The Friday Five for 10 September 2021: Foods

[anais_pf]

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1. What are your top 5 favourite foods?

2. Is there something similar between them?

3. Can you cook them yourself?

4. Pick one, and tell us why it is so special.

5. Have you eaten your recommended servings of 2 fruit and 5 vegetables today?

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[archersangel]

https://archersangel.dreamwidth.org/321046.html

[waitingman]

Now I'm hungry!! https://waitingman.dreamwidth.org/627867.html

[sallymn]

1. What are your top 5 favourite foods? Does this mean as meal/dishes, or individual foodstuffs? In fact, I'm going to make it even more complicated when answering (because I like talking about food :)
- Savoury dishes: coconut chili chicken, penne bolognese, beef in red wine marinade, pasta with pesto roast tomato and pine nuts … and a vegemite sandwich. Don't laugh.
- Sweet dishes: syllabub, Eton mess icecream, coffee cake (the old-fashioned coffee-flavoured sort), baked apple with custard, chocolate pudding
- Individual foodstuffs: chocolate (duhhh...), cheese, tomatoes, potatoes, rice

2. Is there something similar between them? Besides all being yummy? Nope. Quite a few of them are old-fashioned comfort food, but not all.

3. Can you cook them yourself? This is me folks, anyone who's been here a while knows the answer. Of course I can't.

4. Pick one, and tell us why it is so special. I wasn't born here, but I grew up here, and I grew up eating vegemite several times a week. I'm a Happy Little Vegemite, and unabashedly so. In fact, I have lain awake for several hours in a London hotel because I needed a vegemite sandwich on white bread and could't get it... (ever since, I pack a tube of the blessed black spread).

5. Have you eaten your recommended servings of 2 fruit and 5 vegetables today? Probably not, but over a block of days I'll get there. I make sure I have plenty of both, but don't bother counting them up.

[waitingman]

There's nothing worse for an Australian than being deprived of vegemite!! We travel overseas (or used to... sob!!) with a tube of it as well. It gets us some strange looks in Hotel dining rooms!!

[sallymn]

I know! MInd you, even after we started taking vegemite, I then 'decided' to get obsessed in a trip to the UK with finding a decent iced coffee. You will be astonsished to hear that I failed :(

We don't appreciate how good our coffee is here...

[waitingman]

I'm currently editing & posting our USA travel diary from 2012 & it sometimes reads like a cross between complaints about bad coffee across 26 states & an advertisement for Nespresso machines (we bought one at the start of the trip to ensure getting one okay coffee per day at least!!), in between huge meals & sightseeing...

[sallymn]

I have heard things about American coffee {eg} but it can't be worse than English...

[mesotablar]

I once had a waiter in a hotel dining room ask if the mysterious black stuff I was putting on toast was made from beef. They thought my vegemite was Bonox!

[waitingman]

Not a bad guess!!

Even when you explain what it is, I've found most people still don't want to try it...

[mesotablar]

you have to tell them it is like Australian chocolate and give them a spoon!

[waitingman]

Just like Nutella, only salty!!!

[smallhobbit]

I see your Aussie vegimite and raise it with my British marmite!

[sallymn]

I quite liked marmite when I tried it (on a visit to the UK) but I've been eating ours since I was tiny, so for me there's no question :)

[waitingman]

I don't think you'll ever convince an Australian that Marmite is better than Vegemite. Boris nearly killed the recent Australia-UK trade deal when he said we could ship Vegemite to you & you'd ship Marmite to us... cue a nation of 26 million people all screaming NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

[smallhobbit]

That man has less brain than the pigeon in our garden.

[feast_of_regrets]

Hello. Thanks for doing this. I love writing prompts!
https://feast-of-regrets.dreamwidth.org/87536.html

[smallhobbit]

My response is here: Food

[fishguts]

I. What are your top five favorite foods?
The follow-up questions make me think that here, 'foods' means 'meals', so I'll answer accordingly. My top five faves - as far as meals are concerned - are, I think, PB&J sandwiches, curry rice, ramen, mac&cheese (not the insta-/Kraft stuff, though - I'm talking the homemade variety), and teriyaki vegetable donburi.

II. Is there something similar between them?
They're all yummy. Other than that, though - each contains some form of either wheat or rice.

III. Can you cook them yourself?
Some of them - the sandwiches, the curry rice, and the mac&cheese - yes! Others, I wouldn't even dare. Like ramen; I mean, I could *try* to replicate the thick, milky broth at home by following some recipe, and the resulting soup, I'm sure, would be palatable, but as for the menma, curried egg, and slices of vegetarian pork that go on top, I think I'd better leave all of those to the veterans who work behind the counter of the ramen bar we love so much in the city. The vegetarian pork especially - I think they make a huge meatloaf of it in-house, then thinly slice it and paste it along the sides of the ramen bowl before pouring the broth and everything else in over. The slicing and pasting part, I might be able to do, but the making of the pork itself? No, my skillset lacks that particular ability.

IIII. Pick one, and tell us why it is so special.
The mac&cheeeeeeese. It's my favorite dish in the history of ever, and I miss it so much - I can't have it any more. ...correction, I can't make it any more. My mac&cheese recipe required ample lashings of Follow Your Heart's mozzarella, but no supermarket in my state stocks the stuff any more; how ever can I make the same nummy dish again, without such a key ingredient as that? I think what makes this dish so special to me is that it's *mine* - only I know the recipe for it, only I know how to make it, and when I do make it, I make only enough for myself. And also - mac&cheese was one of those dishes I desperately craved to try. My parents never did make it for me and my brother back when I was able to have dairy - and by the time I was old enough to make it myself, my incompatibility with dairy had happened and no alternatives existed. But then! My local 'mart! started to stock Follow Your Heart's shredded mozzarella, and I'd heard such good things, so I had to try it! I fell in love with it. And now I'm silently weeping in to my pillow as I can't have it any more. It's my favorite dish, it's my dish, and I swear, if/when I ever get my mitts on another bag of that FYH 'zella, the mac&cheese I will make out of it will be the greatest-tasting dish ever. No doubt.

V. Have you eaten your recommended servings of two fruit and five vegetables today?
Erm. Ehehe! Well. Not today. Today was hamburgers with oven-baked patties that don't taste too great with lettuce and tomato - so today was hamburgers sans lettuce and tomato, and I also had a big bowl of rice krispies because I am still a kid and no one can stop me. >:D!

[thegreatpuzzle]

Mine are at https://thegreatpuzzle.dreamwidth.org/803.html