Weird food combinations

Reporter Catherine Musgrove tries out some bizarre food combinations suggested by readers.

Transcript

00:00 A couple of weeks ago I reached out to our readers and asked them what were the weird

00:05 food combinations that they've stumbled across that actually taste good. So, Alice and Grimshaw,

00:11 you were the first person to respond and you said Lancashire crumbly cheese and black treacle.

00:18 So I'm going to give it a go and I'm also going to do the second suggestion but more

00:23 of that in a minute.

00:26 Alice and you haven't actually said what you put the crumbly cheese on. So I've got some

00:31 sandwich tins. I'm going to give that a whirl.

00:36 Right, no idea how I'm doing this but all I've done is I've taken about a tablespoon

00:52 of black treacle, thickly spread it as if it was jam and then put some chunks of the

00:58 crumbly cheese on here. It is a mess, you can see all the syrup, the treacle has kind

01:02 of made a mess on the plate. We've got crumbly cheese. I've not made it look enticing and

01:09 full disclosure here, I shouldn't probably say this as a Lancashire girl but crumbly

01:15 Lancashire cheese really isn't my favourite but I'm prepared to give it a go.

01:19 Alice and I have got to give it to you. That actually is surprisingly nice. Not a massive

01:25 fan of the cheese as I've just said on its own and the treacle I very, very would rarely

01:31 have unless I was making some kind of bonfire night toffee but together quite a nice combination.

01:40 It kind of balances itself out. Not overly sweet, not overly bitter or anything like

01:48 that. Just actually really quite pleasant on toast. So yeah, Alison, good shout.

01:54 So the second suggestion was from Jo Hanson and you said Marmite and Marmalade. Again

02:01 I don't think you've given a serving instruction so again I'm going to put it on something

02:06 quite bland. I'm going to do it on a piece of toast and see what I think.

02:11 Jo's suggestion, it looks awful because obviously they're both kind of sloppy. I do like Marmite

02:20 though so that's a good start to get off on I feel so here we go. Okay, I've had two bites.

02:31 Not as good as the first one. The first one is a winner. This one, I don't hate it. Obviously

02:37 it helps that I do like Marmite and I do like Marmalade on their own. I feel like they're

02:43 just better on their own. Just have Marmite on toast or Marmalade on toast. You don't

02:49 need to be making this horrible looking mixture. It's alright, I don't hate it but I won't