Me So Hungry
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Do Victor's posts stoke your appetite for fine foods? Feast on these:
Thematically related:
As always, a cross-linguistic perspective is required to uncover deeper generalizations:
Hmmm, not in my experience, no.
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Jonathan said,
July 12, 2017 @ 10:18 am
At my local Caribbean grocery store you can buy a single box of the ingredients for black beans and rice, and the label says 'moros y cristianos'.
Stephen Hart said,
July 12, 2017 @ 12:07 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moros_y_Cristianos_(food)
chris said,
July 16, 2017 @ 7:26 pm
"Dried seasoning material" is rather vaguer than I normally expect in a food label, but I don't see any reason to doubt its *accuracy*.
Graeme said,
July 18, 2017 @ 6:48 am
Well English managed to label a particular Caribbean/central American culinary berry 'Allspice'.
But not before the Spanish had (in their lust for pepper) mislabelled the berry as 'Jamaican pepper'.