12 Crazy Food Flavors That Will Totally Wow Your Palate

If you’re an adventurous eater, you may know just how delicious odd food pairings can be. On the surface, they may sound offputting, but there's something about how they come together for a robust and unique flavor.

Think peanut butter and pickles, apples on grilled cheese, or melon and cheese. These crazy food flavors take adventurous eating to another level.

Odd food pairings may be bizarre or unusual to most of us, but someone out there always loves them! These are the 12 crazy food flavors you never knew existed.

Bacon-Infused Coffee

If you love bacon, why not add a bit of caffeine to punch it up? This pairing might be the ultimate indulgence for your morning routine.

Bacon’s salty, smoky flavor complements coffee’s bitterness for a unique breakfast or mid-afternoon pick-me-up. To really lean into the sweet and salty flavor, serve it over ice and add in a dollop of salted whipped cream.

Banana Soup

Banana soup has origins in Africa and the Caribbean. Though it varies from country to country, it’s a vegan-style soup with bananas as the staple ingredient, with often added ingredients like squash, nut milk, vegetables and vegetable broth, and curry.

The soup is often garnished with mashed garlic and ground pistachios for added texture, but it doesn’t have to be!

Avocado Ice Cream

Avocado is typically associated with savory dishes, not sweet treats, but its creamy texture is a natural fit for ice cream!

Paired with sugar and cream, avocado ice cream is a unique dessert option that you can find in some elevated ice cream shops. Best of all, it can be a vegan alternative for those who stray from animal-based eats but still want to experience the frozen delights of ice cream.

Black Garlic Hummus

If you love hummus, try a black garlic hummus version! Black garlic is made by aging garlic cloves for several weeks, making fermented black garlic.

This process changes the typical sharp taste of fresh garlic into a savory and umami-rich clove.  Try black garlic in hummus, pureed with chickpeas, tahini, and olive oil.

Urfa Desserts

The Urfa pepper is a lesser-known chile from Turkey with an intriguing taste and deep burgundy color. For sweet and spicy desserts, ufra chili peppers can be added to homemade peanut butter cups, cheesecake, cookies, brownies, and more.

This one is a lot like cayenne and chocolate paring, which are popular in Mexico.

Chocolate Covered Bacon

Another bacon flavor! Bacon and chocolate work well together because they’re both rich and have bitter undertastes. Besides, if you’ve ever enjoyed a breakfast of bacon and pancakes, you know bacon goes well with the sweetness of syrup.

So, why not try it with chocolate?  If chocolate isn’t your thing, bacon “candy” also exists, which is simply bacon coated in brown sugar and baked to a caramel perfection.

Hot Honey Pizza

One part spicy, one part sweet! Hot honey works best with spicy meats, like pepperoni and hard cheeses, because it reduces their sharpness and adds a nice sticky texture contrast.

This addition to traditional pizza has become so popular that Pizza Hut recently added its own hot honey pizza (and wings!) to the menu.

Eel Flavored Ice Cream

Eel-flavored ice cream, also known as unagi ice cream, is a sweet and salty flavor popular in Japan. Unsurprisingly, that’s not the only eye-popping ice cream flavor you’ll find in Japan!

Squid, octopus, garlic, shark fin, and sweet potato ice cream flavors are all wild treats you can indulge in across the Pacific.

Durian Flavored Chips

You either love durian or you hate it. The smell has been described as rotten egg, skunk, caramel, soup seasoning, and vanilla! Sounds tempting, doesn't it?

However, durian chips have an almost cult following in South Asia. According to those who have tried them, durian chips taste different from fresh durian and are crispy, crunchy, and a little nutty with only a mild durian scent.

Matcha Popcorn

Matcha is a finely ground powder made from green tea leaves. It has a vibrant green color and earthy, slightly bitter taste. When added to our favorite movie snack, though, it has a mild, umami flavor that pairs nicely with the salty crunch of popcorn.

You can find matcha popcorn in some upscale grocery stores or make your own by tossing hot popcorn with coconut oil and a little food-grade matcha powder.

Curry Yogurt

Creamy yogurt with coconut and curry! Savory yogurts are the norm in many South Asian countries, and this unique flavor can be enjoyed as a breakfast or to cool down spicy meats and legumes.

The sweetness of the yogurt helps to balance the spicy heat of the curry powder.

Chili Chocolate Bars

While it might sound like an odd flavor pairing, chocolate and chili have complemented each other for centuries. The intensity of bitter dark chocolate pairs well with a slight heat from hot chili peppers.

This combo of flavors works well for chocolate bars or specialty desserts. Sprinkle some chili peppers into the next batch of brownies you make, or maybe stir some into that vanilla ice cream you covet. The touch of heat elevates the experience tenfold.