Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Weird Food Combinations That Shouldn't Work, But Do!


I work with a bunch of similarly food obsessed people (I knew there was a reason I liked this office...) and we have a nice big round lunch table that we gather around and we are lucky enough to also have a full kitchen. So you can imagine, the treats abound, and one of the office vices is to have communal bags of chips in the centre of the table. Anyhow, one day sitting around the lunch table, one woman says some words of genius: "you know what they should come out with? Chocolate-covered chips." And I totally agree. Well. Guess what. We had some chocolate - and actually some pretty darn good quality stuff in disk form, leftover from s'more-making (like I said, I love this office). I headed straight to the microwave with a handful in a bowl. And we only had two choices with the chips. No plain chips, like we would have naturally gravitated towards though...just chili garlic and curry flavoured. We discussed briefly, and decided the chili and chocolate combination would work best because it would be like the classic Mexican chocolate flavours. The garlic part, we were less sure about. Wouldn't you know it, the whole combination was absolutely magical! The flavours came at you in layers - first the chocolate, then the garlic, and then chili heat came last. The experience was downright Willy-wonka-ish! One by one around the table, even the more apprehensive of the lot were won over by this concoction. If you get a chance, please try it! Of course, feel free to tell us we're a bunch of weirdos if you try it and find you don't like it. Maybe I shouldn't have blogged it publicly, and gone into the chocolate-covered chip business instead... Do you have any weird food combinations (that work well) to share? Incidentally, I gave the curry chip/chocolate combo a try just to make sure, and our instincts were right on that one!

6 comments:

LotusRapper said...

One combination I swear is unusually good yet no one believes me (until they try), is McD's french fries dipped in their sundaes/cones. Best to have the fries piping hot and the sundae/cone really cold. It's a case of contrasts ..... hot/cold, salty/sweet, crunchy/soft

I discovered this in high school, for what it's worth.

Dumpling-girl said...

Saabken, I believe you! Because I was doing this when I was little too! And I'm pretty sure we're not the only ones. Yum!

LotusRapper said...

Ha, great minds think alike !!

Dumpling-girl said...

Hehehe. Ken, you gotta try that chip and chocolate combo...think of yourself as a Nancyland field reporter on assignment! LOL

hougee said...

McD icecream + fries... great combo indeed :)

i have a weird combo... gummy bears + ketchup chips... my wife and i discovered this on a road trip.. i can't put my finger on what it taste like.. but it's kinda pistachio-ish

great blog BTW!

TS of eatingclub vancouver said...

Oh yeah, I thoughty everyone knew about the McD fries w/ sundae! ;D We did that.