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?

You me John and I suspect many others think alike.
I love this song 😀

"john finnemore put it on a plate" https://share.google/zQmSAAqaqGvvgv6ms

@ChippySauce i think the slate craze has passed thankfully

The current matcha trend!! Tastes like fishy grass. All of the young people drinking it think they enjoy matcha when in reality 90% of them are ordering it with various flavoured sugary syrups to disguise the taste..

I was surprised, after getting the results from a cholesterol test last week, that it was on high side of normal. Not full on high. Given I am 80% cheese. I'm focusing on the normal bit....

Lucky you!
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The link isn't working but I can see it's Tescom I'll have to check next time.im thre just for peace of mind:)

@murasaki thats encouraging, I am still terrified though ❤️

Have you got a test booked? Please don't worry.

I am taking their dietary advice with a pinch of salt, sorry, cheese. Seriously though, I thought it would be worse but then I don't eat cakes or many sweet things so maybe it balances out.

I'll probably just eat slightly less cheese, but not by much....

Richmond sausages. They are bloody horrible. Have the lowest pork content to be classed as a pork sausage (42%).
People buy them when they are on offer. I remember an old dear saying to me “I’m a fan of sausages but only eat Richmond sausages” you are not a fan of sausages!

I rather eat Richmond cigs

Also, there's a Kingsley Amis quotation that my old boss told me that I hold dear.

'Why give up the things you love to spend an extra two years dribbling in a care home in Weston-super-Mare.'

He had a point.

liquorice with hundreds and thousands

With you on both of those - watermelon , tasteless with weird texture, oysters? Like blokes jizz

@murasaki ive had surgery this year, consultant said ‘I don’t have to worry about you you are healthy’ (news to me ) I had blood tests etc but not specifically for cholesterol, I’m just not going there if you see what I mean, and like yourself I don’t eat much sugary foods, I will cross that bridge when I come to it and carry on with the cheese, and isigny sur mer butter, and golden yolk eggs.

Pasta - I can see the point of it being easily stored for times of dire need, but otherwise why bother when you've got actual food available? Made from dried paste of flour and water, (like we used for gluing stuff as kids), very little if any nutrition, and no taste. Seafood (except actual fish), makes me heave to see people ripping apart lobsters, crabs, they look like cockroaches and scorpions.

@Portakalkedi ive seen this American tradition (southern I think) where they boil up crayfish etc and then dump the lot on a table top, looks like a load of insects absolutely disgusting 🤮

crabs are scavengers and nobody should eat them they literally eat anything decaying, including people that have been dumped in the sea. Mackerel are the similar they eat shit

It's lovely, the best place to buy it is waitrose

Samphire is gorgeous with a nice piece of fish.

@YourLemonTiger thank you ! there was a (heated) thread recently about vegan fish and chips and it was on there a chippy in my county does the vegan ‘fish’ and also serve Samphire with it so I think I’m going to give both of them a go.

Ooh, I've just remembered one I've never understood.

A full English in a tin. Why, and how. How does the egg work? And why again?

It sounds repulsive.

Also, blancmange. Milky jelly wrongness. What were my parents thinking. I opted out aged about 6.

Caviar. No point to it at all.

Modern equivalent panna cotta ?

Yes, also a no go area. Blancmange with pretensions.

I cannot trust a person who doesn’t like pasta 😆

I am taking their dietary advice with a pinch of salt, sorry, cheese.
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