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1. People in Korea, both South and North, like to stay healthy, and so they eat nutritious food. This dish, made of pickled vegetables and several spices such as ginger, red chilies, garlic, and onion, contains, among many other nutrients, vitamin C and carotene. It can leave your kitchen stinking too, but it's certainly not rubbish! What is the name of this food, which has been declared Korea's national dish?
2. In the United States, especially in Mid-Atlantic states such as Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia and Pennsylvania, there is a dish literally made of scraps. Yeah, you read correctly! Leftover pork meat from dinner is boiled and minced, then shaped into a loaf. After that, the meat is fried, served with eggs or pancakes. What dish would this be?
3. The Caribbean island of Jamaica has a national dish prepared with a fruit of the same name, as well as saltfish or another type of white fish. Be sure it's prepared by someone you trust, as it can be poisonous if not prepared correctly! Potentially poisonous, yes. Rubbish? No. Which Jamaican dish is this?
4. Have a craving for eggs? Why not visit China and have pidan! Pidan is a dish made with quail eggs... and wrapped with a mixture of clay, salt, ash, lime and rice. The use of clay doesn't make it rubbish though, as the eggs are preserved inside this mixture for weeks, sometimes months, turning the yolk green and giving the dish a sulphuric smell. Still craving for eggs? Then tell me, what is the more common name of pidan?
5. Lets go to Iceland for a change, where they eat hafragrautur. No, I did not sneeze. As strange as this may sound, it's not rubbish, and you might even eat this every day! Which breakfast food is hafragrautur the equivalent to, at least in the United States?
6. If you like to eat head and feet, this Pakistani soup is the dish for you! If you're not particularly fond of eating these body parts from cows, lamb or goats, you might as well know its name so you don't ever consume it. Not rubbish, but quite unappetizing, what would this name be?
7. Most Mexican food is delicious, but there is one, also known as corn smut, that many would consider rubbish. That's because it's corn alright, but infected by fungus. What is this diseased corn, used often as a filling for quesadillas, called in Mexico?
8. Usually American people like their breakfast eggs scrambled, but in Japan, they like their eggs steamed. This dish is an egg custard made with shiitake mushrooms, kamaboko (cured surimi) and dashi (cooking stock). What's the name of it?
9. Congee is a porridge made with rice, which has many varieties in several Asian countries. Which seafood is added, sometimes complete, to the congee in Hong Kong, leading some people to treat it like rubbish?
10. Finally, for our British players, I present to you: Marmite. Marmite is a thick, black paste that comes from yeast extract, which is a by-product of the beer-brewing process (so one man's rubbish is another's breakfast). There are people who enjoy this, but many also hate it! How do Brits eat their Marmite?
Source: Author
Lpez
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