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Pastrami is Turkish too? Those Ottomans knew how to eat! You know what else is Ottoman and nobody knows? Steamed dumplings (baozi). People think they're Chinese
by contingencies 5y ago
Pastrami is Turkish too? Those Ottomans knew how to eat! You know what else is Ottoman and nobody knows? Steamed dumplings (baozi). People think they're Chinese, but there's a clear Ottoman transfer lineage through Central Asia to Tibet and Mongolia as well as China.
- progre 5y ago"Thank you for the language, horse barbarians, here, have some dumplings as a token of our gratitude"
- zasdffaa 5y ago"Those Ottomans knew how to eat!" Very important rider - the rich or well-off ones did. Peasants, who were the greatest majority, subsisted on a lot of cheap bread/rice with a very little meat or other protein thrown in, and suffered malnutrition. Source: experience. Take away this one point, that when people talk about the food/cuisine of some country, they're likely talking about what the top few percent ate, which was beyond what the plebs had access to. Not always, but something to consider.