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⌈ Secret Post #3578 ⌋

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Re: The best gifts under $5?

[supermanda]

Several 12THB Thailand version of Tokyo Banana from any 7 11 in Bangkok. If someone got me one of those, ho ho ho!

Re: The best gifts under $5?

[ginainthekingsroad]

I didn't know what a Tokyo Banana was, so I looked it up and I really want one. Especially the "Tokyo Banana Raisin Sandwich": Rum-raisin banana ganache sandwiched between banana scented cookies. Whaaat!

It kinda reminds me that back in the 1930s, the original Twinkie was banana flavored. But bananas weren't available in large quantities during WWII, so Twinkies became vanilla. Oh the things I remember from my food history class.

Re: The best gifts under $5?

[supermanda]

I haven't had Tokyo Banana, but I had the knockoff Thailand version and o m g sooo good. It's very soft and not super sweet. Also tastes like real banana.

I LOVE THIS LIL FACT. Food history class???? I am so intrigued... I have such a passion for food history. Do you have any books or videos you'd recommend on food history? *_*

Re: The best gifts under $5?

[ginainthekingsroad]

Food history is equal parts social history and borderlines theory (ie, interaction of cultures). It's great.

I took a pretty generalized food history course in college, but a few of the books I read for it were: Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination (Paul Freedman), ¡Que vivian los tamales!: food and the making of Mexican identity (Jeffery M. Pilcher), Sweetness and Power: the place of sugar in modern history (Sidney W. Mintz), and some excerpts from the historical sections of Fast Food Nation: the dark side of the All American meal (Eric Schlosser). There were more scholarly articles and excerpted chapters in the course, but I'd have to dig out the reader to get titles and those 3 books are on my shelf here.

I don't know how interested you'd be in those, so I will actually just recommend you check out the writing of Bee Wilson. Her stuff is always nicely researched, but also extremely entertainingly written.