What's something you enjoy eating that other people think is super weird?
I don't think I've made a post on here about food, so here goes! 😃
I'll go first...I just love eating uncooked pasta. It has such a satisfying crunch and the tomato pasta and wholewheat pasta are my faves! This has been a habit that I've had ever since I've had teeth and people are always surprised that I haven't damaged my teeth doing this. I enjoy pasta cooked too!
I have somewhat mixed opinions on Max Miller; his acting is a bit over the top, and history fragments sometimes have weird details that he had misunderstood during research or misread. I would have liked his videos a lot more if he actually talked about the history of the recipe more and not something tangentially related to it. In general he is ok. 🙃
That makes sense. Not something to be taken too seriously, but a bit of fun engagement with the past in a space where it's not hurting anyone if the details are wonky
I learned only relatively recently that borsch (which I love for the beets) was originally made without beets. I still haven't found a recipe I like and we don't get sorrel here.
You can grow sorrel at home, if you really like it.
Histrically borshch probably was a name for anything that was more or less drinkable and non-alcoholic, there were no original recipe, like there is no original recipe for other common dishes, they were just made with whatever was available and whatever people ate at the time. AFAIK there are similar dishes in countries that were part of lithuanian commonwelth, which were based on different kinds of kvass as well.
Personally I really dislike kvass based borshch, like it's vile. 😄