Things that inexplicably taste better when you change their shape

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Cheddar cheese just tastes better to me if you grate it first and then eat it in little squished up balls of grated cheese 🤣

What else tastes better when you change its shape but don’t do anything else to it?

Had them force-fed to me at meal after meal as a child in the 60's/70's by my mother who was not an adventurous cook. Butter was not to be wasted on potatoes by DM either, she lived through WW2 rationing and was frugal beyond the point of reason on some things.

I like every other kind of potato going, just not those; even though I do actually have Irish ancestry on one side of my family tree. They left Ireland for Liverpool during the potato famine.

I complain to my DH regularly that he has put my tea in a “coffee” mug and my coffee in a “tea” mug!

Especially if slightly burnt ❤️

Some pasta shapes taste better than others

Absolutely.

I was talking about your plain old bog-standard potatoes cut into lumps and boiled. And yes they were served as was, with no butter.

Yes. My husband is the veg chopper and impressed me when we got together with his knife skills honed in the beefeater kitchen aged 17. Cute uniform thin batons better than shop bought. Unfortunate now days he can’t be bothered and I have to have round ones

they taste horrible

I realised recently I prefer "thin" chocolate not chunky bars. That's why I liked easter eggs more than a bar. So I melt my chocolate to thin pieces. Weirdly I eat less of it too!

Mummy agrees with you 100%; she likes the folded ones, I like the bubbly ones!

Broccoli, cauliflower and sprouts (note the theme) all taste better when battered with a sledge hammer, placed into a blast furnace for an hour and then any remains detonated with high explosive equivalent to a minimum of 500lbs of TNT. Then I can't taste the evil bastards at all, so by definition they taste better.

Boiled potatoes on the other hand are the food of the gods. Skin on. No salt in the water, no butter. Best form of potato.

Home made chips acceptable (basically small boiled potatoes with salt and pepper on the outside - also skin on).

Jacket potatoes acceptable.

Sautéed potatoes acceptable (that's just crisping up joyous boiled potatoes after all - skin on obvs).

Mashed potato (should only ever be mashed plain boiled potatoes, none of your milk/cream/butter etc., and of course skin on) are ok, but why ruin a perfectly good boiled potato? Save time and effort and have your boiled potatoes as the Great God Spud intented.

Roast potatoes not acceptable - too much fat compared with my homemade chips and they are pretty unpleasant.

Cock

Ice

I used to like Rountrees fruit gums when they had the pimples/jelly mould shape on top. They've never been the same since they offed the pimples.

Two chips stuck together is the best thing ever.

Sunday dinner spaced out on a plate, nothing touching, tastes much better than everything mixed up together.

Everything tastes better without gravy. Except beef casserole.

Folded crisps are elite compared to a boring flat crisp

I love this thread. So much truth here.

I agree that sandwiches are better in triangles but I'd also add that I prefer them squished up so the bread is sort of crushed against the filling. Makes them more moist and delicate somehow. Alas, not acceptable to do it when eating out in public.

Chocolate is tastier in a shape that gives it distinct differences in thickness and texture. Obviously most chocolate bars achieve this to some extent with their little sticky-uppy bits (technical terminology not known) but it is surely what makes easter eggs tastier, and chocolate in the shape of animals better still (or maybe that last part is just down to the bit of me that mourns meat after turning vegetarian. Not that I ever ate cute bunnies particularly).

Grated cheese
Easter egg chocolate
Fusilli pasta (rather than any other shape)

A thin rimmed mug makes the tea taste so much better too.
Potatoes I love in any form, but maybe mash is the best.

Hard agree. Don’t know if it’s the ratio of wafer to chocolate but it tastes wrong. Like actually different.

Squashed ham sandwiches on white bread I defo agree with! And triangle sandwiches. My partner put banana in my cereal and broke it up (what’s the matter with him lol). It definitely needed to be sliced!

Yes!
I sometimes make cheese and marmite sandwiches then wrap them in foil and squish them a bit then leave on the kitchen side to eat later.

MacDonalds tea in the big cardboard cup tastes like the best builders tea possible. Way better than from a china cup or a ceramic mug.

There’s another time of spirally pasta that is tighter and fatter than fusilli, that has excellent mouth feel.

My husband grew up in a household where the default pasta was penne which I find distressing. Fusilli is the default pasta when you think “pasta”.

Ha ha - yes. When it changes shape! 😂

Have you tried them frozen?? Not solidly frozen, but a short while in the freezer.
Semi frozen whole bars are delightful. Im off to try them sliced later.