• brown567@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    I’ve never had any of these combinations, so I can’t disprove their claims from prior experience

    Looking at it, I think the easiest combo for me to acquire would be coconut and honey, so I’ll have to give it a try and see if truly (DEAD)

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      6 months ago

      Lemon and milk would be the easiest for me. I’m sure I’ve had those together before, at least in some dessert.

    • You’ve never had surf & turf at a restaurant? And if you’re vega(taria)?n, you’ve almost certainly had coconut & honey in some proceeded drink - honey is a common substitute sweetener for sugar, and processed sugar is considered bad in a subset of that community.

      But what I wonder is where these things come from, and how common they are?

            • Surf & turf was me. And I am spectacularly ignorant of the vast variety of Indian cuisine, but I would be surprised if literal shells is a common staple. It doesn’t say “calcium,” it says “shells.” And it shows a picture of what looks like a cluster of mussels, although it could be clams.

              Nobody in the US eats shells like that, except for Blueshell crab almost exclusively in the mid-Atlantic region. There are some recipes where you cook crab whole until the shell dissolves into the soup, but in neither case is the point to eat the shells - they’re just along for the ride to get to the meat. And if it’s a source of the calcium that’s sometimes added to some food, it’ll say “calcium,” it won’t say where it came from.

              So: you’re claiming that it’s common in India for people to, what… source and grind up shells and eat them? I suppose if folks are doing it to Rhino horns, that’s not the weirdest thing I’ve heard. I think it’s just more likely it’s referring to shellfish.