Salty and Sweet?

[Vannie]

Anything that is cooked with salt should have a pinch of sweet at least and vice versa.

Yes this ^ I will even balance out quick saute dishes with a pinch of sugar.

 

[TickTockMan]

Keep in mind some of our most beloved Chinese take out is a balance of salty and sweet. From General Tso's chicken to BBQ ribs etcetera.

I have ate a lot of Chinese over the years, but can't say I have ever TASTED anything salty and sweet. Though I am sure it is loaded with salt and some of it is very sweet.

 

[TickTockMan]

Salt on watermelon

I grew up in a town known for their watermelons. We could get them dirt cheap. A few in my family liked their melons that way. I always thought it would be odd.

 

[rareboy]

Salt on watermelon

And always on Canteloupe!

Proscuitto wrapped around a wedge of canteloupe is just a taste of heaven.

 

[Kahaih]

Salt on watermelon

I've known a few who won't eat an apple without having a saltshaker in the other hand.

 

[gsdx]

I used to eat raw rhubarb out of the garden dipped in salt. Years later, I discovered that a lot of people dipped their rhubarb in sugar. I never tried that.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

I used to eat raw rhubarb out of the garden dipped in salt. Years later, I discovered that a lot of people dipped their rhubarb in sugar. I never tried that.

Do you like rhubarb desserts?

 

[cabinfever]

Pork sausage patties wrapped in pancake with maple syrup

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

Pork sausage patties wrapped in pancake with maple syrup

Basically a high-end McGriddle, no?

 

[NotHardUp1]

The very best devilled eggs have sweet pickle relish in them, in addition to dill brine which is very salty. And tuna salad for sandwiches captures the exact same balance with the salty tuna mixed with sweet pickle relish.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Americans have a strange idea of what a pancake is.
To us, it's what the French would call a crêpe, and is an essential part of an enchilada. But it works equally well as as a dessert.

I would argue against those points. Multiple cultures sharing a common name by no means implies the dish is the same. Flatbread is a prime example, with it ranging from pita to crisp cracker-type.

Our pancakes are definitely flapjacks, and never thin as crepes. Additionally, crepes are almost always filled or topped with more than mere glaze, yet pancakes ARE the main dish with only garnishes added beyond the syrup.

Tortillas are used in enchiladas, as made by the descendants of the Spanish here, and Latinos, never have egg in them, whereas crepes are almost all egg. Whether flour or corn, tortillas have an intentional chewiness to them, and are never fall-apart delicate as every crepe must be.

 

[gsdx]

Do you like rhubarb desserts?

No. Especially cooked rhubarb. I like fresh rhubarb and fresh strawberries, but not cooked, and especially not in a strawberry rhubarb pie or jam. I like raw cabbage as well, but not cooked.

 

[cabinfever]

Basically a high-end McGriddle, no?

Yes but not as dry. I have been eating that since I was a teenager

 

[pigface]

I would argue against those points. Multiple cultures sharing a common name by no means implies the dish is the same. Flatbread is a prime example, with it ranging from pita to crisp cracker-type.

Our pancakes are definitely flapjacks, and never thin as crepes. Additionally, crepes are almost always filled or topped with more than mere glaze, yet pancakes ARE the main dish with only garnishes added beyond the syrup.

Tortillas are used in enchiladas, as made by the descendants of the Spanish here, and Latinos, never have egg in them, whereas crepes are almost all egg. Whether flour or corn, tortillas have an intentional chewiness to them, and are never fall-apart delicate as every crepe must be.

It is true, items vary among culture and retain the same name.
This is is one thing I like about the EU rules, if a food outlet names something as a pizza, or chocolate, etc., it has to fulfill certain requirements.

 

[Vannie]

I like raw cabbage as well, but not cooked.

Run for your lives!!!

 

[nycguydowntown]

Yes I have a “all natural “salty & sweet peanut and granola dipped in almond butter “yogurt “ bar before gym sometimes- it’s a fucking candy bar

 

[TickTockMan]

On the way home from an appointment I remembered DQ's peanut buster parfait. Maybe it depended on the DQ, but the ones without such salty peanuts were good. Maybe it was because the more salty ones were the one with that weird peanut casing left on though.

 

[PrinceCory]

Do you like rhubarb desserts?

I do like rhubarb desserts that are sweet. Eash spring our grocery store bakery has strawberry rhubarb pie's. I get one each year. They are not made from scratch. A couple weeks ago I bought a frozen Marie Callender strawberry rhubard pie with a crumble topping. I hope it will be just as good as the bakery "prepared" pie is.

It seems like when I was a kid we had some sort of rhubarb dessert that was more tart than sweet. But that is all I remember about it.

 

[PrinceCory]

I do like salty and sweet. In the last couple of years I have picked up a habit that I want a salty item after eating something sweet. I alway keep pretzels on hand to keep that habit going.

 

[Kahaih]

I do like salty and sweet. In the last couple of years I have picked up a habit that I want a salty item after eating something sweet. I alway keep pretzels on hand to keep that habit going.

I had forgotten about chocolate covered salted pretzels. I love those.

I forgot about them because chocolate triggers migraine headaches, so I can't have them.