What's an unusual but excellent food combo you've tried?

Had a pizza in Spain yesterday - pear, walnut and gorgonzola

Was absolutely stunning

Peanut butter on hamburgers. Really nice contrast especially if you also include pickles

pizza with jalapeños and pineapple, the spicy-sweet was pretty good

Not unusual but not common is fish sauce on your fried or scrambled eggs.

A can of condensed tomato soup, 1 can of milk, pad of butter, 1/2 cup(or more) instant rice. Lets soup come to near boil, turn off heat, add rice., cover and let steep for about 8 minutes.

French fries with vinegar. Ok, not unusual if you’re British, but delicious even if you aren’t.

• Vanilla ice cream and/or raspberry sorbet topped with pitch black, salty sweet licorice sauce. (common only in Denmark afaik)

• "Birnen, Bohnen und Speck", a stew made from pears, green beans, bacon and a herb called satureja/savory. The pears in this one are a certain old breed, that is pretty hard and sour before cooking. (This is a local delicacy from the city of Hamburg in northern Germany)

• Watermelon and feta cheese, especially during hot summer days (common in mediterranean countries)

• Pickled cucumbers and feta cheese (those are eaten as a combo around the black sea afaik)

This might sound wild... But buttered chicken/curry is a fantastic dipping sauce for pizza.

Order a pizza, order some curry, eat the whole pizza... It's so good

Avocado in chicken soup. Add to the bowl, not the pot. You'll never eat it without again.

Mexican flavoured penang curry

Pickles and anything

A Puerto Rican coworker turned me onto hot chocolate with cheese in it. I believe the traditional method is basically just to put some cheese in the cup and you end up with a melted glob of cheese to eat with a spoon as/after you drink it. I've played around with that as well as actually incorporating the cheese into the drink itself, melting it all together on the stove.

Kind of gets you some of that well-tested sweet/salty/savory combo. I dig it in a Mexican hot chocolate with some cinnamon and chili powder.

I believe the traditional cheese is edam, I've tried that as well as cheddar and a few other cheeses, they all seemed to work pretty well, try it at your own risk if you go for anything too funky

Pepperoni and pineapple pizza. The sweet and tangy go sooooo well together!

i like to dunk left over fries in vanilla icecream.

my coworkers thought i was mad when they witnessed me doing that.

Grapes in a chicken/tuna salad sandwich. Totally different experience with the diced grapes

One night we were making oatmeal butterscotch chip cookies, and I dipped a Frito corn chip in the cookie dough.

We decided to only make a half batch of cookies and used the rest for Frito dip.

Yes. We were high.

Water melon + bacon.

I was about to start my shift, but knew I would probably get hungry before lunch, so on my way out to the back deck I stopped via the galley to get some form of breakfast. I like bacon, and I like water melon, so I grabbed some of each as a snack on my way out. But then I needed to free up my hands, so I just put it all in my mouth, and the combination of sweet and salty was absolutely amazing.

Kimchi on all the things! Burgers and pizza especially.

Peanut butter toast with Sriracha.

Dr Pepper and kumquats.

I think my cousins maybe made me try this as a joke when I was younger but hear me out..

Toast. With mayo. Sprinkled with chocolate powder.

I don't eat it anymore because I'm a grown up or whatever but I still get cravings for it sometimes.

Cinnamon raisin bagel. Toasted with some thick slices of aged cheddar and a nice hotsauce. I like valentina, but siracha is good too.

I had a cherry chutney hamburger at a restaurant somewhere in Missouri. I ordered it because I thought it was a weird combo. IT WAS DELICIOUS.

Cold watermelon soup with anise and cracked black pepper.

It was the appetizer to a meal that included duck breast smoked with lapsang souchong tea.

All of ot was outstanding.

Rosemary + Strawberry (Jam)

Fresh Strawberries mixed and cooked with rosemary twigs then sieved
Can be diluted with water as a sort of lemonade.
Or it can be further processed as a jam.
I like to use it as a thin topping on a chocolate or hazelnut spread :)
Sort of like a PB&J but instead a S&B?

My grandmother introduced me to chocolate ice cream with crumbled lays chips about 35 years ago. I abstain from this almost consistently; but I’ll be damned if those aren’t a match made in hell.

Since mangoes are in season now:

Green mangoes (still crunchy) with crushed Thai pepper and sugar and a tiny pinch of salt.

Or just go all out and make the crack sauce.

My wife makes an awesome chocolate chili.

Now it's an open secret that a bit of dark chocolate adds more flavor and "richness" to a bowl of chili. But she cranks it up to 11 and puts about 200 grams of chocolate into a 3 liter pot. It's spicy, savory and sweet, and tastes like you're eating dinner and dessert at the same time. I love it, and so did anyone who's ever tried it.

I made a chef salad at work which usually comes with just ranch.

I added a sweet Thai chili sauce to it and it was honestly really fuckin good. The sweetness from the chili sauce really brought out all the regular flavors of the salad and ranch

Avocado and Worcestershire sauce

I don't agree but I get called weird for putting applesauce on my macncheese

Curried rice with chicken, dried cranberries, and pistachios

I've been looked at weirdly for dipping pretzels in mustard.

Roasted peanuts goes good with most salty foods. Crush and sprinkle it on top of some beef or chicken for a nice, tasty crunch.

Youve heard poutine which is fries with cheese and gravy. Next time try fries wth cheese and salsa.

Chicken Shack Broasted Potatoes with their Cole Slaw mixed in.

It's so good, it's the main thing I get there, it's better than the chicken.

It's like going to Red Lobster and just ordering the cheddar bay biscuits.

Crunchy peanut butter and banana sandwich. Bonus if you add honey.

Peanut butter, jalapenos, and your fingers. Get to dipping.

Dry roasted peanuts and fresh tomato

A scoop of vanilla ice cream, topped with a little “chili crunch” oil - salty and sweet, spicy and creamy… it’s great.

Not very unusual, but also not super common: Emmental and strawberry jam bread rolls.

Chocolate Stout beer and a scoop of vanilla ice cream (gently lowered -- otherwise it's all foam gushing about).

I take no credit. A deadhead, traveling beer blogger in a Winnebago (how he described himself) told me about it years ago.

Beer float.

I just had Mac n cheese with green Chile and meatballs. I liked it 👍

It's not something for me now that I'm older but I use to love putting ketchup on mashed potatoes and mac and cheese. I know mac and cheese with it is somewhat common.

Also potatoes on a hamburger is really good. If you do a cheese burger it might take some trial and error on getting the right cheese. I myself like fresh shredded American. Don't use cheap ingredients though! This is the 1 thing I wouldn't cheap out on.

Based on this thread peanut butter or peanuts goes with a lot more than expected.

Potato chips dipped in peanut butter or yellow mustard. Malt vinegar on eggs. Waldorf salad.

Nutella on a salty cracker, like a saltine. Careful, you can eat half a jar this way!

Squeeze of lime on hot, salty French fries.

Peanut butter and banana sandwich.

Dip your pretzel sticks or Salzstangen in mustard.

Trust me and thank me later.

Gingerbread cookies with blue cheese

I don't know anyone who does this, but I love putting barbecue chips on cheese and mustard sandwiches. Same with spicy chips.

Sriracha sauce on a hot dog, period.

pretzel, salami and nutella

Honey and white cheese on a pancake. Honey by itself might be too sweet - the cheese (especially if it's a bit more salty) balances that out nicely.

I used to sauté up frozen corn in butter with garlic and paprika. Right about when it's done, throw in some cilantro. Fuck. I want some now. I had to stop eating it, it was causing problems I was eating too much.

Pizza rolls dipped in French onion chip dip.

Sprinkle ketchup on sausage gravy. Tangy goodness.

Ice cream on a hot dog. Just plain vanilla ice cream, on an all beef hot dog in a bun. Some chocolate fudge on top if you like.

I'm a big fan of blue cheese:

• Water cracker, soft blue cheese, and a bit of hot (spicy) honey drizzled on top.
• Ramen with blue cheese crumbles melted into the broth.
• Avocado toast with blue cheese crumbles.

Slice of bread and table syrup (not maple syrup). Super quick, sweet snack. I call it the poor man’s pancake.

Peanut butter and dill pickle sandwiches are way better than they have any right to be.

Got to be no sugar varieties of both ingredients.

Peanut butter on bread as a side to chili (con carne).

Not sure whether it's unusual, but at least it took many years to be introduced to combining any chocolate dessert with red wine.

Boil up some ramen noodles, drain all the liquid and discard the flavor pack. Add a can of Hormel No Beans Chili and a few table spoons of Cheez Whiz. Heat up the chili and cheez. A few decades after I first concocted this, I found out that Ohio has restaurants that basically sell this same thing (Skyline and Goldstar).

BLP. Bacon Lettuce Peanut butter. It's like a BLT, but I hate tomatoes.

Peanut butter, jelly, salami, and giardiniera.

I don't think it's unusual, but balsamic vinegar, mixed with olive oil, and sprinkled with pepper, is an excellent dip for sourdough or French bread.

As a kid, I used to dip pretzel sticks in applesauce. Just another sweet+salty combo, I suppose.

Vanilla ice cream and jello.

Marshmallows on regular pizza. Salty and sweet is so nice.

Peanuts & breakfast cereal.

Apple slices and tea biscuits

Cheese and jam

French toast, over easy egg on top, some ketchup butter and syrup lathered on top of that then pop the egg and combo bite that shit

Okay I have a secret recipe from when I was a kid.

Brioche + cheddar slice + hamburger (the frozen kind)

The sweetness of the brioche makes the recipe, it's also super easy to make, pop the meat in a microwave for a couple minutes and it's ready to assemble.

Just ate a kimchi grilled cheese sandwich for breakfast, yum. With a dip of gochujang, mustard, soy sauce, kimchi brine.

There is a Mexican fruit salad with pineapple, mango, jicama, onion, and cotija sharp cheese, in an orange juice dressing, it is so good with onion, I would not have expected that.

Bread or cracker with peanut butter, mayo, and mustard (the ground seedy kind).

Plain Potato chips and pretzels.

Hot beer with honey

Brazilian pizza topping combos

Ham and strawberries, my favorite combination of foods.

I love mayonnaise and lime pickle together, especially mixed into a bowl of mashed potatoes.

Also, it's a classic in the north of England but fruit cake with a slice of cheese (cheddar or Wensleydale) is great.

Pizza with tuna, onions and pineapple.

I havent tried this yet but I know some people who swear by red wine and coca cola

Ok, I have a few.

Potato and onion pierogies and maple syrup. So good.

Hot chocolate and buttered toast. Dip it.

Pizza with Mike's Hot Honey. Maybe that's not too weird, there's a pizza place around here that offers that.

McDonald's pancakes with an ice cream sundae dumped on them.

I do not eat this anymore, but when I ate animal products I would order pizza with hot chilis and I'd put honey on top.

Ham and cream corn

Chocolate and chili pepper. Sounds weird, but spicy chocolate is hella good.

I was equally surprised with how good the short-lived limited time Spicy Skittles were. They should bring those back. 🤤

Pizza dipped in ranch dressing.