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I'm a fan of "boxed milk" (irradiated milk). For one thing, you can keep it longer than half an hour, and for another thing, it has a fun aftertaste, kind of like cheerios.
quote:I'm sure it's because our palates are more sophisticated.
From Imogen's stories in the recipe threads, I'm quite ready to acede to this.
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They eat peanut butter in Zimbabwe...on rice. I'm all about spreading the peanut butter-love, but I think that's a little icky.
I gave a PBJ to a little boy in Germany and he didn't LIKE it! I don't know what they teach these foreign kids...
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Cashews grow in Sri Lanka, and you can easily find them anywhere. Here, besides being roasted and devilled (your typical nut snack, familiar to North Americans), they're also curried. And eaten with rice and other curries. Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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Quid, I've heard that outside of the cashew nut is a cashew fruit. Is it true? What is the fruit like? Can you buy it at stores, or do you need to have your own cashew tree to get it?
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The cashew fruit is not only poisonous, but toxic by contact. Cashews have to be harvested wearing gloves.
Oops. No, that's apparently not quite true. Apparently the "cashew apple" is edible, but the cashew's hull is the toxic part.
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Tante - I've heard also that it's toxic, but that's about all I know.
What I do know is that here, in certain sections of the various highways, there will be clusters of shops. One cluster will sell wickerware - supposed to be the best wickerware in the country. Another cluster will sell pineapples - hundreds and thousands of pineapples. Another cluster will sell King coconut. Yet another will sell lacquerware, and so on and so forth.
One cluster of shops will sell nothing but cashews (cadjus) during the season. I've been told that beautiful young girls in brightly coloured saris will hold out bags of cadjus to tempt passing motorists. (When we drove by, it wasn't season.)
Outside of Kandy, there's a line of shops that sell Sri Lankan treats - muscat and kiri dodol and other things I don't know the names for.
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First the Brie/Camembert kerfuffle, now this, Rivka? Your google-fu is slipping, it's time for an up-and-comer to snag the pebble from your hand. Posts: 6316 | Registered: Jun 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Morbo: First the Brie/Camembert kerfuffle, now this, Rivka? Your Google-fu is slipping, it's time for an up-and-comer to snag the pebble from your hand.
One: I wasn't wrong about Brie/Camembert -- Choobak simply misunderstood my post. (As quid already explained.) My apology was for humorous effect. Two: I should have googled cashew fruit before I posted, and not after. I was relying on my memory of an article I read a year or two ago. Clearly I should not do that. Three: Kayla, and possibly quid, can out-Google me any day. And I'm ok with that. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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That sounds like fun! I'm in. Shall we say keyboards at dawn? My server will contact your server.
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Hmm...We could have judges who have extensive knowledge of a particular subject area, and have each judge pose a question with a relatively obscure (but findable) answer, and then have them score the contestants' answers for quality and speed.
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Moving on... I just started a new googlethon thread. Hop in if you dare. Try to think of trivia or questions that might be tough to google.
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