Odd food combos that you like

[Stryder50]

Growing up, my two younger brothers often had mom make them peanut butter, mustard(yellow) and sliced dill pickle sandwiches on white bread. I didn't find it appealing and never had one, until a few years ago. Surprised it was a tasty combination.

It was the 50s and not much else to be had other than yellow mustard and white bread. Doing it with sourdough or whole wheat bread(toasted), Dijon or German mustard makes it even better. Garlic dill or bread-n-butter pickles may also zing your taste buds.

My dad, growing up back in the 30-40s used to pack bread-n-butter pickle between bread sandwiches to school.

 

[BothWings]

Cinnamon in chili gives an interesting twist to the taste. I'll do that and also a couple of tablespoons of cocoa powder, gives a mola twist to it.

Soup for breakfast no more weird than breakfast for dinner.

It just occurred to me that mole sauce in chili could be a thing!

 

[Concerned American]

It doesn't surprise me too much that someone else does it somewhere... I just think it's not particularly popular in most places that's all.

I grew up in the border areas of the southwest US and I never could come to grips with the cinnamon in chili thing, but you know what they say about diff'rent strokes. Each to their own said the old lady to the cow, as my grandmother used to say.

 

[martybegan]

I grew up in the border areas of the southwest US and I never could come to grips with the cinnamon in chili thing, but you know what they say about diff'rent strokes. Each to their own said the old lady to the cow, as my grandmother used to say.

it's because that "chili" in question is really a Greek based meat sauce that got called chili for some reason.

Cincinnati chili - Wikipedia

 

[Stryder50]

It just occurred to me that mole sauce in chili could be a thing!

Especially if you make yours on the hot-spicy side. Mola makes the red from tomatoes a more brown colored sauce. If things too spicy, some sugar helps to tame it.

That reminds me, I put some brown sugar in with the cocoa and cinnamon.

 

[Concerned American]

It just occurred to me that mole sauce in chili could be a thing!

A lot of people love mole, but I've never caught on to cocoa with chicken either. LOL, some things just don't seem to go together.

 

[toobfreak]

Chicken and honey....ohhh ohhhhh.......hmmmmm


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Try marinating the chicken first in something tart and tangy like Worcestershire Sauce.

Then bake with honey.

 

[Stryder50]

it's because that "chili" in question is really a Greek based meat sauce that got called chili for some reason.

Cincinnati chili - Wikipedia

That Cincinnati thing might be what's in play.
Story I've often heard was that "real"* chili was "invented" by cooks on cattle drives in the old West. The spices and peppers a way to soften and make palatable the lean beef meat of the cattle that dropped dead on the trail drive, and were a bit stringy and with no fat, not so tender.

* Purists claim that (real) Chili is only meat and seasonings. No beans! Texans especially are picky on this I've heard.

 

[yidnar]

hot grits with potted meat or Vienna Sausages crushed and mixed in .. add the sausage or potted meat after the grits are cooked .

 

[Rocko]

Mac and cheese with ketchup

 

[Concerned American]

Mac and cheese with ketchup

My wife's family likes ketchup on green beans and sliced hot dogs with Kraft mac and cheese. LOL, surprisingly, its not bad.

 

[Concerned American]

My mom used to do a homemade blending mayo and pickle relish.

LOL, I was an adult before I learned that was not tartar sauce. We still use it that way.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I recall seeing Ivar make appearances on the KOMO kids show "Captain Puget" back in the 50-60s.
IIRC, he and the Capt. would get out their guitars and sing non-R rated sea chanteys, etc.

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I remember Captain Puget, but not as clearly as I remember JP Patches.

"Do the Patches Chuckle!"


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[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Gawd I hear you.
Most of that once great city has gone too far Left. Off in the Dark Side.
Really enjoyed that city back in the 70s before it became a popular yuppie destination.
I just drive thru now going from here to So. King county and back.

BTW, I think Ivar's still has some branch restaurants outside of Seattle.

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Cool!

I'm having my niece pick me up a couple of jars of Ivar's tartar sauce for when she visits me next month.

I remember being out of Seattle for six months, in 2012, for the first time in many years, and when I went back I think I was seeing it with new eyes. It looked totally dystopian.


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[Concerned American]

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Cool!

I'm having my niece pick me up a couple of jars of Ivar's tartar sauce for when she visits me next month.

I remember being out of Seattle for six months, in 2012, for the first time in many years, and when I went back I think I was seeing it with new eyes. It looked totally dystopian.


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Funny how that happens. I went back to the town we retired from a few times in the last 10 years and each time, I am a little more disappointed in what has happened there. I guess these are things that are happening continually all around us, but we just notice it more because of the separation.

 

[Stryder50]

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Cool!

I'm having my niece pick me up a couple of jars of Ivar's tartar sauce for when she visits me next month.

I remember being out of Seattle for six months, in 2012, for the first time in many years, and when I went back I think I was seeing it with new eyes. It looked totally dystopian.


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I'll have to check next time I go shopping, but I think it is available in some supermarkets out here in the PNW.

Seattle has become more a city of contrasts. Back in the 70s the tallest building was the black box tower of First Bank Building (about 50 stories ?) and local joke, it being the "only" skyscraper, was it was the box the Space Needle came in.

Now I drive through on I-5 and it is lost in over a dozen more skyscrapers, larger and taller than it, and always a couple of new ones under construction with the cranes on top. Some parts of the City are very upscale and swank. Some outer neighborhoods still a bit 'dystopian', but the vastly increased price of real estate, and rents, means most of the 'dystopian element' has moved South towards Renton, Kent, Auburn, Federal Way, other parts of King County, etc. along with further South to Pierce, etc.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I'll have to check next time I go shopping, but I think it is available in some supermarkets out here in the PNW.

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Yeah, I gave her a list of those stores. I remember seeing it in Safeway, and the company says they also sell it at Albertson's and Kroger's.


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[Stryder50]

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Yeah, I gave her a list of those stores. I remember seeing it in Safeway, and the company says they also sell it at Albertson's and Kroger's.


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Kroger's a.k.a. Fred Meyers here, where I do most of my shopping.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Kroger's a.k.a. Fred Meyers here, where I do most of my shopping.

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Didn't QFC also sell the Kroger brand?

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. I miss shopping at the Fremont Fred Meyer's.


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[Stryder50]

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Didn't QFC also sell the Kroger brand?

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. I miss shopping at the Fremont Fred Meyer's.


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I think so.
Don't have a QFC locally.
I kinda miss Fremont my self. Used to work there a few decades ago. Haven't been there since then, and bet it is really yuppiefied.
Speaking of Fremont, I'm sure there's still the sculpture troll under the Aurora bridge, but don't recall if they still have the statue of Lenin in the center of that district.