basically eat all sandwiches on cinnamon raisin bagels if I can. Eggs, bacon/sausage, and cheese for breakfast? Yes. Pastrami and Swiss with mustard and sprouts? Yes. Tuna salad with Swiss? Yes. I get so many weird looks. But whatever. I like it. :)
Peanut butter and jelly (aka jam) with white sandwich bread with a generous amount of Doritos or cheez-its in it. One of my favorite meals!
Toasted sandwich bread with tomato slices, salt, and mayo. I could die just thinking about them. Add corn on the cob as a side.
A slice of sandwich bread with mustard, American cheese, and onion. Stick in the broiler to melt thecl cheese and brown the bread, and serve. RIP grandma.
I’ve definitely heard of tomato sandwiches before, and I’d go as far as to say I’d love to try one with a perfectly ripe and juicy tomato. I think I’ve heard of the bread, cheese, and onion combo before? Either 1:1 or something similar? Ploughman’s lunch sorta thing, I think.
But I’ve never heard of the PB&J with Cheez-Its before. I need to hear the scoop and what the appeal is. I think I could see myself doing it with a less sugary PB and a more savory or spicy jam 👀?
Honestly I dont think cheez-its are super noticable flavor-wise, as with Doritos it’s mostly about the crunch!
I do hope you try a tomato sandwich, they are soo good!
I love eating a raw potato like an apple, for whatever reason. Any time I’m cooking a dish with potatoes, I’ll wash and peel one for me to eat. My boyfriend looked like I had grown a third arm the first time he saw me do it.
It’s the perfect mix of crunchy and juicy, but not sweet.
Raw potatoes are like semi toxic. Do you not get any GI upset from doing that?
No, never. AFAIK they aren’t toxic, just that the starch is poorly digested. Either way, I’ve never gotten sick from it, so 🤷
It’s odd because I have had digestive issues off and on through the years, but the potatoes have never precipitated it. (It’s mostly anything spicy, which sucks as I love spicy food-- it’s a price I pay willingly sometimes)
Solanine is a glycoalkaloid poison found in species of the nightshade family within the genus Solanum, such as the potato, the tomato, and the eggplant
Raw potatoes certainly are mildly toxic, it’s not just undigestible starches.
Most home processing methods like boiling, cooking, and frying potatoes have been shown to have minimal effects on solanine levels. For example, boiling potatoes reduces the α-chaconine and α-solanine levels by only 3.5% and 1.2% respectively, but microwaving potatoes reduces the alkaloid content by 15%. Deep frying at 150 °C (302 °F) also does not result in any measurable change.
They’re no more toxic than cooked potatoes, unless you only eat microwaved ones.
This guy raw potatoes
I’m just sick and tired of the “don’t you know they’re toxic” response to finding out I eat raw ones. My people, if they were toxic I wouldn’t be eating them because it would have made me ill. 🤦 Someone eating a whole bag of potato chips is gonna take in more solanine than I will eating one raw, peeled potato.
Hell, there are places that do baked/fried potato skins as an appetizer, when the skin is where the solanine is concentrated, and often can rise above the safe threshold. It’s even suggested to eat a small piece of potato skin raw to determine if the solanine levels of a potato in question are safe, as it tastes very bitter.
I’m also a produce manager at a grocery store for a living, so I have a passable knowledge of most common fruits and veggies and what’s safe to do with them.
My partner thinks it’s disgusting and my biggest red flag: I make peanut butter sandwiches on white bread and dip them in ranch dressing 😩 the reason I do this is because of growing up a millennial in NKY where a weekly lunch option was a bowl of chili, served with a peanut butter sandwich, and carrot sticks w a side of ranch….I hate raw carrots, always have lmao but I love all the other items….one day I was staring at the sad unused ranch and thinking as I was already keen to dipping the PB sandwich in the chili, that maybe it would be as good as the PB in chili so I tried it and I’ve just done it and liked a PB sandwich dipped in ranch ever since 😓 my partner has even tried it for me and hated it 🤷🏼♀️ at least they loved me enough to try it 🥹
You win
Seriously… I couldn’t even finish reading that paragraph
If I find a good bell pepper, I will eat it whole like an apple.
When I get a beverage/food garnished with an herb like a sprig of mint or rosemary, I like to nibble on them. My friends and girlfriend sort of lost their minds when I took a bit out of a cinnamon stick from a cocktail.
