Just tried pouring some ginger ale in my lemonade (homemade). 10/10, much better than I wouldn’t thought
Blue cheese and Dr Pepper. The Dr Pepper brings out the sweetness of the cheese and the tanginess of the cheese complements the sour of the soda.
Dr Pepper is the blue cheese of soda, after all.
Oreos and yellow mustard. Don’t knock it til you try it. Then call me a heathen, respectfully.
Which mustard? I have four different ones in my fridge right now that are meant for different things. I recon the choice matters for oreos.
Is it that yellow American slime?
Pineapples and pizza. Yeah I said it.
So no joke, I talked shit about pineapple on pizza for years. Then, I can’t remember why specifically, but we had someone over and asked what type of pizza she wanted, and she said Hawaiian. And there was some leftover. I grew up poor, and we do not waste food, so I decided it was worth trying it.
It was amazing. I immediately felt silly for being so against it.
My wife still refuses to try it on principle (she did grow up near NYC, so she has STRONG opinions on pizza).
And peach, too!
Isn’t that basically Canada dry?
Cooked buckwheat groats, bilberries (those wild Nordic blueberries) and maple suryp. With some soy milk. Great breakfast! Some almonds or nuts too.
Roasted cauliflower and chocolate. I like to dust coco powder in the last 3 min.
Raisins and anchovies.
Mushrooms and coffee.
Garlic, chocolate, and coffee.
Kalimotxo. It’s red wine and cola in roughly equal parts, to taste. It’s a great way to salvage old wine that’s a day or two past drinkable, especially on a hot day.
I described it once on reddit in the before times, and someone called it a “shit red wine spritzer” and I think that’s kinda apt.
A few weeks ago I poured some cane sugar coke in a half-drink glass of Port and all my friends looked at me like I was crazy when I said it wasn’t half bad
In this same vein, cola and beer in equal proportions with a shot of amaretto tastes like snickers
50/50 Guinness and cola. It’s called a Black Velvet and is indulgent and lovely.
@Lodespawn @EvilBit that sounds like a shortcut to a bad time
Kraft Dinner with Dill
Cooked Eggs (preferably poached) On toast with…
Vegemite.
You can thank me later.
I can’t imagine this working as well with anything other than poached, but I can confirm it’s a winner like that. It’s a more ‘even’ substitute for salt, I guess?
Spot on
Corn and mayo.
Gouda and nutella.
Salt on watermelon, and salt on pineapple.
Also, cayenne pepper on anything chocolate - brownies, ice cream, etc.
I always squeeze some lime and grind black pepper on my watermelon. It’s great!
And some dehydrated lime and chili to that salt and you’ve really got something good.
Isn’t that basically Tajin?
Hummus and pesto. Just dump some pesto in your hummus and thank me later. You can buy both, obviously, but you can also easily make both from scratch so it can be super cheap once you have the core ingredients. It’s basically no harder than making a smoothie.
Bonus: basil grows whether you want it to or not, at least in most climates. If you have a spice garden, you kind of have to keep basil from dominating. But it also makes an excellent, cheap gift. When I was younger, I had a basil plant that lived for a few years and got huge and I just brought clippings instead of wine (or whatever) to parties. I saved tons of money and no one has ever been like, “Get the fuck out of here with that fresh basil.”
Peanut butter and sweet onion
I eat pb&o sandwiches then the local sweet onions are in season.
Peanut butter and pickles
Came here for this one, I was so skeptical at first but damn it’s good
Chocolate and anything spicy.
