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Food you don't understand

996 replies

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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daleylama · 14/09/2025 00:28

ChippySauce · 12/09/2025 13:13

I also don't understand salted caramel everything too.

And cupcakes.
There's usually more "frosting" than cake.
Give me a good old fairy cake with a dab of icing covered with hundreds and thousands thank you very much!

I was with you on everything up till this. Salted caramel is food of the gods

SemiRetiredLoveGoddeess · 14/09/2025 00:40

Thewalrusandthecarpenter · 12/09/2025 11:41

Brussels sprouts. Food of the devil.

I agree. Smell like putrid, rotting farts.
Just can't understand while people.can't live without them at Christmas.

Good Night

SemiRetiredLoveGoddeess · 14/09/2025 00:41

All offal.

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IsThistheMiddleofNowhere · 14/09/2025 00:43

Candy floss, a fluffy pink cloud on a stick but as soon as you gather up a giant mouthful, .....pouffe it's gone!.... completely vanished before you can even close your lips let alone have a chew or swallow. Totally pointless

IsThistheMiddleofNowhere · 14/09/2025 00:47

Just thought of another one. Cottage cheese. Tastes and smells like sick. If anyone says they like it, they're lying!

RubyFlax · 14/09/2025 01:09

Eyesopenwideawake · 12/09/2025 10:51

Olives. Nearly everyone says they didn't like them the first time – so why carry on??

Agree! Vile. People telling me you grow into them and need to keep trying them. Why keep trying something you disliked the last time you had it ?

CantHaveTooMuchChocolate · 14/09/2025 01:24

Panna cotta, it’s just milk jelly ffs!

SirStanley · 14/09/2025 01:26

Goats cheese, liver …… both gross … one for smell other….no….why?

YellowElephant5 · 14/09/2025 01:30

Most restaurant salads. Why do they all have avocados, sweet potato, hummus etc....if it's going to be as many calories as a burger, I'll just get the burger eat a quarter and enjoy

NotToday1l · 14/09/2025 01:53

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.

What are you on about, I know no one who eats 6 meals a day?!?
Also a snack means just that not ‘ cramming themselves full of food’ ….are you ok?

NotToday1l · 14/09/2025 01:54

IsThistheMiddleofNowhere · 14/09/2025 00:47

Just thought of another one. Cottage cheese. Tastes and smells like sick. If anyone says they like it, they're lying!

A lot of people like it, myself included…..it wouldn’t be in most supermarkets unless it was popular

Femaleragethemusicall · 14/09/2025 03:35

Fucking coriander

Costcogroupie · 14/09/2025 05:22

Clockface222 · 13/09/2025 21:41

Even cheese and wine?

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I'm thinking fish, kimchi etc

Plastictreees · 14/09/2025 08:18

murasaki · 13/09/2025 23:13

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.

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Omg same 🤣🤣

ExquisiteSocialSkills · 14/09/2025 09:02

NotToday1l · 14/09/2025 01:54

A lot of people like it, myself included…..it wouldn’t be in most supermarkets unless it was popular

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I like it but it’s got to be full fat.

minipie · 14/09/2025 09:25

IsThistheMiddleofNowhere · 14/09/2025 00:47

Just thought of another one. Cottage cheese. Tastes and smells like sick. If anyone says they like it, they're lying!

I didn’t like it until I tried the Longley Farm one. It’s addictive.

DeanStockwelll · 14/09/2025 09:34

PassportPhotosAreHorrific · 12/09/2025 21:24

Weird trends, like the current honey one.

Honey on pizza, honey on Camembert, honey on fecking everything.

I agree with you on the trends , whilst there is nothing wrong with trying new combinations it's the fact that you can't get the original version.
A restaurant that I like use to use a really nice rich but not to sweet caramel sauce on some of its desserts then the changed it to a much sweeter and salted version.

It spoilt my rhubarb crumble ☹️.

DiscoBob · 14/09/2025 09:38

TheGreatWesternShrew · 13/09/2025 23:27

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.

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I don't care, I think it looks, smells and tastes like petrol/plastic/puke.

I know it's not really poisoned. I just hate it I'm afraid. Complete waste of calories.

Jimmyneutronsforehead · 14/09/2025 09:43

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!

I love mushrooms, but in my youth my grandad used to insist on putting canned mushrooms into his bolognese.

Getting a surprise boiled tinned mushroom in your mouth was like chewing someone's wet earlobe.

It's one of those things thats legal, but really shouldn't be.

Coffeeishot · 14/09/2025 09:52

I just saw the post about trends it is "Hot Honey" at the moment and it is awful.

Needmorelego · 14/09/2025 10:01

Coffeeishot · 14/09/2025 09:52

I just saw the post about trends it is "Hot Honey" at the moment and it is awful.

Have you tried the Hot Honey Jaffa Cakes?
How to ruin a Jaffa Cake 😂😂

Coffeeishot · 14/09/2025 10:03

Needmorelego · 14/09/2025 10:01

Have you tried the Hot Honey Jaffa Cakes?
How to ruin a Jaffa Cake 😂😂

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Oh stop ! 😂

Plastictreees · 14/09/2025 10:04

Needmorelego · 14/09/2025 10:01

Have you tried the Hot Honey Jaffa Cakes?
How to ruin a Jaffa Cake 😂😂

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I actually have. Grim.

Needmorelego · 14/09/2025 10:05

Plastictreees · 14/09/2025 10:04

I actually have. Grim.

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For the first time ever in my 50 years on earth I actually threw half the pack away 😂😂

DeanStockwelll · 14/09/2025 10:32

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!

Hey take your nushroom hate back ! 😄
Slice them thinly Fry in way to much butter with finely diced onion then hot toast dipped in the mushroom butter / juice and eaten while its still hot enough to burn your lips is my quick go to for breakfast or supper.