Monday night at BYU-Idaho means finding a treat everyone will like.

With as many different backgrounds as students, BYU-I houses a unique combination of favorite treats. Marcos Sanchez, a freshman from Portland, Ore., had a chance to taste diversity at Home Evening. Vanilla ice cream with dill pickles was placed in front of the brave soul.

Sanchez quietly looked at the treat while he built up his courage. As he took one bite, a slight smile came to his face. Did he like it? “It’s different,” Sanchez said. His face gave everything away.

Who came up with the idea to mix pickles and ice cream? Shila Poole, a freshman from Shelley, Idaho, had a friend whose mom used to eat it. She said it was just one of those things.

Poole never tried it and doesn’t care to. Others may feel the same about Poole’s taste for sugar on cottage cheese.

Weird combinations people enjoy are sometimes started by rumors and travel through culture. “My mom used to eat her cottage cheese that way,” Poole said. “Now I always do.”

Restaurants on campus catch just a small glimpse of what foods people combine for taste preference. JoLynn’s Bakery and Bagel Shoppe in the Manwaring Center serves mostly bagels. But Megan Butcher, a senior from Maysville, Ken., and Haley Hazard, a freshman from Rexburg, have had students request some strange combinations.

They have had students order cheese bagels with strawberry cream cheese, or worse, cinnamon toast bagels with jalapeno cream cheese. Butcher once had someone explain that they like the mix of sugar and salt. “But I think it would be gross,” Butcher said.

Trying new and strange foods can be fun. Poole said she is willing to try something if someone she trusts tells her it is good. Sanchez will try something if he gets something else out of it.

“The chocolate chip cookies I got for trying it were delicious,” Sanchez said.

So whether it is ice cream mixed with pickles or peanut butter on cabbage, everybody has their own wierd treats.