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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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CalzoneOnLegs · 13/09/2025 20:24

@BunnyLake i suppose so and there is such a thing as ‘food boredom’ but I have never had one 🥲

louderthan · 13/09/2025 20:28

Up until today I would have said matcha but I had an iced matcha with oat milk in a nice brunch place and it was very pleasant.
Still don’t like the idea of turmeric latte or bubble tea.
Also paté: looks and smells like cat food.

Plastictreees · 13/09/2025 20:29

Pate is grim. It’s like middle class spam.

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CalzoneOnLegs · 13/09/2025 20:34

@Crikeyalmighty im going to try it anyway, with my next curry

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ChippySauce · 13/09/2025 20:34

Haven't had a chance to catch up
but has anyone said "mushrooms" yet?

We have a saying that has become part of family lore.
If there's something we remotely dislike, we turn our noses up in disgust and say "You know how I feel about mushrooms".
Sometimes my sister and I just say it for the heck of it, and we get a giggling fit every time 😂
It originates from the time my sister dared to buy a chicken and mushroom pie from a chippy, and offered it to my American BIL (her DH) and he gave her a look of disgust, and said those immortal words 😁.
Cracks me up just remembering it!

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WitchesCauldron · 13/09/2025 20:35

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?

Hummus. Like baby food.

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ChippySauce · 13/09/2025 20:37

I also house shared at uni with someone who peeled mushrooms!
And know a couple who eat them raw 😲

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Calliopespa · 13/09/2025 20:38

CalzoneOnLegs · 13/09/2025 20:23

@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 )

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Glad someone asked the question I had not the courage to ask...

Calliopespa · 13/09/2025 20:40

CalzoneOnLegs · 13/09/2025 19:05

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’

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I have also heard it makes valuable contributions to the variety of gut flora.

VIOLETPUGH · 13/09/2025 20:42

murasaki · 12/09/2025 11:43

Snacking in general. Can people really not last between meals without cramming themselves full of more food? Admit it, you eat 6 meals a day.

boring !!!!!

Gladysknightjustwalkinmyshoes · 13/09/2025 20:43

ChippySauce · 13/09/2025 20:37

I also house shared at uni with someone who peeled mushrooms!
And know a couple who eat them raw 😲

I've ate the magic variety raw.
And had mushy tea.

Cupcakes19 · 13/09/2025 20:48

Mint herb/sauce. It’s like adding toothpaste to your food!

Costcogroupie · 13/09/2025 20:50

Fermented anything ..... Bleugh...

BunnyLake · 13/09/2025 20:51

CalzoneOnLegs · 13/09/2025 20:24

@BunnyLake i suppose so and there is such a thing as ‘food boredom’ but I have never had one 🥲

Definitely worth having one, but it is a bit samey after your tenth cube of bread and there’s still a vat of melted cheese to get through 😁

BunnyLake · 13/09/2025 20:56

Donttellempike · 13/09/2025 19:07

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

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It must be a gene thing as you say because I really don’t get why or how people enjoy eating very spicy food. I like flavourful food but there’s no flavour in a hot spice, it doesn’t add ‘umami’, just pain. 😕

JudgeJ · 13/09/2025 21:11

Calliopespa · 13/09/2025 15:45

What about a chocolate dipped strawberry?

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German Christmas markets usually have at least one stall selling fruit dipped in chocolate on sticks, the pineapple in dark chocolate is divine.

FartNRoses · 13/09/2025 21:20

BlackSwan · 12/09/2025 18:01

Razor clams.

Can't bear to see them on display at the seafood counter.

Who eats them? Who??

@BlackSwan my very weird husband and daughter (my daughter too) but I hate them. 🤢

Dreamhigh · 13/09/2025 21:31

Bubble tea and iced tea I like my tea hot.

JungAtHeart · 13/09/2025 21:32

givemushypeasachance · 12/09/2025 11:26

I don't see oysters as food. You've got to go to all that effort to collect them, then break into them, and it looks like a snotty phlegmy mess in there you swallow down. Eww, why.

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.

You should try adding a bit of salt to the watermelon. It’s a game changer 🤷🏼‍♀️

Clockface222 · 13/09/2025 21:41

Costcogroupie · 13/09/2025 20:50

Fermented anything ..... Bleugh...

Even cheese and wine?

murasaki · 13/09/2025 21:47

Clockface222 · 13/09/2025 21:41

Even cheese and wine?

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That is a perfectly good balanced diet. hic.

Middleagedspreadisreal · 13/09/2025 21:51

Pizza.

thenightsky · 13/09/2025 22:00

Middleagedspreadisreal · 13/09/2025 21:51

Pizza.

I had a lovely friend (now dear departed) who hated pizza and always referred to it, with a shudder, as 'sick on a bin lid'.

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 13/09/2025 22:03

thenightsky · 13/09/2025 22:00

I had a lovely friend (now dear departed) who hated pizza and always referred to it, with a shudder, as 'sick on a bin lid'.

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Yes! It tastes like sick and looks like it, too.
🤮

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 13/09/2025 22:09

BunnyLake · 13/09/2025 20:51

Definitely worth having one, but it is a bit samey after your tenth cube of bread and there’s still a vat of melted cheese to get through 😁

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I was born in the 1950s, so I was dating and going to dinner parties in the 1970s.

It was considered to be very chic to hold a fondue party.

My sister held a cheese one, but one of the guests got burnt quite badly, so my sister gave her fondue set to a charity shop.

I went to a steak one, which was lovely, because the hosts provided fillet steak. But it was a bit of a faff and I don't know anybody who held more than one.

We were given a fondue set as a wedding present. Everyone was, in the 1980s.