Strawberries+ [insertfoodhere]=not always a great combo.

Strawberries are a great treat on their own. Over the years people have combined strawberries with multiple other dishes that have turned out great. Such as addining it into ice cream, or ontop of shortbread. There are just too many great things that have been combined with strawberries to enhance the greatness of this already awesome fruit. However, some combinations should never have happened.

Some people may already know about my severe dislike of hotdogs. I had a very traumatic episode with this food when I was younger (ok not that traumatic.. but food poisoning is awful at any age) and ever since I have avoided them, plus the fact that I have no idea what they are made of really scares me. Ok so now that everyone knows about my dislike of hotdogs... onto the point of the story. In class today we were discussing tofu and the various ways it can be prepared. Denise then told a story of her cousins who were alternating eating tofu dogs and strawberries. It may have just been the image in my mind, but this idea is utterly nauseating to me. Tofu resembling a hotdog in one hand, half eaten strawberries with the juice running everywhere in the other hand. Not exactly appetizing.

I will say that strawberries do make a great dessert at the end of barbeque that may have served hotdogs earlier in the meal. For me at least, these two should never be combined in the mouth. Strawberries have such a unique flavor and texture on their own that definitley would not combine well with the unique texture of tofu and the artificial hotdog flavors.

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