Today I heard someone say that a dessert pot contained "taramasalata and raspberries". She was adamant that's what it was (though I'm hoping she meant tiramisu) and ultimately the gentleman in the queue in front of me was put off from buying it (can't think why!)
So it made me wonder - what are the weirdest food combinations you've encountered? Did you dare taste it and what was it like?
this is quite common nowadays, but the first time my dad prepared strawberries mixed with balsamic vinegar I refused to try it, then I gave up and it was delicious. Now everytime I offer it to someone else I get the same reaction!!
Weird combination...any pizza you find in those street shops with pineapple, mushroom, ham and Gosh knows what else!
One of the most unusual flavour combinations I've had was coffee and garlic at the Fat Duck, referenced here in How to dunk a doughnut: the science of everyday life by Len Fisher.
I think it has to be a dish I had for lunch in Hungary - kaposztas teszta. Overboiled soggy pasta with fried shredded white cabbage, topped off with a liberal sprinkling of icing sugar. This dish breaks all my personal assumptions about how to combine food. Pasta + cabbage = NO. Cabbage + icing sugar = NO. Icing sugar + pasta = NO.
Are there any other combinations which break so many rules?!
Chocolate & bacon muffins
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Hriuke: Chocolate & bacon muffins
Funny you should say that - a friend of mine was caramelising bacon to put into chocolate brownies only yesterday. As I understand it, she struggled not to eat all the sweet bacon before it had a chance to make it into the brownie, but I've heard it's supposed to be rather nice.
I know it's quite common but still I can't get over a Beautiful roast dinner garnished with lashings of tomato ketchup.
I love the combination of breaded chicken with a splash of fresh lemon. It is really the weirdest but best food combination.