That was kind of the rationale.
But even beyond that, imagine being a Christian in Lent in an Inuit or similar community. The diet in those communities is meat heavy for most of the year- not much of a growing season.
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But even beyond that, imagine being a Christian in Lent in an Inuit or similar community. The diet in those communities is meat heavy for most of the year- not much of a growing season.
Maxperson
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Or just eaten Rudolph.
SakanaSensei
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How... how dare. I love me a good katsu curry lol
Hussar
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Oh I know. It’s so popular here. My kids love it. I think it tastes like glue. Love Indian curry. Like Thai curry. Loathe Japanese curry.
The fact that the school lunches serve it all the bloody time does not help.
MGibster
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My mother made a curry when I was a child that was so bad I refused to try Indian food until I was in my early 40s. And realized I'd been missing out on some great food for years!
overgeeked
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My mom did that with American food. There’s only a couple of stereotypical American dishes I can stand. For years I thought I was a “picky eater.” Nope. Turns out she was a bad cook.
Hussar
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Very, very much in the same boat @overgeeked and @MGibster .
Aldarc
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I agree to an extent, but I think that is over-accentuated as a result of sweet tea. Sweet tea includes a LOT of sugar. The higher extreme tends to be what a few of my friends have referred to as "church sweet," which is the extraordinarily sweet tea made by the old ladies in the local churches.
IME, a LOT of southern meals lean on copious amounts of savory vegetables. We eat more meat nowadays due to accessibility, but meat was generally more of a special occasion thing. Despite how many restaurants emphasize the meat, that's often the "special side" in Southern cuisine. The vegetable or fruit dishes are where it's at! However, we do use a lot animal fat (and butter!) to flavor our dishes. Southern green beans, for example, are often slow cooked with fatback, salt pork, or some other variation of lardon.
I can tell you one thing that non-Southerners put sugar in that most Southerners do not: cornbread. In the South, cornbread is savory and not sweet. Many Southerners even complain that cornbread outside of the South more closely resembles a sweet "cake" than what we consider proper savory cornbread. I also know that expat Southerners and non-Southerners often have difficulties replicating Southern cornbread, and there is a reason for that: the corn meal. Yes, the South uses different corn meal than you can find elsewhere in the United States and likewise here in Austria. Southern corn meal is naturally sweeter and thus doesn't need sugar added for making cornbread. (IME, honey will typically be favored over sugar to sweeten cornbread.) This is why I sometimes have my relatives ship me cornmeal from home. It makes a real difference in taste.
innerdude
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Yes of course, you rang?
Have never owned a game console since the Atari 2600. Though I broke down and bought the kids a Switch a couple of years ago. First game console to inhabit the same dwelling as me since 1983.
Though I will admit, I loved playing my uncle's Intellivision back in the day.
innerdude
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Possibly another unpopular opinion --- having just moved to the Pacific Northwest in the past year, Seattle's overall food scene is MASSIVELY underwhelming if you're not into one of the various Asian cultural food traditions or seafood.
I can't think of a single non-Asian restaurant I've eaten at here where I thought it was on par with options I used to have in my past stomping grounds. Heaven help you trying to find a decent Texas BBQ joint around here.
I can't think of a single non-Asian restaurant I've eaten at here where I thought it was on par with options I used to have in my past stomping grounds. Heaven help you trying to find a decent Texas BBQ joint around here.
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