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?

I love samphire with fish and a creamy garlic prawn sauce.
Also the mice on brambly hedge eat samphire when they visit the coast which somehow makes it even more appealing to me 😁

I love coriander too. Parsley on the other hand… is the devils work.

Cheese and tuna
Weird and dry dry dry

@viques you don’t understand cheese production

Can't begin to comprehend the avocado hate. And what is remotely posh about it?

It's only comparatively recently become ubiquitous in the uk, I get that, because we used to have fresh food with no air miles.

Are the haters/people who think its posh in their 70's or older?

@jettisoned you don’t like cheese, that’s fine, but it isn’t rancid milk. It’s made from fresh milk, sometimes unpasteurised, that is heated and treated with an enzyme called rennet which causes the heated milk to form curds, this forms the cheese once drained, (curds and whey) curds are formed into moulds and then kept under strict temperature controls to avoid spoilage/going rancid, it is aged under these conditions. There are of course various cheese making methods, washed rinds etc, but it is not rancid. I’m sure we have all smelled rancid milk and it’s so awful and not cheese at all.
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I like most these foods lol.

Oysters: you either have the taste buds that make them incredibly nice tasting or you don't. I find oysters have almost no flavour, I lack the relevant taste genes.

@Calliopespa i suppose it would be posh on say, King Charles estate where they had been grown lovingly by his team of attentive gardeners, but they are widely available in supermarkets and corner shops. Regrettable air miles though

diet versions of normal food. All so grim tasting and ultimately bad for you

Not in my 70s ,it's the texture I just couldn't get to grips with it,I had to force it down and thought it wasn't going to stay down.

@Mokel sorry quote blunder there 🙈

Exactly. Like pineapple pits were!

But as you say, they are piled high and on every corner cafe brunch menu these days.

ETA I eat them because I find them delicious and they are exceedingly healthy.

@YourLemonTiger I really want to try Samphire

True. I don’t understand cheese production. However, I understand evil in food form.

Weird trends, like the current honey one.

Honey on pizza, honey on Camembert, honey on fecking everything.

@viques I adore cheese, we have a Cheese Festival in my County this weekend, but I do agree with you about Blue Cheese, ( except for cambazola which is a blend of Camembert and Gorgonzola ) it’s about as blue as I can go. Stilton is too much, but it’s a PDO and much loved the world over and really the cheese makers aren’t out to poison millions of people

My Sis had some blacksticks blue late one night and can still remember having hallucinations rather than dreams which she swears was the cheese, so you may have a point !

Oh that's another one.
Honey can fuck off and die.

I know how it's made @CalzoneOnLegs in a previous life I was an EHO. I visited abattoirs, farms with copious amounts of slurry, houses with septic tanks. restaurants with dog shit on the kitchen floor, restaurants reusing salad and other portions from finished plates, rat and mice infestations with wee and droppings in small shops but the only time my stomach was actually turned was in a deli selling and making cheese. I couldn't finish the visit and had to refuse all future ones.

To me it's worse than the smell of gone off milk or that smell you get when you discover a potato that's decayed in the bag when you get it home. It might not be made with rancid milk but still smells like vomit and decay.

@jettisoned OK

I love a bit o cheese! 🧀

@Calliopespa it is most of my grocery bill, I’m vegetarian and meat and fish are so expensive that I can justify a £35 a kilo cheddar, I dread having my cholesterol checked ❤️

Or pineapple in cottage cheese... yuk!

Is that still a thing? I sometime buy cottage cheese and haven't noticed the pineapple one lurking there for some time..
(I'm sure someone will add cottage cheese to the list though. I only like it on buttery toast or a jacket potato)

😆 thanx for reminding me how much I hate coriander leaves & always have!
It took me yrs to find out why… apparently the latin name for the plant is derived from the latin name for bed bugs, because both smell like each other. (rank & stale! but not every1 can smell them??)

If the colour green had a taste it would be avocado. Not bad but not good - between that and the texture I don’t actively choose to eat them. Really can’t understand the hype, other than their health benefits

@AuraBora have you tasted the Longley Farm cottage cheese ❤️