Well, it can be as difficult to get Chinese to realise cheese is varied and yummy. Frederick the Great had to be very sneaky to get his people to accept potatoes. After about sixteen years of intimate association, I've just got Lee to admit that tomatoes are good eating.

And I admit I loathe avocado myself.

I may have told tale before, but a great, great relative had a market stall, early C20, in South Shields, U.K. When he began to sell Tomatoes, locals would sample and spit out... they thought they were Plums!
I love cheese... but NOT runny or blue.
Avocado... never tried.

OK ... since nobody else is going top do it ... I'm fan of

Tim ...

Taylor ...

but not Edwina ...


I am ambivalent about John Curry (not the skater, but the "author") who has reprinted the works of the Blessed Featherstone and his acolytes Quarrie and Griffith.

Quote from: FierceKitty on 20 August 2022, 01:22:06 AMturkari - Hindi and other northern language for a kind of stew; always contains turmeric, never yoghurt or cream; the rest is negotiable.
kari - Tamil word, meaning "food"

Ha!    So the Indian who lectured Rick Stein about the origin of the word curry, and objected to Madras Curry Powder on the grounds that it offends all 30 plus supreme deities and, moreover, doesn't exist as such on the Indian sub-continent, didn't know what he was talking about.
Mind you lots of Brits have no idea of the origin of many words that have entered the language, some of them even think Waterloo is a railway station.
As an aside many of the mountains in Jebal Dhofar, Southern Oman, are called Jebal Hina and Jebal Hinaak,  'hina' and 'hinaak' meaning here and there respectively in Arabic.  You can imagine the conversation between the locals and Brits back in 18whenever - Brit: 'What name this mountain?'.  Dhofari: 'The one here?'  Brit:  What name that mountain?  Dhofari:  'The one there?'
On the tomato and avocado, the former is indispensable in so many sauces, but needs lots of salt and pepper if eaten uncooked.  Avocados?  I don't get the point of them.  They taste of nothing and their texture is awful.  As bad as okra.

Uncooked tomatoes? Mixed with a chopped eschallion shallot and freshly ground black pepper, if adding to a salad.

Avocado. Chopped with a blue cheese dressing. Or mash to make guacamole and layer with lettuce, salsa and cheese to fill pittas. Or as a cradle for a nice vinaigrette. Add black pepper to taste to all of these.

You don't have to know many Indians to realise that they resemble Brits in despising their fellow-countrymen's ways, lifestyle, and language, before we even get on to the fairy tales people murder each other for. But "curry powder" is certainly an abomination.

We definitely need a food and drink board.  What, I wonder, do people consider to be the perfect food and drink to accompany a wargame.  Pizza perhaps?  A glass of the red stuff?  A decent cuppa?  Perhaps nothing at all?

We very rarely have food to accompany a game - probably because we tend to play in the evening, so a cuppa is the most common accompaniment, for people who aren't driving then beer or a nice Spanish red may well be partaken of. 

Even when we play all day games - we very much tend to break for food - I think there is a concern about getting food on figures or terrain. 

Nuts, crisps, bread, olives, water, coffee, beer or wine are our normal accompaniments to afternoon or evening games.

All day games tend to involve Indian or Chinese takeaways. Occasionally the host cooks something suitable.

Best advice I ever got was to find where the locals ate.  Had a wonderful time in Birmingham beginning of the year, staying in a flat in the "Chinese Quarter". Such a mix of restaurants (Korean, Vietnamese, Thai etc) and always packed with Asians, never had British food all weekend, it was great!

Quote from: fred. on 20 August 2022, 06:02:32 PMI think there is a concern about getting food on figures or terrain.

I empathise.  I don't allow food or drink in my games room but will certainly break for 'refuelling'.

Sometimes a break for coffee and cake with us, but I insist guests wash their hands before we return to the big table.

Not a competitive gamer... but... 'Callan' scenarios might have been 'pleasant'... to an extent! lol.