Craving some peanut butter and beef? You are not alone.

Will post more about the conference but on a lighter note, I found this article about crazy food cravings on msnbc.com and it got me thinking: Are people freaking insane???

Sure, some wackie-dackies dip their potato chips in ketchup. My dad likes to live on the edge and mix sweet pickles into his tuna salad (it's a Boston thing, he's assured me.) But strawberries + whipped cream + bacon? Cheese curls and canned pears? Um, excuse me while I retch.

I mean, I totally get the whole sweet-and-salty combo. I'm as big a chocolate-covered-peanut-butter-filled-pretzel-chunk as the next premenstrual gal. But these (below) are taking it a wee bit too far. I'm surprised so many people left their full names.

As for myself, the only slightly weird combo I can think of comes from an unfortunate ham-and-mayo phase I went through when Dan and I first began dating. We would literally get busy, finish up and I'd sprint to the fridge for Healthy Choice pre-packed ham and a jar of fat-free mayo and bring them into the bed with us, rolling up each slice and dipping it in one of the grossest condiments ever while we engaged in pillow talk. Juicy mango and naughty chocolate sauce? Oh, no. This sexy lady went for processed pork. I chalk it up to fluctuating hormone levels.

Let's see what these folks below have to say:

"Sometimes I put creamy peanut butter on top of a hot hamburger and then top it off with slices of white onion. The peanut butter melts into the meat.....mmmmmm."
—Bonnie Scott, Mount Pleasant, Mich.

"I crave raw spaghetti noodles soaked in pickle juice!! It is fantastic when they get almost soggy, but not quite."
—Emily Elzner, Terrell, Texas

"Green banana and bacon sandwich with mayonnaise."
—Dianne Ryan, Acworth, Ga.

"During one pregnancy I craved bacon fat. I would fry up the bacon and then just dip bread in the bacon fat and eat it. During another pregnancy I would dip sour cream potato chips into vanilla ice cream and eat it."
— Kasi, Hiawassee, Ga.

"I Love Cheese Curls and Del Monte pears in the can. Salty and sweet. I feel like a dying cockroach, feet and hands in the air, like going to heaven."
—Fred Dennis, Inglewood, Calif.

"I have been craving olives and jalapenos placed on top of carmel swirl ice cream. Noo, I am not pregnant. (Hysterectomy in 1995) No clue why. I just have to have it."
—Thea Yonge, Lake Jackson, Texas

"Potato chip sandwiches. They must be on very fresh bread spread with real butter. I feel comforted (like when I was a kid) after eating one and delightfully naughty."
—Linda Lenox, Portsmouth, Va.

"Strawberries and whipped cream and bacon."—Neil Noon, Ocala, Fla.

"My husband craves often a peanut butter and mustard sandwich on cheap white bread. YUCK."
—Toni, W. Des Moines, Iowa

Can you top that?

Comments

The strangest thing I eat that I can think of is cottage cheese with spaghetti sauce and mushrooms. It sounds really weird, but it's sooo good! And it really isn't that gross if you think about it: I got the idea while making lasagna. :-)

Ewww. My niece has always eaten peanut butter on hot dogs, but she got that idea from her mom (the other side of her family!).

Uhh the weirdest thing that I eat (according to my bf) is Mac & Cheese with clamato juice. It's awesome though! lol It's like how kids used to put ketchup on Mac & Cheese but tangier (ketchup is too sweet imo). Try it!

What IS gross is when my step-dad takes two silces of white bread, butters them, and puts raw onion and garlic cloves on it and eats it straight...just like that...I kind of feel sorry for my mom haha. :)

My husband cannot eat canteloupe without ground pepper on it. And he is also a fan of sweet pickles in tuna salad (although he is not from Boston). Who did I marry?? LOL!

Pretzels dipped in butter. I know it's not good for me in the least, but I love the taste of salt and butter (like movie theater popcorn, except quicker because there is no wait time for it to pop and no expensive ticket to buy).

banana w/salt and pepper...yum

Although I would never eat a pickel, I like pickel juice on my french fries. I also like to dip my french fries into Wendy's chocolate Frosties.

I like sweet relish and/or pickles in my tuna too...I was raised in the Boston area, but didn't really think it was a regional thing.

Probably the most strange thing I grew up eating is peanut butter on kielbasa...i hardly ever eat kielbasa, but that's how I grew up eating. Something about the sweet&salty(PB) mixed with the spice&salty (kielbasa) just works. I guess it probably helps that I LOVE peanut butter :-)

I like French dressing in my cottage cheese. It's even better when I have it along side a salad and can mix it all together...

Ew. Most of those are retching-inducing.
I guess I'm a pretty boring eater...

I have a friend who puts ranch dressing on everything ... everything. In college, some of the guys bought him tubs of ranch dressing for his birthday. How messed up is that!

I like relish and/or pickles in my tuna salad. Grew up in Boston.
During my pregnancies I craved spinach and mangoes, but not together. Wow, I'm boring!
My friend drank olive juice while she was pregnant. So maybe I can be cool by association?

Dorito Sandwiches: Two slice Home Pride wheat bread, miracle whip, one slice American cheese, smashed up Nacho Cheese Doritos, and dill pickles. I only make them when my husband goes out of town. They don't taste as good with his judgemental eyes casting down on me ;-)

I'm sorry but I feel I must respond to you all:

Tori: I could do that.
Dara: NEVER!
Katie: Your mom is a trooper:-)
Charlotte: Did you marry my father? Are you my mommy??!
Kim: I wouldn't do it, but I can see it. Butter/cheese sauce...same diff.
Ndu: Kind of like fried plantains?
Cassie: French fries in a Frosty sound delish!
JB: You need to talk to Dara's niece.
Maggie: If I was very, very hungry, I could do that.
Alex: There must be SOMETHING?
Dan: Your friend sounds very healthy, indeed.
Alyssa: Thanks for confirming the Boston connection! And I drink olive juice every time I have a martini.
Nicole: I won't judge. But I won't eat that sandwich either.

Love all of your quirks!

I'm like Alexandra. Guess I'm not that adventurous in my food combos. The one thing that I do get made fun of for is dipping pizza into ketchup. I can't eat pizza without ketchup.