Thought I’d ask this because I want to discover more foods from across the world

(Also I shouldn’t have to say this to americans, please state where you are from and state where you are from without acronyms or shortened names because I’ve seen US Defaultism on lemmy and not all of us are going to know your acronyms considering we’re global users)

  • @Digital_Dropkick@lemmy.world
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    09 months ago

    Bunny Chow - South Africa (does not contain any bunnies)

    It’s a ¼ or ½ loaf of bread hollowed out and filled with curry

    There’s a version called kota (certain groups pronunciation of quarter, for quarter bunny) that is filled with chips (thick cut french fries), polony (bologna, I think), viennas (a frankfurter i think), cheese, tomato sauce, atchar (mango pickle), and sometimes russians (kolbasa, not the people). It’s the ultimate comfort food for me

    Kota chips and polony

  • Lasherz
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    09 months ago

    I’m not from Lazaro Mexico, but let me tell you that the Mixtas there are the best food I’ve ever put down my gullet.

  • @geckoo@sh.itjust.works
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    Thailand - gaeng tai pla, som tam, mango sticky rice. First 2 are really spicy, so probably not for everyone.

  • @Nox@lemmy.zip
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    09 months ago

    I’m Belgian so only one answer is allowed

    Belgian fries with mayonnaise and Flemish stew

    • @x4740N@lemm.eeOP
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      09 months ago

      Weirdly the replies to your comment won’t load on the lemmy instance I’m on, don’t know about other instances

      They do seem to load on your instance so I’m thinking it’s some sort of federation issue

      Anyways here’s a screenshot for anyone else who can’t see the replies

  • @Aliktren@lemmy.world
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    UK, we are the butt of many a joke and several post here talking about our traditional fast food. I will submit that a well cooked roast dinner is the equal of any other national dish, for me its either pork shoulder, skow cooked, or chicken, with parsnips, leeks in cheese, carrots, peas and maybe bread sauce, along with those roast potatoes, crunchy in the outside, soft and milky on the inside, just the right amount of salty crunch with the star of the show, a rich gravy. Even without the meat this would still be an incredible tasty plate of food.

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    From Almeirim in Portugal, there’s “sopa da pedra”, translates to “soup of the rock”. It has several kinds of meat, beans, potato, and it’s usually eaten with bread (some say even a specific local bread type, but I’m not picky on that). It used to come with a stone in it traditionally, but for higiene reasons restaurants are not allowed to anymore. Some people at home still do it, I believe.

    With it there is an old tale:

    There was once a poor friar that was traveling. Once it came time to rest, he knocked on someone’s door and asked for their hospitality in exchange for a soup. His hosts let him in and they see the friar pulling an old smooth stone from his pocket and putting it in a pot, along with water.

    “Some seasoning would make this soup better… Do you happen to have any chouriço?” [best translation I’ve got is “meat”, or maybe “sausage”] asks the friar. And so his hosts find him some chouriço that they throw in the pan.

    “It’s looking great! Now this soup would really improve if we could thicken it up a little. Do you happen to have some potatoes or beans leftover from yesterday?” And some potatoes and beans have indeed been leftover from yesterday. The friar adds it to the soup.

    The friar asks for a few more spices, olive oil, and soon there is a delicious smell coming from the pot. What a nice soup!

    They eat and once the soup is finished the friar fishes out the stone, washes it and puts it back in his pocket. Tomorrow he’ll knock on someone else’s door along the way ;)

    • @simbico@lemmy.zip
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      09 months ago

      Ha! We have a very similar folk tale in Hungary about a soldier returning from war with a rock, asking an old lady to cook the “stone soup”, asking for more and more legit ingredients.

        • @simbico@lemmy.zip
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          09 months ago

          Just re-read the tale, it’s actually a bit similar, it has sausages (kolbász, much closer to chorizo than the english type), potatoes and rice.

            • @simbico@lemmy.zip
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              09 months ago

              All I could find was that the version I know comes from Székelys of Bukovina. Maybe it’s convergent evolution of resourceful people🤷‍♂️

    • @x4740N@lemm.eeOP
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      09 months ago

      chouriço reminds me of “chorizo”

      Wonder if there’s some related etymology there

      • @SwearingRobin@lemmy.world
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        09 months ago

        Chorizo is the Spanish variant, our neighbors. Chorizo and chouriço are not quite the same, but similar. AFAIK they have different seasonings.

    • Dravin
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      09 months ago

      My wife spent 18 months in Bulgaria. When she talks about the food banitsa invariably comes up as something she desperately misses.