Share your weird and wonderful food combinations

A friend once invited us round for a Christmas dinner at his flat. Bless him, he's a non-meat eater and can't cook at all.

Dinner was:

Melon

I *think* there was a soup course as well

"Roast" dinner consisting of fish fingers, Aunt Bessie's roast potatoes and yorkies, carrot and swede mash, more carrots, I think broccoli, aand I think something else potato-related, all piled on to plates and kept warm in the oven for about two hours before we ate

Christmas pudding which he didn't know needed to be cooked ?

Bless him, he'd made so much effort.

That said, I do have a weakness for peanut butter and tomato sandwiches, with lots of black pepper

During the month of Ramadan you're required to get up before sunrise and eat a filling meal as it's the only one you'll get until the sun goes down. The meal of choice in my house was always paratha, a flatbread pastry made with wholemeal flour and butter. Absolutely delicious, however I enjoyed mine with beans and no-one else could get their head around it. I thought it was a yummy combination, sort of like beans with toast indian style, but everyone I've mentioned it to thinks it's minging!

Oh my word, I am smiling at those ?

Mr Toblerone thinks that a perfectly acceptable supper might be spam nuked in the microwave served on toast, God love him.

I however, don't. But apparently I'm not allowed to have that opinion because I eat grilled stilton and mango chutney on toast as an indulgent snack which he thinks makes me neanderthal, go figure! (but I'm posting on here so we shall soon see whether he is right or I am)

Waah, fish fingers and uncooked pudding, bless him! ? It sounds grim but bet he was so pleased with himself.

Did/does her eat out much? My cousin does which is why I was surprised/amused as you don't tend to get waffles and savoury rice with a chicken salad at the Witchery and the Harvey Nichol's restaurant. ?

I was still peckish and looking forward to pudding, expecting something like an M&S cheesecake but had to make do with a miniroll then a snack when I got home. ?

We used to play a dinner party game at uni where everyone brought something (an ingredient or two) and the chosen chef for that week would make dinner for us all (using the storecupboard too). This created some weird and wonderful dinners like chicken breasts stuffed with peanut butter and cheese (was actually good!) and a pasta bake with prawns, courgette and beetroot and a side of honeyed courgette (not nice!)

The best one was marlin fillets with a dark chocolate and lime sauce which turned out to be completely delicious and something that we used to eat often after that! Just a wee bit of dark choc in it, mind, not loads! (in case anyone tries it!)

My granny used to make dessert (apple pie, rhubarb crumble or rice pudding) and serve with evaporated milk, ice cream and squirty cream. Lot of cream going on there!

I can still remember the taste of a meal my mum cooked when I was about 11 years old (I am now 41). She had a recipe for sausage and kidney casserole that needed red wine, but she used Buckfast tonic wine instead. I keep on meaning to try recreating it whenever I see the buckfast wine in the off licence.

My mum always used to serve cold baked beans straight out of the can with salads, for some unknown reason. Step-mum once made me a vegetarian bake with onions, spuds, mushrooms, peppers and... kiwis. It was fecking hideous as has scarred me 15 years on!

I'm partial to the odd round of cheese and jam on toast. Chedder with raspberry is yum. But that's not that odd when cheese can come 'ready-fruited' anyway!

Not really - I think when he goes out it tends to be curry, and thinking about it he's had the same thing every single time - king prawn madras ?

He is also permanently on a diet nd lives on vegetable soup when left to himself.

Cheddar cheese and strawberry jam anyone?

My brother loves cheese and mint sauce sandwiches ?

I'm afraid I'll be shunned by the Scottish hitched foodies for confessing this, but on more than one occasion I've had haggis with.... rice! ? I don't always have potatoes in the house (that are fresh and not sprouting! ? ) but do always have packets of rice in the cupboard.

I'll leave now...! ?

Buckie casserole and kiwi in a bake. ?

Jam and cheese is a big thing here with it being a mining area but I don't think it's something I've ever tried and definitely not on toast.

How much I wish I had a granny who could make puddings, even with evaporated milk. ? We had either a defrosted sponge cake or tropical gateaux from Farmfoods. ?

Sophie, I think your friend needs to start courting a foodie!

Anj, at least you are multicultural!

Monkey Fingers eats/drinks one of the most revolting things I've ever heard of but I'll let her tell you herself... ?

Jam and cheese(the jam has to go under the cheese obv.) is a normal combination in Sweden. My personal favourite is honey and cheese on toast, or newly baked bread, however!

If I ever eat cornflakes, I always add a blob of jam as well!

Cheese and banana toasties, which I dont think are weird but everyone I say to says it is.

Also, I like chinese fried rice with chinese chips mixed in. No sauce, just the chips and rice. Lovely and dry.

Donner kebab pizza ?

My granddad used to give us tomatoes which you then ate like an apple with sugar sprinkled on once you'd taken a bit of the skin off. I was telling Camperkid about this at the weekend and he was saying it was the most gross thing he'd ever heard of. While having lunch, he decided to have tomato, which I duly sprinkled with a bit of sugar.

Camperkid quickly changed his mind and thinks that they're great...... ?

I was out with my friend and her friends/family for her birthday and one of her friends asked for a broccoli and potato pizza whilst at one of the best Italian/seafood restaurants in Edinburgh and she really could have had anything. She's not a veggie either, which made it seem rather odd! ? Apparently haggis is another personal favourite.

I'm not sure these are very weired but I like salted peanuts and dried cranberries as a snack. Also an apple with a piece of cheese.

If Mum has tinned fruit for pudding, she will have it with a slice of bread and butter (Grandma always made them do this to mum and her sisters to fill them up!).

I'm loving all the granny stories. When I was 15 I was allowed to have my boyfriend over for tea. I lived with my crazy Irish nana at the time. She served spaghetti bolognese but used Heinz tinned spaghetti with a bolognese sauce, with a side helping of potatoes and brocolli. For pudding we had tinned lychees and squirty cream. She even asked my boyfriend to open the tin of lychees for her! ?

More recently she offered the girls some ice cream with a dollop of jam on top as she had run out of sauce.

My brother enjoyed more than one portion of cold pasta and cold curry sauce on holiday ?

How roooooode, there is nothing revolting about a mug of bisto, smash and mint sauce! It is the ultimate comfort food and a huge part of my diet! Everyone shoud try it . .. oh and it is a mixture of drink and eat!

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this sounds like something MrKB would enjoy. He's been known to drink cups of stock whilst I'm cooking. He can't help himself. He lives all those weird drinks like Bovril too ?

my Mum and I often enjoy a cup of oxo for our lunch!

I don't like bovril, but mum does.

I was once invited for a roast dinner at a friends house, and she did Roast Beef, roast potatoes, Yorkishire puddings.... and mushy peas.?

I don't mean to be rooooooode! I have to say the thought of it makes me feel ? I think it's the thought of drinking anything that isn't really runny (I can't drink soup) and then with being such a sectioned eater who doesn't like foods mixing together, it not really for me. ?

? at your granny KB. Did he stay your boyfriend for long or did your granny and her tinned eyeballs lychees scare him off?

Christmas cake....and cheese. The most divine thing known to man

I think that sounds even nicer than a standard roast!

I LOVE mushy peas... with tomato sauce mixed in until they're pink.

Christmas cake......and cheese. The most divine thing ever

Cheese and banana is a fab combination. I love a banana eaten alongside a packet of quavers.

I am also quite partial to mini cheddars or pickled onion monster munch dipped in black cherry yogurt.

Haggis and baked bean pizza is the yummiest thing EVER! Everyone i tell thinks i'm minging until they taste it. It's goooooooood!

Not a meal as such, but love salted peanut and egg mayo sandwiches ?

I invented it whilst drunk at a party but i have to say i still love it when sober.

My other favourite is salt and vinegar crisps dipped in chocolate mousse

I don't think these are strange but I love apple and cheese, as someone else has said. Have also been known to make a mug of gravy and drunk bread in. Oh and I love eating cold chicken soap and spaghetti straight out of the tin, not at the same time of course. Delicious!

Salt and vinegar crisps on a sandwich with cheese spread x