h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Any offers for yukky meal combinations?
How about:

Marmite and custard

Spinks have you really nothing better to do???!!!

You have no idea how much pleasure I get seeing people's faces when I tell them I like marmite and custard

Jelly and salad cream*.

*This has been tried by this researcher after a drunk search through the fridge which ended up as a double decker sandwich with corned beef and salad cream in the bottom and jelly with hundreds and thousands in the top.

Liam.

It's a well known fact that alcohol muffles the taste buds. Otherwise why would people keep buying prawn and bacon flavour Wheat Crunchies etc?

People have scoffed at my penchant for bacon with maple syrup (usually on French Toast) but it's wonderful...

Ever been so hungry that pet food actually smells nice?

Only cat food - the chunks in gravy sometimes smells like meat pie filling (probably has as "much" meat in it too).
But then I'm partial to those Goblin meat puddings and Fray Bentos pies in tins....mmmmmmmm, stodgy!!!

But not dog food, which always makes me want to throw. Bought some by mistake once and the cats did the scraping paw thing to tell me they thought it was sh!t!

People tell me I'm strange for putting milk in my soup, but I just don't see the problem.
However, I am firmly of the opinion that sweet and savoury can never go together. Be it Sweet & Sour, ham & pineapple, orange peel or apple sauce on savoury dishes...

Ham and pineapple make for an excellent pizza.

I had to actually see this one done, and have it done to me, to be able to describe my disgust at it... fried eggs over-easy placed atop pancakes. Some of the guys in the service at them like this and thought it was fantastic. One day going through the chow line, I got some pancakes and ordered some fried eggs over-easy. When he, without even asking, dropped them atop my pancakes, I was ready to slap him. I gave him an earful and went to the table to try to see if I could move the eggs without breaking the yolks. I failed. One bite was enough to put me off my appetite.

One day many years ago I decided I was going to commit taste bud suicide.

I ate two packets of Flaming Hot Monster Much and then chewed 5 smints.

I expect your problem, Blatherskite, was that you were given sweet pancakes. As a 50% Breton, I like to think that I know my pancakes, and it is perfectly possible to have one for a main course. They just have to be Gallettes rather than Crepes. I always have one or two with fried mushrooms or mince on, and I even once had a curry pancake! After that, you can move onto the sweet versions...

I believe we've run into a cultural language barrier here.

In the US there is really only one type of pancake (also called hotcakes), and that's the buttermilk breakfast kind, with butter and maple syrup. You can add nuts, cinnamon, and/or berries to the mix, and use other flavors of syrup or substitute jelly instead. But a pancake with fried mushrooms or curry... either we just don't do this, or we call it something else. And crepes are considered to be a whole other animal. There are other things we'll call pancakes, but they always have a qualifier in front of them (ex: sweet potato pancakes), so when we say only "pancakes," this is the kind we refer to.

The ones I didn't eat that day were plain buttermilk pancakes with maple syrup.

Are they the ones that are about 3 inches across and half a centimetre thick? (Talk about mixing units!) If so, I can see your problem. We do get that kind in the UK, although they're not what we normally refer to when we say 'pancakes'.

I think we call them scotch pancackes, but I'm not sure if they're the same

The 3" variety would be the smaller ones, which we usually call "silver dollar pancakes," which can range from 2-4" in diameter The full-sized ones are generally 6-12".

And how thick?

A guy I used to work with would make sandwiches of left over (plain) pasta

...to further confound things you could have crespelle which are basically pasta in pancake form. Same basic recipe as I use for Shrove Tuesday ones but different ingredient ratios, and savoury-filled.

'Peanut butter and jelly' always sounds more disgusting than I imagine it truly is since I cannot get round thinking it's *jelly* (wibblewobble-on-a-plate) rather than jam for spreading.
Cheese and jam comes recommended tho it sounds a little off. (Lemon curd in particular.)

That advert with brown sauce on beans on toast makes me heave.

When I was at school I used to buy a portion of chips (that's fries, although on reflection it should work with crisps/potato chips) and an an ice cream and dip the chips in the ice cream. Mmmmmm! Everybody thought I was mad, but don't knock it if you haven't tried it!

For the Yanks out there, Galettes are made with what you'd call buckwheat flour - and they are very good.

Back to reality...anyone ever tried marmite and tomato ketchup sandwiches? Couldn't get enough of them when I was younger, like up to the time of conjugal reprogramming.