What weird foods do your significant others (spouses, or whatever) like?

[Tab]

My wife likes two things I have trouble comprehending.

One is "whites". This is some form of pasta in milk (she has an Italian background). I think it's mainly pasta with milk and maybe butter, but I haven't looked too closely.

The other is ketchup on eggs. I posted once, years ago, asking for votes. Half thought it was god's gift to eggs, the other thought it was the grossest thing ever. There was no middle ground.

[cbayer]

1. My husband is English,

so he likes bland, boiled things that are pretty indistinguishable from each other.

He also likes tea .... a lot.

His idea of pasta is the dried stuff with bottled sauce. And he makes grilled cheese sandwiches by toasting the bread and putting cheese on it. And he thinks potatoes should be served al dente.

I, the foody who loves to cook, am soooo wasted on him.

:banghead:

[Lucinda]

2. We have very similar tastebuds, so there isn't much I see as weird, but

he eats potato chips that I wouldn't touch.
You know, the weird ones that seem to be burned bad spots, etc?
Creeps me out. LOL

[Stinky The Clown]

3. Sparkly enjoys the occasional ....... uh ..... "bean dish"

Not that beans are weird.

I'm just sayin' ............

[Sparkly]

6. Spoken by the eel-eating clown...

... who smells like the sardine-and-onion on rye he had for lunch. :P

[Stinky The Clown]

7. Oh yeah?

[Tab]

13. So, "Stinky" is an appropriate term?

Sounds like.

Just sayin'.

[troubleinwinter]

18. Eel?

Husband and I have had sort of an agreement. I won't make the seaweed wrapped sushi with the broiled eel when he's home, and he won't eat the kim chee when I'm home.

Kim chee is good (but too hot for me), but it REEKS! Fermented cabbage! Nothing whatever wrong with broiled eel, though.

[hippywife]

4. Not on all eggs...

just scrambled. With ketchup and hot sauce. :D

My other half will eat things that I won't but that most people don't find weird...sardines, anchovies, etc. Since I do all the cooking, he mostly eats whatever I cook without complaint and usually with compliments.

[Tesha]

5. Weird food, oh yes...

Mr. Tesha like tripe and tongue... I've honestly tried, but it's a texture thing.
He also likes the taste of boiled milk things, sweet - like creamy rice pudding, wayyyy to sweet.

but he's always willing to try my next invention, so it all balances out.

[troubleinwinter]

16. I do like Menudo.

[Tab]

23. Menudo?

The under-14 age Mexican boy band?

[Tesha]

27. Menudo -

Menudo is a wonderfully aromatic soup made of tripe, hominy and chili, and is stewed for hours with garlic and other spices. the broth is rich, red, papery, and glistens with fat. It stimulates the senses, arms the insides, and clears the head.

http://www.vivacincodemayo.org/recipe.htm

[wildeyed]

8. Ketchup on eggs are great.

I used to make fried eggs on sliced avocado and then dumped ketchup over the mess as a hangover cure. Worked pretty well, too.

My husban is picky and weird about food. He likes cereal and milk, but not milk on his cereal. Likes carrots, likes cake, but not carrot cake. You see where this is going :grr:

[bicentennial_baby]

9. Cheddarwurst

:puke:

[cbayer]

10. OH, I love those things.

On a whole wheat bun with mayo and mustard. Perfect!

:rofl:

[Mind_your_head]

11. Strawberry Sandwiches

A good friend of mine likes strawberry sandwiches. Fresh sliced strawberries on a french baguette, the strawberry juices should soak nicely into the bread for the best sandwich, I'm told.

It certainly isn't gross or disgusting, but I just don't "get" that combo. :shrug:

[eleny]

12. I'm the weird-food half of this duo

But he does eat cereal straight out of the box for a sweet treat.

[yellowdogintexas]

14. pasta w/ butter and salt and pepper is good and a little cream never hurt anything

I prefer salsa on eggs or fresh tomatoes with the eggs.

I like to boil up some plain ole elbow macaroni and dump a can of stewed tomatoes in it. Sometimes it just hits the spot .

my husband likes pineapple and cheese sandwiches. With mayo. I never ate it but it can't be too different from the salad my mom used to make w/ pineapple rings, a dollop of Miracle Whip and some grated cheese on top .


He also likes scrapple. ugh.

But I like liver and he not only doesn't like it, he is deathly allergic to it. We are talking trip to the Emergency Room sickness here, as reported by his mother.

[AwakeAtLast]

15. My husband is PA Dutch

He lives for scrapple!

:puke:

That's about the only weird thing he likes, though.

[kestrel91316]

34. Macaroni and tomatoes is childhood comfort food to me. My mom,

the convenience food queen, would boil up elbow mac, dump in a can of tomatoes (cut up), add a generous shake of pre-ground black pepper (I don't allow ground pepper in my home, I grind it fresh myself thank you), lots of salt, and called it good. I LOVE that stuff. I still occasionally fix it for myself, and have been known to eat just that for dinner (being single has its advantages).

[troubleinwinter]

17. Peanutbutter and mayonnaise sandwiches.

His mother was an Adelle Davis devote' "in the day", and I guess sweets (like jam) were taboo.

I was raised with a mother with a gigantic serious sweet tooth and a marvelous desert baker/cook. I think I ate mainly deserts until I turned 18 and discovered that my taste was for savories.

So 40 years ago, when he & I got together, my mother transformed him into a desert lover by baking him apricot pies, pecan pies, Black Forest Cherry Torte... all the things he was never allowed to have growing up, and really was unfamiliar with. In fact, her theory was that a person should have a slice of EACH kind of desert, never choose between them (even if there are three or four kinds, and at her house, there most often were).

I was allowed to have all the sweets, candy & chocolate I wanted growing up, and now I have a desert maybe once or so a year. I have nothing whatever against sweets, they just are not the least important or interesting to me.

[Tab]

22. That gets the ewww vote

I'm not even to address the haggis topic, but peanut butter and mayonnaise? Who the hell came up with that?

Let me guess - when he was young, they used PB and Jiff?

[troubleinwinter]

19. Haggis.

My mother loved haggis. For those who don't know, it's basically catfood, guts, offal, innards and oatmeal cooked in a football sized "skin" (like a sausage skin).

She could get it at the Scottish Games, and decided to make her own. She finally gave up, as she was unable to obtain "sheep's lights" (sheep lungs).

:eyes:

Haggis:

[cbayer]

29. Is that picture meant to be appetizing?

Although I like things like headcheese and blood sausage, that just looks absolutely disgusting.

:rofl:

[troubleinwinter]

33. I was actually a little concerned that the picture might get the thread locked.

Just imagine. Someone not only went to all the trouble of making haggis, but was proud enough of it to photograph it and actually post it on the internet for all of us to enjoy.

[kestrel91316]

35. Oh, dear. Those look WAY TOO ANATOMICAL to be food.

Seriously. They look like something dragged out of the cooler in pathology for sectioning. Like something one would do surgery to remove from some poor animal.

It's hard to gross me out. Generally only maggots, and tapeworms, and tripe floating in pho) do it. Now we have another one.

[Lugnut]

20. Chicken livers

He fries them in olive oil with garlic, onions and sliced hot peppers. My m-i-l would eat anything that didn't run away from her and he is his mother's son.

[The empressof all]

28. I love chicken livers

I make a mean chopped liver but I love them just pan fried with onions and bacon. You can't over cook them though. They need to be a little pink inside. My mother always took chicken or turkey livers and cooked them on a brown paper bag in the oven. They were hard and crunchy on the outside and smooth and creamy on the inside.

[kestrel91316]

36. I LOVE liver and onions. But I don't eat beef or calves liver because

I am allergic to some antibiotics and don't want to die in my sleep. A pity.

Chicken livers are always nasty when I see them anymore. Turkey livers, that you find inside the bird at the holidays, are very special and I don't share them!

[NMDemDist2]

21. ol' Mr. Ketchup isn't very adventurous

but he'd live on Kellogg's Frosted Flakes if I'd let him

I don't eat cold cereal AT ALL with the exception of a bit of Granola on my yogurt once in a while

he loves:

Saurkraut and hot dogs
canned Pork and Beans and hot dogs
Chili and Hot Dogs (but I'm responsible for that I'm afraid to admit)

are we seeing a pattern here? and not true sausages mind you, regular hot dogs

sigh

[wildeyed]

24. I think our husbands are secretly related, too.

Mine loves all those hot dog things. Bacon runs a close second. I think it is OK to love hot dogs when you are a kid, but weird on a 40 year old man.

[NMDemDist2]

25. OMG bacon!!!

yup bacon, always on hand and often requested

[catnhatnh]

37. Really...

I'm 55 and my brother is 50. We recently spent 6 months perfecting a recipe just for the chili to put over hot dogs....now how weird is that shit?

[Warpy]

26. My ex loved liver and I can't stand it

When we first lived together, I bit the bullet and cooked it for him.

When he saw me lean over at the stove and hurl into the trash can, he knew it just wasn't going to happen again.

He also did the ketchup on eggs thing until I introduced him to salsa.

[wildeyed]

30. Liver!

I love it! Now you gave me a craving. Shoot. No one else here will eat it either :(

[Lucinda]

31. Yup. I'm the only one around for miles that likes liver.

More for us!

[BamaGirl]

32. My husband is Irish

He loves corned beef and cabbage. I can't even stand the smell of that stuff! Also, he thinks it's perfectly fine to eat potatoes every. single. day. Just no thank you.

Otoh, I eat banana and mayo sandwiches, which several people assure me is gross. That just means there's more for me right? And ketchup on eggs is great. LOL :)