[OPEN] Questions about local flavors (backdated to mid-may)

[vitalfunction]

[The scroll missive is completely open again, but the handwriting might be familiar to some.]

We have been traveling and have discovered that food is prepared in different ways in different areas. The taste is also different, so we are curious.

How is food prepared in your country? What tastes do you recommend visitors try, and how are they prepared?

The Embryon

Comments

don't do it man, it's a trap

[highly_strung]

If you ever hit up the Land of Wind, you should try dried cactus. It's great.

The vendors uproot a cactus, slice it and soak it in a concoction that cancels out the natural hallucinagens it produces, then they dry it out and serve it with various toppings, or with some kind of bread.

Definitely a delicacy; it'd be an insult for you to refuse it if offered.

Gale... doesn't exactly know better whoops

[vitalfunction]

Cactus... That is a plant, correct? It has...

[What follows is a technical, if not very artistic rendering of the most common types of cacti that are edible, if only as a last resort, in Wind's desert.]

If those drawings are accurate to what you are talking about, I am aware of some varieties being useful for fluid and food, when away from an oasis, but I do not recall dried cactus. Wouldn't removing the moisture be counter to the purpose?

[But gee, foreigners usually don't know that about cacti and surviving the desert do they? How does this person know? Gale is actually asking himself the same question, but "cactus" definitely stirred some strong images and associated information in his head.]

he's adorable and kankuro is awful, i'm so sorry.

[highly_strung]

You've obviously never wandered this far, then. You're missing a particular variety of cactus my village is prominent for cultivating.

I mentioned hallucinogens, right? That's our breed of cacti. They're poisonous, inedible, but treated and dried, they're served as sustenance. The moisture from these cacti is better used elsewhere, and you can't drink it neat for obvious reasons. The texture of Doraisaboten is what people crave.

Don't knock it till you try it.

Kankuro needs to give it to him someday and be accidentally trolled in return

[vitalfunction]

Then if I get the chance to, I will try it. As long as it does not cause harm, experimenting with flavor is not an issue.