Deconstructing odd food combinations
There was a thread not too long ago about weird food combos that we inexplicably like. As I read through it, I was trying to analyze the combos and relate them to something familiar that might explain why the combo works.
So, I challenge you to post your (actual) odd food combos that you just love but that everyone else thinks is insane. Let's see why it works.
I will start, but I have to admit that this combo came from my deliberate effort to take two foods that I have never combined, but that, based on other combos, should work:
Cottage cheese and jellied cranberry sauce
I like cottage cheese and pineapple (or peaches, or really, any canned fruit), and I love cranberry sauce with turkey. But I hardly ever have turkey around, but I wanted to eat some cranberry sauce. So, thus this combination.
It was very good!
Your turn.
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Chocolate often benefits from a bit of salt. 
The noodles are the thin "fine" kind, cooked up and heated with cottage cheese in a frying pan with butter. That was my favorite meal when I was a kid, think it may be a Polish thing since my mother is Polish. We were allowed to have it on Tuesdays since my father wasn't home, had his Kiwanis meeting. 
Broccoli, maybe, but never peas! I like most vegetables, but peas aren't one of them. It makes me nuts when peas are added unexpectedly to anything, usually for "color," and I'm stuck having to carefully pick them all out... 
Myself, I love peas! But either way is good. 
Even the smell of peas bothers me. But tomatoes might work, too, love them cooked, in sauce, in salads, and, best of all, right from the garden...
