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?

Durian - I tried the ice cream, but couldn’t get past the smell!

There are only two foods I cannot stand. Coriander - tastes of soap and spoils any dish it is in and celery. It tastes like it smells and the smell to me is public toilets!!

Also artificial sweetener, vile.

I enjoy almost all of the foods everyone has listed.

mushy peas and marrowfat peas, if I order fishand chips out I have to check which type of peas and if inspite of asking it comes with either of those I can't eat it, especially if it's marrowfat peas as the liquid soaks into everything else

I get hungry about every three hours, so no, I can't last. And I'm happy to 'admit it'.

I'm a really unfussy eater but I cannot deal with a few things:
Asparagus. I don't get the fuss. It's floppy and a bit obscene-looking IMO. Doesn't taste terrible, but neither do I find it delicious.

Truffle – bloody everywhere at the moment. I did try (I went on hols to Slovenia and a part of Croatia where it's ubiquitous) but it just turns my stomach. Hate when I have to walk past a truffle burger restaurant or van; the smell just forms a miasma circle for about 400 yards around it and it genuinely makes me feel ill.

Parsnips. Again, I've tried, but I just can't get on with them. They're weirdly greasy-tasting .

Sourdough!!! Why does everything have to be bloody sourdough. I know this is probably controversial, but of all the things I want my bread to be, sour is not one of them. Give me a nice freshly baked loaf of anything else any day.

My child will only eat the crumbed ham. No idea why 😂
Octopus is the food I will never eat. How can you eat such brilliant creatures. Howevever, I eat all other meat, no idea why I favour and revere the octopus over all others.
Flavoured crisps are also disgusting. Why you would want to eat a crisp flavoured with beef or cheese is beyond me. Absolutely disgusting.
I also don't get Marmite, Pan Au Chocolate, anchovies and pickled eggs.

Prawns are creepy and weird sea insects. Their outer body/shell/antennae is not appetising.

There's a few foods I dislike but the only one I "don't understand" is brioche burger buns.
Just why?!
Why does the delicious savoury burger need a sweet bun?

Actually pineapple on pizza too. Similar thing I guess, nice pizza ruined by sweetness (and unnecessary juice....)

Blue cheese. Grim.

I think the olive hatred is just geographical. It’s a staple food in my area, I didn’t know there were so many people against them before.

I snorted at this post! So descriptive!

I hate cinnamon and it gets everywhere!

Meatless bacon. Meatless sausages. No texture. Horrible

I eat lunch at 1pm, and often dont eat my evening meal til 9pm....its not that unreasonable to want something to eat in between (imo)
I sometimes have 2 biscuits or a banana or apple...but i eat them normally, no cramming involved.

I tried a durian fruit sweet recently, it was horrific, like a bite of sweaty armpit, I had to spit it out!

You lose tastebuds as you get older and they get less sensitive. So what used to taste like crap now tastes ok as you've got fewer, crappier tastebuds, not because they've matured.

I can't eat octopus any more either. I made the mistake of reading books and watching documentaries about how clever and amusing and characterful they are.
Weird really, seeing as I regularly look after a friend's chickens and find them amusing and characterful too (not so much clever though, sorry chickings), but I still feel OK about eating their brethren.

I thought this until recently DH got a rotisserie attachment for the bbq. I had had a really long day and my heart sank when he said hedgotpork belly for dinner but I was quite mind blown how nice it was, and not seeming like 95% fat like any other pork belly

Pineapple on pizza rules and I will die on this hill.

White dragone fruit is extremely mild. It's only one variety though, and by far the worst. The others all taste substantially nicer with sweet berry flavours.

Ripeness is also a pretty big factor compared to some fruit on top. If it's not ripe, it can be tasteless again no matter what variety.

It's not worth buying in the UK as we only really get the easier to produce blander one, and should be eaten perfectly ripe regardless and not before.

I like it too. With olives, mushrooms and ham. I don't care if I am judged for this, it's yum.

My husband was told at 45 he was dairy intolerant. He’s not vegan but still wants some cheese 😉

So you don’t like vegetables?

I don't much like the veg that seems to be traditionally served for Christmas dinner. The aforementioned parsnips <<vom>>, Brussels sprouts (I'm OK with them but wouldn't voluntarily cook or order them), cooked carrots ditto.
I love a roast potato though, I'm not a philistine.

@ChippySauce I totally agree about breaded ham…if I get served it, I have to pick it off.

Beetroot - Tastes of mud.