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?

I’m still reeling about the cola ones mentioned earlier in the thread. That can’t be real surely? 🤢

@Plastictreees nasty 🤮but nothing surprises me, I mean why substitute delicious tasting fruit for……Cola?

The cola ones aren't too terrible. I liked them.
I agree about the Polish flavours. Yummy.
I really like the M+S lime ones. They're smaller so you have to eat twice as many. Obviously 😂😂😂

My mum used to get fish heads from the fishmonger on Fridays and boil them for our cat.

Cat loved them. Rest of the household, not so much (but we loved the cat, so... ). 🤢

Morrisons do fish heads every time I see them I wonder why ? For cats obviously 😀

I’ve never seen the cola ones! I just can’t imagine the taste!

Those lemon and lime ones are dangerous though.

@Plastictreees they basically taste like the cola bottle jelly sweets.

@AffIt well yes of course the cats are in charge 🤣 I remember mum had a saucepan she’d use especially for the fish bits and there it would be soaking in the sink with white scum floating about, think I had a lucky escape with heads though 🤮 one of the cats used to get up on the extractor hood she was so excited. I also have just had a dreadful unwanted flash back to turkey necks being knawed at Christmas (from the giblet bag ) 🤮🤮🤮

@Coffeeishot it’s really weird fish heads being mentioned as I was half asleep watching TV last night and there was a trailer on for something goodness knows what and fish heads were mentioned. For human consumption not kitties 🙀

They are haunting us!

@Coffeeishot and now my mind is wandering towards that fermented shark they eat in Iceland
I need some kind of antidote - I’m spiralling 🤣

The food I don’t get is very spicy-hot food. I like a bit of red chilli in Thai curry, but I want the flavour, not an inferno. I’m not even talking about the people who enjoy more chilli than I do - I mean the food that is so hot most people would find it inedible, and it causes pain to the people eating it.

Food shouldn’t be painful, should it?

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius no! Have you seen man vs food where he eats something even stronger than a Carolina reaper ? Just mad ! And probably a man thing 🤷🏻‍♀️

It does tend to be a ‘man thing’. Trying to prove how ‘tough’ they are by eating chillies/curries, then spending all evening on the toilet with a glass of milk. Bless them!

I haven’t seen that one, @CalzoneOnLegs - madness!

Bless them indeed, @Plastictreees.

@CalzoneOnLegs makes me think of when Homer Simpson ate the worlds hottest chilli and went on a complete trip 😵‍💫

One mention of kippers and this thread has gone fish mad !

@CalzoneOnLegs , yes you can get boil in the bag kippers but mine were fresh from Wales.
The fishmongers there are good but they always miss one or two of the very fine bones .
Once I have eaten one every mouthful after is a very cautious one.

You lot can keep your fish heads ! Even if the eyes see you through the week ( sorry , I'll get my coat 😆)

Now jaffa cakes , this I can get on board with , I haven't tried the strange flavours but Aldi's one's are nice.

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius

i found this in case you want to see the carnage, I think it’s the worst thing I saw him do. I wonder what his digestion was like after that ? It doesn’t bear thinking about really 💩

The Man v. Food chilli episode you're likely looking for is in Season 2, Episode 10, titled "Springfield, IL," where Adam Richman attempts the Firebrand Chili Challenge. The challenge involves eating multiple 1-pound bowls of a high-heat, chili-spiced meat dish.Richman ties the existing record for the challenge by eating five bowls, a significant feat given the intense heat of the chili, which made him "sweat" and feel "boiling hot".

Key Details about the Episode:

Episode: Season 2, Episode 10
Location: Springfield, Illinois
Challenge: The Firebrand Chili Challenge
Challenge Format: Eating multiple 1-pound bowls of chili
Outcome: Adam Richman tied the record by eating five bowls.
What to Expect:
Intense Heat:
The chili is described as explosively hot, with a burning sensation after the first bite.

Struggle and Endurance:
Adam fights through the heat, and the chili begins to take its toll after the third bowl.

Success:
He manages to tie the record and get his name on the "honor roll," although he is too full to eat more.

Thank you, @CalzoneOnLegs!

Yes I have they are delicious ! I can eat a whole box in one go

Ready made baby food. Some of it's so bland. I made some purées up for DS when I started weaning him and they had more flavour. I don't understand why blended up veggies/meat in a jar/pouch lost all their flavour. I bought some for when we were out and he wouldn't eat them. The fruit ones are lovely though! (He still wouldn't eat those ones either.)

Avocados. Just bland green tasting mush.