What? How? Who?

[mme_hardy]

Deep-frying foods in vegetable oil seems like a modern American craze, but it was an ancient cooking tradition in West Africa, and one that we have inherited from enslaved people.

Akara sounds pretty tasty, but that's a bizarre sentence up there.

Comments

[legionseagle]

Um. That cartoon is -- not a good look. Certainly, chip shops deep fry stuff and Scottish chip shops deep fry a wider range of stuff, but careless deployment of 'deep fried Mars bar' stereotypes can give rise to some pretty awkward situations.

[mildred_of_midgard]

Wow.

I did not mean to stereotype the entire urban population! I just remember being frustrated that so many of my vegetables were no longer identifiable as vegetables, when this was in no way indicated on the menu when I ordered them, and this was coming from someone who's an unhealthy eater in general. I quite liked Scotland otherwise! Including the food.