Ask Lemmy

Pineapples and pizza. Yeah I said it.

Blue cheese and Dr Pepper. The Dr Pepper brings out the sweetness of the cheese and the tanginess of the cheese complements the sour of the soda.

Dr Pepper is the blue cheese of soda, after all.

Toast with mayo and powdered chocolate (Nesquik). Still not sure if my cousins were trying to pull a prank on me but it turned out to be one of my favourite childhood meals.

Make your a salami sandwich with the following steps.

1. Toast the bread.
2. pan fry the salami slices til their a little crispy on the edges.
3. spread hummus on the bread once it’s toasted.
4. add the crispy salami, some lettuce, and seasoned tomato to your sandwich and enjoy.

People look at me sideways for using hummus as a sandwich spread, but it’s delicious.

Try dunking cookies in tea. Or orange juice. I love both but I get strange looks when I tell people.

OTOH a few people have told me peanut butter and cheddar cheese make a great sandwich. I tried once, was not a fan.

Strawberries and black pepper. You’re welcome.

A fried egg on top of just about anything

I have a 200 item list of grazing board foods that I've personally mixed and sampled every single 2 and 3 item combination and curated every item to be acceptable to delicious in 3 part combos.

By far the two strangest combos to any guest are the spicy salami and the dark chocolate on baguette bread or the rum dates and stone stone-ground mustard on butter cracker.

The sweet and bitter of the chocolate mixes so well with the oilly spice of the meat, and the baguette bridges the textures to provide a comfortable mouthfeel by soaking it in.

For the second, the vinegar and tang of the mustard heighten the rum without taking away the sweet paste of the dates and the cracker provides enough texture to not feel like you're eating sauce and enough salt to soften the vinegar and alcohol bite.

Honestly, it's my favorite dinner even because it's so much fun to watch people look at you in horror when you suggest they try something, then try it and see that horror melt away into absolute wonder.

My friend worked at Subway for a few years and after a while you try weird stuff just to see if it's good, and one of the best things is an oatmeal raisin cookie wrapped in pepper jack cheese.

Also sharp cheddar on apple pie is a Yankee tradition and really good.

Feta and watermelon

Cantelope and prosciutto

Anchovies in Ranch dressing (make it fresh, you animals)

Goldschlager and Cuervo Gold tequila as a shaken shot (tastes like snickerdoodles)

Pancakes topped with yogurt and honey or pistachio butter

Georgian pesto is walnuts and cilantro, 10/10

Peanut butter in a tomato stew sends it in an African direction, and it's amazing

Deep fried olives filled with cheese

Salmon marinated in bourbon, touch of soy sauce, and brown sugar, baked.

Anchovies and capers on your pizza if you wear big boy pants

Red wine and coca cola if you're 14

Candied pine cones and creme brulé is 1 million percent magic

Cheez-its and canned whipped cream tastes exactly like if you asked ChatGPT to describe what cheesecake tastes like.

Wendy's French fries dipped in their frosty. It was at least a good combination twenty years ago ...

Peanut butter and dill pickle sandwich. Maybe with a little Sriracha.

Salmon + roasted Brussels sprouts

As a kid I remember jam (probably strawberry) and cheese (Cheddar or red Leicester) sandwiches being pretty awesome. For manifold reasons, peanut butter was not something made available to me back then, so that would be the closest our house ever got to that.

Salami and banana peppers.

Kalimotxo. It’s red wine and cola in roughly equal parts, to taste. It’s a great way to salvage old wine that’s a day or two past drinkable, especially on a hot day.

I described it once on reddit in the before times, and someone called it a “shit red wine spritzer” and I think that’s kinda apt.

Half pure orange juice and half cola.

Chocolate and anything spicy.

Coffee and bananas

Roasted cauliflower and chocolate. I like to dust coco powder in the last 3 min.

Raisins and anchovies.

Mushrooms and coffee.

Garlic, chocolate, and coffee.

Chicago corn (cheddar popcorn mixed with caramel corn). Sounds weird - is awesome.

Milkshake with crispy bacon. You've got sweet, fatty, salty, crunchy, umami, creamy. So amazing. Blend or crumble a couple pieces into it but then have a whole piece or two stuck in it so you have bigger pieces to play around with. Has no business being as good as it is

In college we used to take a Ritz cracker, ez cheese, and top with a pizza roll. I haven't tried one in some years now but I remember it slapped at the time

Used to know someone who would pour a box of junior mints into popcorn at the theater. Shake it a couple times, let it sit just long enough to get a little melty, then go wild. Bonus points for adding enough buttery topping to soak through the bottom of the container

Kimchi and sweet potato. It's pretty common in South Korea too.

Popcorn and pickles. Worked with a pregnant lady who had a craving for these together and, well, she wasn’t wrong.

Bread and everything else

Both of these are established dishes, so I don't know if I could call them unexpected, but:

• Jalapeno chocolate fudge cake, tried on a whim at a restaurant. Thought it might be a disaster, but hot stuff and sweet (and fatty) stuff works surprisingly well together. I suppose that it's kind of closer to how the Mesoamericans used to originally eat cocoa, which could be with chilis:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_cuisine#Cacao

  Chocolate could be prepared in a huge variety of ways and most of them involved mixing hot or tepid water with toasted and ground cacao beans, maize and any number of flavorers such as chili, honey, vanilla and a wide variety of spices.[31]

  The ingredients were mixed and beaten with a beating stick or aerated by pouring the chocolate from one vessel to another. If the cacao was of high quality, this produced a rich head of foam. The head could be set aside, the drink further aerated to produce another head, which was also set aside and then placed on top of the drink along with the rest of the foam before serving.

• Five Guys does a milkshake with bacon sprinkles that I thought sounded like it could be pretty gross, but crunchy salty apparently works with sweet fatty as well. Goes somewhat downhill as the bacon looses its crispness, though. Be interesting if there's some sort of waterproof coating that one could put on it. ("chocolate-coated bacon bits?")