Incompatable Food Triad Challenge

[jcattles]

This is a challenge to take three foods and pair a+b, a+c, b+c, which are all good together, but if you put a+b+c together, it's not good. Come on chowhounders, lets' rack our brains and come up with some great combo's! Click on the link below to read more about it.

http://www.georgehart.com/triad.html

I'm still thinking of my combo's. I'll post when I have one

[jcattles]

I got one!
Tortillas, refried beans, and chocolate.
No wait, beans and chocolate would be nasty. Never mind...

[racer x]

But lots of Mexican restaurants in the US serve mole poblano with refried beans.

[jcattles]

Well hell, there goes that one too.

[racer x]

beer, strawberries, and chocolate?

[jcattles]

stawberry shortcake with a chocolate and stout beer reduction?

[racer x]

blech

[Emme]

peanut butter, cranberry sauce, and turkey?

[jcattles]

maybe, but doesn't satay have pb? You could substitute turkey for chicken? Served with a cranberry chutney. that does sound good

[moh]

I've been thinking about this question since it first got posted, and so far no relief. I'm thinking kimchi is a possible pillar for a triad though.

[meatn3]

My brain became fixated on the appalling combo of canned tuna & marshmallows and I have been unable to tear myself away from the horror of that!

Kimchi has distinct possibilities. It would be fun to have a "classic" ingredient from three distinct culinary traditions!

[Catskillgirl]

"canned tuna & marshmallows "
Thanks for sharing *that* nightmare. Shudder. Now I can't get it out of my mind, and I, of course, am lunching on tuna salad on onion rye.

That's so nasty.

[Sister Y]

My friends and I played with this over the course of months, and I finally came up with

Chocolate
Blue cheese
Jalepenos

(There was once a great chowhound post about a dark chocolate cupcake filled with molten blue cheese that sounded great - I think the others are self-explanatory)

[Bat Guano]

Bacon, chocolate and peanut butter. All 3 together sounds disgusting, at least to me, but any 2 together are classics.

[jcattles]

Bacon & Chocolate? Really? Guess I'll have to try it.

[Bat Guano]

Well, I confess I've never tried it. But apparently some people like it:

http://www.chowhound.com/topics/406783

[jodymaryk]

I tried a chocolate at a small shop in Joseph, OR that had bacon in it. It was pretty good, a little smoky.

[Chuckles the Clone]

Chocolate + bacon = http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/b...

[babette feasts]

Ha, I would totally eat that! A peanut butter truffle with crisp bacon bits, dipped in dark chocolate, maybe a little fleur de sel on top - that's going on my 'to make' list.

[Bat Guano]

Actually you're right, that doesn't sound too bad. I withdraw the suggestion.