For every Trump misstep or lie, there’s an example of ludicrous posturing on PuffHo. I sometimes visit the food section, for of course I’m a foodie, and when I visited today I found part of a series on “food of the Trump Ban Countries.” It’s just like PuffHo to co-opt its food section to denigrate The Donald. Have a look at this (click on screenshot to go to article):
And. . . surprise! The unique way they eat bananas is that they cook them into dishes or put them on the side! Well, that’s not unique, for there must be at least two dozen countries that have dishes with bananas in them or with bananas served on the side, including Thailand, other African countries, Caribbean countries, South and Central American countries, and India. And I’m not even counting plantains.
Better title: sheltered white girl discovers that people do things differently outside her parents’ neighborhood.
You go girl! Knowledge is power!
That’d be in the milliwatt class, I guess. You know, about enough to light one small LED…
cr
Smarmy…
I started eating bananas ‘backward’ a couple years ago. Opening them from the side opposite the stem. It’s better than all other methods, I’m convinced.
Yup, far superior, and much easier. Of course it would upset Ray Comfort to know that there isn’t really a goddy ring pull, but instead a handle
And I love splitting them lengthwise into 120 degree “wedges”. Nerdy, I know🙊
Any time I see Ray’s video about how perfectly the banana fits, it cracks me up. (I don’t dare show it to my wife, Cook Islanders can spot a double entendre – or an opportunity for one – at 100 paces at night in a snowstorm).
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I roll them in my hands to mash them before opening…
…& it saves on washing a fork!
True, because the end part from the side of the stem is the best one, and eating the banana your way leaves it last.
Maybe in this specific context, the term “banana” might NOT refer to the fruit belonging to genus Musa (pardon my ignorance with botany)
Here in south Florida, if you eat Cuban, as I regularly do, you get plantains with almost every meal.
Ate at a Ethiopian-Eritrian place not long ago. Haven’t had the pleasure yet, but if somebody opens a Somalian joint in town, count me in.
“south Florida” – sigh. This morning I dug out from Tuesday’s freezing rain and ice pellet storm. Ice everywhere. Wood ashes everywhere to keep from slipping on said ice. What’s it like to live in Paradise?
OTOH, I just pulled a homemade apple pie from the oven, so not all bad news here I guess.
This may be a non-seq., but I was looking at the Amici Motions and Briefs filed in the WA v. pussygrabber file in the Ninth Circuit, and saw that the lead attorney for the “Law Professors” who submitted a motion & brief on “standing” is named Fatma Marouf. She is a law professor at Texas A & M U. . . . bet that’s driving p-grabber nuts.
Having worked in (or raher, “alongside”) at least two such … the problem is, what?
So, the galley has steamed or lengthwise-sliced and shallow-fried bananas as one of the pans of veggies alongside the meat, tatties, rice and sweet-tatties. Is that such a testicle shrivellingly terrifying idea?
Hell, I’ll even eat the TexMex stuff so beloved of the Louisiana RedNecks on board. As long as I chew round the red and green pain bombs and spit them out. That Jumbleayah stuff is perfectly acceptable fish sludge if you spit out the pain bombs.
That’s “Jambalya,” mate, and it’s Cajun, not Tex-Mex.
Dem bayou boys ain’t teached you to speak “Yat” yet? 🙂
Too many peppers, whatever it is.
Add Cook Islands (and probably many other Pacific islands) to the list of countries that cook bananas.
Next week: How West Africans eat peanuts…
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Add Australia. Banana Fritters and chips goes back a long way, but is probably frowned on as a hearty supper these days.
You mean ground nuts, fyi;-)
I suspect they’re about the same relation to peanuts as various strains of bananas are to each other
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Ground nuts=peanuts in (at least West) Africa.
I thought that eating foods from other cultures was “cultural appropriation”.
And of the very tastiest kind, too!
sheesh!
Anything you do with a banana beyond just peeling it and eating it is entirely unnecessary.
I have just had two rolls with mashed banana & brandy butter for lunch! 🙂
I have not made it for years, but used to cut them lengthways, dowse with lemon & orange juice, sprinkle with Demerara sugar & slosh some dark rum on then bake.
The article says Somalis eat pasta! Who’d have thought it. I hope the Italians aren’t upset about the cultural appropriation.
Or the Chinese since the Italians culturally appropriated it first from them.
I got the impression that it might not have been the Han that were the inventors either, but some other subject people within the empire. (Uighurs?)
It did occur to me when I wrote my post that the Italians might have nicked pasta from somewhere else. A lot of these stereotypical national symbols turn out to be ancient cultural appropriation.
Yeah – even Holland got tulips from Turkey.