Rare combinations: what do you put on your fries?
Some strange food combinations work directly on your digestion. The other way around, so to speak, because some bizarre preferences come along! Sprinkles on liver sausage, frikandel with applesauce and fish fingers with peanut butter—you couldn’t make it up. But topping them all by a mile: WHAT do you do with your fries?
When we share articles about strange food combinations on Facebook, the comments then pour in from people who combine even stranger things. Luncheon meat with sprinkles, pickles in peanut butter and curry sauce over doughnuts; after a while, nothing surprises you anymore. Until we read Lonneke’s comment. ‘You should come and see my son,’ she writes. ‘He eats melted chocolate on his fries.’
Ketchup and churros
Whoa. Stop. Hang on a minute. Melted chocolate? Over fries? Melted chocolate over churros is a delicious combination, and those are deep-fried too, but they’re not savory. And dipping fries in ketchup isn’t a strange combination either, and ketchup is somewhat sweet too. But how did that kid come up with this combination?
Steak with Nutella
But Lonneke’s little sprout gets online support from Richard, who writes, ‘Fries with Nutella really aren’t bad.’ Nutella seems to be a versatile little ingredient from a culinary perspective. We previously wrote about a dry-aged steak wrapped in Nutella, but that wasn’t recommended. Our Lauretta was brave enough to try the blue cheese and Nutella combination. It turned out surprisingly well: ‘It isn’t disgusting, but I’d still rather eat them separately,’ was her diplomatic verdict.
On the McDonald’s menu
As it turns out, fries with chocolate sauce were even officially on McDonald’s menu for a while. In Japan, but still. And during a festive fries week five years ago, snack bar Den Heiberg in Hulshout, Belgium, served mini fries with chocolate sauce. A small portion, because otherwise it would be too rich, the fry cooks thought. Maybe Lonneke’s son isn’t so crazy after all, but simply ahead of his time. Lonneke isn’t so sure about that; she writes: ‘I told you the kid was nuts, didn’t I?’
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