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?

@the5thgoldengirl don’t be too sure ! I’ve recently read about worms in tuna 🤮

The original, traditional type sausages are always the best, I really don’t like when additional herbs / flavourings are added…..don’t mess with perfection

Broad beans
Sprouts
Long worm looking spaghetti (there is a story being that as I can eat all other pasta)
Miso
Peanuts
Tripe
Pigs trotters
Sweetext (vile nothing like sugar)

it took all my might to stop my face from having subtitles

I've never heard that before & it made me properly laugh for the first time. In a ling time, so thank you 🥰

I also agree with you about the cakes!

Oats are best cooked with full fat milk and a carton of double cream in a Bain Marie’s for over an hour. Your oats will be on a different level. So creamy.

My dad did to, he’d make a jue with bones it used to take 2 days 🙄

I once had a "vegetarian" Christmas dinner at a works do in quite a naice hotel which was cheese quiche, all the veg and gravy all over there quiche!

I had that once at a pub Sunday lunch.
The vegetarian alternative was actually a really nice puff pastry mediterranean vegetable thing - but it was served with all the usual sunday roast sides and they gave me a jug of gravy.
Why on earth would I want gravy with puff pastry?
(This wasn't my choice of dining. The rest of the family chose it. They liked it.)

@Needmorelego at least they served the jug on the side, where the PP’s had said it was poured over I would have sent it back, it’s no different than them putting your salt & Pepp on is it

That is true.
Ironically they didn't even bring it out until halfway through the middle of eating because they "forgot".
It was a very odd pub dinner that was a set menu and it was clearly an after thought that there should be a vegetarian alternative.

Talking of weird & creepy plant based meat upthread we saw these in Aldi yesterday….WTF 🤣

@CalzoneOnLegs urgh they look gross.
I like the Linda McCartney burgers (the ones with cheese in) but most fake meat things are just very very odd.

@Needmorelego I have to confess to on occasion. having a pukka leek, cheese and potato pie with my Sunday dinner, but the gravy stays strictly on the veg and potatoes as you're right it makes your pastry flaccid and pukka pastry is really nice shortcrust under and puff on top ❤️

@Needmorelego don’t they 🤮🤮🤮
i must be doing something wrong with those Lindas as they are always very dry, but they do have that ‘old school’ vegeburger taste like the ones from the 80’s that birdseye did. I love the Aldi spicy bean burgers and these are splendid from sainsburys

@CalzoneOnLegs I used to love the Birdseye veggie burgers from the 80s.
I think I liked the fact they were dry rather than juicy like a "real" burger.
I do seem to always over cook the Linda McCartney ones 😂

I once stayed at a hotel in Scotland where, alongside the ordinary breakfast buffet, there was a pot of porridge, with various things to add to it - double cream, golden syrup - and Bell’s whisky! I had mine with cream and golden syrup, which was utterly delicious, but decided 9am was a bit too early for a dram, even if it was on my porridge.

@Needmorelego i did too, for me it was the best food ever at the time because there had been nothing like them until then, they were tiny though weren’t they looking back ? more like a ‘tenth pounder’ just shows how much portions have increased

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius never too early for a dram 🥃

That's so grim! 🤢 My Dad's friend sued a well known corned beef company back in the 70s as he found a bullet in his tin of corned beef, apparently it was put down to trigger happy drunk soldiers. I love corned beef though!

I agree the best sausages are traditional ones with a high meat content, not factory floor scrapings and a lot of flour or breadcrumbs. But traditional sausages do historically have herbs and flavourings. Cumberland sausages actually used to be MORE highly seasoned than they are now.
They now usually have pepper and sage at least, sometimes other herbs and spices.

Wow, those beat my Things Found in Corned Beef story hands down. Mine was a piece of skin, complete with hairs that unfortunately I didn’t spot until it was in my mouth.

Maybe one day someone will start a Things Found in Food That Shouldn't Have Been There thread, but not me, I am feeling a bit queasy!

I remember reading a post where someone had found an eyelid complete with lashes in their sausage roll. Eating food from a facility that processes dead animals is always also is going to be fraught with peril I’m afraid.
I did find a machinery nut in my Jordans cereal once.

So you’ve not heard of chips, grated cheese and gravy? lol 😊 It was a popular school dinner choice some years ago 🙁

Don’t mind cheesy chips. Gravy over chips is bloody awful