Can be food, tools, music, whatever comes to mind
I’m gonna go with game genres, specifically roguelikes and rhythm-based games. They sound terrible together and yet, Crypt of the Necrodancer (and also Cadence of Hyrule) is the shit.
Turn based + time pressure is just such an insane combination. Makes the simplest games insanely harder, escalates the potential for blunders and at the same time enables flow. Bullet chess is similar in that regard.
Well, here in Italy they complain a lot about pineapple on pizza but then eat ham on melon
coca-cola + hefeweizen = colaweizen
Sounds vile, is really tasty.
I’ve always seen that called a diesel, and it’s pretty damn good.
I once added a bottle of cherry Pepsi to my crock pot when making pulled pork and it was damn good.
I once added a bottle of cherry Pepsi to my crock pot when making pulled pork
was that on purpose or by accident?
On purpose but I was quite high
The liquids used for carnitas are generally: milk, Mexican coke, orange juice and water. I could see the cherry coke being bomb
Ya, anything with sour and sweet notes is gonna help the pulled pork!
Peanut butter is a massively underrated burger condiment.
A burger isn’t supposed to be sweet though…
Not sure if all peanut butter variants are sweet? The only ones I have tried tasted savory, and some even felt somewhat salty. Maybe some have sugar added to them?
Grilled Cheese and Worcestershire sauce.
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I usually drench the top of the sandwich with it after cooking. Dont wanna cook out the vinegar and lose the tanginess of the Worcestershire
This sounds like a poor man’s Welsh rarebit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_rarebit
Okay I’m gonna have to try that. Grilled cheese with mustard and apple works pretty well. Dijon mustard if you can swing it
“Things that sound like an awful combination”
I don’t feel that this one fits the bill. Why would those two flavours be awful together? Beef + cheese = good
It was just strange to me when someone told me about it, and when I tell other people they think it’s strange too.
I always hated the idea to put beans and bananas together. It is a fairly common habit in my country, tho, but it’s a no-no for me in general.
But once I tried a Nigerian dish that had beans, bananas, shrimps and pepper and I absolutely fucking loved it. Seriously, the flavor was from another world.
Forgive the spelling but I think that’s called Egusi and the bananas are plantains, which are more savory than bananas. Really lovely fried!
Salsa with cream cheese. Looks like vomit, which is actually a plus because you don’t have to share!
My grandma used to make this. We call it pink slime.
It’s delicious.
Peanut butter goes really well in chicken flavor ramen.
We used to have a dude in our college dorms who used to sell Cup of Noodles with a spoon of peanut butter inside for like 3 bucks. It’s a GREAT and cheap meal after those late nights at the bar.
This is how I upgrade all my noodles. Everyone asks my secret to make them creamy and nutty. I tell them “Add the ingredient in your kitchen called ‘chunky peanut butter’” None of them believe me.
Also peanut butter and pickles.
Allllso peanut butter and jelly.
Also peanut butter and stir-fried broccoli
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Eggs on hamburgers are awesome, especially over easy!
I tried the peanut butter on my hamburger, and it is okay, but the peanut butter overpowered the hamburger imo. I’d prefer a grilled PB&J to be honest.
Salt and anything sweet. Salt is a flavor enhancer and can make sweet flavors pop even more.
Also coffee. It doesn’t make bad coffee good coffee, but it makes it less bad. Doesn’t help Starbucks coffee however, nothing can.
Mmm, salmiak… when you get that perfect hit of sweet and salty at once! 😋
Hamburgers with peanut butter and jalapeno.
Toast with peanut butter and sriracha. It’s almost like a satay flavour, really good drunk snack!
Similarly, peanut butter & sambal on toast. It’s basically savoury & spicy peanut sauce. Absolutely delightful.
Black coffee and diet coke, I used to get it a lot like that hit or miss from McDonald’s drive thru before they started selling it in a can.
It was pretty good! I like sweetened coffee but I also am a carbonation fiend so it really scratched both itches at the same time
Not sure if it was a worldwide thing or only in my country, but there used to be a Coke/Coffee blend we had here. It sounds terrible but I absolutely loved it, they stopped carrying it a year or two ago though.
Ketchup-flavored pringles is also apparently not a common thing in other countries, but it is the best flavour.
What’s your country ?
Japan
