"like pickles and ice cream"

[victor steinbok]

I think, you meant "proverbially don't or paradoxically do go
together". There is an implied resolution to the paradox, but,
whatever the case, the use is still sarcastic, even if affirmative.

VS-)

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
...
>
> By 1990 "pickles and ice cream" had come, in addition, to stand jocularly
> for any two items that proverbially don't or proverbially do go together.
...

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