134: Fries in Greek Yogurt?! Our Strangest Snack Habits Revealed

Roula (00:01)

Yeah, we had a lot of long episodes in the past few weeks, so it's okay to have short and sweet now. I'm gonna start with the first one. And of course, if you have other episodes, you bring in the next one. Okay, let's talk about...

Rosie (00:00)

talk a

Roula (00:19)

Okay, no, no, I'm starting with a question, of course. What's wrong with me?

What's the weirdest food pairing you've ever made?

Rosie (00:43)

You're probably not gonna find it weird. I thought it was weird when I first had a cheese and jam. I thought that was so weird and then I discovered the French do that all the time. I've had...apparently, yeah. You've never...oh you gotta try it on toast. Cheese and jam. Yeah. Delicious. It's like the...yeah. I like...yeah strawberry jam's good. Yeah. Yeah.

Roula (00:53)

They do? Cheese and jam? I also haven't heard of it. No!

Okay, whatever, Tom.

Next stop.

Cheese and jam? Ok describe it.

Rosie (01:14)

⁓ well, it's like there's the rich creaminess of the cheese, the savory flavor, and then there's the sweet contrast of the jam and then the crunch of the toast. And I like butter, so I had butter on it too. It's just so good. So good. ⁓ So that's that's the first thing that came to mind, I think. What about you?

Roula (01:37)

Okay.

Okay, I will go so maybe this will remind you of your stuff. So I love to eat my fries, French fries, chips, people, some people country-colored chips. I love to eat my fries with Greek yogurt.

Rosie (02:00)

⁓

Roula (02:02)

So I dip my fries in the yogurt instead of mayonnaise or ketchup. So I dip it in the yogurt. This is like, ⁓ I love that.

Rosie (02:08)

Yum! I think that would be really yummy.

Ooh! Just plain Greek yogurt. No like garlic or anything. Just plain.

Roula (02:16)

Plain, no, no, no,

Greek. But now you're giving me ideas, maybe with garlic and... But it's quick. Yeah, I love that.

Rosie (02:20)

yeah. Yeah. Otsatsuki dip. Mmm. Yeah, yum. I don't think that sounds weird.

I've never had it, but I want to try it.

Roula (02:32)

Cool, okay, and I'm gonna try the cheese and jam. Yeah.

Rosie (02:34)

Cheese and jam, yes. Have you ever had

peanut butter and jam? That's also quite nice. How about peanut butter and banana?

Roula (02:41)

Yes. Well, ⁓ yeah, that's my that's I

prefer this one. I eat it before I go to workout. I can't say I like it. It's so heavy on my stomach. I just have a small piece and I force myself to eat it. It's not disgusting, but it's not like the taste that I like. No, no. The other weird thing that I eat that also involves Greek yogurt.

Rosie (02:59)

⁓ you don't enjoy it. Interesting.

Yeah.

Roula (03:10)

And that is, cook rice

and I eat it with Greek yogurt.

Rosie (03:15)

Yum. That's not weird. Because you know the Greek eat, they'll make lamps of lachia and they'll have that with rice and yogurt or tzatziki. I think that's, yeah. You like, really? You like Greek yogurt, huh?

Roula (03:25)

People around me find it really really weird.

I love Greek. I eat it with

everything.

Rosie (03:37)

I really want to try making my own Greek yogurt. Apparently it's easy. All you need to kick start it is like a spoonful of yogurt you already have. And then I think you heat it up with milk and stir, stir, stir. And then it has to sit out for a few hours. I need to research it, but apparently it's very straightforward.

Roula (03:55)

remember my mom used to make

it, to make the yogurt. Well, we're Lebanese, but our yogurt resemble the Greek yogurt. After she does this, like after she cook it with the milk, I don't think she get it to a boiling point. I don't remember. But I know she had a special white cloth and then she put it in it. She sealed the cloth and she let it sit in there for a few days until it becomes.

Rosie (04:08)

No.

Yes.

A

days, wow, yeah.

Roula (04:22)

Hold on, is

she making tzatziki or is she making yogurt with this cloth? I can't remember. Maybe the cloth to make tzatziki so it gets harder.

Rosie (04:32)

Yeah, I don't know. That's... ⁓ We can't ask her, yes.

Roula (04:32)

Anyway, well, she's not no longer between us, so I can ask her.

Yes. OK, so what comes to your mind? Another food pairing.

Rosie (04:45)

Hmm. you know what other people find funny that is not, it's not funny to other cultures. So it's a Vietnamese dessert. I feel like I might've mentioned this on an episode. It's three color drink. Is it chow, chowboy, Mao or something? Hang on. I've said that wrong. Hang on. Let me find it. So.

Roula (05:02)

No, I don't remember you mentioning it.

Well, in the meantime, I'm looking

at my hair because I had a haircut and I'm checking how it looks on the screen. Thank you.

Rosie (05:10)

It looks nice. I did notice that.

So it has three layers. Let me show you a picture.

Roula (05:23)

red, yellow, green, red, green, white.

Rosie (05:25)

Yeah, so it's got

red beans. So they look like kidney beans, but they're sweet. And then it has,

mung beans, the yellow is mung beans and the green is agar agar jelly so it's flavorless but it's just like firm.

Roula (05:41)

Okay, all three, never heard of them. I

don't know what they are. Can't tell what, how you write them.

Rosie (05:48)

Okay, so imagine this.

Have you had kidney beans? Okay, so imagine that. Okay, imagine that texture. So eating beans, but sweet, but same texture. And then you've got yellow mung beans. So sort of like baby food, but a little bit gritty. And then really firm jelly, not soft jelly like aeroplane jelly, like really firm. And then filled with

Roula (05:52)

Yes, I love, I love kidney beans.

Yeah? Okay.

Uh-huh, uh-huh. Aeroplane. Jelly.

Rosie (06:17)

crushed ice and coconut milk.

Roula (06:22)

⁓ it's Vietnamese. So maybe I'll check a Vietnamese shop to see what I like to try these things.

Rosie (06:25)

Yeah, yeah.

⁓ it is so

yummy. So yummy. ⁓ Yes. Yes.

Roula (06:36)

Talking about fries, there's

another variation of fries that Dutch people love it. I don't like it, but it's super popular here. And I find it the weirdest combination ever. It's called patatje orloog. And patatje is fries, orloog is war. It's a bucket of fries. They top it up with warm peanut sauce.

Rosie (06:45)

Yeah.

Yeah.

Ooh!

Roula (07:06)

On top of it, they put onion.

Rosie (07:10)

Okay.

Roula (07:12)

And mayonnaise, which is, which is fruit sauce. It's something that the Dutch created. It doesn't exist anywhere else. It looks like mayonnaise, but it's a little bit sweeter, a little bit yellowish. Sure. Of course, sweeter. Of course. Sugar. ⁓ Yeah. Yeah. Like you can buy it by mistake thinking you're buying mayonnaise and then you taste it and it's super sweet. And this, this, but that's your horloge. These combinations.

Rosie (07:13)

Ugh.

Okay, but same sort of texture and richness as mayonnaise. Okay, yeah.

huh. huh. Okay.

Roula (07:39)

People love it. I don't at all because I don't like sweet ⁓ savory.

Rosie (07:46)

well you're gonna hate cheese and jam then. Yeah.

Roula (07:49)

I think so, but I will try it.

And it's very popular, super popular.

Rosie (07:54)

I liked the sound of it when you said peanut sauce. I'm like, okay, I can get down with that. And then the fried onions. I'm like, okay, yeah. then raw, white onion or purple, red, white. ⁓ no. And then what was the other thing? What is it? Like mayonnaise, but what is it? What's it called?

Roula (08:01)

No, no, they're not even fried, they're just plain chopped onions. Ro-ro. White. White. Yes, white.

⁓ Like mayonnaise,

Fried sauce.

Rosie (08:19)

Fritzauce. Mmm, yeah, that doesn't sound... Mmm. Interesting.

Roula (08:24)

But talking,

this brings me to talking about onion. OK, one of my favorite breakfast to talk to the other things we talked about earlier. I love I love to fry an egg and leave the yellow liquidy. This should not the yellow must remain soft liquid. OK. Almost slimy, but not white. It has to be cooked warm. It has to be warm.

Rosie (08:31)

⁓

Huh.

soft here.

but not slimy, Ugh! ⁓

Yes.

Yeah, yeah.

Roula (08:54)

So fried egg and then I put salt and pepper on it and I chop a red onion and I eat it raw with the fried egg. But it only makes it good if I eat it with Lebanese bread. So not without bread. So many.

Rosie (08:58)

Mm-hmm.

Ooh, wow.

Mmm. It sounds so Mediterranean. Definitely like that's so yeah. Oh, it's like I like to

have big chunky slices of tomato with olive oil and garlic. Mmm. Mmm. Oh yeah. Yeah. The breath smells amazing.

Roula (09:26)

⁓ so good! And this, if you eat this with rice, cooked rice? ⁓ that's a lovely dinner!

yeah, my poor husband sometimes is like, did you eat raw onion again? I love to eat raw onions.

Rosie (09:45)

To you, wow. I go

through phases, sometimes, not white onion, but red onions sometimes is, sometimes it just hits the spot. Mm.

Roula (09:54)

Yeah. So when I came to

this episode to share it with you, I thought you will be like, ⁓ this is gross. This is weird. But now it feels like they're not weird, the things I eat.

Rosie (10:01)

No? Yeah!

We talk about food a lot, don't we? I think we're a bit obsessed, yeah.

Roula (10:09)

Yeah,

not really. It's food as part of our life. And come on, we enjoy gathering, eating food. When we eat food, we feel some kind of satisfaction.

Rosie (10:21)

I think you and I

are similar in that way. Food is tied in with emotion and memories and connecting with people, sharing with people we love. Whereas for others it seems food is not special.

Roula (10:31)

Yeah.

But I don't tie it with sadness.

don't tie it with, so if I'm angry, it's not I go and eat more if I'm upset. Food is not ⁓ treating my emotional state. Food adds to my happiness.

Rosie (10:49)

Well that happens for me, but yeah.

I love that. For me it does both.

Roula (10:58)

⁓ okay. So when you're angry or upset, you eat.

Rosie (10:59)

Mm.

Probably stressed or sad is when I would, yeah, eat lots. Yeah. It's like my comfort.

Roula (11:06)

Mmm.

think

it's crazy. For myself, think the program I did to quit smoking helped me also look at all other things in the same way. Because when I did the program to quit smoking, we never talked about this, now we're moving into smoking. ⁓ I started smoking when I was 13. And then I stopped before I got pregnant with my first child.

Rosie (11:23)

Mm-mm.

good.

⁓ You rebel!

Roula (11:38)

And I quit smoking for 11 years. then during my divorce and I moved and I started smoking again. I quit again before I got pregnant with Liam. And then I came back to smoking. So in 2019, I quit smoking. But this time, no, but this time I did a program that it's it's similar to, I don't know, I say similar to the

Rosie (11:38)

Mm.

Mm-hmm.

This isn't long ago.

Roula (12:08)

alcoholic or whatever program. But this program blew my mind because it's really resetted my entire system into a non-smoker again. Okay. And I'm saying this because one part of the program was that quitting smoking doesn't mean compensating with food or drinks or search for other things.

Rosie (12:09)

Alcoholic Anonymous, yeah, yeah.

Really?

Why not?

Because this is what often happens,

isn't it? People quit smoking and then they stack on all this weight. That's a very common thing, yeah.

Roula (12:36)

Yes.

And this what helped me in understanding that grabbing this bag of chips because I don't know what to eat or because I'm feeling certain emotions will make me feel so bad afterwards. So why the fuck am I grabbing it? So let me make my decision now before I regret it later. And this was really why my relationship with food changed after I quit smoking.

Rosie (12:47)

Mm-mm.

Yeah.

Mmm.

I like that. That's really cool.

Roula (13:07)

I also like to eat potato chips, chips crack, what do call it? Not the fries. Okay, with Greek yogurt.

Rosie (13:14)

Yeah, chips. We call them chips. We call them both chips over here.

yeah, I've done that. Although not plain. I usually make tzatziki or something, but yeah. yoghurt's delicious. I love it. Sometimes I'll have it with fruit. Greek yoghurt! I really want to make some even more now and eat some on the podcast.

Roula (13:28)

We should call this episode Greek Yogurt.

Yeah! Wow!

Rosie (13:38)

I have to try it with

⁓ hot chips. Fries. What's that? Lekker.

Roula (13:42)

Lekker

I think we need the help of the listeners to find weird combinations of food. We're not that creative in this. Yeah, we're sorry guys. We really need you girls too.

Rosie (13:50)

yeah, we let the team down didn't we? No.

Actually, everyone needs to go try the Vietnamese three-colour drink. I reckon most people won't like it. I love it. And it's so filling. It's almost like a meal. I love it. In fact, maybe I should get ingredients to make it. That is a fabulous idea. Rula, we were meant to have a short episode. ⁓ We failed, but I quite enjoyed it. So thank you for the chat. Bye!

Roula (14:10)

Alright.

Thank for listening. Bye!