Food you don't understand

[ChippySauce]

Crumbed ham.

I don't get it.
What does the crumb bring?
It can't be textural as it's usually soggy.
Can any crumbed ham aficionados please enlighten me?

Are there other food mysteries you'd like clearing up?

I agree. And it mostly seems to be a toxic orange colour. Very odd.

Yes you're right about the colour - almost neon orange!
It sometimes comes disguised as "breaded" ham.
Still none the wiser as to its purpose though 🤷‍♀️

Olives. Nearly everyone says they didn't like them the first time – so why carry on??

Celery. Stringy green water with an unpleasant taste. Just why?? It's not food.

Surf and turf. I love beef and seafood. I specifically love steak and prawns. But putting them together is wrong on every level IMO

Lettuce. What is the point, esp the traditional round lettuce.

Anything with okra in it.

I am a broad-minded foodie who will happily eat almost anything, but I am baffled by the inclusion of okra in things.

It's like somebody thought, 'Ooh, no, this delicious curry / stew / rice dish is WAY too nice - let's take it down a notch by adding this bitter, stringy yet also curiously slimy green stuff to it.'

I don't see oysters as food. You've got to go to all that effort to collect them, then break into them, and it looks like a snotty phlegmy mess in there you swallow down. Eww, why.

I'm not very keen on watermelon - it doesn't taste of very much, it's like crunchy water. I accept that maybe the watermelons we get in this country may not be the most flavourful as they've presumably been picked early to last for travel. It looks so pretty but it's disappointing.

If the okra is slimy, it means it has not been cooked enough.

I’m guessing the crumb on ham is to conceal the layer of white fat. We see the fat on the slices but that’s not as stomach turning as the bare fat on a whole ham would be.

Raw oysters are a revolting idea. They are alive ffs. That the way to eat them is to tip them down your throat without chewing makes the whole thing pointless.

Apparently, they are sometimes included in meat pies, so cooked and chewed. I’ve never had that type of pie but can’t imagine the oysters enhance a meat pie much or it would be more common. So again, pointless

Avocados. Just NO.

Globe artichokes. So much work for so little that’s edible.

Okra is my son's favourite veg! If it is slimey, it has been cooked wrong.

Brussels sprouts. Food of the devil.

Why people eat dead bodies? I’ll never understand it.

Meat
Fish
Seafood
Fennel
Jerusalem artichokes
Durian fruit

Snacking in general. Can people really not last between meals without cramming themselves full of more food? Admit it, you eat 6 meals a day.

I don't understand people who think you can reheat cooked pasta. It makes me feel nauseous. And people who meal prep pasta mixed with sauce and freeze it, then reheat. The texture! So soggy!

I don't see the purpose of whelks. I had them once at the seaside and it was just chewing vinegary rubber. I literally couldn't swallow it. Awful!

My worst one is margarine. It is not food. It's some kind of horrific byproduct of the petrochemical industry. Just the smell freaks me out. And when people call it 'butter'. Arrgghhhhh!!!

I like oysters, but I have to admit, I don't understand why!

Avocado, okra, globe artichokes, olives are all favourites in this house. Celery too - with a lump of cheese.

I'm kind of with you about the breaded ham though.

Some exotic fruits are pointless. Star fruit only exists for its shape I think. And I can never get very excited about mange tout. I love proper cheese and don't understand putting weird flavours and bits it in.

Vegan cheese? Why?

More importantly, why is it now on most vegetarian menus - I like cheese

Am definitely with you! Revolting!

I don't see the purpose of whelks. I had them once at the seaside and it was just chewing vinegary rubber. I literally couldn't swallow it. Awful!

I feel the same about snails. I'd rather have my garlic butter on something less chewy and easier to extract from a shell.

Well I don’t know what kind of meals you have but a couple of biscuits with my coffee mid afternoon is most definitely not a meal. But by your reckoning it is?

weird.

Oooh yes, keep your cranberries out of my wensleydale. Vile.

@pinkspeakers so with you on the fruit/cheese thing 🙄

like you wouldn’t add ham to chocolate- don’t put pineapple in my Stilton