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?

I tried scorzonera once. Just the once. Just vile.

Urgh - it was 23 years ago (I was 16 / 17) and this thread has bought it all back to me 😂

On the upside, we used to get double time on a Sunday which made the gross ham job worth while. About £12 a hr if I recall - I was loaded! (for a 16yo)

Mussels
snails
sprouts
blue cheese

Gasp! You take that back right now! Who doesn't love pizza?? 😉

Oooh interesting!
I wonder if the strong smellers are also the ones who intensely dislike coriander.
Because there is science to back that argument re why some people think it tastes like soap.

It was 10 years ago for my friend, she said the worst part of the job were the older male customers who would shout at her for not slicing the cheese correctly. Sounds awful!

Ohh I'm intrigued. It feels like I should like Okra and I want to, but I have also only ever had it slimey. How should it be cooked to avoid sliminess?

Yes, I was impressed also.

We're in Scotland and our chippy closed down. Then a new, posh one appeared.

No chippy sauce! No curry sauce! No mushy peas!

Just haddock in batter for £13.95.
Chips are an extra £4.

Enjoy. If you can afford it, that is.

Oh yeah - the jeopardy of the hand carved ham 😱

they always wanted it thinly sliced and when you start that’s really hard!

also people used to not take a ticket and try and push in.

ahhhhh - trip down memory lane

It’s like sex. Gets better with practice , experience and trying different types.

That's interesting. My husband hates coriander but will eat cucumber. I am indifferent to coriander and wouldn't eat a slice of cucumber unless you were offering me a sum of money with many zeroes on the end!

Suddenly feeling sad that my young teenage self did not want a career in scientific research!

Same here about goats cheese. There is a firm divide in my family between those who love it and those who hate it and I am sure it is genetic. To me there is a strong smell and taste of dirty mouldy socks that is felt right up in the nose and will linger there for ages. I cannot comprehend how others do not get this.

Same when seeing goats at a farm, I think they're so cute, but the smell makes me sick. DH can't seem to smell it.

It's gene TAS2R38, which also dictates your view of brussel sprouts.

Brussel sprouts are the devils work.

They taste the same as farts smell.

No I hate it too, so bland and heavy.

See also risotto

I have a deep visceral hatred for the stuff

Escargot and winkles.

I with you on the goat's cheese.
Can smell it in any dish 🤢
I have a very, very strong sense of smell and it can be quite a downfall when it comes to eating out.
Barbecue/BBQ sauce is very off putting to me. The thought of pulled pork turns my stomach.

Well I love blue cheese, olives and avocado, in fact there is little that I don't enjoy eating BUT

Get those feckin' pea shoots off the plate! Everything ordered in a restaurant these days seems to come with a bouquet of tasteless green shoots. I even had them on soup once. Why, just why? Pointless and doubtless expensive, they add nothing to a dish.

Dragon fruit has literally no flavour. It just looks pretty and pink with white and black in the middle. Then there's that fruit that apparently stinks of rotting meat/eggs?! Why?

Pastry - yes I know - I'm an outlier.

To be more specific, most pastry I ever try outside of my own home.

It's generally tasteless and I don't like the texture, it gives me the ick - both dry and greasy at the same time.

Worst staff Xmas dinner out ever - the only veggie option was a "roast vegetable tart" with a green salad - i.e. a huge pastry case with a few roast peppers and carrots and a bit of lettuce and cucumber...... I asked could I just have the lovely veggies my friends were having with their roast dinner but without the turkey..... not possible evidently.

I will admit that Baclava is an exception to the above. A good, proper greek one, is nectar of the gods.

Marrows, breaded ham, tinned fish and shellfish, bloody eels in any form, mochi, Indian desserts, lychees, green tea anything, south East Asian cakes made of red soybean paste, cucumber, courgettes

Marmite. Looks like a particularly horrible poonami and smells worse.

Also, I won't touch breaded ham. The crumbs turn into yellow sludge. I think it was probably intended to be eaten hot and crispy, which would be nice.

And while I'm having a whinge, fucking marmalade. Sticky, bitter, sickly AND rancid at the same time.

Disgusting primitive food like offal and chicken feet, if you’re in a country developed enough not to necessitate eating it.

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne

No chippy sauce! No curry sauce! No mushy peas!

That's just all kinds of wrong!!
Abomination.
They're not going to last, mark my words 😉