Do you have what it takes to snatch the 'Food Meister' title? (Warning: this game may cause a period of procrastination!)
Okay, you have about 40 mins on this one until I clear out as there is a little matter of the Stanley Cup Final(Game 7) tonight. This is MASSIVE; nervous excitement building, and they're not even letting me play!
I'll tell you how low I've sunk; throughout the playoffs the Vancouver Canucks have been running the 'This Is What We Live For' campaign. At this moment it seems there is a whole lotta truth in that statement!
Go Canucks!
Reply to this Hmm, tricky. It looks like a plum at the base, but not the pedicel, where it looks more like a guava or mango, as do the leaves. Looks like I only have 20 minutes left so.... plum mango? Is that a thing?
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Thread resurrected indeed - wish I could say the same thing about my head after last nights revelry, it feels like they are still rioting up in there!
As for the two guesses; combining two "wrong' fruits together, unfortunately, doesn't make a right;-)
Geographical clue: Asia
Reply to this Not plum, guava, apple or mango?! Then I'm at a loss. (are you
sure it's not related to the mango or plum? Looks awful mango-y plum-y to me...)
Alright, I think I know it.
Bouea macrophylla!
Reply to this Well whatever that is, it ain't IT!
I'll give another a clue - when it ripens it reveals what you want.
Reply to this Bouea macrophylla, or Gandaria, is the fruit that appears on Google images if you type "plum mango" into the search engine. It actually looked quite similar.
Hmm. As my instinctual response to "reveals what you want" was "fruit" it must burst open to reveal itself. Interesting. Unless it is in fact a nut! But it's not a cashew, or a betel, or almond, or walnut, hazelnut, chestnuts are fuzzy.... I'm running out of varieties of nuts that I know. Do hickorynuts grow in Asia?
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Reply to this Oh yes, you got it!
I saw a documentary about it the other night. A wonderfully interesting, adventurous and tragic history.
Reply to this Excellent! Yes it is amazing how the trade and desire for spices (including sugar, which was once considered and used as a 'spice') and intoxicants have shaped the world as we know it. It has all the makings of the best of dramas - empire, conquest, desire, wealth, risk in the land of 'paradise.' That would be a phenomenal sequence of journeys - to retrace the old overland and sea routes into Venice and such. One of these days...
Great job Hana! What's next?
Reply to this In the 17th Century a small bag would buy you a house in London.
The Dutch established a monopoly in the trade in the 17th century and in an act of genocide on the Banda islands in 1621, Jan Pieterszoon Coen officer of the Dutch East India Company (and long time national hero in the Netherlands) ordered the genocidal massacre of 14,000 of the 15,000 inhabitants. The Dutch also partook in wanton acts of destruction to create scarcity of natural produce in order to maintain price levels.
There was however another island where nutmeg grew, the island of Run, about 3 km long and less than 1 km wide - considered to be the first English overseas colony. Later exchanged for an island in North America called New Amsterdam, later renamed New York.
Reply to this Happen to have the title of that documentary? Sounds like it might work well to augment an introductory food history course.
For those interested in the history of spices more broadly I would also highly recommend Shivelbusch's
Taste of Paradise and Krondl's
The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice. Both very approachable ways to enter the topic - and fascinating reads.
I knew there was a reason I subscribed to this thread 😊
Reply to this Very interesting. Lives for spices. Well of course, it's value then was very much different from how it's considered now. But still...never a good reason for genocide. So, what's the title of the documentary?
Yes, Stephanie, it's an excellent plot for film, as well as route for a journey. Imagine what history and the world would be like if it were not for these spices.
That said, what do you think this is?
It's not luncheon meat.
Reply to this Is that dried blood? We had coagulated duck's blood in China and it looked a lot like that.
am I allowed to jump in on this at random?
Reply to this Hello Adrienne! Yes, of course, feel free to try your luck 😉.
But, no, your guess is incorrect.
BUT, this one like coagulated blood, starts out as liquid. There are several varieties of this food stuff, depending on the continent where it's produced.
Reply to this Ha. Is it chocolate? I suppose that's the opposite end of the spectrum, in terms of taste, at least.
Reply to this am I allowed to jump in on this at random?
Absolutely! - the more the merrier :-)
Reply to this Chocolate but just as flavor.
I don't think this variety is seen in many places.
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