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I think most folks are missing out if they just try the british version of orange marmalade. The Portuguese original 'marmelada' made from quinces is sooo much
by DoingIsLearning 6y ago
I think most folks are missing out if they just try the british version of orange marmalade.
The Portuguese original 'marmelada' made from quinces is sooo much better IMOH.
But (again in my opinion) nothing surpass the Brazilian take on marmelade, the "Goiabada", which is made with guava.
- Konohamaru 6y agoThis is the most posh thing I've read on HN so far. Don't share this with strangers unless you want everyone to know you're elite.
- DoingIsLearning 6y agoPerhaps it's posh from an american centric point of view. If you are in Portugal or Brazil it is as posh as eating butter.
- lucideer 6y agoDon't see the poshness? Elaborate?
- arethuza 6y agoDoingIsLearning blatantly admits to eating "foreign" food and from more than one country! Perhaps not being from the UK is no excuse! ;-)
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- me_me_me 6y agoYou couldn't make this post scream more Americuaaaa!
- bryanrasmussen 6y agoAmericans generally don't use the word posh.
- Milner08 6y agowow ok, eating food thats common in your region makes you elite. OK... makes you seem like a fool.
- bserge 6y agoI don't know why some Brits keep saying this. Wine is not posh, expensive sausages are not posh, quality food is not posh. Why are you trying to create a divide, and why are you on the "lesser" side? Ignore the strange "posh" elite, they're morons. You can do whatever you want in Britain, no matter your situation (coming from an actually divided poor country, yes, really).
- celticninja 6y agoWhy do you assume the GP is a Brit?
- bserge 6y agoHeard quite a few Brits saying that. I guess it was their "if only I". If only I was born to different parents, if only I was born in a different country, if only I had more money, if only I had friends in high places, if only the elite didn't keep us down. Lots of excuses, sometimes valid, but often not. Working class Brits don't realize how much opportunity they have in their own country, and it's sad.
- celticninja 6y agoPersonally I think that a pretty stupid generalisation. Yes there are more opportunities in the UK, but that doesn't mean that there isn't a class divide too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_the_United_Kingdom_by_education https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_t... Look at the university column.
- stordoff 6y agoWorking class people get the opportunity to go to the top universities as well - which university you went to isn't a definitive statement about your background. I came from a working class background, went to a generic local comprehensive, then was accepted into the University of Cambridge.
- robaato 6y agoWe have quince jelly too in Britain. As the article says, there are marmalades and marmalades - the good stuff is great!
- Nursie 6y agoMarmelada (and by the looks of it goiabada) are a very different thing to Marmalade. I have had quince cheese here in the UK which effectively seem to be a form of marmelada. Both are tasty but I wouldn't consider one to be "better" than the other, any more than I would consider peanut butter to be "better" than dijon mustard. Marmalade is a form of citrus jam, very sweet, usually very sharp, and containing candied citrus peel. It's generally eaten on toast for breakfast. Quince cheese (in the UK) is generally less sweet, is a quince paste rather than a jam, and is used as an accompaniment to hard cheeses as an alternative to chutney. I believe this is how it is largely eaten in Spain, too, with manchego. So while both marmelada and goiabada are great (I presume, having not tried goiabada), it's really a different thing to marmalade.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoA different history, credits Marmalade as a successor to decades of Marmelada import - that it simply got less leathery and more jammy to suit the market. But that sounds apocryphal once I read the OP.
- DoingIsLearning 6y agoI disagree, just because they are different in taste doesn't mean they are not historically related. Portuguese 'Marmelada' is absolutely a historic ancestor of the british version. Atlas obscura has a good article on this. [0] [0] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-marmelada https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-marmelada
- Nursie 6y agoSure, the word for one was derived from the other, but the recipes are very different, as are the end products. So much so that they occupy separate culinary niches, and I wouldn't consider them to be 'versions' of the same thing. See also US/British flapjacks.
- DoingIsLearning 6y agoAgain, it is not just shared words. The earliest references to the orange version of marmalade, was marmalade made for Queen Catherine of Braganza (A portuguese noblewoman in the british court). It's innacurate to claim they are just phonetically related.
- ufo 6y agoAnd last but not least, there is also the mythical goiabada de marmelo from the sítio do picapau amarelo song :)
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- DoingIsLearning 6y agoAssuming from the twitter handle you are Redmond based... This is a Seattle Brazilian shop who takes covid-friendly online orders (I just searched online don't have any experience with them): https://www.kitanda.com/shop/predilecta-guava-cream https://www.kitanda.com/shop/predilecta-guava-cream