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[–] [email protected] 79 points 8 months ago (4 children)

A number of years ago when cupcake shops were opening everywhere, there was this one called Mancakes that did "manly" cupcakes (think bacon and alcohol). I finally broke down one day and decided to try one. I went with the "Buffalo wings" cupcake which turned out to be what I guess was Frank's Red Hot flavoured cake, topped with icing and some sort of crispy sprinkles (chicken skin?), and stuffed with (to my gagging surprise) blue cheese icing.

I love hot wings, I love blue cheese dip, and cupcakes are just fine.

But a buffalo wing cupcake has to be the nastiest concoction to be called a cupcake that I've ever tasted.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

The bakers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

That's the greatest thing I've ever heard that I absolutely wouldn't try.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Thank you for experiencing this so the rest of us don't have to.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Growing up my mother would occasionally make a dish my father enjoyed that she called β€œDepression Dinner”. It was mashed potatoes covered in fried ground beef with beef gravy poured on top of it.

I like mashed potatoes. I like using ground beef in a variety of dishes. And who can say anything bad about gravy? But mix those three together β€” ugh, no thanks. It was like baby food for adults. There was a reason why my brother and I took to calling it Depressing Dinner growing up.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Doesn't sound that far from Shepard's Pie though, a tasty dish beloved by zillions.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Yeah, the mistake here is in putting the beef and gravy on top resulting in mush. Putting the potatoes on top and allowing them to crisp would really change the flavor and texture.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Similar to beef mince, onions, gravy and mash for me. My da loves it but I found the combo depressing despite the fact I used to eat mash out of the pot with a spoon. And yes I'm Irish.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (4 children)

French fries sometimes go in kebabs and stuff around here. When they're on the side, that is awesome. When they're just drenched in the sauce so you get a soggy pile of greasy potato, it is disgusting.

Oh, and fruity beers suck: not just "notes of blahblahblah in my hipster IPA" which can be good, but "we literally put fruit juice in this stuff" which... can't. I like beer, I like fruit. They do not, however, need to mix on my account.

Sorta related: coriander (cilantro) is fine in moderation and I'm a sucker for a baguette. Once had a banh mi that had a fucking bushel of the stuff, tasted like being dragged through miles of dense shrubbery after someone yanked you out of the shower mid-shampooing. Also burning.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

In Greece it is pretty standard to put fries on gyros. That's part of why I love them. But: having the proper crispy fry is essential, as is eating your gyro freshly made.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

My local Greek place does this and I always assumed it was an Americanized gyro. They're super tasty and we love eating there. Interesting to know it's actually done in Greece too.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Cookout pasta salad. I like pasta, mayo, corn, tomatoes, cucumber, olives, onions, whatever else goes in normally, but pasta salad is just so disappointing.

I am the opposite about a Reuben- I’m not especially a fan of pastrami, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, or thousand island dressing, but fuck if it’s not incredible together.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I like your idea of reversing the question. On their own I'm not big on sour cream or mayonnaise, but either of them mixed together with the right seasonings or sometimes even together with some seasoning and I can't get enough. Mayo is nasty, but a garlic aioli? Fricken great. Plain sour cream? A tad on a baked potato is fine, but a chipotle lime crema? I might lick that up off the floor...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

I too have an oddly specific one of these, which is tartare sauce.

I actively dislike all three of mayonnaise, gherkins, and capers. Mix 'em together though? Brilliant.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Pasta salad and mayo just sounds wrong to me. I generally use a red wine vinaigrette, it holds up better at a barbecue.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Really unpopular opinion, peanut butter and jelly. I do not like them together nor do I even like peanut butter with added sugar.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Chocolate and yoghurt. Chocolate flavoured yoghurt taste gross.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That weird jell-o gelatin / cool whip combo they serve at cafeterias.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Cottage cheese and fruit. I just can't do the cottage cheese saltiness and texture with the sugary flavor and chunkiness of pineapple.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Bet you don't like Hawaiian pizza then.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Pineapple rings on ham is, however, another story!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I like meat. I like jelly. But aspics... just looking at their image grossed me out.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Anything "salad" where the salad includes tuna, mayo, or egg. I can't handle it. I don't know why. Egg salad. Tuna salad. 🀒

I like salad. I like eggs. I like tuna somewhat. I like mayo somewhat. But any of those weird combinations make me sick.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Mint chocolate. Hate that stuff, but I don't mind mint or chocolate.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Mostly not picky anymore but oh how I hate raisins or grapes in curry or any savory dish. Yuck, yuck, yuck. Really picky about fruit in anything, apple in mulligatawny and in chicken salad eew.

But the Mexican fruit salad that has mango, pineapple, jicama, orange and ONION and crumbled cheese? I love it and nobody else in my household does.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I once tried sardine ice cream. I love sardines and I love ice cream. The only place I want them to mix is AFTER they are in my stomach.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Wtf that sounds awful. You sure nobody was playing a joke on you?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Garbage plates, holy crap. For those of you who don't know, a garbage plate refers to a famous "cuisine" in Upstate New York, comprising of random picnic ingredients thrown together like a salad and is understandably the butt of many jokes because it is to cuisine what the back-scratching-hair-combing-nose-picking-ukulele-tuner is to inventions. On top of that, every restaurant has its own take on it that varies the recipe, so you will never know exactly how it is unless you've already touched that particular restaurant. The one time where I'd prefer each set to be sold separately (and batteries to not be included, gawd).

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't do turkey and cranberry sauce, porkchop with applesauce, patΓ© with jam/chutneys... something about meat and fruit sauce. Well but I don't like chicken and waffles either. Oh, and bacon donuts!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (10 children)

Italian Poutine.

Actual poutine is great.
Spaghetti sauce is great.
But a Poutine where you replace the gravy with spaghetti sauce, no.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I feel like I'm in the minority on this one, but I don't like fruit and yogurt together. Individually, they're great.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Let me confess that I didn't actually eat this, so maybe it actually whipped ass. Once a friend ran for donuts and I asked them to pick something up for me. They came back with a donut with maple icing and bacon bits sprinkled on top.

The sight and smell were so upsetting to me that I shoved it in my purse when no one was looking and never got around to trying it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maple doughnuts with bacon bits are FANTASTIC! I was leery at first, but they truly rock.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

My mother's coworker's child made a bacon bundt cake, and specifically sent a piece for her.

I agreed to eat it with my mother out of solidarity.

Honestly, she's like, 9 or something, and did a great job of it. Kinda had a bacon pancake going, didn't have many tunnels or anything. Would be a great dessert for a barbecue, that kinda thing.

But no one in my immediate family is that into bacon, let alone being combined with sweets.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

A lot of what Midwesterners consider "salad".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I think they got it from us Germans. Basically throw whatever into a bowl with Mayonnaise, boom, salad.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I love chocolate and licorice but there's those licorice balls with chocolate coating which I just find to be an unpleasant and weird combination.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I hate oranges (or orange type fruits) in cake or anything else basically. It just feels wrong somehow.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Me too, or chocolate oranges

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Unpopular opinion? Strawberries with whipped cream make want to puke.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

There's a trick. Don't use sweetened whip cream, use heavy whipping cream and sprinkle the strawberries with sugar (Just a bit). Strawberries are best sweetened only slightly to me and the savory flavor of the cream compliments the tartness of the strawberries.

Edit: Thanks for the unlocked memory, it's probably been decades.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Thai food.

I love peanuts, and I love pretty much most Asian region dishes that I've had access to in the US, but peanuts/peanut flavor in a "meal" is gross to me. Peanuts are a snack/dessert to me so it's just really odd to have it in a meal.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Non native english speaker here, not trying to have an argument but to learn.
Is it correct to use "whose" in this context?

I kinda thought "whose" was meant to refer to a person and not an object, but really I don't know.
Though I'd use something like "of which" or whatever else instead.

(Or just do what I do and rephrase it so you don't need to bother with this syntax to begin with.)
"What is a dish where each individual component you like, but when combined together become a dish you think is nasty?"

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A lot of things on shittyfoodporn. For instance, pb&j devilled eggs

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Why, and I say this with as much emphasis as possible, the. FUCK... would anyone do that!?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Jambalaya. I love all the individual ingredients, but put together as Jambalaya makes me wanna hurl.

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