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?

Avocados- horrid texture. Just how can anyone find them appealing? I feel they are a food eaten by people trying to be posh.
Olives- just yuk. And they ruin the taste of anything they are in.
Pomegranates- I mean the taste is nice enough but they are a bit insubstantial, seedy and too much effort.
Mangos- they take forever to ripen and then are suitable for eating for like five seconds. And they are too sickly sweet with a weird texture.
Donner meat- looks completely unappetising and tastes worse
Turkish delight- like eating a gel air freshener

100% this

What am I reading?! A water sandwich, I can’t cope 😱😷😂😂

Sultanas in curry and coronation chicken

Lychees - like eating an eyeball!

But gazpacho isn't meant to be served at room temperature, sitting out on a sunny afternoon with a cup of ice cold proper gazpacho is wonderful. Just because it gets called a 'soup' doesn't mean it has to be hot, vichyssoise is another refreshing cold soup, they must be ice cold though, not just left out and forgotten.

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

@FartNRoses oh I know, it's just offal isn't it ( 😂sorry, family joke. I'll get my coat...)

Passion fruit. It tastes like vomit.
Coriander - tastes of soap (nb. I am aware this is a genetic thing)

Not cooked "Christmas Dinner" style.
Carrots I prefer raw as sticks or grated in a salad.
I could maybe eat a roasted parsnip if I really had too.
Hate brussels sprouts and cauliflower.
Veggies I like are peppers, broccoli and courgettes.
You don't get that on a traditional Christmas dinner.

I always think they should taste like melon but absolutely not ! They have a weird wet pear texture .

Cows breast milk

I'm with your Mum, so that's at least three of us, it looks vile. Why is it now mac'n'cheese when it was macaroni cheese forever in the UK?

Cheese with yuck in it.
Pickle 🤮 (the branston stuff)
Pickled eggs
Fruit in savoury stuff (looking at you, coronation chicken!!)

People should only have Yorkshire puddings - hate people calling them yorkies, with roast beef. Plus needs to be homemade. Not Aunt Bessie’s rubbish. Ideally the YP needs to be cooked in a square or rectangular pan. Then divide it into the number of people having it

No roast dinner esp Christmas dinner should have anything made by Aunt Bessie’s gracing the plate.

I spat out my tea laughing at that! 🤣 😂😅

Had to laugh at this .I once bought a microwave pk of this to have at lunch. I work at a school and we ate with the kids .They were all blaming each other for who had farted as the smell if it was so bad ! Had to admit it was my lunch.I binned it as smelt awful !
One for me is Bread sauce never tasted it but looks awful

Oysters too. Tried them a few times and they are simply disgusting, a big salty glob of snot

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Fruit in chocolate bars.

I feel like fruit in chocolate is one of those things you get someone you hate for Easter.

The Schnelly outside our supermarket where we lived in Germany did Brathering, bliss in a bun, marinated but also roasted herrings.

Mangoes. Love the initial taste but then they just taste mouldy to me.

Steak. I don’t understand what’s so appealing about a big lump of meat 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’d much rather eat some slow cooked braising steak in a delicious gravy!

I actually think they have a bitter undertone.

Fruit in cheese. Cheese should be savoury or sharp. Not sweet. Though many years ago when I was at a Waitrose, they had Wensleydale with lemon to sample. That was fine as the lemon wasn’t sweet.

Cottage cheese. Looks like the inside of a brain

I must be the only Greek that doesn't like Olives.

Bread sauce is wonderful, but must be home made. Not out of a packet or even chilled supermarket stuff. Please try it - it's delicious!