When I was in graduate school, I commuted into campus – about 25 minutes – through rural Kentucky roads. There was a gas station/mini-grocery on the way and I used to stop in regularly before morning classes. I went through two distinct “phases” during this season of my life in regard to my breakfast choices!
First “weird-breakfast-combination-phase”: For nearly nine months, I would stop and order a fried bologna biscuit sandwich and combine it with a Mountain Dew. That was my breakfast, fried bologna made on the griddle in that mini-mart gas station and a 16 oz caffeine/sugar hit!
Then, for no explainable reason, my taste’s changed. Second “weird-breakfast-combination-phase”: For the next year, I stopped at the same gas station and picked up a large Butterfinger and one of those chocolate milk “chugs” in the plastic bottles. Without variance, this was my (new) morning routine!
So, here’s the question: what’s the weirdest food combination you’ve craved or regularly found yourself eating? Please don’t let me think I’m the only one with the weird food thing going on …!
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My 4 year old daughter Selah used to enjoy dipping pickles in her Key Lime Pie flavored Yogurt.
Mmmmmmm.
Not so much of a food combo, but there was period of time where my jobs had me working odd hours, for about a year I ate only crunchy peanut butter sandwiches 6 days a week, but on my day off, the only thing that sounded good, was a peanut butter sandwich. During that time we went through 3 or 4 loaves of bread and a big jar of PB a week. Even now, my breakfast of choice is a PB&J chased down with a diet soda.
You talking of college days brings back memories when a friend and I drove daily to Louisville to school. We would stop at one of those country markets and have a ya Hoo chocolate drink and cheese on cheese crackers for breakfast. Something about that cheese with the chocolate drink was good, but very weird.
Tuna fish salad (out of the bowl no bread or crackers), green olives and chocolate milk. Take a bite of tuna fish, pop an olive and followed by a drink of chocolate milk. My friend watched me eat this combo with a look of pure disgust, but it was good!
Our four year old had me try mandarin oranges dipped in ketchup the other day, because as he put it, “It’s goooood mom.”
Well, I can honestly say I did not find it as goooood as he did- and he did not find my pretzel crisps with spicy mustard as goooood as I have lately.
College must bring out the best in weird food combinations. My senior year at WKU, I had to take Health 101 to meet an elective requirement, at 8 am by the way. An underclassman friend of mine was in the class and every morning before hand, I would stop by his dorm before we hiked up the hill. His dorm fridge was always stocked with Sunny Delight and there was always a fresh box of Little Debbie Fudge Rounds onhand. These two made for an appropriate breakfast combo each day before we learned the importance of good health.