Surprise is like a thrilling pungent — Ingredient

Surprise is like a thrilling-pungent-1
Upon a tasteless meat
Alone-too acrid-but combined
An edible Delight.
(F.1324/J.1306)
[1] Surprise:: an ingredient of a dish to amaze someone (OED 1708).
[2] meat:: a) pork, beef, etc.; b) the content of a poem, the theme of this poem.
[3] acrid:: sharp and harsh, with ingredient only. combined:: the meat and pungent ingredient.
[4] edible Delight:: pleasure in eating; also reading a riddle poem.