…obviously some of you wouldn’t of even heard of it if you’re from the North !

Seriously though I must have been 7 or 8 years old so that’s 1980, always had alternative parents…

Answers on a pita bread please….

Never! It looks disgusting and that’s good enough for me!

Absolutely no idea.

Twelvty

The first time I had it, I ate it.

What kind of experiment did you do?

I’ve made it to 46 without doing so thankfully

What kind of experiment did you do?

Something alternative.

Not sure, but I was about 18 before I’d ever heard of garlic bread which would have been the early nineties.

fried lamb, loads of houmous, chopped parsley and lemon juice. my god that’s good

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I’ve made it to 46 without doing so thankfully

Missing out!

Yep, 46 and just the smell of it makes me want to vom.

I’m from oop nuuuueeerrrrrth and never though of Humous as being ‘alternative’, however my dad was (is) into cooking from various countries so always has something different going on in the kitchen. He built a make-shift Tandoor oven back in the day when BBQ’s were just kicking off, and we had a Tandoori cook-out instead of a BBQ. Though I guess I didn’t have the typical upbringing when it comes to food. About the only aspect of my life that wasn’t typical and boring when growing up.

19 or 20 probably. Pretty plain food in our house as a kid, except for the odd exotic Vesta curry. Plus there wasn’t the money for eating out with 5 kids.

4/5 is guess, some of my family are from the Middle East way-back-when so we had ‘odd’ stuff now and again.

Just tried an olive for the first time and might try and pop my salad cherry soon
Spam, shippams meat paste, toast toppers mothers pride plain loaf and angel delight the staple food in Escotia

Oh my.

Answers on a pita bread please….

French stick?

It wasn’t invented when I were a lad.

He built a make-shift Tandoor oven back in the day when BBQ’s were just kicking off

Was that BH or after?

It wasn’t invented when I were a lad.

You’re over 700 years old?

There’s hummus you get out of a jar and there’s hummus you make yourself. Two different things. One isn’t hummus, the other is lovely.

Its basically this, with some garlic flavouring added….

Like olives, nobody actually likes it, but if you’re prepared to endure the tiling grout/fairy liquid combo of those two vile substances then you’re accepted into the middle class, whereas if you’re an honest salt of the earth oik you are excluded, but at least you can shrug and have some primula on a thick piece of sliced white bread and a packet of Monster Munch

I think I know who’s winning 😀

I didn’t realise it was such a momentous moment.

Feeling quite foolish right now

Me too I might see if my parents have it in the family album.

4 or 5, and i’m from up north (born there). Though family is extensively from elsewhere.

This is what happens when you do your shopping from the lowest of three quotes. Same with the olives.

Piss off… proper olives that you can seemingly get from every french village are as addictive as crack.

The French are right, this island is full of inbres peasants and pirates. 😆

Olives are the devils chug-nuts.

I periodically try them just to check if I’ve somehow magically become more middle class and sophisticated, like.

Invariably I haven’t, as I also end up asking myself the same question…. why do they inject them with washing up liquid?

Again, doing it wrong if your olives taste like washing up liquid.

About 10 I think.

33 Before I made my own (didn’t use shop bought tahini (sp) paste either, toasted some sesame seeds and used a pestle and mortar.

I can’t remember when I first tried Houmous, but I just cannot imagine life without it. Pretty young I reckon. Veggie since 14 so perhaps more open to eating that foreign muck.

I was wondering what my life was like BH recently as it happens. What the frig did I put on me sangers?

I’m a big fan but something of a Houmous-purist. All these new fangled flavours these days are for amateurs.

Like olives, nobody actually likes it

My kid likes olives. Has done since he was tiny. And kids don’t fake shit like that! Weirdly, he prefers green to black.
Anyway, houmous – prob in 30s, after I was married. The ex liked to do pita , olives and humous for lunch. Another weird one, cos she wasn’t at all posh.

Why are we all spelling hummus wrong anyway?

My 7 month old loves the stuff. Myself, I have no idea. Not a fan.

Again, doing it wrong if your olives taste like washing up liquid.

the last couple of times have been at our local Tapas place that Jay Rayner rates as one of the best eateries in the country.

Their food is fantastic.

Apart from the olives

They taste like…

Try making it with roast chestnuts for a festive version,it’s very good

it’s threads like these that keep me going back to wondering just how binners and i are such good friends!

ad, i shall bring you some of my home made houmous soon. it goes really well with a packet of space raiders…

In the cinema for Star Wars on Monday, the person next to me (fortunately a few seats across) unpacked a selection of dips and hummus, and shovelled it into his gob with pitta. Off-putting

about 5 when I first pulled a cracker.. something about santa and self elf books

Now taramasalata is a different beast..

Olives are the devils chug-nuts.

I periodically try them

I couldn’t eat them at all when young but persevered with them and then one day went from hating them to loving them. Something about trying things enough times (around 10)

Have always liked houmous but don’t give me any kimchi (or any other fermented stuff)

Don’t remember exactly. Was also brought up on meat paste, tins of mince-meat, processed pork and jams. Even (especially) mayonnaise didnt feature in our house, nor any other ‘foreign muck’. Proper British. There came a time somewhere in the 1980s where the family love of pork had somehow let ‘paté’ slip through the net and into the fridge. On rare occasions. Yes, it was foreign. Yet it doesn’t have garlic in it (a foodstuff literally banned from the house I kid you not) – so it somehow passed the ‘test’. The Force of Pork is strong in the Black Country. Had to be Brussels paté.

Houmous, though? I don’t remember hearing it mentioned in the 70’s/80s. And isn’t it Arabic? That would be beyond pretentious. Completely alien goo territory.

So I probably tried houmous some time in the 90’s in my twenties. Then-girlfriend had a big family and they ate all manmer of ‘foreign stuff’. It was like a magical wonderland for my taste-buds. This immediately landed me in the ‘pretentious’ category back home. I think I may have mentioned once that I liked it. Black sheep status eaned.

Still haven’t found a foodstuff that I don’t like (apart from badly-cooked stuff of course) Probably will be an insect or some of that rotten-smelling Scandinavian tinned fish-horror I read about. Or that italian cheese made of cheesy maggot-poo and maggots. Although, have eaten a maggot once. Hmmm…

My wife makes the best houmous (revithosalata) that I’ve ever tasted, the important bit is not to boil the chickpeas. This is dry chickpeas, of course – not tinned.
Soak them overnight then freeze them for a few days – the freezing is the important bit, because it softens them so you don’t need to boil them, which means that you don’t lose all the flavour into the water you’ve boiled them in.

And on a hot summer’s day you’re not heating your house up with all that boiling either……..

Then just as normal – tahini, garlic, rigani, parsley, lemon juice, salt, olive oil and blitz with a hand blender. Drizzle a bit more olive oil on top before serving. Result is more flavour and texture than if you boil the chickpeas and infinitely better than any of the bought stuff.

Eat with some lallagia with a glass of Plomariou ouzo. What’s not to like?

Probably about 24, so 2005-ish. Bit backward here in NI. The DUP tried to have it banned, along with line dancing.