The unusual food thread

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Oreo cookies with mayonnaise-eaten

For the record it didnt tast that bad

As a kid, I enjoyed mayonnaise and strawberry jam sandwiches.

This isn't exactly unusual:

I frequently have a breakfast boilup of silverbeet, potato, mixed beans, meat, frozen mixed veges, broccoli or other leafy greens, onion, some proactiv good-cholestrol spread, then eat the whole lot and drink all the fluid. I usually don't need another meal until evening.

i have been known to periodically eat the following-

*soup sandwich, made out of congealed cold soup in between 2 thick slices of dense bread
*dried salted squid jerky, at least until my teeth started cracking on me
*stout [beer] flavored ice-cream - ben and jerry's brand
*pureed seaweed and shaved dried bonito and plum, as condiments atop white rice
*sheets of dried matted seaweed wrapped around pulverized rice ["Motchee"]
*chocolate cream cheese topped with cherry pie filling and whipped cream- YUM!
*george washington's original recipe peanut soup, at his mount vernon inn
*carbonated grape-flavored milk
*baconaise
*chocolate peanut butter- YUM!
*eel, as i have a short memory and i often forget that it is retchingly vile between periodic reminders
*see urchin- see eel above for a similar story
*miso [fermented soy] soup

i draw the line at food with suction cups on it [octopii]- BLEEAH

A fan of Japanese food, auntblabby?

Being a fan of Japanese and other Asian foods myself, I've lost any idea of what might be considered "unusual," unless it's something really weird like mayonnaise and strawberries (by the way, jagatai, that is totally gross).

Um, yesterday I ate some shimesaba (salt-pickled mackerel). I suppose most westerners would say that's weird. It's really not unusual, though--very common in Japan. I don't think I eat strange combinations of things. I like vinegar with kielbasa and vinegar with home fries (potatoes)--but again, that's not really unusual, unless you're only considering an American perspective.

my mother was japanese, and i grew up with japanese food, but i had to draw the line at suction cups and kimchi. i am really partial to seeweed and furikake [dessicated seeweed, plums and fishy stuff used as a condiment]. i like stewed mackerel or salmon, prepared in a quasi-asian style. i really miss new year's motchii [a traditional seasonal treat], as i haven't had any since my mother's passing. as for vinegar-ry tartness, my sister loves that stuff but i can only handle a bit of it before everything else starts tasting sour as well.

I'm familiar with all those foods, though I'm not sure what you're referring to specifically with the stewed fishes. I'm a fan of furikake myself. I'm partial to the seaweed and roasted sesame seed variety. And I like mochi on occasion, but I prefer the rice part and not so much the bean paste filling. Do you live in the US, auntblabby? You know you can get mochi in a lot of places in the States these days (maybe not of the highest quality, however). And kimchi is Korean! Though it is very popular among the Japanese these days as well. Can't say I'm a fan of kimchi, either--blech. I do like octopus (those tentacles! what's not to love ), but they're intelligent enough creatures that I prefer not to eat them. Do you like nabe? It's a favorite winter food of mine. I've practically been eating it constantly these past few weeks.

OP - salted plums are the BEST - not weird for some of us.

I agree with Kaybee, my idea of weird isn't the same as a lot of people's because of the culinary traditions in my family. People usually make faces at foods I like and consider normal like spam "sushi" and poi. My last name is Wong - bring on the weird food!! haha!! Wait, except for the jellyfish noodles.

The weirdest food I ever saw served at someone's house was a jello mold with fruit in it. They set it on the table and I was silently like, "wtf? Indiana food is weird". lol!

**whiskey cream and digestive biscuits
yes (it was nice)
seperate dish
**venison casserole.
yes, I kind of liked it ,but I think I'll stick with the beef thank you all the same .

** malteasers and cheese...yuck

Leaf spinach with black pudding and grated cheese. Not too bad.

Brussel Sprouts with toast and bacon. Yummy!

Kimchi. I love it!

the suction cups are the grotesque things about the tentacles, otherwise octopii are relatively cute as sea creatures go. i live about 3 hours driving time from seattle- too far for me to visit unless somebody else drives me. i just can't handle seattle traffic. but that is the closest city with an uwajimayas asian food place that i love to visit otherwise, once in a blue moon that i can get transportation there. it is also very expensive, unfortunately, so i can't get too much there. i knew about the koreans and their love for spicy kimchi- where i used to work were a lot of koreans who during breaks often were munching on something like kimchi. way too spicy for me. as for nabemono, my mother made lots of that stuff but i only remember her mentioning "sukiyaki" to me even though she made other varieties but didn't mention them by name to me. she thought i was too stupid to learn japanese so she minimized her use of japanese language and terminology around me except when she was mad at me, at which point she would curse at me in japanese. i WAS too stupid to learn any of it, unfortunately, save for the occasional curse words which are always the ones that stick before anything else- as gen. patton tartly commented, "when i want something to stick i give it to 'em loud and dirty."

my late mother often made that. only she would sometimes put veggies in it.

I've had that kind of jell-o! So unappetizing. And are salted plums like pickled plums (umeboshi)? Or just adding salt to a regular plum before eating it? Because that's not so weird. To continue on the Japanese food trend, it's common in Japan to salt one's watermelon before eating it. Which I must admit, I do find a bit odd.

auntblabby, I don't believe for a moment that you were too dumb to learn the language. Also, I'd like to say that I came across some mochi when I was out earlier and ate it just for you. Isn't vicariously living...bland?



Now that's unusual. And doesn't so appealing.

Yeah, jello is hospital food to me. bleh.
Salted plums are a dry snack and are (on the east coast anyway) a lot cheaper than umeboshi. They come in a range of colors and sweetness combined with saltiness but here's an example:





This is what my face would do at the table:

As a kid I used to love salt and vinegar flavour chipsticks dipped in orange juice.

An omelette with ketchup. I've eaten it, and it's actually delicious. From now on, I always dip my omelette in ketchup.