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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?

In Ottawa, 20 years ago. A local pub near Parliament Hill had a special. For $200 you could get a bottle of Dom Pérignon and 12 chicken wings. It showed up on the receipt as "wing special" so customers could expense it as food.