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I Eat My Peas with Honey
I eat my peas with honey
I've done it all my life
They do taste kind of funny
But it keeps them on my knife !
We all have food idiosyncrasies, I think. I knew a man who loved to eat chocolate cake with roast beef gravy on it. Sounds yucky to me. Like the Smothers Brothers singing about "pancakes boiled in cabbage juice...of course it's not so popular now..."
One of my particular peculiarities is that I like to dunk french fries in a chocolate milk shake. I started doing that a long time ago. Back in the day when McDonalds was making milk shakes that were so weird that if you left them sitting at room temperature they wouldn't melt, but would turn into a fragile, styrofoam-like something. In the fifties, milk shakes were hand-scooped, flavored with those syrup-squirting hand pumps, and mixed with upright malt/shake mixers. Depending on how much milk was added, you could get a icy-cold, sloppy drink or a shake so thick you had to suck 'til your teeth bled to get a taste of it. Sometime in the late 'fifties or early 'sixties, all the fast food joints switched to a more automated method; not sure what it was, but it created a milk shake (or malt) that had a flavor and consistancy like a milk shake, but like I said, didn't melt like a real shake.
Anyway, during this sad period in milk shake history (it seems that the fast food chains have all switched back to real shakes, advertising "hand drawn" or "made with real ice cream" ), Jack-in-the-Box was making the best milk shakes. Sure, they were made from soft-serve, but it was real and when it melted (admittedly, few shakes in my possession had the chance to melt), well, it melted. The Jack-in-the-Box french fries were great, too, and I am not sure how it started...maybe like the old Reese's Peanut Butter Cup commercials where the peanut butter eater bumped into the chocolate eater and their snacks collided and mixed together and created a new and better snack, I dropped a fry in my shake or something like that. But the result, whatever got it started, hooked me, and fifty some years later, I am still at it. Dunked last night, in fact. And MamaCharlie does it, too.
My Dad, the Chief, loved peanut butter and mustard sandwiches. I know: ewwwww. But I know it is true because I had to make them for him.
MamaCharlie likes leftover turkey sandwiches with cranberry sauce on them...she also dips pretzels in cake frosting.
I guess Elvis was not only the King of Rock and Roll, but also the King of Kinky Snacking, with peanut butter and jelly and bacon sandwiches, peanut butter and banana and bacon sandwiches, and stuff like that.
So, as I was dunking my fries last night, I got to thinking: I bet I am not the only one with unusual food preferences. How about you? What are yours? But please...no booger or toe jam recipes...please!
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I didn't know so I just Googled it and is seems to be anonymous. He wrote a lot of stuff. Thanks for reading. |
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LOL I'm laughing at the image of you and MamaCharlie dunking. That's awesome! I dunk too if I allow myself (I prefer strawberry). It's the best thing ever! Hot, cold, sweet and salty. Yep! you can't top that. I like peanut butter and pickle sandwiches. I thought everyone did until I grew up. Now I dip my pickles in peanut butter. I don't really need the bread. I also love chocolate and cheez its. For the same reason, sweet and salty, soft and crunchy. If only I didn't have to watch the calories. |
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The more I know ya the more we have in common ! :) Dunkers of the world unite ! Can't do the pickles and peanut butter, though. I like potato chips on my PBJs...crunchy, salt and sweet... |
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Have you tried it? Huh? I dare ya! |
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I don't know....maybe... |
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Only thing I dunk are Ginger Nuts in tea or coffee. |
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You don't dunk your biscuits at tea??? ;) |
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IN tea, or coffee. |
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Dunking your buiscuits just sounds wrong!lol... I know they are cookies in Europe. |
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Oh, I guess I should have capitalized "tea" so as to designate the tradional 4 pm event rather than the fussy drink. |
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You got it!! But what's fussy about it? |
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Peas and honey? :) My husband puts tuna in his oatmeal. I shuddered in horror the first time I saw him do it......but he ignored my drama and dug in. Said he acquired the taste while deployed in Vietnam. go figure...... |
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Ewwww....I know that a lot of strange tastes develop in austere situations...I gulped down my share of C's but never had the notion of fish in my oats....ugh. |
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Just the thought of the texture makes me gag. Not to mention the smell. I could eat them separately. I can imagine your horror. |
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bfd.....I like "austere situations". :) Under no condition would I consider eating tuna in my oatmeal.....vietnam or not. |
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bella.....it's still awful to see him eat that stuff. So I try to avoid serving oatmeal whenever possible. Besides....the smell of tuna just doesn't seem appropriate at breakfast. :) |
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The thought of you avoiding serving oatmeal makes me laugh. Does he always ask for tuna? "Oatmeal? Where's the tuna?" |
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That's likely all he had is C rations. |
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yes! exactly, bella! even his biker buddies rag him about it but he just ignores us all. sigh. so I no longer have oatmeal in the house. he doesn't do it with malt- 'o-meal thankfully. |
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yep Mike.....C rations and care packages from home. |
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OMG! |
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pretty "different", isn't it? :) |
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Yes it is! |
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French fries and Tatar Sauce. Hot, salty,cold and a bit sour...YUM! |
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Okay...maybe I'll try that one. |
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That's not too far off from french fries and mayonaise, which I know quite a few people like. |
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French fries and mayonaise are so English! |
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Yep, the Germans eat fries with mayo. |
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yep that's good:) |
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As a kid I liked bologna sandwiches with potato chips on them, peanut butter sandwiches with sliced dill pickle was a family thing. I prefer fries dunked in McDonald's tartar sauce. YUMMY! Turkey sandwiches made with sage-bread stuffing on them are wonderful. My spouse puts chopped Jalapenos on everything. Gives me heatburn just thinking about it. |
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See? I'm not weird! Peanut butter and pickle sandwiches are yummy! |
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Nota is with you on the fries and tartar sauce. PB & pickles? Shera has already challenged me on that....mmm...maybe. I used to love fried balogna with dills...but pb??? J's on everything? I don't know. Locally there are places that offer Jalapeno ice cream. uhuh. |
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SB: or it could be that you are both weird ! |
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Heck I always thought it was in my genes...because there were a number of family members who ate it. |
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Grilled bologna sandwiches are great, too. Fried spam sandwiches are terrific. I loved mustard when I was a kid...I ate yellow mustard until I got hives....now I am a lot more moderate. I bought him jalapeno ice cream once. He never asked for it again. But I don't think there's a sandwich or cooked meal that he doesn't doctor it with raw, roasted, cooked or pickled Js. And he's 100% German heritage. Weird. |
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lol possibly. |
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I don't have any that I'd care to mention, but I have a buddy who likes French Fries smothered in chocolate sauce all over them, one time we went to wendy's and he asked the lady if he could get chocolate on his frenchies and she looked at him like he had two heads growing out of his neck. |
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Oooh....don't think I can follow that one...chocolate on fries...much as I like them both... |
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Peanut butter and banana sandwiches! I love them! I have a friend who eats penut butter and mayo sandwiches. Yuk! |
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That seems to be pretty common. I think I'll pass on that one, too. |
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Yep peanut butter and banana sandwhiches are pretty common. I have a Brother-in-law who loves potato salad sandwitches. |
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Great blog! I have always dunked the french fries in the chocolate shake or into a cone. I use cottage cheese as chip dip. Scooping the cottage cheese onto a potato chip. Yum! Mom loved Bean sandwich ... Baked beans spread on her bread. My kids loved Fried bologne, husband would make it for them.. I hated the smell of it even . Thank you for a great blog |
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My dad taught me about baked bean sandwiches...they are best with a good layer of butter on the bread first...chips in cottage cheese sounds good. Thanks for stopping by, glad you enjoyed it. |
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That is so funny ... Mom had to have a good layer of butter. I have never buttered my bread for any sandwich. A lil mayo is all I need. |
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Baked beans have to be hot though so the butter melts. |
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I like 'em better cold, they stick on the bread better...heeheee. |
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Or toasted. |
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My oddity is ice cream, butterscoth topping and crushed Fritos. Yumm-o As for the french fries, white country gravy does it for me:) Loved this blog bfd:) |
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butterscotch and fritos? Hmmm...maybe. Thanks for playing along. |
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aw try it, you only live once:) |
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My brother once ate a roast beef sandwich, on raisin bread, with peanut butter and jelly spread on the bread. That's one of the more unusual combinations I've seen. |
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I have seen a lot of things with beef gravy...I like it on pancakes...but roast beef on PBJ seems a little extreme, but what the heck...whatever floats you boat. |
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I'm pretty normal then with Cheese and Jam sandwiches dunked in hot sweet tea (the drink) |
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Hubby will have sliced cheese on Christmas cake apparantly it's common in the north of England. |
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A lot of folks eat cheddar cheese on apple pie but I have never heard of it on cake...why not? BTW, welcome aboard and thanks for commenting. |
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:) thanks. |
"Peas with honey." Is that Ogden Nash? I memorized this years ago.
Great blog. Well done.