Food Abominations

[JAS_OH1]

That stuff is crazy popular here. Every deli has it, even the super-fancy gourmet shop. It’s at every picnic or family gathering, and it’s sometimes labeled fairy salad.

Funny story, it’s one of my sis’s “signature dishes,” except she calls it Waldorf salad. Now, we probably all know what Waldorf salad is, and that ain’t it. When you press her, though, and start telling her what Waldorf salad is, she says, “Yeah, I know, but I don’t like this in it, or that in it, or this other thing, so I sub in this, that, and that.”

“Yeah, but now you’re just making ambrosia.”

“ I SAID IT’S WALDORF SALAD!!!! “

My mother used to make some kind of fruit salad with mayonnaise and marshmallows in it. Yuck.

 

[The Late Night Gourmet]

Bill Murray had a comment about unexpected combinations in the movie Ghostbusters:

 

[Morning Glory]

As for bread sauce, I stick with my opinion. It belongs on the municipal dump of culinary history.

I love it but agree with you about pancakes, maple syrup and bacon.

I honestly had no idea what this was until I started reading this thread. For Americans, it's like the gravy used in biscuits and gravy, minus the sausage chunks in the gravy. I can see why this would be a divider.

Its not quite the same. Its a thick sauce served on the side, rather than a gravy poured over things. Traditionally its served with chicken or turkey.

 

[Morning Glory]

What's noodle dressing? Never heard of it. Noodles that I eat are usually covered with marinara or similar, nothing tasting of peanut or fish.

I think noodles in the Asian sense rather than pasta?

 

[JAS_OH1]

I think noodles in the Asian sense rather than pasta?

I gathered that. I like rice with Asian food, no noodles.

 

[The Late Night Gourmet]

I love it but agree with you about pancakes, maple syrup and bacon.



Its not quite the same. Its a thick sauce served on the side, rather than a gravy poured over things. Traditionally its served with chicken or turkey.

I'm going to have to make some. I assume this one is as close to an authentic recipe as it gets (note Mary Berry is the author):

Web exclusive recipe: Bread sauce

I assume the "cloves" she mentions in the recipe are these kind and not garlic:

 

[JAS_OH1]

I'm going to have to make some. I assume this one is as close to an authentic recipe as it gets (note Mary Berry is the author):

Web exclusive recipe: Bread sauce

I assume the "cloves" she mentions in the recipe are these kind and not garlic:

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Yeah, I don't like cloves or nutmeg...

 

[TastyReuben]

I'm going to have to make some.

Make some, it’s good.

I go out of my way, and at great personal expense, to get copies of UK versions of Good Housekeeping, etc. at Christmastime, along with BBC Good Food, things like that.

You’d think there’d be a bread sauce recipe in each one, right? Think again…there will be at least three in each one!

 

[medtran49]

My mother used to make some kind of fruit salad with mayonnaise and marshmallows in it. Yuck.

My mother made one with a large piece of crispy head lettuce, pineapple chunks, grated American cheese with a dollop of mayo on top. I loved it as a kid, mixed the pineapple cheese and mayo all together and pigged out, but know it sounds kind of gross, and I still make it for me every GREAT once in a while. Craig won't even try it.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

It a as the idea of syrup and gravy together that was off-putting. While I would prefer biscuits, the idea of plain pancakes isn't too awful with gravy.

Yorkshire pudding with your Sunday roast is simply a puffy pancake batter that you (usually) fill with gravy
Not my favourite thing in the world but hugely popular for more decades than I’ve been alive!

 

[karadekoolaid]

Never had bread sauce and don't even know what it is.

Just imagine ruining your meal with a dollop of wallpaper glue. Bread sauce is from the same species.

 

[CraigC]

Sausage gravy can be paired with many things!

 

[caseydog]

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Just imagine ruining your meal with a dollop of wallpaper glue. Bread sauce is from the same species.

Badly made white gravy (for things like chicken fried steak) or sausage gravy can be like wallpaper paste, too.

CD

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

I think putting the bacon inside the pancakes would be weird.

Ive done it, its not too bad. I did it with strip bacon, but ive also enjoyed donuts with bacon bits on the glaze... maybe I like this abomination lol

 

[Windigo]

Yorkshire pudding with your Sunday roast is simply a puffy pancake batter that you (usually) fill with gravy
Not my favourite thing in the world but hugely popular for more decades than I’ve been alive!

I love them with cranberry sauce, when I lived in the UK we had gravy and cranberry sauce with the turkey at christmas. Delicious!

Edit: but I am sure some find yorkies with cranberry sauce an abomination, I am a foreigner after all