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?

You are solidified Jizz? 😱

I used to eat it when young and then a switch flicked and I can't face it either. As a girl I thought it was delicious.

No such thing as a food market anywhere near me !

There used to be a fish van that came to the village on Mondays, but I was brought up never to buy or eat fish on Mondays as the boats weren't out on Sundays. It stopped in 2020 anyway.

It's a tactical manoeuvre on trains. Stops people sitting next to you.

Not that I've ever done that....

Blue cheese. Let’s be honest, if someone said eat this chicken, it’s got mould on it, or have a slice of this cake it’s got mould on it, or would you like me to make you some toast with this mouldy bread the answers would be no, no and no.

But offer some people cheese that is so mouldy the mould has gone right through to the middle, tell them it is a heritage food , and some people, naming no names, believe the hype and eat it.

Irrational, illogical and very very wrong.

Ultra Processed Meats - such as Fridge Raiders. They smell vile and look like dog food. (Indeed - I’ve only ever known people use them as dog treats irl).

The innards, bones and pieces of dead animals, birds and fish

Bacon. As in, I don't understand what all the various bacon options mean: back, smoky, I smoked etc etc.

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Sodabread £87 a loaf for what

Lardons - just fat with a slither of meat

Ribs - like Ladons

Chicken wings - a mouthful of meat and it’s done

I usually mention risotto on these threads. This is the first time anyone else has. I hate the texture of it so much. And the taste is always a real disappointment.

Just remembered how much I hate cooked spinach. Salad spinach leaves yes. Sloppy cooked spinach, bleugh. It tastes like I would imagine the wet mulchy grass stuck in a lawnmower would taste.

😂

You'd better beliver it, we belung together! 🙈

You would think. I can say differently. It had a firm and yet floury texture. One also only needed 5 pieces to be comfortably full.

Dead bodies? I love 'em.

Beer is also an acquired taste. I do not see the point of having to acquire a liking for something. Beer and olives -I’m looking at you.

Hi love, are you coming for Christmas this year? X

Baked beans with full English breakfast. I like beans on toast, with chips etc but I don’t want my egg and bacon swimming in them!

Ah, coriander! Something apparently to do with the OR6A2 gene!

Theres even an annual I Hate Coriander day!

https://www.cookist.com/why-do-so-many-people-dont-like-coriander-the-explanation-is-in-our-dna/

@Lurkingandlearning "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."

Oysters were put in meat pies to pad the filling out and make it go further. In the 18th and 19th centuries and even up to the early part of the 20th century, oysters were cheap and considered the food of the poor. Some restaurants may include them in meat pies now because it sounds posh!

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.

Ah, watermelons. On my first trip to Italy when I was 17, I had a delicious Italian ice cream every day. I mean, who goes to Italy and not eat the ice cream? Then, on the last day, we walked across a bridge in some town somewhere and there was a water melon seller. He cut me off a slice of water melon, and as I ate it, I realised that I had been treating myself to the wrong thing. I have never forgotten the impression it made on me. Watermelons need to be eaten in the country they grow.

Aw, don't worry. You won't hurt their feelings.

I had a beef and oyster pie a few years ago somewhere very fancy. It was actually amazing! I doubt I would be able to recreate it though.

It does sound good.

🤣🤣🤣

Corn on the cob..I pestered my mum to get it after watching 70s cartoon characters zip through it one end to the other.
Nope one bite..gads min never again!!
Devils vegetable.🤮

Packet stuffing, vile taste of overpowering herbs and water, yet people rave over it . I love proper home made stuffing made with sausage meat