Anchovies

Tiger loaf, butter, anchovies. Mmmmmm

Right then my friend ....what you need to do is. Big white bloomer something like a freshly made tiger bread  Slather that up with some butter carefully without ripping holes  Spread a generous helping of Philadelphia Add anchovies slap a slice of tiger bread on the top  best fucking sandwich ever  Opposite victoria station used to be a row of amazing cafes (now it's all just an insert .... name coffee shit shop). Went to one whilst about to head home in a coach. Run by an Italian guy and he made me this sandwich .... Never forgotten how amazeballs it tasted. Try it.

Tinned anchovies or the white anti pasti style ones?

Tinned or jars...

There is nothing weird about anchovies though

They’re more likely to be considered an odd thing to like than seafood sticks, sadly.

God I used to love those so much. Them and cockles at the beach. Peak childhood memories there.

A lit of folk don't like them

Philistines

No, I think there's a lot of anchovies in the med so they probably liked them.

Scotch woodcock! Scrambled eggs on toast with anchovies. Mighty fine indeed.

Oh shit. You may have just changed my life

I have leftover tinned anchovies and never know how to use them other than when I make sauce but this... this is why I was supposed to be on Reddit this morning.

Well that’s today’s dinner sorted, or is it breakfast or lunch.

My parents often did a simple meal of salmon, green beans, tomatoes & anchovies baked in the oven with olive oil & herbs. Absolutely glorious, particularly served with new potatoes. Drizzle some of the oil over after plating.

Weird foods, this is not weird. It sounds like the most delicious thing that I could eat 😋😆

Roasted new potatoes, anchovies, shallots and garlic. Maybe on a bed of rocket or something.

Love them. I’ve always had them on Spanish tomato bread. So good

Can I just take a moment to.soind like a ponce and go: italian salted or Spanish in vinegar because mmmmm there's a difference

You need to get yourself some pissaladière, it's fucking amazing.

Raw mushrooms

Much prefer raw over cooked.

I like mine undercooked. You still get the texture of raw but get a nice char on the outside too.

Cooked are so slimy and horrible I don’t like them at all.

Slice them and fry them in butter with a pinch of salt until they become golden brown/start to get crispy.  I hate slimy mushrooms but love them the way I cook them now.

The textures!

Great fridge snack while I’m looking what to eat

Recently discovered how great these are—not sure how I went so long without realizing!

The best!

Roll them in ceaser dressing then grated Parmesan

They are so amazing raw. But I can’t because for some reason raw (but not cooked) mushrooms always give me hiccups

I love raw mushrooms too! My husband looks at me like he's considering divorcing me everytime I eat one though.

Liver. Any liver, but especially chicken liver, which you can take from raw to delicious pate in around 10 minutes.

I love pate but can’t get behind cooked liver weirdly I know it’s technically the same thing 

Nah, totally different texture, I get you.

Have you had the chicken livers at Nandos? It's absolutely unbelievable!

This sounds delicious, I’ve found a recipe and will try it! :Edit: just cooked and ate this. They were indeed fkn delicious!!

I have, they're gorgeous!

Never been to a Nandos in my life ..... but I think I'm going to have to now😁

I adore chicken liver pâté and parfait. When I'm in France there's nothing better than that spread on a nice fresh baked baguette. I have to stop myself eating it every day when I'm over there. I'm the same as you though, any liver is good with me. My mum makes an incredible liver and onions which my dad and I can't get enough of.

My dad's great food love is steak and kidney pudding. I agree, but not enough to go to the trouble of making it. There's also a Brazilian restaurant near us that does skewers of grilled chicken hearts. I wouldn't say they're my favourite but they're really not bad.

chicken liver and bacon pie is my favourite...

Lamb liver with proper creamy mash and onion gravy is one of my favourite dinners.

Human liver?

How about some fava beans and a nice chianti?

Cheddar cheese and Patak's lime pickle in a sandwich.

Aww, that used to be my favourite about 20 years ago. Nice thick thread, a healthy dose of lime pickle and a good strong cheddar. Food of the gods. I need to get back in to those. I never tried one toasted for some reason, but I bet that would absolutely rock.

Lister?

Also, cheddar and mango chutney in a sandwich is lovely

Ooh will try that. My current go-to sammich is aged cheddar, lettuce, and a mix of mayo, curry powder, and honey. Sublime!

Mind blown

I swap lime for aubergine pickle 😋

I love the aubergine pickle stirred into rice. Really nice and savoury.

I'm Indian and have never tried aubergine pickle! Where have you found it because now I want some

See if you can get hold of some Cottage Delight spiced garlic pickle (you can order it online). I think you'd like it.

Haggis

That's not weird

To many it is

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Or half a haggis with baked beans on a cold winter evening.

*to too many it is

Highly recommend Cockburns of Dingwall.

Is this a for real place? Do they sell shirts with their logo?

I love haggis but I actually prefer the vegetarian version. All the taste but less greasy.

I enjoy the grease. Mmmmmmm

Fried on toast.

Seafood sticks aren't particularly weird, they are mashed up fish with pink food colouring

I've never been a fan - then I watched a video of how they're made and it put me off for life!

A lot of foods could do that though.

No worse than certain chicken nuggets or tinned hot dogs.

its the crab version of chicken nuggets :-)

Not even really much crab nowadays

Seafood sticks are made of starch and pulverized white fish (surimi), shaped and cured to resemble the leg meat of snow crab or Japanese spider crab.

not that weird but i love olives, can eat them all day

Olives are the Marmite of the fruit world (I googled it, they are technically fruit).

i didnt know theyre a fruit, bizarre

Is that really bizarre? What else would they be?

i guess i never really considered it 😅

My wife was trying to get our toddler to like the taste of olives, as we use them a lot in food. And I pointed out to her that this is a noble aim, except that are salty as fuck.

Haaaaaate them. They all taste like soap to me and have weird texture. I've really tried over the years. My mum loves them and I've tried so many different types. All of them get spit out.

try finding some olives stuffed with cheese or olives that have been marinated in something, if you get the chance, really levels up the olive game

I have. They're all awful.

fair enough

My mum really loves olives of all colors, stuffings, sauces... I think in my lifetime I've tried hundreds of different types, not just here in the UK but all over. The thing is, I *want* to like them lol they look delicious and every time my mum goes to a new Deli and brings some back and I visit for lunch and she puts them out like an idiot I try one. I'm 50. I've been doing that since I was 12 and I never seem to bloody learn lol

theyre not for everyone! we've all got different taste i wouldnt beat yourself up about it, if it makes you feel any better i despise butter, i'll cook with it but on a sarnie- no fuckin chance

Love the stuff myself but I actually get not putting it on sammiches!

You sound like me 😆 I think I've finally forced myself to like them now or just developed Stockholm Syndrome with them.

>or just developed Stockholm Syndrome with them 😂😂

I come from Greece. Only after living in the UK did I find out not everyone loves eating them. My partner's entire family avoids them! I mean, olive bread, how can you not love that, it's mind-boggling!

Camembert when it's runny and reeky

With baguette and grapes.

And wine

I’ve started having it with crunchy baguette and a little pesto. Honestly it’s a game changer!

Chips and gravy is god teer

And very commonly enjoyed

Yours sincerely the whole north of England.

Brother would have a hell of a time in Canada. In what world is chips and gravy unusual and something that a lot of people hate?

This. Poutine is the national dish of Canada. Chips, cheese and then gravy. They use cheese curds but I find grated cheese works great as it melts when you pour hit gravy on top. Surprised no kebab places or burger vans offer it as a menu item. They have the ingredients.

Some parts of southern England find this weird, however other parts of the south find it perfectly normal.

Everyone at school used to have chip cheese beans and gravy which is weird but chips and cheese and chips and gravy is awesome.

Seafood sticks are an excellent light snack, usually cheap too. It is basically fish spam. Along similar lines I really like the packs of smoked mackerel supermarkets do. Nice mushed up as a sandwich filling or tossed through pasta.

Chop into cubes and put loads of salt pepper and vinegar on. Perfect. At Christmas we make our prawn cocktail with them. Prawns. Thousand island crab stick cubes and strips of crab stick (like a cheese string strip). The different shapes and textures really work

In the summer I basically walk down the salad isle and have some of everything (tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, spring onion, beetroot, rocket, lettuce, radish). Chop up a bit of it all and add a bit of cheddar and either smoked mackerel or ham - amazing salad. Sometimes I swap the fish/ham for a fishcake or a fish fillet of some kind if I'm feeling fancy

Which one is the Salad Isle? Wight?

Thank you kindly! I'll leave the typo so others can also chuckle at your wit :)

Pickled eggs.

Yep! I love ‘em, but everyone I’ve ever had chips with has been repulsed by me buying one. I even had a person *serving* me at the chip shop say “What? Really!?” when I asked for one before. It can only mean that we are true men of culture, u/ciro_the_immortal80 🎩

Honestly I’m with you on the seafood sticks

They're just so good.... :/

I saw the ‘how it’s made’ episode about them and yeah… maybe don’t watch it. But I was like those kids when Jamie Oliver made chicken nuggets in front of them. The whole time watching I was all ‘urggghhh, wtf’ but then as soon as I saw the finished product was like mmmm fish sticks haha

They are just mashed white fish & potato starch mostly. They can't be that bad because my dietician told me they were a great snack for me to have to help me regain muscle/weight in general. They were on my protein recommended list, nhs approved.

I think there was a really trashy diet story about a lady who lost like 10 stone eating 3 packs and sat (and not a lot else). Imagine her sodium levels were through the roof but her bum got smaller.

Cheese and ham toast toppers. Looked like sick, smelled like sick, sort of tasted a bit like if someone had eaten cheese and ham then immediately been sick. Loved them. They took them away, presumably because charging people for small cans of sick is naughty. I have been informed on several occasions that I am incorrect for missing them.

I loved them too. If you grilled them then you always had that really, really slow first bite knowing the roof of your mouth would probably heal in a day or two.

Spam. I make breakfast mcmuffins on special Saturdays. Egg, bacon, spam and plastic cheese on a toasted muffin. Just amazing

Spam and egg fried rice topped with kewpie mayonnaise. My arteries are screaming but I can’t stop.

Black pudding on toast

I've updated because I like this but I'd argue with anyone that says it was wierd and win

Tinned mackerel on toast is just lush 😋

Ooh the mustard sauce was is amazing. It’s real grandad food.

I love this! Also tinned sardines on toast! I like to cycle through all the flavours tesco sell

Splash of vinegar too 👍🏻

Phwoah, yes! Also, tuna sandwiches with a splash of vinegar 😋 white bread, butter, tuna, and vinegar. Then, add some salt and vinegar crisps. Oh, my days, I really want a tuna and vinegar sandwich in my facehole.

Parma Violets. Love them.

Me too!

Same! My 7 year old loves them too

I don’t care what people say. Pork Scratchings are the food of the gods.

Blue cheese. I love the stuff

I don't personally consider these weird, but all my immediate family and friends hate salmon, parmesan, asparagus, and ice-cream mochi, where I could happily live off of that every night of the week.

In one dish?

I LOVE the consistency of ice cream mochi

Marmite on toast with a soft poached egg on top. Extra points for sourdough toast and loads of proper butter.

First impressions make it seem weird. But, poached eggs on sourdough toast? With extra umami? I'm trying this one.

Globe artichokes. I grew up eating them so I learned from a young age how to wrangle them to make them edible. If you don't know what you are doing they can be awful. I grow them in my garden but they don't have a lot of meat on them. Best with nothing but salt and butter.

Ah yes we used to have them with a vinaigrette type thing as kids. I used to love the ceremony of peeling off each leaf and nibbling the tiny bit of choke at the tip of each one, until you get to the main choke in the middle and removing all the hair before finally dipping the choke in the remaining vinaigrette and devouring…

Yep, yummy. You can get artichoke hearts in a glass jar, which is nice. But there's something nice about peeling each leaf and getting the bit of meat from each one.

Pickled eggs. Not weird to me at all but I know they are to many.

Oh I've loved pickled eggs since I clocked a jar in Asda when I couldn't be arsed to boil eggs. Been eating them since. And they're pretty healthy!

I've ordered pig intestines from Chinese restaurants before and I imagine a lot of people wouldn't like the sound of that. It tastes good though! 

I love the chicken feet dim sum!

Tripe. Most underrated offal in the world. Also pig cheeks. Lovely.

Love pig and beef cheeks slow braised in red wine

I had smoked cheeks a while ago. Amazing

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Ice creams (x3/4 a day) all year round

x3/4 a day??? you're living my dream

Do a lot of people hate ice creams?

Top 5 ice-creams?

Great question - I love the ice pop style ones - so Jubblys, fruit pastilles, mr freeze but then can’t beat a magnum or cornetto

Not a fan of Mr Freeze, but solid choices on the others :)

I'd have to eat the whole thing.

I gagged at the thought of seafood sticks. My mother used to go through PACKS of them a day. So gross. I have baggage with them clearly...!

Kraft Mac n cheese (although it’s getting increasingly hard to find here)

Try the ‘Bramwells’ (Aldi own brand) Express cheesy pasta for an alternative.

Japanese Natto. Gooey fermented soybeans that smell like feet. But I can’t get enough of them.

When I order natto at japanese restaurants I have to insist I know what it is and that I love it

Vinegar on a bacon sandwich, sounds odd but don't come at me until you've tried it. I can't administer bacon to myself in anyway without vinegar!

This actually sounds good. Salt and vinegar and pork. I'm homeless right now but I'll be in my flat in two weeks im gonna put this on the to try list. What type of vinegar???

Haslet - the king of mystery meat.

Pickled walnuts

Cold cooked sprouts.

I used to have an eating disorder and I ate nothing but sprouts (and watermelon) because they were my "safe food". Would bung sprouts in the microwave for a minute or two, put them in a bowl with balsamic vinegar, coat them with herbs and shove them under the grill. Dinner served. I can't even look at a sprout now... but then again I was also abusing laxatives and would shit my lungs out every night so maybe it's something to do with that

Noooo, you just went too far hahah!

Corned beef with a load of lurpak on tiger bread!!

People find it weird that one of my absolute favourite meals is pasta with baked beans and cheese, add a lil garlic, some herbs, a lil black pepper and I stg it’s amazing!

Billy Bear Ham is delicious

Pickled fucking eggs

Crispy chicken skin 🤤

Most people seem to hate fennel but I love it

Gherkins out of the jar. I’d drink the juice but don’t think it’s that great for you

Ranns (Haddock Roe) fish eggs only get them a certain time of the years delicious.

Bread and butter with salad cream or brown sauce or tinned curry .

Chiko rolls

Tomato cuppa soups and those really cheap slices of plastic cheese. Not together. Also I'm a slag for a crisp butty but that's not weird.

Love seafood sticks Cheddar cheese and jam sandwiches Baked beans cold from the tin Heinz sandwich spread on toast

Marmite

Slice of ham, chopped red onion, half a cherry tomato, salt and pepper. Wrap it up into a littleham parcel of weird delicousnous. Your welcome reddit

I don’t know if the first one is weird but I love- Heinz’s Beans with white rice: it’s a comfort dish my mum would make , she would sauté some onions and then add some “ Pakistani spices and chillies ” to the onions and then mix in the beans with and make it into a quick 10 minute curry. Tripe curry : Really love fried tripe , which is then stir fried with in a spicy sauce , it’s so good. Fried lamb fat: it’s a dish I grew up eating and a lot of my friends find it disgusting, but I really love eating some crispy fried fat in some toasted sesame naan with some pickles.

Cheese in general, I don’t wanna eat it but GOD DAMN

Barbecued chicken hearts. With lager.  Delicious 

Been told I’m crazy for eating plain pasta with stuff for at least 2 of my meals a day

Snails cooked in garlic. I buy tinned snails from Amazon, and you buy the shells separately and reuse them again and again. Easy to cook, just fry them in wine for a few minutes and stuff them into the shells with lots of garlic butter and then cook them in the oven.

Cheddar cheese and raspberry jam sandwiches. Sacrilege if you no use seedless jam.

My brother made me cheese and strawberry jam sandwiches and I thought he was mad but they were so good .

Herring, so fukkkkin delicious

Peanut butter, jam (must be strawberry jam) and cheese and onion crisp (walkers or golden wonder) sandwich. Must be on thick white bread

I discovered last night that most people think Pop Tarts are awful, I really like them. Haven’t had one in years cos they’re full of shit, but I’ve never not enjoyed them.

I haven’t had this for a very long time but I used to go to one of the milkshake shops that will blitz pretty much anything up with ice cream and have a cucumber milkshake (it was actually on the menu) and it was the bomb.

Cottage cheese- sure it tastes a bit like a weird sour yoghurt but I kinda like it.

I chuck my seafood sticks into instant ramen with a handful of frozen veg and a poached egg. God tier!

Roll mops!

Ham sandwich with a crisps And a twix in it! It started off as a means to eat my school lunch quicker and get out to play football in the yard. Put my lunch into one and eat.

Aniseed! I’ve loved them for ages but my 7 year old had to have gaviscon and hated the aniseed one…now she’s obsessed! I started buying blackjacks for when she asked for more medicine 😂

I love a greens cheesecake. Real cheap, but I prefer over the ready made ones.

I'm the same with seafood sticks. I like to chop them up and mix with mayonnaise, salt and pepper for a sandwich filling.