I tried crazy food mash-ups like tuna/Marmite & popcorn & chilli sauce… a mad combo tasted vile – so would you try them?
NEVER let it be said we Brits aren’t adventurous with our food – because one of our favourite culinary combos is Marmite and tuna.
If that doesn’t sound disgusting enough, how about popcorn dipped in a hot chilli sauce?
Remarkably, these are two of the top ten best weird food mash-ups highlighted in a recent survey on behalf of LNER trains.
We asked Sun writer Grant Rollings to put each of them to the test.
Cheese + chocolate
THERE are few dishes that aren’t improved by a covering of cheese, but chocolate isn’t one of them.
The problem is that the cocoa totally overpowers the dairy product.
Perhaps a stronger cheese works better?
Crisps + jam
IT’S not unusual to dip crisps in salsa or avocado, but scooping on a dollop of jam sounds, well, a bit dodgy.
Surprisingly, though, the salt and strawberry spark off each other quite pleasantly.
Chips + milkshake
THERE is nothing stirring about this combo – in fact it is half-baked.
Dipping chips into a milkshake makes them soggy, ruining the wonderful crispness of the fried food.
Apple + salt + pepper
AN apple a day keeps the doctor away, goes the saying.
But I suspect that a dash of blood pressure-inducing salt would cancel out some of the benefits.
Pepper, on the other hand, livens up the fruit in a spectacular way.
Avocado + chocolate
THANKS to millennials, smashed avocado has become a staple dish in trendy cafes – but combining it with chocolate adds a new twist.
The mash-up of these two opposing tastes, the smooth nutty avocado with the sugary chocolate, definitely works.
Popcorn + hot sauce
ON the first try, the hot chilli sauce blew away the popcorn, but a less hearty dip into the sriracha really spiced things up.
If you get the mix of the popcorn and the sauce just right this is a real blockbuster of a snack.
Tuna + Marmite
AS a fan of both Marmite and tuna, I was looking forward to putting the two ingredients between slices of bread.
But the truth is that the salty yeast extract is the only flavour that really comes through, wasting the tuna.
Cheese +bananas
THERE are many ways to liven up a cheese sarnie, such as adding pickle or sauce.
Putting bananas on top is a healthy option but it is a bit bland.