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I don’t want to inappropriately appropriate so I only eat white food:
Does that exclude water, considering water is blue?
I churn the water before I drink it
How does that change its colour?
Turns it into white water
If you didn't have a churner, would you just die of thirst?
There’s always milk
Yeah, but you can't live on milk.
That’s why my list includes bread
I mean you can't have milk and just water. Milk has things in it that wouldn't be good for someone in as much excess as someone needs water.
I try to only drink it from white boobs, so it’s got balanced nutrition. It’s my substitute since I cant have chocolate or banana soylent.
You can't live on breast milk either, plus it would lead to abnormal growth and you'd need to alternate between women as we don't have an infinite supply of breast milk in our bodies.
That’s why my list includes bread
You think bread can replace water?
Bread can contain water, though only briefly
Water is blue?
Isn’t that from the sunlight and absorbing other colours?
When it’s in a glass it’s clear.
That's an optical illusion. That's like saying the sky isn't blue just because you can see into the sky.
The sky isn’t blue. It’s the angle of the sun and the blue wavelength of light making it to our eyes.
At a different angle the sky is quite red or orange.
Turns out the color of everything has to do with different angles at which light travels through it.
Apples are red because the other wavelengths get bent into the 6th dimension and become electronic energy.
Outback Steak house ? Lol wot?
It's to Australia what Taco Bell is to Mexico.
I've had my fun around here and lately found more unusual ones... Here's stuff I remember off the top of my head that aren't the "local" around here (Lisboa, PT), append restaurant to the following:
Indian Nepalese Tibetan Cantonese Chinese Cantonese dimsun Japanese Several Fusion sushi, ramen, udon, tempura etc Spanish tapas Mexican Peruan Peruan cheviche Argentinian grilk Brazilian rodízio Brazilian(Paulista) pizza, Indian pizza, Israeli pizza, local pizza, actual Italian pizza Italian Greek Greek pita Levantine Morrocan Thematic medieval American American diner American grill Mozambican Angolan Cape verdian Ethiopian German sausage Vietnamese Indonesian Australian grill Belgian fries Canadian fries
Whenever I added something to the nationality the place focused on a dish rather than a broader cuisine. I'm surprised I never visited a self entitled French restaurant over here... The Swiss and French have all those tartar and grilled tiny chicken that could make success in a thematic restaurant.
Edit: might also add, I'm sure all of these are adapted to the local taste. We don't handle spice like most of Asia and Mexico for example. Friends who ate in Shanghai described a very different experience to what we get in a Chinese restaurant here, even if the dishes are the same.
I live in the south, and we don't have many Mexican restaurants. We have more Asian restaurants. Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese. Also Ethiopian is delicious.
Ethnic and exotic food suddenly sound like very strange terms. This question made me realize that people from outside would call the food of my country simply Brazilian food, but we ourselves divide and subdivided them in more categories. I'm sure the same is true everywhere.
I know this is not a question for discussion, but I thought this could add more variety to the answers.
That's how they're named outside. You see Brazilian rodízio, or Paulistan pizza at times. But it's usually a mix of adding feijoada to the countries grill.
I used the terms in the sense that they refer to any division of people based on culture, not so much in the sense that I was implying an Axis Mundi of cuisine. Someone for example asked if I would consider KFC "ethnic food" even if one lived in the United States where Kentucky (the home of KFC) exists, and I said that yes, the case could be made.
Okay I won't hold it against you because I grew up Midwestern and to us Mexican and Chinese were considered "ethnic", but do realize that that is a very weird thing to just say. Now that I'm on the coast should I call tuna casserole or taco/breakfast food ethnic? Sounds weird right?
Next time you think ethnic food may be instead think of it like non-american food. To us, green bean casserole is a "normal" thing, to other people having a noodle dish is an appropriate normal holiday dish. "Normal" and "different" are all just from our point of view.
That's why you're being downvote, because you're on a world stage here, and when you're talking to someone and calling their food "ethnic" it demeans their culture, and that is a bit insulting. I am guessing it's just ignorance, but hey now you know.
That being said, have fun exploring your pallette! I've lost count of the different cuisines I've tried, but every one is a bit different! There's a Moroccan place that I really love going to, and I have had some really good Ethiopian. Sushi is always my go to favorite! Never be afraid of trying new things!
(And if you decide to post again I'm sure it will do better vote wise, because it is a really interesting question ;)
I say "ethnic" as in "ethnicity", and as in "of or belonging to a population group or subgroup made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent", which is what the dictionary says. If that's offensive, it's the first time I've heard that before, having seen it used by official sources. As I explain, I'm grateful for whatever verbal successes I do have because English is not my first language, but I see the land of ten thousand instances which believes in things in terms of a world stage won't even accommodate.
I've had buffalo wings, and American barbecue. Also I've been to American Thanksgiving meals with weird things like sweet potatoes with marshmallows on. So I've had some American ethnic food for one thing.
No American dinner? Or American sushi? =)
I was invited to a thanks giving dinner one year.... The marshmallow on sweet potatoes thing is truly weird, pumpkin pie was ok, the rest was quite nice.
Chinese Japanese Thai Vietnamese Korean Mongolian Cambodia Indian Pakistani Nepalese.... Those are just the Asian ones off the top of my head.
I've made a bunch international friends throughout my life and anyways get them to cook or to take me to the most authentic place they know.
I grew up in the Bay Area so it would probably be easier to list the foods I haven't tried.
Unfortunately I moved and don't have access to 8/9ths of those anymore. It's dismal.
I don't want to go through all but some of the more interesting ones:
Ethiopian - delicious stew/curry type food with this fermented flatbread stuff that almost smells a bit like beer. Way better than this makes it sound, lol
Vietnamese - if you like Chinese food you will love it. It's somewhere between Thai and Chinese. They have an awesome beef noodle soup called pho
Jamaican - my family is partially from here so bias but jerk chicken is worth a mention alone. Very well spiced and usually super juicy chicken. Meat and rice type of stuff. But ackee and saltfish is interesting too, very salted cod mixed with this subtle flavoured fruit that looks a bit like eggs? Again better than it sounds.
Moroccan - If you're interested in Egyptian food (I also have no idea what that would be, lol) Morrocan is probably a good recommendation. They have a dish called tajine which is a well spiced chicken stew, they cook it in a special pot I think
Mexican! - I know it's obvious but in Europe Mexican restaurants are very basic. Tacos, burritos etc. But there are so many amazing dishes like mole (chocolate and chilli sauce, fucking delicious) that always get missed. There's one called queso relleño (?) That is basically like a very rich Bolognese wrapped in cheese and FRIED. Probably best not to eat too often. But maybe you guys in the US get more authentic Mexican food anyway
Also, saying "ethnic foods" comes across a little odd. Makes you sound like a 50 year old white guy who's never left his home town and isn't so sure about all this weird food these strange brown people eat. Nothing wrong with being white or culturally insulated of course, but probably not the look you were going for. Might explain the downvotes.
How would you rather it be phrased or suggest it be phrased?
I'm of mixed race by the way if anyone was wondering, part Scottish and part Pacific Islander, and don't even speak English as my first language (so much for doing that without people complaining of assuming subtext). In terms of food, I favor the food of the latter and have tried Maori/Kiwi, Nauruan, Indian, Australian, Filipino, Indonesian, Malagasy, Icelandic, North Korean (yes, there are places for that), Chinese, and Japanese food and would rank them in that order.
I think you could just ask something like "what are some of your favourite world cuisines excluding the obvious ones?" and then explain what you mean.
Apologies though, I guess this is just because it's not your first language, what you said makes sense it's more the connotations of the phrase. I think someone also posted a gif making a similar joke. Probably the best straight up alternative without the connotations would be "world food/cuisine."
North Korean! Would love to try it but I guess similar to South Korean food?
I thought, going by history, something like the end of that question ("excluding the obvious ones") or the fact that I was trying to speak of food generally (as opposed to implying the dishes were separate) would've thrown people off.
One thing worth noting about North Korean food, it gets very carnivorous and improvised. As in there are dishes that are still alive when you eat them, food not made to be cooked, etc. Fortunately an issue you can swerve around though.
There is (or was) a North Korean Restaurant in Phnom Penh, in Cambodia. The staff were apparntly North Korean, so not sure how that worked and I was going to go but never go there back in the day.
The worst dishes (for me) I've had were in Malaysia , o coild nit find sonethbg Ibloeod, i started oit disliking the food in Myamar (before the recent civil war) not did start to find food I liked and the most suprisingly good food was Nepalese, at a little place owned by a Nepalese family. Not a fan of tomato based dishes so...
Not who you replied to, but I think some people would prefer asking with "What are all the different kinds of food you've ever eaten?" and then elaborate by saying stuff like "My area has many types of food, but I've never seen any Egyptian restaurants/places around before." or something like that.
