Sunday, March 26, 2023

The Sunday Five: Strange Eats

Living here there are a lot of unusual shopping options, European markets, Asian markets, Latin markets, you name a world cuisine and you can probably find a specialty market here in the region for it.  At the Springfield Town Center (near I-95 and I-495 not the one in the Simpsons) there is a shop that sells Japanese snack foods and candies.  A little expensive, but always fun. 

1: What Flavor is this bag of potato chips (crisps)? 

2: Would you try them? 

3: What is the most fun specialty food market near you? 

4: Have you ever bought an interesting international food and found it to be almost habit forming? 

5: Is there anything you simply won't eat? 

My Answers: 

1: What Flavor is this bag of potato chips (crisps)? (If I answered this we would all know.) 

2: Would you try them? Yes, and I have to say it was like pumpkin spice, there is no pumpkin in it, the flavor is the spice mix used on that item is not the flavor named. 

3: What is the most fun specialty food market near you?  The nice Russian market on the northside of Alexandria, she has wonderful sweets.  

4: Have you ever bought an interesting international food and found it to be almost habit forming?  Caviar, from the Balkan market across from the nearest Metro station. 

5: Is there anything you simply won't eat? There are things I prefer not to eat - like collard greens - but I have.  

Please share your answers in the comments. 

 

21 comments:

  1. 4. Goulash soup in Budapest (I can take or leave goulash as food) and there was a soup in Vietnam to die for. I'd like one of them now, and the other tomorrow.
    5. I don't eat caspicums, mushrooms, offal, squid but I am not really a fussy eater.

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    1. We went to a great Vietnamese restaurant the other evening

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  2. 1: What Flavor is this bag of potato chips (crisps)? Not a clue.
    2: Would you try them? Yes.
    3: What is the most fun specialty food market near you? Hmmm
    4: Have you ever bought an interesting international food and found it to be almost habit forming? No
    5: Is there anything you simply won't eat? Pickled beets, baked beans, whole octopus, mushy peas

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    1. There is probably an English market near you

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  3. 1. Prawn? Sea Urchin?
    2. No.
    3. West Side Market, I suppose. Or the Asian markets in Asia Town.
    4. I have not
    5. 100s of things. I'm not super adventurous with foods.

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    1. The west side market is a gem,

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  4. 1: What Flavor is this bag of potato chips (crisps)? Zooming in on the label it looks like octopus??

    2: Would you try them? Why not.

    3: What is the most fun specialty food market near you? We have several huge Latino markets and one Middle Eastern market, nearby. We love them both.

    4: Have you ever bought an interesting international food and found it to be almost habit forming? Not yet.

    5: Is there anything you simply won't eat? Lotsa things, though I have tried most and found that my loathing of them is true. Oysters, eggplant, peas come to mind right off the bat.

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    1. I am not sure why eggplant exists.

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    2. So it can be battered and fried and served with cane sugar honey.

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    3. So could cardboard

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    4. What Travel said ^^^^^

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  5. 1. I'd assume it was some sort of seafood flavour.
    2. I probably would try one, just to taste.
    3. The closest specialty markets to where I live in Edmonton are Asian, Italian and Ethiopian.
    4. I've tried various international products just for the hell of it but never found any of them so delicious that I'd buy more of it.
    5. Yeah, I won't eat most seafood things or bugs.

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    1. Bugs, I haven't thought about eating bugs

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  6. 1. Looks a bit squidy to me.
    2. I may have already tried them. We have a friend who lives in Japan and he brought us gifts when he visited us. That bag looks familiar.
    3. I find no markets to be fun, specialty or not.
    4. No, unless chicharrĂ³nes count. Not the Styrofoam ones found in stores here.
    5. Sashimi, blurgg.

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    1. Squid flavor, really more squid spice

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  7. 1: What Flavor is this bag of potato chips (crisps)? I'm guessing squid or some kind of seafood.
    2: Would you try them? Yes
    3: What is the most fun specialty food market near you? There isn't one near these days. There used to be a wonderful Asian Market but it's gone now.
    4: Have you ever bought an interesting international food and found it to be almost habit forming? Yes, jaffa cakes in London
    5: Is there anything you simply won't eat? Lot's of things. Liver for one.
    My friends are in Japan right now. I've bet they've seen a packet of those chips.

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    1. Yes squid, Aldi has jaffa cakes

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  8. 1: What Flavor is this bag of potato chips (crisps)? Kraken

    2: Would you try them? yes

    3: What is the most fun specialty food market near you? Indian I suppose; I haven't been in.

    4: Have you ever bought an interesting international food and found it to be almost habit forming? Marmite.

    5: Is there anything you simply won't eat? Rats at Tewkesbury

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    1. I have never been offered grilled rat, thankfully

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  9. 1: What Flavor is this bag of potato chips (crisps)? Clueless.

    2: Would you try them? Yes

    3: What is the most fun specialty food market near you? I live in a small town in North Idaho. Close thing we have to specialty food market. Would be Grocery Out Let.

    4: Have you ever bought an interesting international food and found it to be almost habit forming? Can't think of any thing.

    5: Is there anything you simply won't eat? Lima Beans. Reminds me of saw dust.
    Coffee is on and stay safe.

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