Dragaera

Food pairings

Thu Jun 8 19:18:25 PDT 2006


On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Shawn Burns wrote:

>
>
> > [mailto:dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info] On Behalf Of Philip Hart
> >
> > On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Shawn Burns wrote:
> >
> > > [...] I like both lemon meringue pie and bratwurst (one WAY
> > more than
> > > the other), but I just can't stomach thinking about combining them.
> >
> > My wife's friends have a game or riddle, possibly without solution:
> > name three foods or ingredients which are good combined
> > pair-wise but not when used all together.
>
> Onion rings with raspberry jam, raspberry jam with peanut butter.
>
> Raspberry jam and peanut butter with onion rings. Ew.
>
> Actually, if the game is also supposed to pair up onion rings and peanut
> butter, then this one fails, because I still say "ew".
>
> And for those who have never tried rasberry jam and onion rings, I would not
> be surprised if you said "ew" right away, but it's good pub grub.



Yes - one compares the three sets of good pairs, and the one set of bad
triples.

I've tried finding combinations of chilies, chocolate, citrus with eggs,
milk, tomatoes that just work.  I hadn't considered onion rings and jam.