Posted on 04/21/2024 12:31:11 PM PDT by DallasBiff
02 Porridge Poi
Poi is a traditional Hawaiian food, a nutritious, starchy dish made from the taro plant, prepared by smashing the cooked corm (underground plant stem) and adding water to it until it becomes a thick, sticky paste that is purple in color. It stimulates weight loss, lowers cholesterol, is a great source of vitamin B and calcium, and it has low fat and protein content.
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I must be nekulturnyy, I like more than half of those treats.
Agreed.
Cottage cheese or anything with cottage cheese in it.
but somebody must eat them, cause they always have them at the grocery store.)
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Maybe they are just mummified.
Cottage cheese or anything with cottage cheese in it.
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OK, cottage cheese is an ingredient of some of my favorites:
Cottage cheeze, pile it like mashed potatoes with a dip, and put apple sauce in the middle.
Repeat with salsa.
We lived in Hawaii when our youngest was born. He was a big healthy baby, but was colicky and hardly slept at all for the first 8 months.
Thinking that he must be allergic to his formula, we tried all sorts of milk, etc. including poi.
Poi is supposed to be very nutritious and hypoallergenic, so we even tried to sweeten it, but it was a definite NO as far as our little kamaaina was concerned.
I have a friend like you.
Skinless hot dogs, kraft mac&cheese, el cheapo fake cheese frozen pizza...thats it.
You should try branching out. Go wild. Try a chicken nugget or something.
Ive had almost all of it. Most of it is pretty normal food. Some of it is the worst version Ive ever seen, some is a regional twist, and some totally normal things seem to be added just to stir conversation just like this thread.
PS~We had many mango trees in the yard of our rental house, the owner lived next door and he would harvest the mangoes
with a small bag on the end of a pole and give us all we wanted.
He would not let us use any mangoes that fell on the ground. Those were collected every day and disposed of.
The mangoes we had were very delicious, so sweet and tasted something like a peach. Even the baby loved them.
Sure. Sure it does.
You should have seen what she looked like before...
Uh.. you’re kidding right?
My dad liked lime jello that had little cubes of cream cheese in it.
Peach
Okay, I find this hilarious and I don't know why.
I'm thinking Aunt Marion was one cool aunt!
My favorite food during 6 years in Afghanistan were mangoes from Pakistan. These were not the little ones found stateside. They were GIANT weighing at least a pound each. You have to let they ripen to get properly sweet. One cut around the middle, twist, and use a spoon to eat it and scrape the single huge seed. So good!
Our mangisteen tree is starting to bear the first fruit of the season
“Eggplant. In any form.”
Farmers in our church would leave vegetables for us outside the back door. If we kids saw eggplants before our parents did, those suckers were taken out back and chucked across the creek. Bleech!
“No real American eats these foods”
Guess you’ve never been to Hawaii. (It’s a state, y’know.) Poi ... everywhere.
Yes Ma’am, I’ve been to Hawaii, but only saw Poi eaten at touristy events and luaus. Not sure what the average Hawaiian eats every day, probably casseroles and mash.
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