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?

@VoltaireMittyDream

Cheesecake - why make a cake out of cheese for God’s sake?

Think you'll agree with this classic clip

Check out this video from this search, peter kay cheesecake a cake of cheese https://share.google/zE1j2A6cWsVpMGiAe

I’m not convinced by raspberries and chocolate either.

Cherries and chocolate do work though with a touch of kirsch!

Temperature

Gazpacho, No! Things that meant to warm being served at room temperature, Ew!

Totally agree!

Up until a few years ago I would of agreed with you regarding olives but my tastbuds have changed their mind and I lime them now.
A evening snack for me now is about 6 olives and the same kind of weight / amount of sliced gherkins, pickles and jalapeños. All eaten with a cocktail stick.

I love alsorts of cheese but put fruit in it and it can gtf. If I want fruit with my cheese I will buy the type of fruit I want. ( and it will never be apricots or cranberries) .

I agree with the dislike of celery , okra , I also can't stand bananas.

Totally agree with matcha.
And foam.
And eggs.
I can't bear the way they smell just so... eggy.

Can’t bear Capers, they never embellish any foods they’re put with.

Mac n cheese.

Chocolate and orange everything. Yuck.

Agree! It tastes like grass cuttings (I chewed grass as a kid because my cat did), it makes me nauseous.
Sweet n sour pork or prawn balls. Ghastly.

Rana gnocchi is amazing. I hated gnocchi until I tried their fried one. YUM.

Yes to eggs. I don't eat them, DP does. And somehow, he always manages to leave some gloopy poached egg white in the sink, despite claiming he hasn't. It's almost LTB territory.

Yes, it was Rana and frying that changed my mind.

Are you my mum? She is the only person in the world I have ever met who hates Mac n Cheese... Hi Mum x

Oh, and blue cheese = mouldy cheese.
How did consuming mould become acceptable?!

I’m with you on this!

Also artful “smears” across the plate!

I also agree with pp about the current popularity of avocados! They don’t taste of much and have a very slimey texture. And they are an environmental disaster.

I did eat a very tasty chicken salad with avocado once but have been unable to recreate it at home.

Any type of purée. I am not a fucking baby.

Eggs eaten on their own not as part of a cake or cooked into a recipe, the worst for me is boiled but really any. How you can eat something that smells SO absolutely revolting is bizarre and disgusting to me!

It is horrible, and yea like chewing grass, my Dc often have take away cups of Matcha 🤢

I also don't like sweet and sour pork !

I think chorizo is so over used in so many dishes.

Actually that’s a good call!

I love it but there's no point in using it in a dish where you want anything else to not taste of chorizo. It would certainly be a waste of a nice piece of fish as said above.

OMG yes.
I don't understand people who think they're somehow special, just because they can eat the hottest curry on a menu.

You can't taste the actual food, and why do people pay to have something so agonising in their mouths? I don't understand.

Avocado. I've early tried to like it, but it doesn't taste of anyhting.

Rollmop Herring and anything from the sea what wiggled around in a shell at some point .. I can’t understand how wiggly shell things are food