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“Don’t Hate It Until You Try It”: 40 People Are Sharing Their Unpopular Takes On Food
Pickles wrapped in cheese, popcorn with beans and ice cream on meatloaf are just a few of the surprising food combinations Americans said they love, according to this survey. It’s not to say these pairings are must-try, but they definitely show just how unique our taste buds can be.
So when Twitter user Michael Realman called for “canceling each other over food takes today,” it hit a soft spot for many. Immediately, people started sharing their own “cancelable” food combos that hit all too close to home, or rather the kitchen, for the rest.
From ketchup on waffles to Nutella pasta, some of the pairings will definitely raise our brows but hey, who am I to judge when I put salt and pepper on my porridge! And if you too are no stranger to some quirky food combo, be sure to share it in our comment section!
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Most of us have at least one eating habit, if not more, that chances are we developed way back in our childhood. The first year of life is a period of rapid physical, social and emotional growth, during which eating patterns also develop. During this first year, infants transition from consuming a single food (i.e., breast milk or formula) to consuming a variety of foods more characteristic of an adult diet.
Moreover, parents influence children's eating behavior in many ways. First off, adults actively make food choices for the whole family, serving as models for dietary choices and patterns. Children also learn about food by observing the eating behaviors modeled by others. For example, research reveals that children's intake of fruits, vegetables, and milk increased after observing adults consuming the foods.
Our food preferences, whether common or unusual, are also part of our eating habits that formed early in life. They often include unique food combinations, too. The registered nutritionist Charlotte-Stirling Reed, who’s the author of “The Baby & Child Nutritionist,” told Bored Panda that when it comes to weird food pairings, parents often have a preconceived idea of what “flavors” go together. “They find it unimaginable that their young children eat certain pairings. But little ones, especially during weaning, don’t have the idea that breakfast HAS to be sweet, for example, until we introduce that idea,” she said and added that “They might not see the problem of having a courgette porridge in the morning or avocado ice cream!”
This is a pretty common dish (specifically in the UK), so I don't see this one being cancelled.
Both of those ingredients bring my daughters IBS up big time!! Goes from a flat stomach to looking five months pregnant! Hard to cook without them but possible!!
“In fact, my children recently chomped through some fruit sorbet with a stick of cauliflower on the side (their request). Sometimes children just follow their own innate intuition of what foods and flavors they want at that moment,” Reed told us. She said that parents should be happy to see that and “let them go for it!” Moreover, the child nutritionist added that she has carrot, beetroot and courgette porridge options as regular breakfasts for her kids, “and to them that’s quite normal!” If you and your little one feel adventurous enough to try some of the Reed’s unique porridge recipes, check them out right here.
I don't see anything unusual? Not my favorite, but if there was a cookie shortage, I'd at least consider them.
Sensory scientists and flavor experts have been studying just what foods and flavors pair well with others, pleasantly surprising our taste buds. One such pretty widespread combo is pineapple and ham (but beware to never order this kind of pizza anywhere in Italy!), which seem to work perfectly together.
Paul Breslin, a sensory scientist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center and a professor of nutrition at Rutgers University, explained this combo: “Really fatty foods, like ham and other meats, tend to leave your mouth feeling fatty, which is an undesirable state. Enter the pineapple. The fruit, which is naturally acidic, cuts through that greasy mouthfeel, creating a balanced (and tasty) result,” he said.
Yeah, those tomatoes doesn't fit. They should be grilled, not pulled out of a can.
Nope. Plenty of places serve tomatoes like that.
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This is the most unfortunate image of English breakfast. I don't doubt that the guys might have been served this accident but honestly thats just wrong.
It is. I like a good full English, but that ain't it.
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I love a good full English from time to time but this is presented very poorly and there is way too much plum tomato juice on that plate.
It doesn't look great but I'd still choose it every time over sugary cereal - I just don't know how people get any energy for the day from that!
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Yea this is the worst English breakfast I have ever seen. I don't eat eggs, tomatoes or mushrooms. I normally have it with hash browns and potato scones, but the presentation of this is horrible.
Potato scones (whatever they are) are not part of a full English. Bacon, sausage, fried egg, fried bread, baked beans, fried mushrooms and occasionally black pudding. That's your traditional. The addition of hash browns might be acceptable but not traditional. Plus a mug of tea. With milk.
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Let me be perfectly clear - this looks horrible and discusting!! Would i eat it? Apso-effing-lutely, i wouldnt even leave a single little tomato mark, i'd clean that plate down
Too much juice from the tomatoes and it needs a large slice of fried bread!
Too much tomato juice? Is that not what the bread is for? Haven't had any fried bread for eons. I miss it.
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As a brit... I will say that yes, that is an absolute travesty.
Where is the black pudding? It's delicious! Basically a fried blood clot with extra fat lumps in it. And yes, wrong tomatoes.
They’re not wrong they’re just a different type, I’ve seen plenty of fry ups that use these tomatoes
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Ok more eggs to beans ratio and more bacon and another sausage would be perfect ( and the hubby says add black pudding )
Keeps British workers (construction, truckers etc) going for the day ;o)
Looks like something an old timer would feed someone who was majorly hungover—like an elaborate version of a prairie oyster—-basically to induce vomiting to clear their stomachs of the alcohol. That’s the way people used to think, when it came to hangovers.
Considering there is far less carbs and sugar in the breakfast above than a bowl of cheerios, more protien in the above breakfast too. If you remove the beans and dont have bread this would be a very low carb, sugar free keto style breakfast for sure. And fruit juice well that is a lie in of itself - may as well just drink a glass of sugar water. Some people just dont realise that the reason the majority eat cereal for breakfast is because it was marketed as the "best most important meal of the day" by the cereal companies themselves in order to increase sales! Before "breakfast cereal" people would eat meals like the above to break their fast, regardless of if it was morning or later.
I'd eat those beans, eggs, sausages, and that meat, but not the mushrooms nor the tomato.
Too much "watery sauce" in here. Cut the liquid to 1/8th and you have energy to walk the pilgrim's way in half the time, and gas propelled.
Better without the beans, and using grilled fresh tomatoes instead. Egg is overcooked as well.
I LOVE English breakfast!! First had it at The Magical Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios. Love it
Sweet mother of hades you guys eat that much for breakfast?!? I'd have to go have a nap after all that first thing in the morning! Lol I'll stick to my usual coffee and cup of fresh fruit...sometimes 1 egg and 1 piece of toast...I'm not hungry in the morning but I force myself to eat most breakfasts
Agreed , not the best example of a full English but I much prefer tinned tomatoes and lots of juice . My mouth is now watering at the thought of it .
I prefer the canned tomatoes. I don't like the beans the rest is fine but the bacon is a bit overdone. As are the eggs. Plus no fried bread that is sacrilege.
That looks disgusting.... order from a different cafe and it would be amazing
You do NOT put canned tomatoes on a full English breakfast. Fresh, grilled tomatoes only. This looks disgusting...a plate of slop.
An English Breakfast is a thing of great beauty - a culinary delight and a fantastic hangover treatment - but this a car crash. Poorly cooked and presented, missing essential items and (the horror!) beans AND tomatoes?! Baked beans have no place here! And certainly not as part of the tomatoey swamp!
I think something like that is breakfast in UK? My breakfast as in toast or sandwich would then be lunch there. Something I've heard, correct me if I'm wrong.
This is bad version of a cooked English breakfast. Done well it is fantastic but most people would have it as a treat, not a daily breakfast. Toast is common, as would be cereals, porridge or a boiled egg. A smaller breakfast than this for sure.
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I am really wondering just how they "misread the menu". What did they misread in order to get this pile of s**t?
I'd still eat it with a slice of bread and butter to mop up afterwards *drools*
My experience living in Europe is that a big breakfast is eaten because people generally do not take a large meal break in the middle of the day and dinner is usually late in the evening.
I hope at least the toast was still crispy considering the amount of sauce on the plate…
Remove the tomatoes from the juice and drain them into the pan. Add a dash of Worcester sauce, half a teaspoon of mixed Italian herbs and return to the heat and reduce to make a thick sauce. It tastes awesome. I use it with a nice special breakfast I make for my fiancée, we call Breksuvius
Each element has its good points, but all together and in such quantity, kinda iffy.
True. I know where you're coming from. The English love it and it's a great cure for a hangover.
There are people in this world, that go to restaurants, order, are served, and actually eat that s**t ? That looks like the slop bucket of a diner, at the end of the day.
Pears and blue cheese have a similar effect. Breslin says that dressings typically contain three components: fat, salt, and acid. In the case of this classic pairing, the blue cheese provides the fat and salt, and the pear does its part with the acid.
Meanwhile, Niki Segnit, UK-based author of The Flavour Thesaurus, argues that “there are many wonderful matches to be discovered, and you don't need a PhD in molecular gastronomy to start experimenting.” She told the press that “interesting and unusual flavor matches can be made with common store-cupboard ingredients, like cheese and marmalade, or chocolate and aubergine.”
This 2020 survey commissioned by SPAM found that 41 percent of American respondents were most likely to have discovered their favorite food combinations from family or friends. The most popular food combo Americans love is the dipping of French fries in their chocolate milkshake. Other top combinations were chocolate and popcorn or sour cream and onion chips with chocolate. Interestingly, over half said they’ll have a “freak out” if their different foods touch each other while on their plate, the same survey found.
Hear me out. Vanilla Greek yogurt, a spoonful of fig preserves, a good sprinkle of chopped toasted walnuts.
People put stuff in Starbucks coffee because Starbucks coffee is terrible.
You forgot the fact that they sit on the bottom of the ocean and eat all the fish poop that drifts down, and they are full of poop when people eat them.
OMG! Finally another human being that shared my aversion to Ranch! It's totally gross! My favorite food is bacon cheese fries. I ALWAYS get it without ranch, because ranch is just gross. I usually always get it WITH ranch because some brain surgeon in the kitchen thinks that EVERYBODY likes ranch. 😝
"There are 3 stages in life - I hate olives; I don't despise olives and OMG OLIVES"
this might kill you but, i sometimes eat raw onions as a snack when i’m done grilling burgers, like chips. *powers up defibrillator *
I can't stand BBQ pizza, and also don't much like chicken on pizza, so totally disagree.
I've tried hot sauce on vanilla ice cream. It's an odd combo, but I've done it more than once.
If taste of flavourless grass is someone's thing...not judging but actually judging.
As long as it's medium rare, then I don't care if it looks like it was hit by a 4x4 and the grill left an imprint
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let me just say, after looking at some of these, i refused to look at the rest of them, and just came here to say that
What is the purpose of this post? Just don't eat it and stop judging what others do
"Hunger is the best sauce" ---- a proverb for a reason. When you're hungry, you'll eat anything. Been there, tried that.
There are a lot of these where i really wonder if they've ever had a good example of the thing they hate. Like nowadays, especially in Canada and the US, i can easily imagine someone who has never had good bread or a good tomato. It's sad. otoh, if they have and they just don't like them, fair enough
We have amazing breads and tomatoes in the US, lol! I grow heirloom tomatoes every summer and bake breads all throughout the year. Darn, now I'm hungry for warm, fresh bread.
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I like Hershey's chocolate and Goldfish Crackers. Probably the sweet and salty combo.
I thought I was the only one. It's one of the many weird food habits I've passed to my daughter. One of the others is pepperoni, jalapenos, onions, and pineapple on pizza.
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Skin on fries are not fancy. You're just too lazy to peel the f****n spuds!
that sounds like the best way to have rice pudding when you have no rice pudding I have ever heard
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Add another one. I've never even bought it. I tasted it once at my sister's house and thought I was going to die from a sugar overload. I don't understand the appeal.
Load More Replies... I suggest we cancel the cancellers. Why should anyone care what other people like or don't like to eat?
If we cancel the cancellers then aren't we cancellers and should be cancelled?
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With some of these horrible posts.. Do you upvote them (after all, this is a list of food combinations that should be cancelled) or do you downvote them, because they are just terrible?
I think we're upvoting the ones we don't want to cancel
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Cheez-its and black licorice are a snack sensation you gotta try at least once. Tastes like gourmet sausage
I don't get the love for those sickeningly sweet brown sugar and molasses concoctions some people think are BBQ sauce either, but a nice tangy or spicy sauce can compliment just about any meat.
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These folks are amateurs :) When I was 5 or early 6yo and alone at home while my parents were working and sister in school (my parents were quite trusting or that was a different time, I guess), I got hungry and started looking for something to eat. I ended up mixing bread crumbs with some sort of powder for instant vitamin drink and ate it dry. I liked it. Made it again quite a few times, especially while still a kid.
This list made me sad- half the food was things I can no longer eat, the other half food I have never heard of/tried :(
If you're referring to the peanut butter spread they try to pass off as peanut butter then you're right. It might as well be classified as icing. It's like saying miracle whip is the same as mayonnaise. I prefer natural peanut butter like Adam's. It actually tastes like peanuts. If you don't like peanuts then it really doesn't matter which one you try.
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Coffee creamer, straight outta the container. Pure chemicals, almost styrofoam, sure, nummy, yes!
Rice with anything is a crime against humanity. Absolutely revolting stuff.
For the most part, rice is just a filler carb. But, sushi wouldn't really be the same without it.
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let me just say, after looking at some of these, i refused to look at the rest of them, and just came here to say that
What is the purpose of this post? Just don't eat it and stop judging what others do
"Hunger is the best sauce" ---- a proverb for a reason. When you're hungry, you'll eat anything. Been there, tried that.
There are a lot of these where i really wonder if they've ever had a good example of the thing they hate. Like nowadays, especially in Canada and the US, i can easily imagine someone who has never had good bread or a good tomato. It's sad. otoh, if they have and they just don't like them, fair enough
We have amazing breads and tomatoes in the US, lol! I grow heirloom tomatoes every summer and bake breads all throughout the year. Darn, now I'm hungry for warm, fresh bread.
Load More Replies... I like Hershey's chocolate and Goldfish Crackers. Probably the sweet and salty combo.
I thought I was the only one. It's one of the many weird food habits I've passed to my daughter. One of the others is pepperoni, jalapenos, onions, and pineapple on pizza.
Load More Replies... Skin on fries are not fancy. You're just too lazy to peel the f****n spuds!
that sounds like the best way to have rice pudding when you have no rice pudding I have ever heard
Load More Replies... Add another one. I've never even bought it. I tasted it once at my sister's house and thought I was going to die from a sugar overload. I don't understand the appeal.
Load More Replies... I suggest we cancel the cancellers. Why should anyone care what other people like or don't like to eat?
If we cancel the cancellers then aren't we cancellers and should be cancelled?
Load More Replies... With some of these horrible posts.. Do you upvote them (after all, this is a list of food combinations that should be cancelled) or do you downvote them, because they are just terrible?
I think we're upvoting the ones we don't want to cancel
Load More Replies... Cheez-its and black licorice are a snack sensation you gotta try at least once. Tastes like gourmet sausage
I don't get the love for those sickeningly sweet brown sugar and molasses concoctions some people think are BBQ sauce either, but a nice tangy or spicy sauce can compliment just about any meat.
Load More Replies... These folks are amateurs :) When I was 5 or early 6yo and alone at home while my parents were working and sister in school (my parents were quite trusting or that was a different time, I guess), I got hungry and started looking for something to eat. I ended up mixing bread crumbs with some sort of powder for instant vitamin drink and ate it dry. I liked it. Made it again quite a few times, especially while still a kid.
This list made me sad- half the food was things I can no longer eat, the other half food I have never heard of/tried :(
If you're referring to the peanut butter spread they try to pass off as peanut butter then you're right. It might as well be classified as icing. It's like saying miracle whip is the same as mayonnaise. I prefer natural peanut butter like Adam's. It actually tastes like peanuts. If you don't like peanuts then it really doesn't matter which one you try.
Load More Replies... Coffee creamer, straight outta the container. Pure chemicals, almost styrofoam, sure, nummy, yes!
Rice with anything is a crime against humanity. Absolutely revolting stuff.
For the most part, rice is just a filler carb. But, sushi wouldn't really be the same without it.
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