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Let's eat a blood-red dish to celebrate a tyrants death of a country with red flags.
Recommend borsht btw.
America is terrified of cabbage, I’ve learned. Cabbage and beets
We have some amazing beet salads in the PNW!
Most everything with beets is delicious! It’s just exhausting to constantly encounter aversion to what delights me
I am also in the PNW and I disagree. But I just don't like beets.
I don't think this is true, but there are very few dishes we eat that use them. They aren't a large part of our culture or diet. Most people I've interacted with while having either like them though.
The people willing to have them love them, but they’re commonly perceived as poverty foods. No clue why. Cabbage wraps, cabbage salad, cabbage stew, roasted cabbage, cabbage-based stocks, purée of cabbage, pickled cabbage, sautéed cabbage, etc., I usually get sneering, but when I bring out the same dishes subbed with parsnips or celeriac, they’re culinary masterpieces. I chalk it up to Cold War propaganda gone haywire.
That could be why, yeah. It'd make sense. My family is from WV originally (I never lived there though), and "poverty foods" aren't looked down on. Honestly, some of my favorite comfort foods are "poverty foods."
Might be a silly place to ask, but are any of these favorites dairy free? I’ve been hunting for new recipes lately!
Black beans, sausage, and rice is a common one I really like. A WV special is pepperoni rolls, which can have cheese but it isn't required. Everyone loves those when they try them. I'm not sure why they haven't spread further.
The black bean dish is fairly common in the south! I think it’s mostly inertia on that one. I’m unwilling to specify where I live, but I can tell you that pepperoni rolls are common food here. Often a bit fancier due to the new trend of bloomy pepperoni. I hope you can find some bakeries to fulfill your nostalgia, as I have
Because cabbage is good winter ground cover and super cheap. Add in that it's incredibly nutritious and it kept people healthy during the depression and war.
We have a cultural issue with cabbage because boomers grew up with horrendously prepared cabbage since it's dirt cheap, hardy as hell, nutritious as fuck, and real easy to fuck up.
Personally I love cabbage, unfortunately my wife can't stand it even cooked right. If I wasn't with her I'd have a brassica most nights.
Beets are meh at best. I sometimes use them as a substitute for carrots (parsnips are better), but even in dishes meant for beets they're just so sweet.
To be fair, beets are not very appetizing. Cabbage, though....
There's an old Soviet joke: A man goes to a newspaper stand every day, buys a copy of Pravda, glances at the front cover, curses, and throws it away. After a few weeks of this the seller just has to ask what's going on: "why do you always look at the cover but never inside?" "I'm looking for an obituary." "An obituary? But those are in the back!" "Oh no, the obituary I'm looking for will be on the front page."
Banned from Reddit probably
One of these days: free hamberders
"Free Borsht"
Also did the Loony Tunes folks design all signs back then?
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It was all done by hand with a paint brush. It looks good because they had a lot of practice. Bet it was done on butcher paper.
Based
looking forwards to free hamburgers on free borsht
Oh man I hope they do free bortsch day in Paris when Pootin dies
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