Sorry for the intrusion into your culinary community … your post just got mixed in with a bunch of other politically themed posts I was reading … nice / not-nice thing about wide open conversations is that we inadvertently just get mixed up in the wrong conversations from time to time.
It’s funny because I’m Indigenous Canadian and one of the things I grew up with was orange pekoe tea … an amazing thing we got from the English … and fry bread, another thing we got from our European visitors (fry bread is basically what it means - basic unleavened bread fried in fat) … the whole fry bread thing has gone out of control in my opinion in Native circles because at many Pow Wows, many people serve ‘Indian tacos’ which is basically a fry bread base topped with chopped vegetables, salsa and cheese (and often a bunch of other things like bacon, ground beef, sausage, ham)
I love Kraft dinner as a kid but that crap is terribly unhealthy … basically edible stereofoam noodles tenderized in plasticized liquid goo that may resemble cheese
And as an uncivilized, unworldly Indigenous culture … before spices came to our part of the globe in northern Ontario, the greatest spice we ever had was ‘smoke’.
I don’t have a lot to be thankful for with the English or Europeans for that matter but at least they gave us tea, pepper and flour and sugar.
Which reminds me of another unusual concoction that came out of European trade. Up until about 40 / 50 years ago we had a common drink that people often made in the wilderness. It was a survival drink made from the base of strong brewed orange pekoe tea which was then mixed with flour, lard and sugar. The whole thing had to be mixed hot or else nothing would gel together. It sounds terrible sitting comfortably at home and it is but when you are starving, cold and in the middle of nowhere and travelling and have no access to anything but a fire, this drink is a great energy boost as it provides you everything you need - hot liquid, carbs, caffeine and sugar. It’s like a prehistoric energy drink.
So my apologies again … I’ll keep an eye out for the community I’m posting to in the future.
Oh do fuck off with your tired stereotypes. I guess, being Canadian, you only eat Kraft dinner?
Sorry for the intrusion into your culinary community … your post just got mixed in with a bunch of other politically themed posts I was reading … nice / not-nice thing about wide open conversations is that we inadvertently just get mixed up in the wrong conversations from time to time.
It’s funny because I’m Indigenous Canadian and one of the things I grew up with was orange pekoe tea … an amazing thing we got from the English … and fry bread, another thing we got from our European visitors (fry bread is basically what it means - basic unleavened bread fried in fat) … the whole fry bread thing has gone out of control in my opinion in Native circles because at many Pow Wows, many people serve ‘Indian tacos’ which is basically a fry bread base topped with chopped vegetables, salsa and cheese (and often a bunch of other things like bacon, ground beef, sausage, ham)
I love Kraft dinner as a kid but that crap is terribly unhealthy … basically edible stereofoam noodles tenderized in plasticized liquid goo that may resemble cheese
And as an uncivilized, unworldly Indigenous culture … before spices came to our part of the globe in northern Ontario, the greatest spice we ever had was ‘smoke’.
I don’t have a lot to be thankful for with the English or Europeans for that matter but at least they gave us tea, pepper and flour and sugar.
Which reminds me of another unusual concoction that came out of European trade. Up until about 40 / 50 years ago we had a common drink that people often made in the wilderness. It was a survival drink made from the base of strong brewed orange pekoe tea which was then mixed with flour, lard and sugar. The whole thing had to be mixed hot or else nothing would gel together. It sounds terrible sitting comfortably at home and it is but when you are starving, cold and in the middle of nowhere and travelling and have no access to anything but a fire, this drink is a great energy boost as it provides you everything you need - hot liquid, carbs, caffeine and sugar. It’s like a prehistoric energy drink.
So my apologies again … I’ll keep an eye out for the community I’m posting to in the future.
Thanks for a considered response. You may un-fuck off!
This community is, indeed, about celebrating food, not taking pot shots at other nations’ cuisines.