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Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 17, 2024

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I just ate at a nice restaurant here with a tribal seafood theme.

This alone is eyebrow raising. The north eastern tribes in India live as far from the sea as it gets, given their iodine deficiency rates, and the other miscellaneous tribes don't sea-fare either. And they had wall art of random Native American tribals and even one panel showing a giraffe. Very mixed messaging.

Even more concerning was that they had Mongolian fish as a menu option.

What.

What.

???

"Ah yes, I will order a preparation of fish nominally based on the techniques of a pastoralist landlocked nation" - - - - > Clueless

Anyway, the food was great, though my absolute distaste for all seafood has made even squid hard to stomach. They've got biryani cooked in bamboo, served so hot you'd swear someone had fired a disposable rocket launcher like the RPG-26 and left it to cool.

What's the most questionable dish you guys have seen on a menu?

Vegan gravy, a loose burger(literally just ground beef scooped out of a hot pan and spooned onto a hamburger bun), insert-not-Mexican-style tacos(especially the Asian ones). And there’s something that I can’t remember at the moment but it was a Jewish dish being cast as Italian?

a loose burger(literally just ground beef scooped out of a hot pan and spooned onto a hamburger bun)

Is this a questionable Dish? Just sounds like an incomplete sloppy joe. You were supposed to put condiments on it!

It's called a loose meat sandwich. They were very popular in the period after ground beef became commonly available but before canned tomato sauce appeared in stores.