How old were you when you first tried houmous…

or some of that rotten-smelling Scandinavian tinned fish-horror I read about.

Surströmming. Even most swedes don’t like it.

Watching videos of people eating it is almost as funny as those chilli pepper challenge videos.

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.

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

The ouzo.

Inverse (sic) snobbery is strong in this thread.

Like pork scratchings, nobody actually likes them, but if you’re prepared to endure the hairy toenails/grease combo of those two vile substances then you’re accepted into the lower class

That’s how you sound. HTH 😉

It’s like a trap. Snobs trying to trap non-snobs into their mindset. If young Henry decides to try a pork scratching because he’s not had one yet, and is curious, then hateful Jocasta accuses him sharply of attempting to ‘look lower class’. Henry at this point wisely decides that Jocasta is not worth marrying after all.

Oooooooooo…. that reminds me…. I’ve not opened todays window on my pork scratchings advent calendar!!

😀

In my 40’s and no rush to experience it again

Hurrah! Someone spelt it right! But is pita “pitta” or “pita”?

*Edit – Apologies if I missed some Poe’s law/satirical parody. I’m often not the sharpest tool in the box, it has to be said 🙂

I’ve also no idea how to spell it. Does anyone? Invariably buy it from Lidl (cheapest and best superstore version IMO):

I was 14yrs old when I first tried it. But I didn’t inhale until my mid 20’s

Hurrah! Someone spelt it right! But is pita “pitta” or “pita”?

It was spelt right on page 1 too. Pita is UK variant for pitta sometimes spelling is a PITA.

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

Or your’e doing the washing up wrong.

‘Hands that do dishes will be softs your face with mild, green Fillipo Berio.’

It was spelt right on page 1 too

That was the one to which I was referring.

sometimes spelling is a PITA

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DezB – Member
Hurrah! Someone spelt it right! But is pita “pitta” or “pita”?

It’s “pita” from the Greek “????”

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

But not as air-shattering/tooth-gratingly annoying as crisps or nachos? Or peanut M&Ms. In fact pita and dip sounds … near-silent? Unless he was a noisy-eater. Argh. Lip-smacker/snoffler?

I was 32 I think. Its quite delicious

It’s from the Ancient Greek ?????.

Bloody loves it, me. As does our 18 month old lad. If we ask him what he’d like for lunch the most common reply is “houmouth! houmouth! houmouth!”

Let a bloke at work try some. He was wary, only had a wee bit. He turned red and dashed to the bin to spit it out. This bloke will eat anything, all kinds of offal and innards. But he draws the line at chickpeas, sesame paste and garlic.

I don;t get why people don’t like it? texture.

First had it with my first posh girlfriend, age 15.

…probably 18 when I spent a few months in Greece over summer. But I have no memories. .

I have a very clear memory of when i first encountered yogurt though: middle school, central Leeds, mid-70s, school dinners, these pots of lemon yogurt appeared. No one knew what it was. A few brave souls tried it and pronounced it nice. They’re all probably dead now. The school’s certainly demolished. Being cautious none passed my lips.

Love the stuff, but I didn’t try it until I was about 35.

I don;t get why people don’t like it? texture.

People like different stuff 😉

I just remembered, I tried caper-berries recently and the taste was meh but the gritty seeds put me right off. So there’s a first for my not liking a foodstuff. Texture definitely plays a part.

don’t get why people don’t like it? texture.

Thats exactly it for me. I find it like pouring wet sand into your mouth. Hence the tiling grout reference. Its absolutely disgusting!

And believe me, bar olives (which is just solidified Fairy liquid) there are very very few things I won’t eat

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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

I thought they needed to be boiled to get rid of toxins? Or is that just kidney beans and stuff like that?

Anyway, I have no idea how old I was when I first had it, but I know how old I’ll be when I stop – the day I die.

Lovely stuff – just the plain stuff too, none of this fussing with roasted peppers, onion, chilli etc etc. Just give me houmous and raw carrots. Mmmmm.

I find it like pouring wet sand into your mouth

‘Wet sand’? You’re supposed to use soaked/cooked chickpeas 😉

Also ‘pouring into’ the mouth sounds suspect! Something went wrong for sure 😯

Life really is too short for soaking and cooking chickpeas, my friend 🙂

I’ve just had my advent calendar pork scratchings as a chaser to my sausage butty

Homous indeed…..

Born 1965 in ossett west yorks:
pork scratching ie crackling and dripping from birth,
courgettes when we visited our southern relatives i was about 10 they were a genuine novelty to me parents and me.
Pizza when my brother came back from the army so about 10 too. (the pizza came in 4 sachets base, sauce, topping, cheese,all powders to mix with water)
Houmous when i became a student so 18 or 19 olives probably at the same age.
i really like my food now and wont hesitate to spend money to get nice tasty versions of food , that policy pays dividends with olives , houmous taramsalata and i think cheese.
i’m don’t eat land based meat now but for pork scratchings and dripping homemade was the only way .

Love it.
🙂

I moved from the multicultural wonderland that was Crumpsall to Todmorden about 25 years ago.
I asked the lad in the local supermarket where the hummus was.
He’d never heard of it.
😀

johndoh – Member
“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”

I thought they needed to be boiled to get rid of toxins? Or is that just kidney beans and stuff like that?

I think that’s just kidney beans – put it this way, I’m still alive and kicking after years of eating it made this way.

Drac – Moderator
It’s from the Ancient Greek ?????.

In that case, I’ll take your word for it – I don’t know any Ancient Greek. ????? ??????????, ????????…….

I moved from the multicultural wonderland that was Crumpsall to Todmorden about 25 years ago.
I asked the lad in the local supermarket where the hummus was.
He’d never heard of it

remember looking for tofu in tescos on my return to the north. Asked an assistant for help and was led confidently to the werther’s originals…

He knew full-well where it was. He was just trying to do you a favour 😉

Just realised I never actually answered the OP’s question. Think I was 30-ish. I’m 42 now.

22-23 I reckon. 36 years ago? It’s hardly new or niche.

At a guess about 47 years ago so 5, my mum had a Turkish friend who introduced us to all sorts of new foods, she also brought us trays of Baklava 🙂
I had a pretty varied diet as my mum threw off her meat & 2 veg upbinging in Huddersfield as soon as she left home.

She still made her own houmous up until she died earlier this year.

This will be my first Christmas/New Year without a parent 🙁

hummus is one of the things that my mum would call ‘Queer Food’, ie strange and exotic foods eaten by posh people and foreigners. Other such foods would include curry, pasta, and pretty much anything else that isn’t meat and potatoes.

So I started trying all these things after I left home in the late 90s. Exciting times 😀

No idea, probably in my 20’s.

My kids have had it since they were babies though. Middle class Leeds!

My mother had worked in an Italian restaurant so we had various pasta dishes from a very early age.

Only a couple of years ago for me, it’s a recent discovery. Though I have an odd relationship with food generally.

First had it with my first posh girlfriend, age 15.

That’s cosmopolitan, most folk just use pitta bread.

most folk just use pitta bread

you haven’t lived

57 and never knowingly tried it. I’ve stuck a breadstick in something strange at Buffett’s so perhaps I have 😆

Houmous of the Tesco variety and carrot batons yum yum, olives are the product of a devil rabbits arse