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?

Controversial but I don’t get the hype about Yorkshire puddings. They don’t actually taste of anything and go soggy. I’m off to hide now because I know people love them 😂

It sounds like you've just never had good pizza or pasta.

Strawberries with chocolate. Lovely individually, nasty together. The tastes clash, and if the strawberry is ripe, the juice gives the whole thing a weird, unpleasant texture.

DM often laments the state of celery today. Her father (an otherwise irredeemably horrible person) grew it, and it was apparently beautiful, but labour intensive and space-consuming.

Polenta. It either tastes of nothing or deep fried egg box.

I don't understand Matcha it just really isnt that nice and im positive people just say they love it to appear "cool" 😀

Foams. Head on beer, foam on a cappuccino, that God awful trend of flavoured foams being plonked on regular plates of food. It's like spit.

Turning cauliflower into various forms, wings, cous cous, steak. No thank you. Also beetroot randomly appearing on every menu. I like it but it just seems to be everywhere at the moment.

Yes to strawberries and chocolate, everyone seems to think its some kind of delicious treat and I'm the odd one out.

Truffle flavoured everything. It is never real truffles rather some perfume oil that was created in a lab. Vile.

I had a pizza recently and it was totally ruined by truffle perfume.it was horrible.

I didn’t like them, but somehow I knew I’d like them if I kept trying! I wanted to like them so persisted. Love them now

Papaya. It always tastes like it’s off.

Agree about the flavoured cheese and matcha - it tastes of powdered grass.

Avocados, can’t bear the texture or the insipid taste. The breaded ham may have been devised to help keep it moist? We need Dr Annie Gray to tell us the history.

Wheatgrass shots. Vile and made me very poorly.

"cramming themselves full of food" I think you might have been doing it wrong 😂

As an aside, when we were hunter gatherers we would have 'grazed' (snacked) a fair bit. There is nothing wrong with snacking. Overeating is the problem (albeit often processed, snacking foods, can be easier to overeat)

Baked beans.

Hot spices.

Burgers.

I'm sort of with you (I live in yorkshire now so don't shout about it). I don't hate them but I almost never bother eating them unless I have eaten everything else and I am still hungry.

Caviar; oysters..... and worst of all truffle (the funghi not the chocolate, obviously!) I don't know why they are considered such treats.

Aniseed and fennel. Both taste much the same.

Oysters - like swallowing a big blob of snot when you have a cold

Clams / mussels - like eating eyelids

Cheese that smells like bedsores and leprosy - how can people force this down?

Yogurt full of awful waterlogged limp old semi-dissolved fruit - like finding an unexpected blood clot in your breakfast

Cheesecake - why make a cake out of cheese for God’s sake? Smells like milky baby poo.

Pickled eggs - bloated monstrous eyeballs in a jar

Chilli
Just why would I want to chemical-burn my mouth?

I love your description of pickled eggs, bang on.

Aubergine. I've never got the hang of it. It's quite tasteless and I hate the texture.

I'd forgotten about truffle. So overrated. Really don't understand the passion for truffling everything that sits still for long enough.

Thirded. Strawberries and chocolate really don't go together.

@minipie Papaya. It always tastes like it’s off.

If you squeeze lime juice over chopped papaya, it makes it taste completely different and surprisingly sweet!

I also used to hate it, but eat it often now with lime juice.