Malaysian cuisine has two odd spots: “dried fish” and Durian fruit.
Durian is no worse than stinky cheese – and no better. If you like it, it’s great. But if you don’t like it, after a while you like it even less.
Dried fish sound innocuous, and it seems pretty harmless until you start cooking with it. But I’m pretty sure that the drying process includes fermentation, because when stir-fried this stuff fills the air with [smiles] for miles and miles and miles
Laughed when I read the comment about kimchi above. When my mother came to Chigago in the 50’s, she couldn’t eat the food because it was so disgusting. So she had a pot of kimchi fermenting on the window ledge. The roomies never found it because they didn’t know what they were looking for. But they did look.
Yes! I think that every time I walk past the snack bar at a movie theater.
This thread is less than a week old, with only 64 posts, but three posters have been banned since posting. Might be a record.
Anyway, Wife works in a place that is overcrowded, with no ventilation, and which probably passed its building and heath inspections with bribery. Every week at least one person is hauled off via ambulance because they are having a bad asthma attack. For a while it was because they had a series of cleaning ladies who believed in the cleansing power of mixing chlorine bleach and liquid ammonia. Lately the trigger has been a mist of oil and fake butter from the commercial popcorn maker the guys in IT brought in. There’s maybe a total of 30 people working there, but sometimes two or three of them need to go to the hospital. Management does nothing, but they’re all down in Florida where health and labor laws don’t seem to exist.
Popcorn threads generally attract the lowest of the low. Riffraff.