One of the little surprises of traveling abroad is seeing how things are called different names. Grapes? you want grapes? we don't have those here, only muscat. Cherries? nice try, but we have acerolas. Raisins? Nope. Try sultana.
If I ran my own country, I would have a bizarre name for something really common, like bread. You want br-ead? never heard of it. Oh, you mean scaramanga. We have all kinds of scaramanga... round scaramangas, scaramangas with nuts. Try our national dish, roast scaramanga, which I believe is called 'toast' in your country.
Yeah, toast would be one of the national dishes of my country. I'm not saying I'm a bad cook, but I have really low expectations for what qualifies as a good dinner. If I ran a country, I think the national holiday's food would be microwaveable.
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I,m guessing noodles and cereal might run a close second....you know the saying "got more time for misbehavin since I started microwavin" cheers katherine
ReplyDeleteI also would name this dish after one of the lesser James Bond villains.
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