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?

@murasaki fondue is a fantasy meal for me and I have never had one - a Swiss native told me if you do have one don’t burn your lips !
the closest I’ve got I suppose is a baking Camembert but I think that’s a very poor relation

Burning is a common hazard.

The meat one is worse though, it's literally a vat of boiling oil you dip raw steak into. On my honeymoon with exH, he forgot it would be so hot, brushed his lip and was out of action romance wise from day 3. Poor man, it looked so painful, and the scream nearly shut the restaurant.....

It’s not unexplained at all, I know you hate cheese though 🤣

’Blue cheese does not make you ill because it uses nontoxic Penicillium mold cultures, such as Penicillium roqueforti, that are safe for human consumption and intentionally added during the production process. Unlike harmful molds that produce dangerous mycotoxins, these specialized molds accelerate the cheese's unique flavor, texture, and appearance and can even offer antibacterial properties. Therefore, the mold in blue cheese is a deliberate and safe component of the food’

Wow that made me recoil and wince... poor bugger

It must be a gene thing. I just love love love hot food. I eat raw chilies nearly every day. I have them on salad .

love curries , chilies etc. When I was younger I ate hotter stuff than now.

I think that burny sensation is addictive

@murasaki ’that’ll learn ‘Im’

@CalzoneOnLegs this is why I love MN I learnt something new there..thank you 👍

Impossible to disguise or overwhelm the taste of an olive, stuffings just ‘enhance’ them

@Gladysknightjustwalkinmyshoes just a simple google but yeah as if the premium cheese producers of the world would poison people eh ? 🤣

Cheese fondue is filthy if shared with anyone other than you already exchange bodily fluids with.

Fork contaminated with saliva, then dipped into cheese not hot enough to kill bacteria, so saliva transferred to whoever dips in next.

@oncemoreuntothebeachdearfriends but okay if I have one all to myself 🐷

And don't forget to add green chillies/red chilli powder, some garam masala, and mustard seeds.

Of course! It's cheese on soggy bread toast, aka pizza.

Agree about celery and pearl barley. "We've got a nice stew, soup, casserole here let's spoil it by putting little lumps of snotty wallpaper paste textured barley in it".

@oncemoreuntothebeachdearfriends its melted cheese like a sauce loosened with kirsch, sounds good to me 🐷

ETA there used to be a Swiss restaurant locally, it shut down it was walking distance for me at that time and I never went there, I’ve missed out on fondue and raclette !
I bet they had gateaux too
these things aren’t fashionable now though I suppose

I remember going to Australia & they served an amazing melon platter of all types on every tour we did & I said I must eat more melon when I get back to the UK! It’s so tasty! But of course the ones in the UK just taste of cardboard. So I didn’t carry on eating melon as planned after all…

Oh I love pearl barley in a stew.

It was horrible, even post divorce, I do feel sorry for him on that one.

@CalzoneOnLegs well put it like this , I can get a nice big portion of homemade curry with cauliflower rice for about 450 cals and equivalent with proper rice is more like 800 - So I can’t in all honesty say I love it - but if I’m trying to lose weight it works a treat - 40 cals for a whole big sachet of it if I remember correctly and I have around 3/4 of one and mixed in you don’t really taste it and the texture works - I use it with chilli too and mix it in

In what way did it make you poorly? Was it gastro issues?

That's not actually how you do it. You just dip the food morsel itself.

So do I! Really love it.

Peak Mumsnet 🤣

I used to live in Switzerland so have had a fair few fondues. After a while though there’s just so much melted cheese and bread cubes you can.

@Crikeyalmighty makes sense, and a good way to get veg, but if it’s not too personal a question……do you get wind from that amount of cauliflower. (feel free to tell me that’s not appropriate )