What are your favorite things almost no one else agrees with?

[Tasse]

One of my favorite snacks before I swore off most carbs... (hiding due to anticipated visceral reactions - reveal at your own risk).

Spoiler: show

Peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches.

My grandma used to feed me those! I stopped eating them mostly by peer pressure. I had no idea anyone else in the world shared the taste.

[wenchsenior]

Pickle spear wrapped in Swiss cheese.

Hawaiian pizza

The Cure

Not having kids :-p


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None of these seem remotely strange to me, though I'm not a huge Swiss cheese fan and would likely pick another kind of cheese.

[Hula Hoop]

I like a lot of organ meats like tripe, liver, pig's feet, tongue, heart and oxtail.  Stands me in good stead here in Italy and also when I travel.  I really love real Vietnamese pho with crunchy bits of tripe and tendons in it.

I also really love mayonnaise.  Love mayo salads and love dipping french fries in mayo as in many northern European countries.

And stinky fish like smoked fish, fish eggs in all their forms, sashimi, pickled herrings and I make my own gravlax.

OMG, that sounds amazing. How do you feel about a visit to Portland, OR? Feel free to bring the family. I actually just had take-away Pho with tripe for lunch.

Thanks for the invite.  If you meant the home made gravlax, it's actually really easy to make.

[simonsez]

Rambutan!

I would imagine that quite a few people like rambutan. I do.

Okay, I'll bite:

• octopus
• heart
• durian

@PDXTabs what kind of heart?  Beef heart is great and I prefer it to chicken heart but will gladly eat both.  I've never tried pig hearts or lamb hearts.

Also I've never had durian but am curious about the smell.  Do only those who find the smell appealing enjoy the taste?  Or can you find the smell a negative but still enjoy the fruit?

[PDXTabs]

@PDXTabs what kind of heart?  Beef heart is great and I prefer it to chicken heart but will gladly eat both.  I've never tried pig hearts or lamb hearts.

My absolute favorite is lamb, but I enjoy the others as well.

Also I've never had durian but am curious about the smell.  Do only those who find the smell appealing enjoy the taste?  Or can you find the smell a negative but still enjoy the fruit?

The smell doesn't bother me much, but I have a pretty bad sense of smell. If you find durian in north america it is usually (always?) frozen so you can eat it partially frozen which might also cut down on the smell. It's actually really good partially frozen, like soft serve ice cream.

[Metalcat]

Rambutan!

I would imagine that quite a few people like rambutan. I do.

Okay, I'll bite:

• octopus
• heart
• durian

@PDXTabs what kind of heart?  Beef heart is great and I prefer it to chicken heart but will gladly eat both.  I've never tried pig hearts or lamb hearts.

Also I've never had durian but am curious about the smell.  Do only those who find the smell appealing enjoy the taste?  Or can you find the smell a negative but still enjoy the fruit?

Yes, you can like the taste and hate the smell.

I personally hate both the smell and the taste, but I find it tastes like custard, which I think is disgusting.

[MustachioedPistachio]

One of my favorite snacks before I swore off most carbs... (hiding due to anticipated visceral reactions - reveal at your own risk).

Spoiler: show

Peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches.

Now I am rather curious... I'd have to try it with with Adams peanut butter and Best Foods mayo, but I don't have any bread in the house. I do have some pilot bread which many Alaskans think is an acceptable substitute, but I remain unconvinced.

My great-step-uncle introduced me to these when I was a teen. I saw him preparing one, and I, uh, had an intense reaction. He calmly implored me..."Just try it". It became an instant favorite. I prefer it with crunchy peanut butter. Give it a shot :)

[Alternatepriorities]

One of my favorite snacks before I swore off most carbs... (hiding due to anticipated visceral reactions - reveal at your own risk).

Spoiler: show

Peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches.

Now I am rather curious... I'd have to try it with with Adams peanut butter and Best Foods mayo, but I don't have any bread in the house. I do have some pilot bread which many Alaskans think is an acceptable substitute, but I remain unconvinced.

My great-step-uncle introduced me to these when I was a teen. I saw him preparing one, and I, uh, had an intense reaction. He calmly implored me..."Just try it". It became an instant favorite. I prefer it with crunchy peanut butter. Give it a shot :)

I probably will the next time I have some bread in the house and DW is out...

[rocketpj]

Liver and Onions.

Hiking in the heavy rain (dressed appropriately). 

Vietnamese Pho with all the options (tripe, tendon, liver etc).  My kids are dismayed, but too bad.

[FIRE Artist]

Rambutan!

https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=rambutan&client=safari&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi2-bid3IrtAhWPF1kFHT-oBosQiR56BAgLEBA&biw=1440&bih=820

I love rambutan, even when I had my own tree in my backyard in Sumatra, I would still pull over and buy them by the grocery bag full.  So I will see you your rambutan and raise you...

Durian!!!

[cooking]

Pickled beets.  I can eat a whole jar at a time but I know others find it a perverse liking.

Speaking of rain, I knew a guy from Puerto Rico, where a lot of people have tin roofs.  He claimed that the sound of rain on a tin roof made him horny. ( But then again, it seemed like he was always horny.)

In the same way most people love the outdoors, I love to stay inside most of the time.  Now that's weird, right?

I love to count money, too.  Unless it belongs to somebody else, or I have to fork it over to somebody else.

No wonder I have no friends!

[Prairie Gal]

Bologna sandwiches.

Probably a throw back to comfort food from my childhood. I've been having a lot of them in 2020.

[BikeFanatic]

@Rmorris and PTX tabs I would recommend the Octopus teacher film on Netflics very well done and fascinating!

Also I agree with OP green peppers on Pizza is amazing.
I also enjoy the rinds of orange and lemons, the white part, I always ask for the skins when my spouse eats her orange.

I also had a great 2020

The silver lining of Corona is that I managed to stay safe and keep my family safe, I really appreciate social contact more now due to the fact that I had very little. I taught my mother to use zoom, she was so resistant to computers!
Now she reads the globe on her Ipad I gave her.

[PDXTabs]

@Rmorris and PTX tabs I would recommend the Octopus teacher film on Netflics very well done and fascinating!

It's on my list!

[Tasse]

Pickled beets.  I can eat a whole jar at a time but I know others find it a perverse liking.

Same! I like anything vinegar-y. More acidic = better.

[OtherJen]

Apparently a lot of people don't like green bell peppers (on pizza or wherever). More for me!

I also like broccoli on pizza.

Pickled beets are awesome.

[Just Joe]

Old things that are more trouble than modern things. Vacuum tube radios that are heavy and need more maintenance. Jukeboxes vs an MP3 player.

Streaming TV vs cable TV.

Smallish cars vs big pickup trucks. Bicycles vs cars.

The joys of discomfort i.e. cold (camping), hungry (miss a meal or work up an appetite), dirty (work, camping) or tired (hard work).

[driftwood]

Bad weather. Cold, wet, sleet, rain, snow... any weather that drives people inside. Outdoor activities are very popular in CO (especially now they're just about the only safe thing left to do), so when the weather gets bad and drives people inside I love having nature all to myself.

[GuitarStv]

Old things that are more trouble than modern things. Vacuum tube radios that are heavy and need more maintenance. Jukeboxes vs an MP3 player.

I've seen guitar tube amps that were played nightly in clubs for 50+ years and didn't need more than the occasional tube swap.  Dunno about 'more maintenance' there.  :P

[John Galt incarnate!]

Maybe this is just within my circles but best fried food dip is mayo. Just mayo. No ketchup. Not aioli, or other mayo based concoctions. Just mayo. Runner up goes to tartar sauce.

+1 especially on french fries.

I first tried this when I lived in Germany and love it.

I like French fries w/ brown gravy.

[RetiredAt63]

Maybe this is just within my circles but best fried food dip is mayo. Just mayo. No ketchup. Not aioli, or other mayo based concoctions. Just mayo. Runner up goes to tartar sauce.

+1 especially on french fries.

I first tried this when I lived in Germany and love it.

I like French fries w/ brown gravy.

You are 2/3 of the way to poutine.  ;-)   

[John Galt incarnate!]

Food is hard to think about.  I'm sure I'm weird about some things but everything I enjoy is pretty well-liked.

Unrelated  to food, almost always I wear a long-sleeve black shirt because I like them.

In the summer I roll its sleeves up to my elbows.

Once, on a HOT summer day a cashier who worked at  a local store said to me "Aren't you hot?"

I think most people would not favor wearing a long-sleeve black shirt (even w/ sleeves rolled up)   during the hot summer months.

[Buffaloski Boris]

I have plenty.  Here are a few:

- very spicy food for breakfast.  Eggs with chilis and beans.
- Cayenne pepper on my cereal.
- Overnite oatmeal that I don't wait overnite for.
- Pickled asparagus.
- Staying away from politics and not voting.  Actually it's popular with about 1/3 of the population, just not here. 

[BlueHouse]

Spray Cheese.  I love it. 

The taste and feeling of cold aluminum.  My favorite drinks are diet dr pepper in a can and any kind of light pilsner in a can.  IN A CAN.  The coldness of the aluminum just makes it all taste better. 

Being alone.  I want to be a hermit.  I just like it.  I still have plenty of interaction with people, I just don't really need or want as much as others.

Scratchy towels and sheets.  If towels are line-dried in the winter so that they freeze, those are the best.

[Smokystache]

Van Halen: Hagar>Roth

Taking Doritos and dipping them into vanilla ice cream

[FIRE Artist]

Taking Doritos and dipping them into vanilla ice cream

Ooh, I bet I would like that.  I am a big fan of buttered movie theatre popcorn dipped in root beer.

[wenchsenior]

In the interest of research, I forced myself out of horror and curiosity to try the mayonnaise and pb combo last week.  Not just a lick either: I ate 2 big spoonfuls of pb mixed with 2 big spoonfuls of mayonnaise. Despite my revulsion at the idea of it, the taste was completely...fine.  Not GOOD, but not the horrible vomit-inducing thing I was expecting.

Food chemistry is weird. But when thinking about it, I guess I wouldn't recoil in revulsion at e.g., a salad that happened to include peanuts, topped with a mayo-based dressing.

[Metalcat]

In the interest of research, I forced myself out of horror and curiosity to try the mayonnaise and pb combo last week.  Not just a lick either: I ate 2 big spoonfuls of pb mixed with 2 big spoonfuls of mayonnaise. Despite my revulsion at the idea of it, the taste was completely...fine.  Not GOOD, but not the horrible vomit-inducing thing I was expecting.

Food chemistry is weird. But when thinking about it, I guess I wouldn't recoil in revulsion at e.g., a salad that happened to include peanuts, topped with a mayo-based dressing.

It's really not that different than Thai peanut sauce for noodles or rice wraps: peanut butter, salt, vinegar, and fat.

[regulus]

Split Enz' "Time and Tide" was the best album of the 80's.

Longtime fan of the Toronto Blue Jays (only meets topic conditions for Americans, but I'm American.)

[wenchsenior]

In the interest of research, I forced myself out of horror and curiosity to try the mayonnaise and pb combo last week.  Not just a lick either: I ate 2 big spoonfuls of pb mixed with 2 big spoonfuls of mayonnaise. Despite my revulsion at the idea of it, the taste was completely...fine.  Not GOOD, but not the horrible vomit-inducing thing I was expecting.

Food chemistry is weird. But when thinking about it, I guess I wouldn't recoil in revulsion at e.g., a salad that happened to include peanuts, topped with a mayo-based dressing.

It's really not that different than Thai peanut sauce for noodles or rice wraps: peanut butter, salt, vinegar, and fat.

Yup, I thought of that also, as I was eating it.

[Just Joe]

Old things that are more trouble than modern things. Vacuum tube radios that are heavy and need more maintenance. Jukeboxes vs an MP3 player.

I've seen guitar tube amps that were played nightly in clubs for 50+ years and didn't need more than the occasional tube swap.  Dunno about 'more maintenance' there.  :P

Compare a jukebox to an MP3 player...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wurlitzer+jukebox+repair

Break out all the tools VS charge the batteries... ;)

[Metalcat]

In the interest of research, I forced myself out of horror and curiosity to try the mayonnaise and pb combo last week.  Not just a lick either: I ate 2 big spoonfuls of pb mixed with 2 big spoonfuls of mayonnaise. Despite my revulsion at the idea of it, the taste was completely...fine.  Not GOOD, but not the horrible vomit-inducing thing I was expecting.

Food chemistry is weird. But when thinking about it, I guess I wouldn't recoil in revulsion at e.g., a salad that happened to include peanuts, topped with a mayo-based dressing.

It's really not that different than Thai peanut sauce for noodles or rice wraps: peanut butter, salt, vinegar, and fat.

Yup, I thought of that also, as I was eating it.

Still sounds gross in a sandwich. Just Thai peanut sauce between slices of bread...

N'ah, I'll pass.

[GuitarStv]

Old things that are more trouble than modern things. Vacuum tube radios that are heavy and need more maintenance. Jukeboxes vs an MP3 player.

I've seen guitar tube amps that were played nightly in clubs for 50+ years and didn't need more than the occasional tube swap.  Dunno about 'more maintenance' there.  :P

Compare a jukebox to an MP3 player...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wurlitzer+jukebox+repair

Break out all the tools VS charge the batteries... ;)

You're comparing apples and oranges.  Replacing batteries is not the same thing as repairing a complex mechanical failure.

This is actually a pet peeve of mine.  Good fucking luck repairing any kind of modern electronics when the problem is more difficult that swapping batteries . . . everything is designed to be inaccessible and requires special tools to disassemble, full of weird proprietary parts, and full of SMT stuff that's too small to easily solder.  Hell sometimes you need special tools just to swap batteries.

Compare it to ancient technology - crack open a 1960s amp and you've got a neatly laid out circuit with easily removable/re-solderable individual parts.  They were made to be serviceable.  All an idiot with a soldering iron needs to do is find the parts that are burned and replace like for like.

I'll give modern tech somewhat of a weight advantage though.  :P

[Master of None]

Something I discovered I loved while in high school.

School Pizza (the square pepperoni kind) with Chili and Cheese on top. Got a lot of weird looks for this one.
Nacho Cheese Doritos with Chili and Cheese. Not so weird.

[Just Joe]

Old things that are more trouble than modern things. Vacuum tube radios that are heavy and need more maintenance. Jukeboxes vs an MP3 player.

I've seen guitar tube amps that were played nightly in clubs for 50+ years and didn't need more than the occasional tube swap.  Dunno about 'more maintenance' there.  :P

Compare a jukebox to an MP3 player...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wurlitzer+jukebox+repair

Break out all the tools VS charge the batteries... ;)

You're comparing apples and oranges.  Replacing batteries is not the same thing as repairing a complex mechanical failure.

This is actually a pet peeve of mine.  Good fucking luck repairing any kind of modern electronics when the problem is more difficult that swapping batteries . . . everything is designed to be inaccessible and requires special tools to disassemble, full of weird proprietary parts, and full of SMT stuff that's too small to easily solder.  Hell sometimes you need special tools just to swap batteries.

Compare it to ancient technology - crack open a 1960s amp and you've got a neatly laid out circuit with easily removable/re-solderable individual parts.  They were made to be serviceable.  All an idiot with a soldering iron needs to do is find the parts that are burned and replace like for like.

I'll give modern tech somewhat of a weight advantage though.  :P

You're spot on. You mentioned all the reasons the old technology holds my attention. Neat stuff. Great engineering and machining considering they had no CAD, no CNC in the modern sense, no computers.

[MustachioedPistachio]

In the interest of research, I forced myself out of horror and curiosity to try the mayonnaise and pb combo last week.  Not just a lick either: I ate 2 big spoonfuls of pb mixed with 2 big spoonfuls of mayonnaise. Despite my revulsion at the idea of it, the taste was completely...fine.  Not GOOD, but not the horrible vomit-inducing thing I was expecting.

Food chemistry is weird. But when thinking about it, I guess I wouldn't recoil in revulsion at e.g., a salad that happened to include peanuts, topped with a mayo-based dressing.

I applaud your intrepid attempt. :)

A couple of slices of wheat or sourdough though will take it from not-vomit-inducing to not a bad snack. I've used tortillas too. Try it with crunchy pb!

My great-uncle introduced this to me. He told me the backstory...it's what his Swedish mother prepared for the family during the Great Depression. He still enjoyed it in retirement with a fat stash. I learned many, many lessons from him.

[Tasse]

My great-uncle introduced this to me. He told me the backstory...it's what his Swedish mother prepared for the family during the Great Depression. He still enjoyed it in retirement with a fat stash. I learned many, many lessons from him.

This fits with my grandma having grown up during the Great Depression as well [and feeding me the same snack, if you missed my earlier post]. Interesting!

[MilesTeg]

Some of the more crazy things I have eaten:

* campbells cream of mushroom directly out of can at room temperature
* drinking worstishire (sp) sauce -- yay anchovies in liquid form
* drinking vinegar (or various varieties)
* earing onions like apples
* eating salsa with a spoon
* rhubarb raw with salt

My dad enjoyed pepperoni pizza dipped in chocolate syrup.

[PDXTabs]

@Rmorris and PTX tabs I would recommend the Octopus teacher film on Netflics very well done and fascinating!

I watched it, it was good.

[GuitarStv]

@Rmorris and PTX tabs I would recommend the Octopus teacher film on Netflics very well done and fascinating!

I watched it, it was good.

I'd heard from many people that this was a good show, so gave it a watch.  It was mostly good . . . but I had some issues with the end.

The guy has been disturbing the natural order of how this octopus lives to form a bond with it for an entire year, and then when it's on the verge of death and weak after giving birth he just hangs out watching as animals rip pieces off of it while it feebly tries to ward them away with it's little tentacles?  What the hell?  Personally I would have shooed them away and tried to let the octopus have some dignity and maybe save a little pain in it's final moments.  Wouldn't have made for as good a video shot I suppose . . . but would have been a much more human way to act.

[PDXTabs]

@GuitarStv I agree with you. The places he decided to draw the line with his interference were weird to me.

[MudPuppy]

Some of the more crazy things I have eaten:

* campbells cream of mushroom directly out of can at room temperature
* drinking worstishire (sp) sauce -- yay anchovies in liquid form
* drinking vinegar (or various varieties)
* earing onions like apples
* eating salsa with a spoon
* rhubarb raw with salt

My dad enjoyed pepperoni pizza dipped in chocolate syrup.

You mean gazpacho

[Just Joe]

@Rmorris and PTX tabs I would recommend the Octopus teacher film on Netflics very well done and fascinating!

I watched it, it was good.

I'd heard from many people that this was a good show, so gave it a watch.  It was mostly good . . . but I had some issues with the end.

The guy has been disturbing the natural order of how this octopus lives to form a bond with it for an entire year, and then when it's on the verge of death and weak after giving birth he just hangs out watching as animals rip pieces off of it while it feebly tries to ward them away with it's little tentacles?  What the hell?  Personally I would have shooed them away and tried to let the octopus have some dignity and maybe save a little pain in it's final moments.  Wouldn't have made for as good a video shot I suppose . . . but would have been a much more human way to act.

That sounds really sad. I won't be watching that.

[GuitarStv]

@Rmorris and PTX tabs I would recommend the Octopus teacher film on Netflics very well done and fascinating!

I watched it, it was good.

I'd heard from many people that this was a good show, so gave it a watch.  It was mostly good . . . but I had some issues with the end.

The guy has been disturbing the natural order of how this octopus lives to form a bond with it for an entire year, and then when it's on the verge of death and weak after giving birth he just hangs out watching as animals rip pieces off of it while it feebly tries to ward them away with it's little tentacles?  What the hell?  Personally I would have shooed them away and tried to let the octopus have some dignity and maybe save a little pain in it's final moments.  Wouldn't have made for as good a video shot I suppose . . . but would have been a much more human way to act.

That sounds really sad. I won't be watching that.

It was a pretty good show, and that scene didn't ruin it for me.  Octopi don't live very long, the guy was hanging out with this octopus for about a year . . . which is it's whole life.  It was really confusing to me where he was drawing a line and deciding not to interfere any more though, didn't make sense at all.

[sui generis]

I don't think this is very gross, but anyone I've ever told seems to think I'm crazy: I prefer to eat my cereal with heavy cream or whipping cream, rather than any sort of milk.

Also, I actually like wearing a bra.  I've never understood when my friends talk about taking their bra off as the first thing they do when they get home from work...or used to "get home", now I believe no one wears bras anymore except me!  Having watched my share of What Not to Wear in the aughts, I suspect most people's problems is they are wearing several sizes too small.  But even if not and I'm the one wearing them improperly, I actually really prefer the feeling of wearing a bra, where everything feels nice and secure (not secure like a bank, but secure like a person with confidence and ease) and even cozy.  I've never felt any pain or discomfort from any bra.

[OtherJen]

I don't think this is very gross, but anyone I've ever told seems to think I'm crazy: I prefer to eat my cereal with heavy cream or whipping cream, rather than any sort of milk.

Also, I actually like wearing a bra.  I've never understood when my friends talk about taking their bra off as the first thing they do when they get home from work...or used to "get home", now I believe no one wears bras anymore except me!  Having watched my share of What Not to Wear in the aughts, I suspect most people's problems is they are wearing several sizes too small.  But even if not and I'm the one wearing them improperly, I actually really prefer the feeling of wearing a bra, where everything feels nice and secure (not secure like a bank, but secure like a person with confidence and ease) and even cozy.  I've never felt any pain or discomfort from any bra.

I don’t think either of those are crazy! My grandma always put cream on her cereal. We don’t drink milk so I only ever buy half-and-half or cream.

I’m rather top-heavy. It’s usually easier to wear a bra, especially in summer as it reduces skin contact.

[MilesTeg]

Some of the more crazy things I have eaten:

* campbells cream of mushroom directly out of can at room temperature
* drinking worstishire (sp) sauce -- yay anchovies in liquid form
* drinking vinegar (or various varieties)
* earing onions like apples
* eating salsa with a spoon
* rhubarb raw with salt

My dad enjoyed pepperoni pizza dipped in chocolate syrup.

You mean gazpacho

Oh cool. I'm less weird than I thought!

[MudPuppy]

I’m. Or saying either of us escapes being weird 😆

[Metalcat]

Some of the more crazy things I have eaten:

* campbells cream of mushroom directly out of can at room temperature
* drinking worstishire (sp) sauce -- yay anchovies in liquid form
* drinking vinegar (or various varieties)
* earing onions like apples
* eating salsa with a spoon
* rhubarb raw with salt

My dad enjoyed pepperoni pizza dipped in chocolate syrup.

You mean gazpacho

Oh cool. I'm less weird than I thought!

N'ah, it's super weird, and entirely inaccurate, to call salsa gazpacho. That's okay though, go ahead and be weird.

[GuitarStv]

I don't think this is very gross, but anyone I've ever told seems to think I'm crazy: I prefer to eat my cereal with heavy cream or whipping cream, rather than any sort of milk.

Also, I actually like wearing a bra.  I've never understood when my friends talk about taking their bra off as the first thing they do when they get home from work...or used to "get home", now I believe no one wears bras anymore except me!  Having watched my share of What Not to Wear in the aughts, I suspect most people's problems is they are wearing several sizes too small.  But even if not and I'm the one wearing them improperly, I actually really prefer the feeling of wearing a bra, where everything feels nice and secure (not secure like a bank, but secure like a person with confidence and ease) and even cozy.  I've never felt any pain or discomfort from any bra.

I don’t think either of those are crazy! My grandma always put cream on her cereal. We don’t drink milk so I only ever buy half-and-half or cream.

I’m rather top-heavy. It’s usually easier to wear a bra, especially in summer as it reduces skin contact.

Years of skimming for dirty pictures in old national geographics would seem to indicate that bras serve a highly important gravity related structural-support purpose . . . and that without them things go catastrophically wrong.