Peanut butter on hot dogs, and other wonderfully weird food combos
Hot dog with peanut butter and cheesy pop tarts
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We try to remain a judgment-free zone when it comes to the more unconventional food fusions.
After all, such a spirit of experimentation has yielded cronuts and duffins, not to mention the recent mince pie croissant.
After all, who are we to judge these more unconventional culinary mash-ups? Fancy strawberries on pizza? You do you.
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This week, another unlikely food match came to our attention: peanut butter on hot dogs.
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And far from this being a niche food habit, it seems adding nutty butter to hot dogs has been a thing for a while now.
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Maybe we should keep an open mind about it?
That's not the only out-there food combo that has been brought to our attention lately. Here's five more, and in the spirit of gastronomical research, we're asking you to give your verdict on each one.
Let's start with... ketchup and mayo ice-cream.
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The concoction is made by mixing cream, vanilla essence, ketchup, eggs, sugar, and mayonnaise, then freezing it, and serving it as a dip with hot chips.
Sure enough, the recipe caused some strong reactions.
It's a combo that emerged into the public consciousness last year when a fast food place, external in the Philippines started offering ketchup-mayo ice cream as a dip. And at least one reviewer in a local paper was a big fan of it. "It’s sweet, it’s salty, it’s creamy. We can’t wait to eat it again," she wrote, external.
Here are four other food experiments we spotted that will either make you drool or vomit - or who knows, maybe both.
Mayonnaise was again the contentious hook for this foodie hack.
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Adding mayo is apparently the key, external to creating "airier, fluffier, cakier" pancakes. But the Japanese-inspired, external tip proved divisive.
If all of that's a bit too extreme for you, maybe you'd like to try the comparative simplicity of dipping your pizza in soy sauce? Canadian tennis player Genie Bouchard has been singing this combo's praises.
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Sure enough, people had typically understated reactions.
Such was the brouhaha that these Canadian TV presenters took it upon themselves to try out the pizza-soy mixture themselves. Their responses? "Not bad" and "I'll never try that again".
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Then there was this gentleman who went viral last year by sandwiching slices of cheese... between strawberry Pop Tarts.
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The Twitter response to his innovation was mixed, to say the least, with the snack manufacturer and even the local police force weighing in.
Finally, how does a spaghetti burrito sound to you? This splice job comes from two chef YouTubers, external, one of whom puts spaghetti, sauce and cheese inside a butter-fried burrito, while the other folds meatballs in with spaghetti and breading and deep fries the lot.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, people were quite positive about this food combo - with only a few doubters.
It looks like we could have a winner in the weirdly wonderful food race for the week.
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This article was originally published on 17 November 2017.
