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Greg wrote:So my wife asked me to get some chocolate chip cookies before I came home today...

I am sitting on the couch, reading tubenet, drinking a Schlafly Oatmeal Stout Beer and eating a fresh baked Nestle chocolate chip cookie(still soft and melty!) and it is one of the best food combinations I've ever had. I can't believe this.... Dark beer and chocolate chip cookies? That doesn't make sense to me but I sure am enjoying it. Yes, this is the first beer.

Any other food combinations that have surprised you?

Done it. It requires a certain mood, however.

I've also had cream stout served hot with dark coffee mixed in.


I'm a big fan of bbq potato chips on my sandwich.

Maybe my palate's not as refined as some of you Tubenetters, but to me beer tastes great with anything.


French fries and vanilla ice cream. It's surprisingly delightful.

Doc wrote:What kind of sandwich? Peanut butter w/pickles?

Just about any kind.

For all you hungry guys, I recommend:

The Blinkie

It is one of the finest delicacies in the Western Hemisphere.

It is a balogna-wrapped Twinkie, chilled in Lime Jello

Kim chi and Klondike ice cream bars... this was my ex-wife's craving when she was pregnant with our first child.

My Dad turned me on to Banana and Onion sandwiches.

even the additional of a little Hellmanns Mayo and American cheese is surpisingly good.

From an old episode of MASH:

fig newtons and bourbon.

.....it works perfectly.....a good sour mash is best.

Come on folks...

Beer goes with EVERYTHING!

(The darker the stout, the better... )

Dad also also eats onion and horseradish sawdwiches on rye. He doesn't drink anymore, but I can remember him washing it down with cold beers on the weekend. You could smell his breath from 10 feet away.

..not so unusual I guess, I still eat 'em too.

Greg wrote:

windshieldbug wrote:Come on folks...

Beer goes with EVERYTHING!

(The darker the stout, the better... )

Grapefruit?

What! Never had Grapefruit Stout!?

I like to put sliced hard boiled eggs on a taco. Along with refried beans. And dont forget about a ice cold stout to wash it down

djwesp wrote:I'm a big fan of bbq potato chips on my sandwich.

Tuna fish on white toast with potato chips is a personal favorite (especially with Lay's KC Masterpiece chips). My younger brother prefers to use doritos.


Another weird habit of mine is pizza crusts dunked into a glass of coke. Also works with milk. Tasty!

You guys have no imagination.
One of the more interesting sites in the trash-glutted blogosphere:

http://blog.khymos.org/

Rice cakes and processed cheese with salsa...



Believe it or not, it's what the Texas Bar BQ restaurant on Pasteur Street in District 3 of Ho Chi Minh City calls nachos. You can get Doritos here, but they are imported from America and cost about $3.50 for a small bag. I haven't seen any other tortilla chips. Since they make their own flour and corn tortillas at the Texas restaurant, I don't see why they don't make their own tortilla chips... Those rice cakes, which are similar to those unflavored things Quaker Oats makes aren't good as nachos. They also serve them with guacamole, which leaves a lot to be desired. Go for the plain nachos, just as I described them above and it's not too bad.

And you are right, Chuck, the last few entries have been pretty lame.

The picture above is the Texas Bar BQ restaurant, my favorite place in Saigon. There are signs advertising Lone Star beer and several brands of root beer, none of which is available anywhere in Vietnam, from what I have seen in the last seven months.

Avocado Ice Cream (true, it's only one food, but it sounds strange to non-Asians!)

By the way, if you mix chocolate (unsweetened) and a certain kind of hot sauce you get mole, one of the key ingredients in Mexican cooking. Since I grew up with mole, it doesn't seem that strange to me, but I was making some in my kitchen here and some of my wife's friends couldn't stop laughing.

LoyalTubist wrote:Avocado Ice Cream (true, it's only one food, but it sounds strange to non-Asians!)

Ever been to Polly Ann Ice Cream in San Francisco? Lots of interesting flavors, including avocado, durian, ginger, lychee, postum, ube and vegetable:

http://www.pollyann.com/cream.asp

Your Vietnamese friends would feel right at home.

Lots of beer bars here have pickled (hard boiled) eggs to serve with beer. I would see this in L.A., too.

My friend's favorite snack is dry granola with Tabasco sauce on it. Sweet and spicy, crunchy, delicious!

Another popular snack here in Vietnam is watermelon or pineapple sprinkled with a combination of sugar, hot pepper, salt, and cinnamon. I don't like it.

Peanut butter and dill pickles should probably not go together but taste great.
The pickle juice helps the peanut butter slide down.