• Hegar@fedia.io
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    5 hours ago

    I always think of white people as the ones complaining about raisins in food. So many delicious savory dishes with raisins from the Middle East or India provoke strong reactions from western pallets used to food that only does 1 thing, rather than combining multiple flavours.

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      56 minutes ago

      Yeah that’s strange, I always associated raisins in food as something ranging from Morocco to Bangladesh. Not the whitest countries ever.

      Imho in general European food isn’t very keen on sweet and salty mixes. Except for the USA who does it all wrong smh.

      • wieson@feddit.org
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        41 minutes ago

        We have a few potato and apple combinations in the Rhineland.

        Also goose with quince or pear are present in french cuisine.

        I think traditional European cooking has many similarities with south med/ near east cooking. Don’t lob us in with modern American randomness.

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        13 minutes ago

        Raisins in empanadas aren’t universal. Here in colombia they don’t usually include them.

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        2 hours ago

        I learned how to make empanadas so that I could make them without the raisins my mom would add.