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?

It’s totally offal 😝😝😝
And what an offal joke. Ha ha, boom boom 😄😄

That’s the best lettuce!

Soft, not scratchy, just a hint of bitterness (radicchio is very bitter - a little goes a long way), green and luscious.

i crave this kind of lettuce but for various reasons we end up with cold, watery, tasteless iceberg or scratchy frisée- or rocket, which I like but I want a soft lettuce!

*littleorangefox *
My ex mother in law often did belly pork on a Sunday.
I'm pretty sure that went a long way to me turning vegetarian.

Ruddy papayas…

Just discovered what I thought was a mango ( shopping without my glasses) is actually a papaya. I’m pretty catholic in my food tastes but I can’t cope with this insipid, watery, nauseating fruit. It literally makes me retch.

Mangos though…zingy, tangy, sweet, soft, smooth, unctuous….❤️

Oh I ate them ALL 😋

Razor clams.

Can't bear to see them on display at the seafood counter.

Who eats them? Who??

Bread sauce. Looks like baby’s vomit

I yearn for a seafood/fish shop near me so I can buy them.
Even my local supermarkets have axed their counters.

Camomile tea. It smells like cat wee. Used to work at a place where about 8 colleagues drank this and the break room stank of camomile tea. Then a lady started working and drank fennel tea! That is awful

They are so... anatomical 😱
I'm wincing.

Because that’s how your taste buds adapt. Also they say your taste adapts as you age. I didn’t like coffee, wine or olives at first. Now they are my favourites! And I’m less fussed by dessert which I used to love.

Yes, I'm offally sorry about that 😆

That's reminded me , I had mussels in a restaurant once and one was absolutely huge, and obscenely anatomical. I could barely eat for laughing.

Luckily all the others in my life have been normal sized as I love them.

Probably your food market might sell this.

Supermarkets dropped the counters as got very little money for the floor space. My friend works at a supermarket that takes £500k on a normal week and they took just £4.5k from the deli counter before covid. It was closed and never reopened.

Fat is delicious by most standards. Crispy bacon, the fat on the edge of a lamb chop, well marbled steak, chicken skin. Bless the air fryer that makes it all taste even better.

I don't get the weird processed hams though.
Chicken livers and hearts are absolutely delicious. Massive bovine or pigs livers are vom. Chewy with tubes.

Watermelon and cucumbers.

Pasta. I just don’t get the love unless one is actually in Italy.

Me. I can't cook them, they are a bit beyond my skills; but at a decent restaurant they can be wonderful.

Black pudding is absolutely delicious. But it’s made of a bucket of pig’s blood, lumps of lard and bread (with spices and seasonings).

I remember it from childhood and I loved it until I learned how it was made.

Illogical to reject some bits of an animal and eat others, but I can’t face it now.

Most shop bought cakes and biscuits, they generally have a really weird concoction of ingredients and don't even taste edible to me.

MacDonalds & Fast Food. Why do people eat such greasy crap? The smell - It really turns my stomach when people bring it onto the trains.

But lovely when someone else has done all the work and put the hearts in a jar! Thankyou to the artichoke wranglers, the world values your work.

I daresay, even in Italy, pasta is slimy and vile.

It's nasty.

You two should just stop kidneying around.

100%

Abomination!