Food and regions
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In many parts of Russia people eat pork fat prepared with salt and garlic known as 'сало' (pronounced: sah-lo)(the salt draws out the moisture so that it doesn't go bad, and garlic adds flavor). It's often eaten with bread as a sandwich and it's pretty good, but most people in the US would probably think it's pretty disgusting...while i doubt they'll notice if they ate as much lard mixed into their other food... Roswell
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Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CA"In many parts of Russia people eat pork fat prepared with salt and garlic ..." My grandmother (a US Southerner) used to eat lard sandwiches. She'd slice off about a 1/2 inch (roughly a centemeter) slab of lard, slap it between two slices of bread and be in hog-heaven. I could handle the slice of bread fried in bacon drippings that my father liked, so long as it was hot, but no way was I about to even try eating pure (and cold!) lard.
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I find it interesting how food can have different names depending where you live. In some places it's a 'sloppy joe' and other places it's called a 'tavern.' Pop can be called pop/soda/Coke. (Note in Australia if you order a lemonade you actually get a Sprite.) Some places call it a 'hot dish' and others a 'casserole.' Then I got to thinking about the strange foods in different regions. Up here people eat lefsa, lutefisk, pickeled herring. In the south people eat grits and boiled green peanuts. I was exposed to a new concotion that I just can't figure out, but it is apparently a staple of pot-lucks in Siouxland. Take a large dill pickle, cover in cream cheese and then wrap a piece of corned beef on the outside. Who decided to throw these ingredients together? My dad's side of the family is Irish and they have this weird (but tasty) dish of creamed corn and oysters. I thought that was an odd combination...but the pickle? Anyhow, wondering what weird foods you have come across in your travels or what others find weird that you eat.
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On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage