Comic Strips

Only tangentially related, but the cheapest (by weight and per unit) type of hamburger patties at my local Costco this month are Impossible Burgers.

If you’re not familiar with these, they’re completely vegan, made from soy protein, but the texture and flavor is almost identical to beef. They cook like beef, taste like beef, and “bleed” like beef. And (for a few weeks, at least) they’re cheaper than beef.

That’s a new and exciting sandwich IMO.

If you travel, you'll find very interesting combinations of flavors. As a few modest examples, I recently came upon paprika flavored and cheese and onion flavored Pringles, and awhile back i had sake flavored kit kats.

Travel more! Plenty of flavor experimentation going on

I mean realistically humans have been perfecting two things for at least a hundred thousand years.

Killing and cooking.

Just get on TikTok. Those goofy kids constantly make weird food combos. Sometimes they're actually good!

This is the spot to share with everyone the viral trend of vanilla ice cream with olive oil and sea salt.

Oysters and kiwi

I'm going to follow this to glean interesting food combinations, as it seems they're being posted below. 🙂

I think the comic doesn't account for all the food experimentation going on in the world. One bias -- people only post their wins. Not their many, many "L's".

For example, I eat cottage cheese as part of my diet. I also consume this supplement called Zena 'Supergreens'. One night, I thought hey...cottage cheese gets paired with fruit. Why not pair it with this fruity Supergreens powder, see what happens? Nasty, gloppy, with clumps of overly sweet coagulated powder. Do not recommend.

Anyway I'm sure people all around the world are doing wacky experiments just like that every single day. And if we're lucky, they post good ones on the internet & we can all try it out. 🙂

My wife makes sandwiches out of cheese and honey. She insists it's a flavour combo that works, but I just can't support it.

I do most of the cooking in my family, and I'm one of those people who will often look at recipes when I'm doing something new, but mostly just do simple dishes and wing it. I'll often try and incorporate things we have. All of which is to say, there's a nontrivial amount of experimenting, which isn't always a good thing.

I remember serving a noodle casserole, and there were some scrunched up faces around the table. My wife asked what the fuck the chewy things were, and I said smoked oysters (which the family loves). They've made fun of me for years on that one

In all honesty, I thought it tasted pretty good.

I mean, just never. What people eat is a function of what is available/cheap/tasty/trendy at any given time, and I doubt the availability of both ingredients and "ideas" (recipes and techniques globally, trends for better/worse) has ever been higher globally, let alone in "developed" countries.

Yeah, this just isn't the case, there's a metric fuckload of experimenting going on, most people just aren't willing to try any of it.

peanut butter, hot sauce, fried egg, cheese, and mayonnaise sandwich

My wife's been really into foraging lately and I've learned you can eat so many random weeds found all over the place.

Anything is a sandwich if your poor enough.

try bbq'd cheese-stuffed peppers wrapped in bacon.

Watch Ordinary Sausage on YouTube. He is a pioneer in developing new and exciting foodstuffs.