Food you don't understand

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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?

Cauliflower rice - it’s rancid.

Is he whole dairy or just lactose intolerant? I became Lactose intolerant in my thirties and was grieving the loss of cheese, however I can eat the lactose free stuff.

Vegan cheese is vile it's coconut oil solidified and doesn't taste remotely cheesy.

Avocado. Tasteless mush

Ok. I know I'm infamous for my dislike as I've said it so many times but GARLIC!

How can anyone like it?? (Yes I know most people do but just how?)

It stinks vile , tastes vile and the second hand aroma from your breath and when it comes through your pores is disgusting.🤮

Unfortunately, it is in bloody everything these days so, as you can imagine, I have a pretty limited diet.🙄 (Dressed up as me being a fussy eater 😡)

That’s a genetic thing with coriander! To me lemongrass is just washing up liquid!

I’d bet the dish was only created in the first place when someone thought it was funny the words rhymed

I absolutely love celery!

Me too!

Oh, another one I love! Its the crunch and the very "green" taste.

Vegetarianism.

If you care enough not to eat the cow, why not enough to not drink the milk (that the baby cow has been taken away to leave for you and half the time killed).

Male chick's are killed for the egg industry to favour production hens and reduce unwanted costs of male chickens which can't lay eggs or be eaten (in a financially viable way).

If an animal is killed for the production If food or drink, I don't get how it can be vegetarian and is somehow different to vegan if being done for ethical reasons.

You are joking!! They are heavenly.

In a sauce or soup they are unexpectedly delicious, but I agree with you on the scaly, vinegary bits people dump in a salad.

Sugar. As a type 2 diabetic, why the fucking hell has nearly every food you can buy in a supermarket got sugar in it even if it's a savoury food...and if it's not sugar in some form already, your body turns it into sugar when you eat it. It's like a sick joke. My diet is so restricted it's unreal. The only good thing is that my blood sugars are "normal". Yay me

Very few foods that I dislike, but why do people eat vegan food that is processed to look like meat?

All the no-fish fish fingers, weird bacon lookalikie, plant based nuggets in breadcrumbs.
Usually a long list of weird ingredients, mostly scraps from vegetable processing factories and dust.

Fen celery is delicious, quite a different taste from the insipid stuff in the supermarkets, it even has protected status! Only a short season though, sadly.

White chocolate. It's sickly and isn't chocolate. What on earth is it, and why is it?

I agree with you, I can't stand it. I bought some sourdough pretzels by accident totally ruined my wine night!

Yes, I can't stand the taste of anything cooked in goose fat yet my parent's generation oooh and coo over it.

Like many things mentioned on here they're delicious if cooked properly, not started on 1st October in time for Christmas, the same applies to liver, if it's grey it's over-cooked and horrible, should be quite pink.

Have you roasted them in maple syrup and olive oil till golden?

Double sweet then. I'm not keen on sweet veg.

Ohhh, I love lettuce, particularly the boring iceberg. Adds crunch! If there's salad in the fridge I'll enjoy a lettuce sandwich. Bread (white is best for this although in general I'd prefer wholemeal), salad cream and lettuce - yum! Plain, simple, tasty! Ditto cucumber sandwiches (although these are best with a dusting of ground garlic, and in a wholemeal sandwich thin) - my friend turned her nose up at both of these, dismissing them as "water sandwiches" 😆But as a plain food, lettuce (the round, boring kind!) does enhance the flavour/texture of other foods. I love a bit of crunchy lettuce with anything pasta and sauce-y 😀

Anything that is an ‘organ’, so
liver, lungs, spleen, sweetbreads, kidneys, heart.

Greeks like to get lots of these organs, wrap them with pig intestine and roast it on a spit.
Not for me, thanks very much but I love black pudding 👌

Yes, that's my problem with parsnips too. Too sweet. The last thing they need is maple syrup 😅