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?

Brioche burger buns. Why?! Just oily and soggy.

Strawberries and anything. Sugar, cream, chocolate, balsamic vinegar all yuk.

Chocolate orange.

I do like a bit of Wensleydale with cranberry though.

On the off chance anyone here is Danish then parsley sauce is basically warm vomit and I cannot believe you all proudly present it as part of your national dish - the rest of which is fine btw.

If we ever get cheese rationing can I have yours please 🧀

It's often some sort of macho male posturing. Personally, I like to be able to taste my dinner, not to have to mainline a pint of milk mid meal.

Gives DP a hard stare after his stir fry cock up last week. He said it wasn't that hot. I haven't drunk milk straight from the bottle in 20 years, so I'd say it was.

I had toast instead.

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 love this! 😂

This has made me sad, it’s my favourite vegetable!! The poor misunderstood aubergine 😂

I also love avocado, cucumber, lobster, truffle, crispy gnocchi, lots of things on this thread - but obviously not all together!

Never thought much about the soggy crumbed ham but I do think I agree with a pp that it’s possible to disguise the unappealing soggy white fat layer? My mum used to buy it and I remember it being horrible so just peeling the crumb bit off.

I also agree that I don’t understand okra but accept by other comments that I have not had it cooked well. I’m not against trying it again but I’ve only ever had it when it’s been the slimy texture 😩

I don’t understand the appeal of snails - everyone says it’s all about the garlic butter so just eat the garlic butter with something that’s actually nice then?! I’ve tried snails before and didn’t enjoy either experience. I can confirm the garlic butter was good both times but would have rather had it smeared on some nice bread.

With you on the matcha, just tastes old and dusty. Dislike camomile tea too like stewed lawn clippings. Coriander tastes like soap to me and it's on almost everything, just why. It's foul.

I disagree with you about cheese but agree with everything else.
But I love your descriptions !

Yes, yes, yes

Be gone cupcakes and bring back the fairy.

This thread has brought back memories of when one of my good friends briefly worked in Waitrose at the deli and left utterly traumatised. One of her main jobs was breading the ham, and the way she described it sounded foul. Not that it ever seemed appetising, but now I’m even more averse.

Agree with OP’s suggestions of celery and okra. I cannot get on board with beetroot either.

I really want to like matcha but I just can’t. It tastes how burning smells.

It's often some sort of macho male posturing. Personally, I like to be able to taste my dinner, not to have to mainline a pint of milk mid-meal.

A few mouthfuls of Gaviscon are helpful for this, too, as well as the gallon of milk.

I had a husband who thought it was macho to eat a chicken phall. Looking at the sweat on his head as the meal progressed was one of the many, many reasons why I left him.

Well, that, and the fact that he had an affair, and gave the girlfriend £1,000 of our savings to have an abortion. That was 40 years ago now. I wonder why it didn't occur to him that I'd notice the withdrawal from the account.

Wanker.

I used to call it cheese on toast for £20. Although now it’s more like £30. Ive never seen the appeal of it.

Olives
Pretzels

Both fashioned by the Devil's own cloven hooves.

What a total shit.

To be fair to DP, this wasn't a macho dinner, he'd done a great one a couple of weeks before and I'd enjoyed every bit. He got a bit giddy with the chilli flakes etc apparently. 2 bites and I was done. He did apologise and offer to make me something else, but my tongue was not feeling good....

What chippy sauce do you like @ChippySauce ?

How about jellied eels? 🤢

Octopus. I've never been able to pluck up the courage to try it but I imagine it's akin to having a collection of rubbery loo plungers in your mouth ☹️

Pâté of any description. Even if it’s a vegetarian version. It’s the concentrated flavour - turns my mouth inside out.

Mangoes. I like the taste but they are so bloody unreliable. Either rock hard and tasteless or mushy slop. I rarely get a perfect mango.

Golden Delicious apples. They taste of eff all. Never was a variety of fruit so erroneously named.

Cucumber. I just can’t stand it and it has a weird taste. Whenever I tell people this they always say “but cucumber tastes of nothing”. Firstly, this is not true, and secondly, if it really did taste of nothing why would anyone bother eating it? My son and husband love it, so it clearly tastes of something.

Agree. It smells like bad breath to me. Yuck. Also the disappointment when you see something lovely on the menu and then you see the dreaded words …..”with truffle mayo/oil/anything”.

We mostly cook them first.

Percy Pigs can get in the bin.

This. It’s fashionable to like grass apparently 😂 also spare ribs - sticky, messy and annoying to eat with little meat on.

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It really depends on what I'm having with the chips with to be honest.
And the location.

If I'm in Europe, it will be mayo.
My mum's homemade chips are just so good hot out of the pan with ketchup.
My local chippy has the best curry sauce.
If I'm having fish and chips, then tartare sauce please.
In Scotland, it has to be chippy sauce of course!

I like it and it does have a taste but mostly watery. My dogs hang around for it too😂