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muhammad_isa said:
Mmm .. I've always thought it was for salad..
..but it seems fashionable with chips/fries these days.
How decadent! 😑
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Mayonnaise is used for certain kinds of salads, like potato, chicken, or tuna salads.🥔🍗🐟
If I make a salad like that, I mix mayo, miracle whip, and mustard, sometimes with a little extra oil and vinegar, and season it, and even then apply the whole mix very sparingly to the main ingredient. Just enough to moisten it and hold it together. JUST enough. JUST🫣😠
For as long as I can remember mayo has been slopped onto sandwiches🥪🥙 by default.🤪🤨
I've even had deli workers try to put mayo on the bread🍞 when I asked for tuna salad sandwich, 🥪and there's already mayo in the salad🙄🫥
By now I should know enough to make sure to always ask if there's mayo and ask for NO MAYO🫙
But I forget. 😶‍🌫️
Then bam - sandwich has this creamy white yucky on it🤢
I have known a couple of people who put mayo on fries😨🍟
I saw on some documentary about the history of fries in different countries that suggested mayo was the default condiment for fries in much of Europe😱 🍟
WWHHHHYYYYYYYY?????
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At least there are plenty of emoji to help me express myself and recover from this abomination😡
:rolleyes:😁😅
 
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Aupmanyav said:
Good. I think you would like it. What we do is to add 'Bundi' (Gram granules, the same with which we make laddus) into it. I do not know if you can get them at your place. Alternatively, you can put pieces of boiled potato in it.
It can be made salty or sweet. It results into something like this. Very light and refreshing.

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Thank-you! Sadly it's not available where I live. But when I visit a bigger city I'll have to look for it. Or just use potato. I wonder if it's named after the city in India?
 
moralorel said:
Thank-you! Sadly it's not available where I live. But when I visit a bigger city I'll have to look for it. Or just use potato. I wonder if it's named after the city in India?
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Yeah, we have a town in Rajasthan with the name 'Boondi'. But that is not the reason for its name. 'Boond' in Hindi is a droplet. And when a gram powder solution (with a little salt) is sieved and fried in oil, it results into these granules. If it is soaked in a sugar syrup, it can be made into laddu with various tastes. If mixed with chilies (red and green as well) and other things, it makes into a tasty spicy snack. Can be used in curries also. Boondi is versatile traditional creation.

Boondi as gift of God (Prasad), Laddus with small grains, laddus with bigger grains, salty snack
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Bundi City: The two forts, a monument with 84 pillars built by a king in the memory of his milk-nurse in 1683, Picture Palace, Queen's sterp-well, King's Hall,
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Aupmanyav said:
..And when a gram powder solution (with a little salt) is sieved and fried in oil, it results into these granules. If it is soaked in a sugar syrup, it can be made into laddu with various tastes. If mixed with chilies (red and green as well) and other things, it makes into a tasty spicy snack. Can be used in curries also. Boondi is versatile traditional creation.
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I prefer pakora .. containing onions, potato and aubergine. :)
..which is also mainly gram flour.

Gram flour is a good source of protein .. especially along with milky chai. ;)
 
muhammad_isa said:
I prefer chip-shop curry sauce or ketchup. :)
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In India, we have many options. More than one at a time. Chutneys: Green chilies, Tamarind, Yoghurt, Coconut; Sambhar, Potato Curry, Chick Peas Curry.

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Bedmi is coarse wheat flour, makes crisp Puris. Used to be a Delhi favorite. Not now. Even Samosas and kachoris have bowed to burgers and momos. That is a pity.
muhammad_isa said:
I prefer pakora .. containing onions, potato and aubergine. :)
.. which is also mainly gram flour.

Gram flour is a good source of protein .. especially along with milky chai. ;)
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I second you. Another good dish is Moong Dal pakoras.
Any Dal is wonderful nutritious food. But it does not mean we should abandon non-veg. We need not be Dal-khor all the time.

Dal-Khor, Dal eaters. That is how Pakistanis deride Indians. India is large, it has many wonderful non-veg. regional dishes.
 
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To Whom it May Concern,

Not everyone who is a vegetarian is one due to ethical considerations! I'm one due to medical reasons that aren't your business! You pay attention to your household and butt out of mine!

To Whom it May Concern #2,

Cats are obligate carnivores! Humans can be vegans by choice, but forcing a cat to be vegan, no matter how "quality" the vegan "food" is, will make it suitable for a feline's metabolism/etc.! And the cat can/will die a painful death!

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine
 
Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine said:
Not everyone who is a vegetarian is one due to ethical considerations! I'm one due to medical reasons that aren't your business! You pay attention to your household and butt out of mine!

Cats are obligate carnivores! Humans can be vegans by choice, but forcing a cat to be vegan, no matter how "quality" the vegan "food" is, will make it suitable for a feline's metabolism/etc.! And the cat can/will die a painful death!
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Will follow your commands.
In India, they are fed milk in veg. homes. Perhaps they can live with that and whatever they are able to hunt.
Not many people have cats as their pets in India, but many welcome them when they visit us.
How can anyone not love kittens?
 
Aupmanyav said:
Will follow your commands.
In India, they are fed milk in veg. homes. Perhaps they can live with that and whatever they are able to hunt.
Not many people have cats as their pets in India, but many welcome them when they visit us.
How can anyone not love kittens?
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Once a kitten is weaned, they become lactose-intolerant (with all of the stomach problems that accompany it...)

There are vegan pets AFAIK, but cats aren't on that list!

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine
 
To Whom it May Concern,

I didn't order the Thanksgiving meal because I cannot tell whether I can eat any of it, plus I don't want to put The Trio under any obligations (in case there's either ham or turkey as the entree.) I don't have the funds on me for a vet bill, thankyouverymuch, plus transportation's rather prohibitive due to both my eyesight and juggling three :kitty:s on public transit...

To Whom it May Concern #2,

I am deathly allergic to :dog:s. The breed doesn't matter. If a 🐶 followed you into the building, it's your obligation to find the owner!

To Whom it May Concern #3,

I've been MIA online due to being "locked out" for about three days due to circumstances beyond my control. If you can't abide that, fluff off!

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine
 
TheLightWithin said:
To Whom It May Concern:

Why why why WHYYYYY is mayonnaise of all things considered a default condiment on a BURGER?
No ketchup or mustard, you have to ask for that to put it on yourself, but it's all gobbed up with MAYO by DEFAULT?
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS FOOD WHHHYYYYY???
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That sounds Canadian to me...while I am no longer a burger eater I do recall my shock that Canada used mayo on fries and burgers like the states usually uses ketchup
...me I am a mustard and pepper as my go to for both...
 
As a European, this is really making me laugh.

Yeah, we do mayo on fries – I'll even put them on chips!

(By which I mean proper, British chips, not those spindly little things, nor what you confusingly refer to as 'chips' when clearly you mean 'crisps'.)

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(To all Brits here: you'll see I haven't mentioned ... ahem ... brown sauce – I dare not!!! For I fear they'll go bat-sh*t crazy!)
 
Discussing AI elsewhere ...

I enjoy historical fiction set in Medieval Japan, so I'm always on the lookout for a good book.

There's a few suddenly cropping up lately. The first lines of two recent new offerings on a digital format:
"The morning mist clung to the castle grounds like the breath of ancient spirits, reluctant ... "
(The Last Samurai: Honor and Betrayal in Feudal Japan, Aayush Agarawal, 156 pages, published 3 Sept. 2025)

"The morning mist clung to the cobblestones of Kyoto like the breath of ghosts, and ... "
(The Samurai and The Poet: A Love Across Centuries, Atmagita Wicara, 55 pages, published 4 Sept. 2025)

Oh dear ...
 
Hi Phyllis –

No. I compared the ingredients, quite different.

HP: tomato base, malt and spirit vinegar, molasses, dates, cornflour, rye flour, salt, spices and tamarind.
57: tomato base, vinegar, apples, and raisins.

Having looked, it's closest relative are your 'steak sauces', but they differ. A1 Sauce, which I think you have over there, is actually from a recipe developed by the same man who developed HP Sauce, a grocer in Nottingham, UK.
 
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