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Tenebrarum wrote:People in the northern part of Vietnam eat dogs, especially in the countryside, and this practice has been spreading south steadily for the last five decades. Interesting but not exactly pleasant.
The concept of 'beef' apparently came with the French, because in older times it was unfathomable for Vietnamese people to use cattle and buffaloes for anything other than ploughing and freight. You don't eat your family's biggest treasure.
Pork was reserved for the grandest of occasions, at least in the north, so the four main sources of protein used to be tofu, fish, eggs (chicken, duck, goose and quail) and poultry, in ascending order of value.
Also, in proper chopstick ettiquette, you use the bigger ends of the sticks to pick up food from the communal bowl or plate to your personal bowl, and the smaller, pointier ends to bring the food to your mouth. But I don't see many people do this anymore. What a shame because that is so much more hygienic.
vijayjohn wrote:(and usually deep-fried).
vijayjohn wrote:What do they do now? Use the smaller ends for both?
Varislintu wrote:For Finns, eating in silence, even in company. Not as a strict rule but it's definitely traditionally a thing. You were supposed to respect the food, and the fact that you got to eat, since famines were regular occurences.
vijayjohn wrote:Did that practice enter northern Vietnam from China?
vijayjohn wrote:What did they do when the cattle and buffaloes were too old for ploughing or freight? Abandon them to die?
However, their husbands are totally vegetarian.
vijayjohn wrote:Also, in proper chopstick ettiquette, you use the bigger ends of the sticks to pick up food from the communal bowl or plate to your personal bowl, and the smaller, pointier ends to bring the food to your mouth. But I don't see many people do this anymore.
What do they do now? Use the smaller ends for both?
Luís wrote:Varislintu wrote:For Finns, eating in silence, even in company. Not as a strict rule but it's definitely traditionally a thing. You were supposed to respect the food, and the fact that you got to eat, since famines were regular occurences.
Eating in silence would be a faux-pas around here. Most of the time you get together with people for a meal precisely to talk (food is secondary)
Tenebrarum wrote:Is it a cultural thing for Malayalee men to be vegetarian? Or do the husband just happen to belong to a vegetarian circle?
linguoboy wrote:There's even a word for hanging out at the dinner table chatting in Mediterranean cultures: sobremesa/sobretaula/sopratavola (lit. "above-table"). A communal meal is considered incomplete without it.
linguoboy wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAl71p_A2wM
IpseDixit wrote:I had already corrected it before you posted.
Luís wrote:Eating in silence would be a faux-pas around here. Most of the time you get together with people for a meal precisely to talk (food is secondary)
linguoboy wrote:There's even a word for hanging out at the dinner table chatting in Mediterranean cultures: sobremesa/sobretaula/sopratavola (lit. "above-table"). A communal meal is considered incomplete without it.
languagepotato wrote:also, our meal times aren't breakfast - lunch - dinner
it's breakfast (somewhere between 7 and 11 am) - lunch (somewhere between 1 and 5 pm) - tea time (somewhere between 6 and 9 pm) - dinner (somewhere between 10 pm and whenever you go to sleep)
and last but not least, whenever we eat warm meals, we eat fruit afterwards
IpseDixit wrote:- Over here a popular tradition says that bread should not be put upside-down because it symbolizes the body of Christ.
Varislintu wrote:
What I've always wondered about, it that in cultures where you might eat a proper meal at 9-10 pm, when do people go to bed? around 12 am - 1 am They must stay up pretty late? And when do people go to work in the morning then? this one's pretty complicated, so i'm gonna write a long text on it And do kids also stay up for the evening dinners? sometimes, or they have lunch leftovers as dinner and go to bed early
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