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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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TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 13/09/2025 22:11

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

We never used it and gave ours to another couple as a wedding present.
🤣

Plastictreees · 13/09/2025 22:14

I have a fondue set and have hosted fondue parties and I wasn’t even born in the 70s 😂it seems to be quite popular around here, quite a few pubs and restaurants do fondue and raclette nights.

murasaki · 13/09/2025 22:14

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 13/09/2025 22:11

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

We never used it and gave ours to another couple as a wedding present.
🤣

I suspect the le creuset one i got from freecycle was someone's wedding present once....

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Middleagedspreadisreal · 13/09/2025 22:19

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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Lol, accurate description

LilySLE · 13/09/2025 22:20

ghostyslovesheets · 12/09/2025 11:46

Vegan cheese? Why?

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

So my daughter who is allergic to dairy can still enjoy pizza

VerbenaGirl · 13/09/2025 22:24

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?

TOTALLY agree!

Blarn · 13/09/2025 22:27

Calliopespa · 13/09/2025 16:03

Oh sorry I missed that. I love them!

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Boo! You're a wrongun'!

Wintersgirl · 13/09/2025 22:35

Chillyourbeansweeman · 13/09/2025 16:04

It’s not 🤢

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Agreed, it's like putting porridge on your Christmas dinner!

murasaki · 13/09/2025 22:38

Barbecue sauce. It does not taste like it's ever been near a barbecue and makes everything taste of itself. Revolting gunk.

pinkpony88 · 13/09/2025 22:56

Coriander. Why make food taste of cheap soap 🤢

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 13/09/2025 22:58

pinkpony88 · 13/09/2025 22:56

Coriander. Why make food taste of cheap soap 🤢

Oooh I read somewhere that's a gene mutation! Carrots taste of soap to me, but only since my second pregnancy.

Bleachedlevis · 13/09/2025 23:07

KALE! 🤮
Absolute crap. I suspect it’s one big con: let’s pretend this shitty, gritty, green, unchewable travesty of a food is good for your health and we can actually SELL this stuff! For actual money! 🤮 🤮 🤮

JayJayj · 13/09/2025 23:09

OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon · 12/09/2025 11:12

Lettuce. What is the point, esp the traditional round lettuce.

I absolutely love a lettuce sandwich with salad cream on 😂

lingmerth · 13/09/2025 23:10

Sultanas
raisins
currants
glacé cherries
dried fruit
All the work of the devil 🤮

murasaki · 13/09/2025 23:10

Celeriac.

I have never forgiven the ex MiL, an otherwise wonderful woman, for roasting chunks of it and serving them in the same dish as the roast spuds.

You can only imagine my disappointment as i had a bite of what I expected to be a lovely roastie....

Bleachedlevis · 13/09/2025 23:10

Wednesdaysotherchild · 12/09/2025 11:42

Why people eat dead bodies? I’ll never understand it.

They are easier to chew than live ones.

JayJayj · 13/09/2025 23:10

Bleachedlevis · 13/09/2025 23:07

KALE! 🤮
Absolute crap. I suspect it’s one big con: let’s pretend this shitty, gritty, green, unchewable travesty of a food is good for your health and we can actually SELL this stuff! For actual money! 🤮 🤮 🤮

I cook it in tinfoil with butter and garlic and some salt. Makes it a bit crispy. Very yummy!

Masmavi · 13/09/2025 23:10

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.

It’s the watermelon we get in the UK. In other countries it’s sweet and delicious cold, in a feta/mint salad or blended into a drink. Here it’s pale pink water.

Bleachedlevis · 13/09/2025 23:12

JayJayj · 13/09/2025 23:10

I cook it in tinfoil with butter and garlic and some salt. Makes it a bit crispy. Very yummy!

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Sounds lovely. I’ll just eat the butter, garlic and tinfoil 😆

murasaki · 13/09/2025 23:13

lingmerth · 13/09/2025 23:10

Sultanas
raisins
currants
glacé cherries
dried fruit
All the work of the devil 🤮

Glacé cherries are vile. Nothing like real cherries, which are lovely.

I used to pick them off my Mr Kipling's cherry bakewells and give them to my dad. He has no tastebuds as he eats chocolate with fruit in and many other items listed on this thread.

JayJayj · 13/09/2025 23:13

Bleachedlevis · 13/09/2025 23:12

Sounds lovely. I’ll just eat the butter, garlic and tinfoil 😆

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🤣🤣 that really made me laugh, then cough because I’m ill 😂

murasaki · 13/09/2025 23:14

JayJayj · 13/09/2025 23:10

I cook it in tinfoil with butter and garlic and some salt. Makes it a bit crispy. Very yummy!

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Kale is a punishment not a foodstuff.

pinkpony88 · 13/09/2025 23:18

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 13/09/2025 22:58

Oooh I read somewhere that's a gene mutation! Carrots taste of soap to me, but only since my second pregnancy.

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Yes I appear to have that gene mutation! For years I was so confused why everyone seemed to be sprinkling this awful stuff of their food 🤣

beneaththetree · 13/09/2025 23:24

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.

Came here to say gnocchi. Is it a potato? Is it pasta? No idea. Such a weird claggy texture.

TheGreatWesternShrew · 13/09/2025 23:27

DiscoBob · 12/09/2025 11:44

I don't understand people who think you can reheat cooked pasta. It makes me feel nauseous. And people who meal prep pasta mixed with sauce and freeze it, then reheat. The texture! So soggy!

I don't see the purpose of whelks. I had them once at the seaside and it was just chewing vinegary rubber. I literally couldn't swallow it. Awful!

My worst one is margarine. It is not food. It's some kind of horrific byproduct of the petrochemical industry. Just the smell freaks me out. And when people call it 'butter'. Arrgghhhhh!!!

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Margarine is vegetable oils suspended in water… I don’t understand why so many people think it’s ’plastic’ or related to petrol.

Vegetable oils like soybean, sunflower, olive, or canola are selected and refined. They are mixed with water and sometimes milk. Margarine is born.