Dragaera

Food pairings

Thu Jun 8 20:21:24 PDT 2006

Chocolate, peanut butter, and ice cream?

Or, if beverages are allowed, chocolate, peanut butter, and milk.

On 6/8/06, Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
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> On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Shawn Burns wrote:
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> > > [mailto:dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info] On Behalf Of Philip Hart
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> > > On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Shawn Burns wrote:
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> > > > [...] I like both lemon meringue pie and bratwurst (one WAY
> > > more than
> > > > the other), but I just can't stomach thinking about combining them.
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> > > 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.
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> > Onion rings with raspberry jam, raspberry jam with peanut butter.
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> > Raspberry jam and peanut butter with onion rings. Ew.
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> > Actually, if the game is also supposed to pair up onion rings and peanut
> > butter, then this one fails, because I still say "ew".
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> > And for those who have never tried rasberry jam and onion rings, I would
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> > be surprised if you said "ew" right away, but it's good pub grub.
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> Yes - one compares the three sets of good pairs, and the one set of bad
> triples.
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> I've tried finding combinations of chilies, chocolate, citrus with eggs,
> milk, tomatoes that just work.  I hadn't considered onion rings and jam.
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