Do you have strange eating habits that noone understands or even wants to try?

I’ve eaten cold fish for breakfast.
Is that bad? ;)

Baby carrots dipped in peanut butter. Yum!

French fries with mayo and ketchup, as well as chips and salsa with sour cream are excellent – and not all that unusual.

Does anyone else do green pepper and peanut butter? Or applesauce with Pringles potato chips? (Which is a good deal like potato pancakes with applesauce which isn’t at all odd.)

I can’t think of anything I do that’s so strange… but I do know one, that I had to choke down when I was eating dinner with a friend: cooked cucumber. They loved it. I gagged.

Green mango and sweet potatoes and chicken was one of my latest aberrations.

Popcorn with potato chips.
Vanilla cream sandwich cookies with potato chips.
Peanuts and Graham Crackers.

I like to mix different sodas at the soda fountain in restaurants. Yeah, lame. That’s all I could think of right now.

maple syrup on Wheaties
ginger ale and a splash of strong tea
parmesan cheese on popcorn

Chili cheese fries, dipped in mustard.

Peanut butter and cheeto sandwich.

Syrup and Sun Chips on a turkey burger. Sorry, I made that one up.

Ooh, @erichw1504 – You just reminded me. When I get a sub at Subway, I usually get a combo with Sun Chips and put ‘em on my turkey sub. Yum!

Used to like A-1 sauce on mashed potatoes when I was a kid.

There’s no accounting for taste—everyone is wired differently—and almost everything on your list sounds fine to me. I love eating sugar cubes (especially the brown ones). I also like raw cake and cookie batter, and when I’m really hungry late at night but don’t want to eat something heavier, I like uncooked oatmeal mixed with milk and a little sugar. I’ve also been known to mix sour cream with brown sugar for a delicious sweet treat.

@wundayatta green mango? what?!

I put kale, broccoli and jalapenos on my pizza. I don’t know how weird it is, but it’s very tasty.

I love feta cheese and orange marmalade rolled up together in a warm tortilla.

Taco Bell has these relatively new things called a “crispy potato soft taco” which consists of yummy fried/baked potato chunks with lettuce, cheese and mayo. When you add their hot sauce packets to the mayo, it is one of the best flavor combos I’ve ever tasted!

And this just popped into my head, because of all this talk. I have never tried this, but I’m thinking of mixing a little bit of peanut butter with some balsamic vinegar and making a sandwich. I’ll let you know how it turns out. I might even slap a little mayo on their with a few dill pickles (Bubbie’s brand).

@Seelix Love carrots & pb

I put raw sliced onion in nearly all of my sandwiches, the after-breath is worth it as far as I’m concerned.

I eat pasta with ketchup. It’s so good.

Poppadoms for breakfast (the night after an Indian takeaway meal, because the poppadoms always get left over).

Cheese and pesto (pasta sauce) in a sandwich. Or just pesto on toast. Sometimes I’ll add sliced avocado as well.

Ramen (those super-cheap packet noodles) with very thinly cut strips of wakame, and sliced fresh chilli.

Frankfurters on a pizza.

Oh-my-god @downtide. Cheese and pesto sandwiches?! I love them, I thought I was the only one. It’s like pasta but inbetween two slices of bread. * High five *

@ilana * high-five * If you like avocado you have to try this:
Toast some bread and smother it in pesto. Slice an avocado and layer it on top. Cover with grated cheese. Put it back under the grill until the cheese melts. It’s yummy. I guess you could use anything else if you don’t like avocado, but avocado goes really well with pesto.

Avocado is like nature’s butter, mmm. That sounds so good, I’m pretty sure I’ve made it like that before. Tastebuds have been activated.

@deni unripened mangos.

I like to eat apples whole. Core, pips, the lot. Even the stalk if it’s chewy enough. I’ve done it since I was a kid, so I don’t really think about it. Occasionally, there will be the odd person who it really freaks out.

@downtide Everything that you have listed is not only not weird, it’s fantastic! Yummo!

While we’re eating avocados… ever just opened one up, pulled out a spoon, put a little salt on top and just had at it? Yum.

Also, Grilled Cheese with Jam on top.
I know what you’re thinking, I saw someone do this and my eyebrows raised with incredulity, and I grilled that person on why the hell they’d do that to a poor grilled cheese sandwich… As it turns out, it’s pretty good.

Avocado goes with everything. Ever try it in cereal? It works. It’s a fruit after all.

Oh and my Grandpa (Pop pop) and I both eat sunflower seeds whole, shell and all.

@everephebe I do just eat avocados as they are with a spoon, but with a bit of lemon juice, not salt.

Speaking of eating shells and skins and things, I will eat the shell and tail (but not the head) of prawns and shrimps too.

@everephebe When I cut open an avocado lengthwise and take out the seed, I fill the little hole with soya sauce…then eat. Perfection

I love eating icecream (vanilla) with a takeaway curry , mmmm….
also , I like to eat apple cubes and grapes with a lovely grilled fish steak…

@downtide lemon juice yes, also very good.
@ilana I’ll have to try it with soy sauce, sounds good.

@SamIAm Oh dear lord. I just spewed into my mouth a little bit. I eat ketchup with hot dogs, hamburgers, and french fries, and the thought of it on anything else gives me convulsions. In first grade a girl named Theresa put a ton of it on her mashed potatoes, ate them, and then puked a bunch of red gunk 20 minutes later. I was mortified.

@SamIAm .. LOL4RL… i do that too

I’ve posted quite a few times already, but something else just came to mind – plain, warm rice and whole egg mayo. Who’s with me?!

@deni: that’s hilarious. I dated an Italian guy for a while and he couldn’t fathom ketchup on pasta but it’s so good. I promise. I want it right now!

I’ve seen some people eat corn on the cob, smeared with mayonnaise and parmesan cheese. Makes me gag a little to even tell you about it.

@ilana the onion is definitely worth the breath! others might not think so, but I do

and hot peppers with ANYTHING….

mayo is good in ramen noodles, drained of course and mayo on one side of a grilled cheese with just a drop of mustard is DELICIOUS!

I am hungry now…...with all this talk about food!

@downtide Avocados with a wee splash of balsamic vinegar is really good too. Balsamic vinegar is also good on grapefruit.

@everephebe I will definitely be trying the grilled cheese with jam on it. That sounds marvelous and it kind of in the same vein of my feta and marmalade on a tortilla. I’m drooling just thinking about what kind of cheese and what flavor of jam to use.

I am forever picking stuff out of my food. I bought a box of raisin bran the other day, and I pecked out all the raisins from each bowl I poured.

I roll pieces of slices of bread up into balls and flatten them, and then I eat them. Have done it since I was 6.

OMG! @ladymia69 I thought I was the only person on earth who flattened and rolled up balls of bread! I haven’t done that in years, but it tastes so good (and quite different than regular bread in it’s normal state) but it has an interesting chewy texture and the yummy bread flavor is just more concentrated. I may have to have some of that today. I used to do that quite often back in my elementary school years, when I would also add fritos to my sandwiches. Yum!

One of my school chums used to put potato chips on her sandwiches and she called the chips “nater nippers.” I always thought that was so cute. She also stuck fritos into her twinkies to make the twinkie look like a whale. She was very creative and I think she thought I was quite pedantic with my bread balls.

@Kardamom I went to Catholic school for the first 3 years after kindergarten, and as we had to go to Mass twice a week, I became obsessed with the “host” we ate at Communion. I thought it tasted so good. So at first I would go home and mash up the bread, and after I rolled the balls of bread up I would flatten them and inscribe a cross on them, just like the host at church. Yummy, yummy host. lol!

@ladymia69 I always wondered what the host tasted like. And is it different types of bread or crackers at different churches?

When i think about it, I remember the texture was like styrofoam, and it had a paste-y sort of flavor. Whatever it was, I loved it.

Graham crackers in milk (making a sort of mush out of it), milk with salt, slightly under-cooked bread.

One of my co-workers dumped a package of bacon into the meat grinder today, along with some 90/10 ground beef, as an experiment. The goal, hambacon, sounded like it would be pretty good; I’m going to ask tomorrow how it worked out. I hope for his sake that it works out; 14lbs of hambacon costs about $40.

@Kardamom The Protestants typically use bread or saltines. Some congregations will use matzot. There are unsubstantiated rumors of impromptu communion elements including things like donuts, cookies, milk, and coffee.

@Nullo Although I usually don’t like mushy-textured foods, the graham crackers in milk sounds mighty tempting. I love corn bread in milk (or even better yet, in buttermilk)

I never quite understood the host “bread” thing. It always kind of creeped me out. It sounds sacriligeous to me to even talk about eating the body of Christ. That sounds like cannibalism. Why do you think that each church has a different type of “snack” for the host, you would think that it would be very specific. I’m also a little bit freaked out about people sharing the wine out of the same cup (something I would never do). Even hand sanitizer couldn’t save me in that situation.

I expect that the sort of bread involved is determined by the pastor’s preference (or deacon, or secretary, or whoever bought the stuff), or else availability. The Bible just says “bread,” though I suppose that we could infer that it was indeed matzot, since the Last Supper was on Passover, and there are Rules about what bread ought to be like on Passover. That way, though, lies the potential for excessive legalism.

The actual method for administering the wine/grape juice varies: there’s the little cup sorts (good for large congregations), the communal cup (typically used with actual wine, which may be alcoholic enough to have disinfectant properties), and in some churches, the congregants will dip their bit of bread into a common cup. I am sure that there are others.

Don’t worry about the potential for sacrilege: Jesus Himself lays out the template for communion, in Matthew, I think. The practice is strictly commemorative (except, I think, for Catholics; for them, the host is on some level actually transmuted into the body of Christ); it refers the partakers to Jesus’ crucifixion, a sacrifice to atone for the sins of all mankind.
Try thinking of it in terms of mankind’s relationship with bread. Bread is a staple that much of the world depends on for its sustenance, to the point that it gets used to represent food in general. In this way, Jesus is like bread: a provider of spiritual sustenance. Life, even.
It’s a slightly convoluted simile.

There. Hopefully, I haven’t wandered inadvertently into heresy.

Cream cheese with potato chips.

Pho with way too much lime and sriracha.

Avocado with olive oil, lime juice, salt and pepper.

Bagel with butter, cream cheese and hot sauce.

Anything dipped in Nutella (french fries etc).

Rolling bread into balls to imitate host is possible sacrilege? Jesus Christ.

Toasted tea cakes (basically fruitbread in a bun shape) with cheese and jam.

Sardines and pickled herring.