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 think oysters are more like having an alcohol shot. I can't imagine getting full up on them. Eating a massive bowl? Sounds gross. Even though I do like three or four with Tabasco, vinegar and shallots.

I find watermelon tastes fishy. And sometimes it's kind of furry which I think is grim. Almost like wet cotton wool. Coconut water tastes like fish to me also!

Pea shoots and foam are usually served on a piece of slate 😉

Says it all.
Who wants to eat their meal off roofing material 🤷‍♀️

I love the taste of celery and the crunch. It's one of my favourite snack foods when I'm trying not to eat chocolate or cake!
But I don't get Marmite, Ovaltine or seafood.

Oysters on the shell are alive when you eat them.
I'm out.

Calamari - horrible rubbery fishy elastic bands, bleugh. Also anything strongly fishy like caviar, sardines etc - just makes me think of smelly bins.

Matcha tastes like weird soap and joss-stick flavoured dust. why ruin nice chocolate and drinks with it?

I want to like mango but to me it always has a faint hint of fag ash.

And definitely truffles - smell/taste of sweaty unwashed bollocks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddlehead

These things

Not popular in the UK thank God, eaten in North America

Who knows why anyone would eat them, awful

Agreed with Indian desserts

It's like they are trying to be something they're not

😂😂😂😂

Shellfish- I don't want to deshell my food, nor catch food poisoning from it!

Cheesecake, just the thought of it makes me feel unwell. But you say that to people and you just get a lot of ‘oh but you haven’t had MY cheesecake’ and try and force you to eat it. Listen, it could be the best cheesecake ever and I’d still hate it because the texture and taste and everything about it is just wrong.

The only person I ever knew with a genuine aversion to cucumber was my dad, who couldn't just leave it on his plate. It had to be removed forthwith if it appeared unheralded in a side salad, because the smell of it put him off his entire meal. He wasn't a fussy man, and he ate sprouts quite happily.
Me, I can't get my head around mozzarella. To me it's just chewy stringy tasteless muck that they put on pizza to keep the toppings on. Yuck. Why anyone would choose to have it on anything else is a complete mystery, when there are so many non-tasteless alternatives

Spicy food. I don't mean spiced (can't eat food without seasoning and flavour). I don't mean heat to offset sweetness or sourness. I mean spicy food that makes your tongue burn, makes you sweat, make you feel nauseous, obliterates the flavour of food. What's the point of it?

Agreed. I couldn’t get a cheese sandwich past my lips, vomity gak!

Talking of mozzarella, which to me is fine, burrata. A soggier more expensive version of mozzarella. There's no need.

Oh and mashed potato, I don’t get the raving about it. It’s sloppy, tasteless baby food and I don’t know why you’d ruin a decent meal with it.

Unless you have a broken jaw or are very poorly, what’s the point?

Offal. Just why?

Fish. In any form

Actually for some it can be a textural thing regardless of the fact that is soggy

Agreed! Even my rabbit won't touch it and she eats anything.

Fish is delicious! How can you think fish is weird one?

Omg! I disagree with almost everyone on here! 🤣 I mean I knew I was a foodie and have a very very broad taste but a bit surprised! 🤣

Yes, not relevant to the main thread, but I often wonder about people who get upset because their kids are unadventurous eaters. Babies have around 30,000 taste buds, apparently, whereas adults have less than 10,000. It seems obvious to me therefore that many kids will dislike lots of foods that adults will like, but hopefully will eat an improved range as they get older. The food just tastes different (and more intense) to them. So long as they're getting a reasonably healthy range, give them what they'll eat and don't stress.

Peaches in salad. I mean, WTF?!!

Sweet potatoes. Why would anyone enjoy a potato that's sweet??

I'm glad you've said this, I totally agree but I always feel like I'm the only one. Maybe I've just never had good Yorkshire puddings but I've had quite a lot of roasts.