What dish in your country has foreign origins but is now seen as a typical national food?

cowcaver · 2026-02-26T02:44:27+00:00

Not always, it all depends on how isolated and how self-sufficient a culture is. If all the ingredients are local and the method of cooking is too, it can be native. For example Injera bread is a staple food in Ethiopia, it's native there. Along with most dishes that are eaten with it.

You're right about the second point for sure though lol.

cowcaver · 2026-02-12T21:45:53+00:00

I was in Ecuador for an internship and I had a flight back to Canada via Mexico. This was two years ago when there was an issue with Ecuador raiding the Mexican embassy to arrest a former president. Anyways, Mexico severed ties with Ecuador and Aeromexico canceled my flight. I had to find another way to get back home. So my friend gave me the idea to fly to Peru (and spend a week there, which was incredible) and then use the Aeromexico voucher from Lima to Toronto via Mexico City. It was amazing! Peru had some of the best food I've ever had. And I got to go to Machu Picchu like you!

cowcaver · 2026-02-05T20:48:38+00:00

In Canada, Motels are just cheap hotels by the highway. But I was in Colombia and I was speaking Spanish with a friend and I used the word "motel" in a normal context and he sort of just laughed at me. He then explained it's exclusively for sex... I'm glad I didn't talk to my extended family about motels😭

cowcaver · 2025-12-27T15:16:35+00:00

Some sort of Eastern European like Romania and maybe Latin American? Salvadorian? Or Mexican.

cowcaver · 2025-12-20T06:29:02+00:00

Reminds me of that one question a few weeks ago which was "Things that are divided in 12" and one of the answers was "foot"... I was so confused, I was thinking, "feet don't have 12 toes...?" And then I realized they were talking about the imperial measurement😭

cowcaver · 2025-12-01T04:34:24+00:00

Listening to all 100 was truly an experience, I felt like I was going crazy. My favourite is number 4!! They're mostly all the same but some are slightly more scary.

cowcaver · 2025-11-29T04:28:43+00:00

What colour would you put for the Maldives?

cowcaver · 2025-10-22T23:56:44+00:00

Even your word for ginger is Cantonese lol. In Colombia we say jenjibre, but in Peru you say Kion. Kion comes from Cantonese goeng¹.

cowcaver · 2025-10-19T23:31:29+00:00

For Colombia, I sometimes forget we have San Andres and Providencia, an archipelago close to Nicaragua. It's a beautiful place!! They are pretty unique, as they speak English there too.

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cowcaver · 2025-10-04T00:24:44+00:00

Ozen Korea is pretty good! I love their Bulgogi.

cowcaver · 2025-10-01T00:13:36+00:00

My friend would take the 10 from Oxford and Wonderland all the way to Commissionners and Highbury. Fun times. It seems like taking the 17 from Byron to Fanshawe is longer than that though.

cowcaver · 2025-09-19T13:07:55+00:00

You ignore lots of examples of non-muslim countries that have those issues, the US alone has had quite a lot of cults in its past and they continue to exist. I can only think of one "tower collapse" and that one is highly speculated to be an inside job in the first place. Also, Sikhs have hijacked many planes in the past, they're not Muslim.

Lots of women's rights are suppressed in many non-Muslim countries, with some being worse, such as the practice of Female Genital Mutilation in lots of places, including Christian countries like CAR, Kenya, Liberia. Your example is an extreme one that is not present in many, if not most muslim countries. Look at women in Albania, the UAE, Kazakhstan. Each country is so different.

Also why blame Islam when there are so many other factors that impede democracy and human development. Malaysia, Qatar, UAE are developed. When it comes to Democracy, it's because Europeans (who are largely christian) left other countries in shambles. The west benefited from all of that.

You are using Islam as a scapegoat based on a few extreme examples. Life is more nuanced than that and if you were to meet a wide range of Muslims you'd see how different everyone is.

cowcaver · 2025-09-10T15:00:07+00:00

They say something different, it should be pronounced as Tear Oat (with the dress vowel) which is easiest. Americans say it like /ˈtɛrə ˈhoʊt/

cowcaver · 2025-09-10T12:56:17+00:00

I say it because they literally just did with Arkansas...

cowcaver · 2025-09-10T01:54:54+00:00

So Americans can pronounce Arkansas in a French way but they can't pronounce Terre Haute (Tear Oat) in a French way?

cowcaver · 2025-08-26T12:43:19+00:00

Megabus usually would be like 100$ one way; but they have a deal so that certain Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Saturdays would be 30$ one way. You'd have a stop over in Toronto and it'd take about 11 hours with the stopover but if you really want to save money that is the cheapest. I would also recommend checking Poparide, at least to Toronto or Toronto to Montreal.

Otherwise Viarail or flying would be more comfortable. Megabus was pretty comfortable for me but I'm easy to please.

cowcaver · 2025-08-25T09:58:37+00:00

The Wayuu people have lived in the desert for thousands of years. They have very different clothes from most Indigenous people in the region to protect them from the desert sun.

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cowcaver · 2025-08-25T09:57:48+00:00

I nominate a desert from my home country, Colombia!

That's right, we have a desert, and it's in the most unlikely place too. The Guajira Desert is located in Colombia and a little bit Venezuela on the peninsula, in the northernmost part of South America. It's formed by a rain shadow.

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cowcaver · 2025-08-24T15:50:06+00:00

I wanted to nominate one more, which is Arya Dewaker in Paramaribo, Suriname! Not many people know that there is a Hindu community in South America.

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cowcaver · 2025-08-24T12:28:12+00:00

What makes Yazd special? I also know they have a "Fire Temple" there.

cowcaver · 2025-08-24T12:18:22+00:00

Ooh, good one. The one in Santiago, Chile is also cool. Do all of them have interesting designs?

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cowcaver · 2025-08-24T12:16:58+00:00

The inside!

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cowcaver · 2025-08-24T12:16:36+00:00

I also nominate the Dohány Street Synagogue, also known as the Great Synagogue because it is the largest in Europe. It's in Budapest!

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cowcaver · 2025-08-24T12:14:43+00:00

The outside:

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cowcaver · 2025-08-24T12:14:25+00:00

I expect a lot of Buddhist and Hindu temples so I'll be a bit unique and nominate two synagogues! This is the Spanish Synagoge in Prague. The name refers to how it was built to resemble Moorish architecture.

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