Alternating Mouthfuls - Food Mashups

steve(thelil) · June-18th-2007, 08:27 PM

The other day, I was on my way to a movie and realized I was hungry. I had very little time and didn't need that much to eat; just enough that my hunger wouldn't distract from the movie. I didn't want to eat anything unhealthy or get ripped off, so buying food at the theater wasn't an option.

I stepped in to a deli type of place and spotted a banana. Thinking that this seemed to meet my requirements - but that it might not be satisfying enough - I decided to buy the banana and a chocolate biscot (singular for biscotti?)

I knew intuitively as soon as I did this that I should alternate bites of each - and take each bite before fully swallowing my mouth contents. That way, I was effectively eating the banana and the biscotti as one dish. Let me tell you, the bannana-ey and thickly smooth banana complimented the chocolaty, airy and crispy biscotti (singular for biscotti?) - and vice-versa. I mean serious satisfaction.

Anybody have similar experiences or 'mashup" recommendations? Can you top my banana chocolate biscotto (singular for biscotti?)?

Monte Smith · June-18th-2007, 08:33 PM

"Your peanut butter is in my chocolate!"

"Your chocolate is in my peanut butter!"

My fuck you is in this thread like a gerbil.

Sandi22 · June-18th-2007, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by steve(thelil)

The other day, I was on my way to a movie and realized I was hungry. I had very little time and didn't need that much to eat; just enough that my hunger wouldn't detract from the movie. I didn't want to eat anything unhealthy or get ripped off, so buying food at the theater wasn't an option.

I stepped in to a deli type of place and spotted a banana. Thinking that this seemed to meet my requirements - but that it might not be satisfying enough - I decided to buy the banana and a chocolate biscot (singular for biscotti?)

I knew intuitively as soon as I did this that I should alternate bites of each - before fully swallowing my mouth contents. That way, I was effectively eating the banana and the biscotti as one dish. Let me tell you, the bannana-ey and thickly smooth banana complimented the chocolaty, airy and crispy biscotti (singular for biscotti?) - and vice-versa.

Anybody have similar experience or 'mashup" recommendations? Can you top my banana chocolate biscotto (singular for biscotti?)?

I like orange segments with Oreo cookies.

There's others, but that's tasty. Not as good for you as yours is, but good just the same.

steve(thelil) · June-18th-2007, 08:39 PM

Self-censored

Gentle Giant · June-19th-2007, 09:31 AM

Oreos and potato chips are good alternating, the sweet and the salty battle each other for dominance, and the taste buds are the victors.

when I was a kid, I used to try to invent new foods. How is it that PB&J became such a staple, I wondered. So I experimented.

As such, I'm probably the only person on earth who's had as many as a dozen PB & tuna fish sandwiches in his lifetime.

(Chips are also an essential add-in with tuna sandwiches, by the way.)

clinthopson · June-19th-2007, 11:01 AM

Pnut butter and mayo bit together.

Alt bites - Granny Smith apple and Canuk cheddar.

Pete C · June-19th-2007, 03:04 PM

The genius of the sandwich, well executed, is that multiple tastes and textures can be mixed in a single bite. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Jimmy Cantiello · June-19th-2007, 03:19 PM

Hence, my life long love affair with the sandwich.

clinthopson · June-19th-2007, 03:28 PM

Sandwich - a perfect food.

Whether it's a pastrami on rye, an Itralian sub, a panini, a cemita or a blt, it can't be beat.

steve(thelil) · June-20th-2007, 09:28 AM

I agree sandwiches have much potential, but in my experience, no food is more likely to disappoint than a sandwich.

Jimmy Cantiello · June-20th-2007, 10:12 AM

A sandwich done properly, muffuletta style

clinthopson · June-20th-2007, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Jimmy Cantiello

A sandwich done properly, muffuletta style

It's the olive salad that makes it special.

Noj · June-20th-2007, 12:06 PM

Lou Donaldson likes a good sammich.

tippy · June-20th-2007, 12:21 PM

A recent one: rainbow cookies and strawberries.
Last year's: brownie and mint ice cream.

clinthopson · June-20th-2007, 12:26 PM

Tip, you are sooooo girly.

tippy · June-20th-2007, 12:45 PM

why? is it the rainbow cookies? I never used to eat them but they became a hit recently - I am a crazy whore for marzipan paste so that's just the facts and I was worn out on everything else around here so I did rainbow (remember it is coated in chocolate) from the supermarket and with the in season strawberries, it was a winning combination. that fad is over though since strawberries went out. (Do strawberries get 2 seasons a year (another in the fall?) or is it just one?)

Is mint girly too? I will admit for sure that I LOVE chocolate mint too and they seem to like it over in Britain cuz my friend came back several years ago from London and brought me the mother lode of assorted chocolate mint candies that you can't find here and I STILL remember this event (and the candies and frustration that you can't find them here). So I guess my English roots gave me the chocolate mint tooth. If you don't buy the combination intact in the brownie mint combo (a la pre-mixed ice creams) you are not obliged to eat inferior brownies.

anything else?

tippy · June-20th-2007, 12:46 PM

oh yeah and I love the idea of thelil's combo - the only thing is biscotti is a little dangerous to one's mouth I think but it does sound so good. Chocolate and bananas is powerful good.

Sandi22 · June-20th-2007, 01:35 PM

I used to use a lot of mint when cooking, then we moved to where they grow mint as a crop. The aroma from it in the cooler damper night air was amazing, we enjoyed it, but then the trouble started. If we drove to Bend, having to drive between two large acreage mint crops, by the time we got to Bend I'd be strangling, going into strangling fits while in a restaurant or sitting in a night club, embarrassing myself no end. It felt just like needles sticking in my throat. Allergic to it as all get out. We were using a mint based liquid soap, had to stop using that, as it was causing me problems as well, then we had to try to find a toothpaste which doesn't have mint in it. A hard thing to do, but doable. That's what we do now, check labels like crazy to make sure to avoid it. I have problems with it more than Rich, but he gets choked down with it as well. Luckily mint can only be grown for a short time in one area as it gets a disease which wipes it out after a bit, so the mint fields are gone around here, but when it's dry and the wind blows, there's enough residue in the soil to still bother us, but not as severely. It's rare for someone to be allergic to mint, but we know two other people up here who are as well, and one fellow was growing it, and he didn't even realize what his problem was.

Sandi22 · June-20th-2007, 01:40 PM

Talk about banana's and chocolate, on Lido Isle over near the Lido Ballroom, or whatever it was called, they had a little food booth which sold frozen bananas and frozen pineapple spears dipped in chocolate. They were delicious. Disney Land started doing the bananas like theirs, but the first ones I ever had was just across the bay from Balboa Island. Yum!

I hardly ever eat bologna, but when I eat a regular old bologna sandwich, I like to heap it up with potato chips, put a bread slice on top and smash them down. It's about the only way I like bologna sandwiches.

stonemonkts · June-20th-2007, 03:32 PM

Great alternating mouthful mashup:

Plain M&Ms and fresh popped popcorn.

I also like alternating mouthfuls of a good dark chocolate, and a nice hard sourdough pretzel.

I haven't had either of those combos in many years.

stonemonkts · June-20th-2007, 03:34 PM

Others that spring to mind:

eh forget about it...they also involve chocolate.

So, chocolate with almost anything savory.

tippy · June-20th-2007, 03:38 PM

ooh those sound good too. I always preferred plain m&ms.

Do we notice how chocolate is always involved?

Sandi, I had those frozen bananas (yum!) at Disneyland and that is what they always make me think of the childhood paradise of Disney.

steve(thelil) · June-20th-2007, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by tippy

ooh those sound good too. I always preferred plain m&ms.

Do we notice how chocolate is always involved?

Sandi, I had those frozen bananas (yum!) at Disneyland and that is what they always make me think of the childhood paradise of Disney.

To me, a chocolate covered frozen banana is more delectable than any ice cream pop or cone. I'm surprised how rarely you come across a store that sells them, considering the possible profit margin. (You can buy a banana for 20 cents in NYC - whereas a small ice cream cone can easily top 3 bucks.)

tippy · June-20th-2007, 04:31 PM

I agree with you, Steve. Think about it though - you could make them if you just melted some chocolate (an unusual thing to do but so very easy - you could use chocolate chips if you wanted) and then bought some chopped walnuts and rolled the nana in there and then stuck it in the freezer!!!

It's better for you than ice cream too.

Sandi22 · June-20th-2007, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by stonemonkts

Great alternating mouthful mashup:

Plain M&Ms and fresh popped popcorn.

I also like alternating mouthfuls of a good dark chocolate, and a nice hard sourdough pretzel.

I haven't had either of those combos in many years.

Milk Duds and popcorn with a coke, the old fashioned good Cokes before high fructose.

Add in a few JuJuBees (probably spelled incorrectly), for a long lasting sweet to mix up with the pop corn. Had this every time I went to the Saturday Matinee's when I was a little girl.

Sandi22 · June-20th-2007, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by stonemonkts

Others that spring to mind:

eh forget about it...they also involve chocolate.

So, chocolate with almost anything savory.

I add chocolate or cocoa into a lot of Mexican dishes, as it goes so well with chili sauce, but I have to remember to not let it be about where dogs can get to it, as it does a number on them.

My aunt made the best fudge one ever ate, I mean the best, she gave me her recipe years ago and I've never even tried it, as I have no will power when it comes to it, and I don't want to be 'packin it on'. So now I don't know where it is. Here somewhere, along with my aunt Glady's, who lived in Texas, recipe for buttermilk pie. Ever had it? It's to die for. There has to be a recipe for it on the web somewhere, but somehow doubt it would be as good as my aunts as she was such a fabulous cook. Of course hers was made from her own home made buttermilk. That would account for a big flavor difference. I just avoid making this type of thing as I really want to glomb it up when it's around as it's so yum. When it came to their food, I had little control if any. That and a some dishes made by our neigbors and friends of my parents, two sisters married to twin brothers, both were wonderful cooks, but only one made fried pies every few days for her sons lunch boxes. Dried apricot and fresh berry fried pies. Talk about delicious, they were unbelievable.

Sandi22 · June-20th-2007, 06:14 PM

There's an old fashioned candy "shoppe" in Columbia California, the old town just above Sonora and Jamestown, which are up in the gold country, and area full of history. Columbia is a state park now with the old Wells Fargo Stage Coach building and other old historic buidings from the Gold Rush days. It's a fun little place to go in the winter time, especially on a cold and rainy day when it's not so full of tourists. The candy shop specializes in candies from earlier times and one thing they have, which I always tried to buy when we would go there, is their orange skins dipped in chocolate. They are so good. I would guess they would be easy to make as well.