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What foods are a staple in your life but seem rare in others?

I'll go first: baked potato.

I had baked potatoes all the time as a kid. We had a special skewer to cook 4 at a time. My mom would order baked potatoes at Wendy's instead of french fries. It is the single easiest way to cook potatoes and then you pile butter/cheese/sour cream/salt/pepper/sauce/whatever.

I just had one for the first time in years and all of my roommates considered it unusual. One pulled out a cook book to get started.

Apparently my experiences are not universal.

Baked potatoes are so basic I am baffled by your roommates.

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We have baked potatoes almost every week! I still think about the baked potato bar at my college. It was the highlight of the meal plan.

I think this is gross. My parents ate spaghetti with chili on it every Sunday for lunch for literally decades. I've been told this is a Cincinnati thing but my parents aren't from Cincinnati.

I've had that before. If I'm really hungry it is nice to have the starch added to chili to really fill me up. Tastes pretty good too.

Yeah, Cincinnati chili is a thing:

https://www.foodandwine.com/travel/united-states/skyline-chili-explained-by-a-cincinnatian

The chili isn't like regular chili, though... it's got different spices, maybe a touch of cinnamon. More like Greek cuisine. I like a four-way with onions myself.

When I first went to a resturant that asked if I wanted spaghetti with my chilli I was so confused and said no. Chilli is eaten with cornbread, why would I want noodles? So I ate a bowl of solid chilli and everyone else thought I was odd. It was good though.

The only thing I can think of is maybe pasta with ketchup. I don't eat pasta much anymore but once in a blue moon I'll crave it as a comfort food and it's almost always with ketchup amd black pepper.

Congee/jook (rice porridge). It's the Cantonese equivalent of chicken noodle soup more or less.

Steamed whole fish, eyes and all, with soy sauce/ginger/scallions.

In the Philippines any time you order fish you get the whole fish. So I got used to that. Rarely something found here in the US, though. But I have no issues eating a whole fish. Fish eyes actually taste decent.

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I love congee! it's the best thing on a cold day.

I tried making congee once in my slow cooker and failed miserably.

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broccoli, cauliflower, beets, asparagus, zucchini, butternut squash, cabbage of various kinds, cantaloupe and other melons, brussel sprouts, and basically any kind of bean are all common foods for me to eat. Love them all.

Also, I'll put cilantro on foods any chance I get. Cilantro tastes amazing to me and improves most foods. Also, the more garlic and/or ginger, the better.

Is tuna unpopular?It shows up on a bunch of unpopular food lists. I didn't realize it was disliked. I love. I eat a lot of it.

Oh, also, my mom makes hummus a lot. One of my dad's students was Palestinian, and he spent a lot of time at our house, and he taught us how to make good hummus.

And if it comes from the ocean, I will eat it any chance I get. I don't get it as much since my dad passed because my mom doesn't love seafood. But dad and I both loved scallops, so we used to eat them quite a bit.

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Zucchini (or courgette over here in the UK) is genuinely my favourite veggie after mushrooms. You can give it to me in any form and I will scarf it down all day long. They find their way into pretty much every dish I make.

Brussel sprouts too. I know they have a reputation along with broccoli as "the veggies that all kids hate" but I've always loved them since I was little.

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Tuna, and any fish, has its haters. I am not among them.

I keep forgetting the rest of the world doesn’t know about chicken salt

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Nopales. My go-to comfort food is a bowl of beans with queso fresco and ice cold nopales on top.

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Rhubarb pie. I love it, used to grow rhubarb myself and I make mean pie too (sometimes adding strawberries or apples). But I live in California now and while you can sometimes get rhubarb in stores, its nothing like the rhubarb that grows in the northeast.

Growing up, I had never had a leek. I had seen them in movies, and they always seemed like rich people/hippy food. Now I get about 6 leeks a month. I love them.

My family ate couscous every once in a while, so I thought it was a normal food everyone knew about. Then I read a book where the main character had a rich friend who mentioned couscous and the MC was like "KOOSE KOOOOOOOSSSS? What's that? What a weird word! What is this alien concept" and it was presented like a super rare secret dish that only rich vegetarians knew about. My family was neither of those things, we were middle-middle class white people from the US East Coast.

They're not staples anymore because the companies making them went out of business and/or I moved somewhere they're not available, but I'm white and from the US and was raised by old hippies, so grew up eating weird white American versions of some Asian foods. Like tofu made with Italian herbs mixed in, not as seasoning on plain tofu but actually mixed into the water packed kind when it was made. It made great fajitas (add Mexican food to the bastardized list) and was awesome fried alongside zucchini with some garlic (also bastardized Italian.)

Brown rice mochi cakes cut into small squares and oven baked until it puffed up, then served with salted butter. Also brown rice amazake flavored with coconut and ground almonds, served cold as a smoothie; kind of like horchata but without having to add any sugar.

I need to test out my secondhand Instant Pot and see if I can make amazake, assuming I can get rice koji somewhere.

I've only ever seen white rice mochi and mochiko (sp?) flour for sale in Asian grocers, if I want brown rice mochi these days I have to start by grinding brown glutinous sweet rice into flour in a coffee grinder.

3/4 cup flour to 1 cup water, mix, microwave, stir, microwave, dump in a very well greased shallow baking dish, smooth, put in fridge for a few hours, cut the result into 1-2" squares, spread out on a greased or parchment paper lined baking sheet, and bake in a 350-375 degree oven for ~10 minutes until puffed up. Coat with salted butter and wolf down.

And this wasn't an Asian thing but a "mom's mom grew up dirt poor" thing but I ate a lot of air popped popcorn in bowls with milk, like cereal, but sprinkled with salt rather than sugar; I still make it as comfort food sometimes.

And so I far as I know the sesame halva I grew up with was bog standard, just bought at the (white bougie) health food store rather than a Middle Eastern or Mediterranean grocer. I didn't make any friends who grew up with it until I was in high school.

And finally, I think this is squarely a hippy thing, but I love sunflower sprouts and am really happy I recently found somewhere that'll sell me a 2 lb bag for $15.

Haggis pudding. Yeah, I'm Scottish.

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Nothing special but my ancestry isn’t very usual where I live (it’s more usual in the US) so I grew up thinking we had unusual dishes at home.
As an adult I saw (online) a recipe book from that country and went “OHHHH” at every dish I had often at home as a child.

Eating Christmas cake with cheese. Apparently it's a Yorkshire thing.

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