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Food you don't understand

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ChippySauce · 12/09/2025 10:21

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?

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LittleBitofBread · 12/09/2025 18:54

oncemoreuntothebeachdearfriends · 12/09/2025 17:18

Celery needs to be peeled.

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Eh? Isn't it just... more celery underneath?

LittleBitofBread · 12/09/2025 18:58

katseyes7 · 12/09/2025 17:53

*MrsBeltane *
I bought sweet potatoes once.
Did them in the slow cooker. Never got as far as eating them, the smell had me heaving. They went straight in the bin.

Sweet potatoes are heavenly baked, and served with a bean chilli (nice and hot), lots of salted butter and black pepper.

LittleBitofBread · 12/09/2025 19:00

Mokel · 12/09/2025 18:04

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

Camomile tea doesn't do anything for me, but I love fennel tea. For some reason I find it properly hits the spot after hard cardio exercise.

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LittleBitofBread · 12/09/2025 19:01

viques · 12/09/2025 18:22

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.

Blue cheese mould isn't harmful, that's the difference.

PistachioTiramisu · 12/09/2025 19:02

LittleBitofBread · 12/09/2025 18:54

Eh? Isn't it just... more celery underneath?

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Have you ever eaten tinned celery hearts? Used to have them at home with my parents and they were lovely - soft, tasty and not stringy. Never see them now.

katseyes7 · 12/09/2025 19:02

*LittleBitofBread *

I baked them in the slow cooker, the smell was dreadful. l'm allergic to chilli....

LittleBitofBread · 12/09/2025 19:03

PistachioTiramisu · 12/09/2025 19:02

Have you ever eaten tinned celery hearts? Used to have them at home with my parents and they were lovely - soft, tasty and not stringy. Never see them now.

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Celery has a heart? Confused That's just blown my mind.

LittleBitofBread · 12/09/2025 19:05

katseyes7 · 12/09/2025 19:02

*LittleBitofBread *

I baked them in the slow cooker, the smell was dreadful. l'm allergic to chilli....

I've never used a slow cooker, but maybe it was something to do with that? In an oven/Wonder Oven they're delicious.
So leave off the chili (I meant con carne except with beans, not meat, by the way, not chilli the spice). Just have them with salty butter and some black pepper. They're so tasty. So good for you too, being brightly coloured.

katseyes7 · 12/09/2025 19:05

I love blue cheese.
Unfortunately l can't have it unless it's cooked (like in a cheese sauce). I'm allergic to the mould culture. Cooking it kills that.
I'm also allergic to penicillin and a lot of antibiotics. Similar thing, so my GP told me.
I react to white Stilton as well. 🙁

oncemoreuntothebeachdearfriends · 12/09/2025 19:07

LittleBitofBread · 12/09/2025 18:54

Eh? Isn't it just... more celery underneath?

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The strings are the problem, but some people don't know that they should be peeled.

katseyes7 · 12/09/2025 19:08

LittleBitofBread
It may well have been the slow cooker, but my ex used to have them (baked in the oven) a lot, he's a very healthy eater (and a very good cook), and l still couldn't bear the smell of them.
I love a baked potato, though.

Angelil · 12/09/2025 19:09

Cottage cheese. Resembles baby vomit.

LittleBitofBread · 12/09/2025 19:11

katseyes7 · 12/09/2025 19:08

LittleBitofBread
It may well have been the slow cooker, but my ex used to have them (baked in the oven) a lot, he's a very healthy eater (and a very good cook), and l still couldn't bear the smell of them.
I love a baked potato, though.

Baked potatoes are the food of the gods.

CalzoneOnLegs · 12/09/2025 19:18

ThreePears · 12/09/2025 17:45

Lobster. How anyone can eat a lobster is beyond me.

They go into a restaurant, peer into a large tank of living creatures that are staring back at you, and go: "Yep. That's the one I want to eat - please take it out of that tank of cold water and go and sling it in a large pan of boiling water, where it will scream its last and boil to death, and then I will pick it apart with my fingers and gobble it up. I am prepared to pay handsomely for this delicacy".

Agreed, the live boiling is inhumane and It is banned in Switzerland, here, NZ and some other countries

Mokel · 12/09/2025 19:22

Asparagus. I want to love it but hate the smell of my wee. Even going to the toilet within a few minutes of eating it - my wee stinks

Runnersandtoms · 12/09/2025 19:26

ghostyslovesheets · 12/09/2025 11:46

Vegan cheese? Why?

More importantly, why is it now on most vegetarian menus - I like cheese

Yes! My cheese and egg loving vegetarian daughter finds it very annoying that often the only veggie options on menus are also vegan, thereby cutting out her favourite things.

CluelessAboutBiology · 12/09/2025 19:28

@CherryRipe1 er, you did what now?

meat, fish, most food and drink as I have ARFID.

ItalianChineseIndianMexican · 12/09/2025 19:30

3678194b · 12/09/2025 11:53

Should also say gnocchi. I just don't understand it. Had it as a main course once and it was the most monotonous thing ever! I am sure there are many more.

I agree with this!!

Kdubs1981 · 12/09/2025 19:32

jettisoned · 12/09/2025 11:59

Cheese. It's rancid milk and sometimes, rancid milk with mould in it. And it stinks, like vomit and decay. 🤮

Mmmmm… yum!

goudacheese · 12/09/2025 19:41

Samphire, horribly salty.

Womblingmerrily · 12/09/2025 19:41

Totally agree with many of these.

but... much of what we eat is not down to it's natural deliciousness, but purely to its local availability at a certain point of the year.

As omnivores, humans have taken what is available and desperately tried to make it edible.

Mokel · 12/09/2025 19:46

Runnersandtoms · 12/09/2025 19:26

Yes! My cheese and egg loving vegetarian daughter finds it very annoying that often the only veggie options on menus are also vegan, thereby cutting out her favourite things.

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If you go to an independent or small chain, ask if they can put proper cheese in place of the vegan cheese

viques · 12/09/2025 19:46

LittleBitofBread · 12/09/2025 19:01

Blue cheese mould isn't harmful, that's the difference.

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Mould is mould! There is a reason we don’t eat blue food, it is a sign that something has gone very wrong.

blueberries exception, there is always one!

Mokel · 12/09/2025 19:49

oncemoreuntothebeachdearfriends · 12/09/2025 19:07

The strings are the problem, but some people don't know that they should be peeled.

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I had a celery string got caught in between my front top teeth (no gap) and the top lip, gum and the stringy bit between gum and lip were all inflamed from infection. So embarrassing as looked like I was punched several times in the face

AromanticSpices · 12/09/2025 20:03

I feel I have to say I love coriander. It really lifts a dish for me and I have it on loads of things. My favourite herb, hands down. F- you, basil!

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