What are you eating now?

[Vilander]

54 minutes ago, Muloghonto said:

1. The Nubian pyramids are a lot younger than the Egyptian ones and we know who built the Nubian ones - The Cushite dynasty around 750-650 BC built the nubian pyramids. 

 

2. We don't know exactly why the Romans banned the Indian merchants. But a ban was enforced around the time of Emperor Marcus Aurelius ( 160-180 AD), where Indian merchants were not allowed on Roman soil. Since Trajan annexed Nabatea (Modern day Jordan-Negev region), Indian merchants had no outlet to the Roman empire except for Axum(Ethiopia) & Charax (Modern day Basra region, under the Persians).

The Charax trade route was less reliable for commerce, because Romans & Persians were like India-Pakistan back then. 

In anycase, the reason Romans banned the Indian merchants are unknown but there are clues towards it. For example, Pliny the Elder (around 50 AD) said this: 
" India, China and the Arabian peninsula take one hundred million sesterces from our empire per annum at a conservative estimate: that is what our luxuries and women cost us. For what fraction of these imports is intended for sacrifices to the gods or the spirits of the dead?"

 

My guess would be, our traders were completely dominant over the Roman traders, because our traders did arithmetic in decimal & base-10 system, the Romans did it in Roman numerals. Which are impossible practically to add/subtract etc. in large numbers. 
For eg, if the Roman goes  ' i want 10 bales of cotton, 2 sacks of turmeric, 1 sack of pepper for 1000 gold pieces' and i go ' no, i will give you 9 bales of cotton, 1 sack of turmeric and 2 sacks of pepper for 900 gold pieces', the Roman would take hours to figure out if he got a better/worse deal than before, while we can figure this out in matter of minutes. 

So they probably had enough of continuously losing on bargains with us and banned us from their soil.

 

 

lol man that is so funny yet profound at the same time.

[Cricketics]

Matar-aloo with Puri today.

 

I remember back in India whenevr I used to travel by train to Amritsar, we used to have  matar-allo sabzi and roll it inside puri with nimbu achaar.  This used to be the goto good whenever I used to travel by train and it was so easy to eat and not messy. 

[MechEng]

Visited an Iranian cafe yesterday for evening snack, had brun maska (hard shell buns) and tea, the tea they make has some rose essence in it giving it a fragrance without changing it's flavour. The best about visiting an Iranian/Parsi cafe is that you can eat high quality foods at a really cheap price.

[sourab10forever]

1 hour ago, Cricketics said:

Matar-aloo with Puri today.

 

I remember back in India whenevr I used to travel by train to Amritsar, we used to have  matar-allo sabzi and roll it inside puri with nimbu achaar.  This used to be the goto good whenever I used to travel by train and it was so easy to eat and not messy. 

puri and nimbu achaar... evergreen!

 

[Muloghonto]

1 hour ago, MechEng said:

Visited an Iranian cafe yesterday for evening snack, had brun maska (hard shell buns) and tea, the tea they make has some rose essence in it giving it a fragrance without changing it's flavour. The best about visiting an Iranian/Parsi cafe is that you can eat high quality foods at a really cheap price.

Tea that doesnt smell like tea makes me sick. Maybe i am too much of a bong tea snob, but the universe made Tea and Single Malt Scotch to be drunk neat : the former hot with a smidgen of sugar, the latter served on some cold rocks (yes, rocks. not 'ice' being the code word for rock).

 

[beetle]

1 hour ago, Muloghonto said:

the former hot with a smidgen of sugar

No milk???

[Cricketics]

10 hours ago, maniac said:

Vegetable Stromboli from a local Pizza place...By the time I was through 30% of it,It was the best stromboli I ever had......

 

by the time I hit 60% I was full but I couldn't stop eating it because it was really good...

 

By the time I hit 90% I hate Stromboli,

 

now I am completely through with it,no more Italian food ever...can't stand the frikin smell of Italian cuisine  

the thing is that for a Vegetarian, Italian cuisine has plenty of choice. And being in USA, many restaurants are Italian.

[Cricketics]

1 hour ago, Muloghonto said:

Tea that doesnt smell like tea makes me sick. Maybe i am too much of a bong tea snob, but the universe made Tea and Single Malt Scotch to be drunk neat : the former hot with a smidgen of sugar, the latter served on some cold rocks (yes, rocks. not 'ice' being the code word for rock).

 

Tell me you did not eat the Baklava from their shop too?

[Muloghonto]

2 hours ago, radhika said:

No milk???

My dear, milk in tea is like a mixer - you only put it in shitty tea to make it palatable but then you are left wondering why the heck are you drinking crappy tea with mixer in it than the real deal - i suppose its what you get from chai-walla on train stations & bus stops but beyond that, no milk for me in my tea.

 

[Muloghonto]

1 hour ago, Cricketics said:

Tell me you did not eat the Baklava from their shop too?

I don't like baklava. Something about puff pasty being too sticky and chewy instead of crispy just doesnt sit well with me.

 

[Cricketics]

Just now, Muloghonto said:

I don't like baklava. Something about puff pasty being too sticky and chewy instead of crispy just doesnt sit well with me.

 

Tell me about it. My Turkish friend, keep gifting me every year somehow. I have to give it to someone else. Some of them are decent, but we are used to our Indian mithai and hence I find it extra sweet.

[beetle]

21 minutes ago, Muloghonto said:

My dear, milk in tea is like a mixer - you only put it in shitty tea to make it palatable but then you are left wondering why the heck are you drinking crappy tea with mixer in it than the real deal - i suppose its what you get from chai-walla on train stations & bus stops but beyond that, no milk for me in my tea.

 

Chai snob!!!!

[Muloghonto]

26 minutes ago, Cricketics said:

Tell me about it. My Turkish friend, keep gifting me every year somehow. I have to give it to someone else. Some of them are decent, but we are used to our Indian mithai and hence I find it extra sweet.

U should gift him Laddoos. Something about Laddoos i find makes Turks and most middle easterners go ape-shit.

Oh and if his Baklava is decent, just re-gift it to an Eastern European friend. They will treat it like you brought them A filet mignon. 

[MechEng]

7 hours ago, Muloghonto said:

My dear, milk in tea is like a mixer - you only put it in shitty tea to make it palatable but then you are left wondering why the heck are you drinking crappy tea with mixer in it than the real deal - i suppose its what you get from chai-walla on train stations & bus stops but beyond that, no milk for me in my tea.

 

I visited Assam and Darjeeling 3 years ago, have vivid memories of great tea, momos and thukpa. The local brand tea bags there have fresh smell of tea leaves and great taste, and I was drinking them with milk.

[MechEng]

7 hours ago, Cricketics said:

Tell me about it. My Turkish friend, keep gifting me every year somehow. I have to give it to someone else. Some of them are decent, but we are used to our Indian mithai and hence I find it extra sweet.

Baklava is sweeter than our mithais? You've tried turkish delights? Those famous Narnia sweets.

[Muloghonto]

1 hour ago, MechEng said:

I visited Assam and Darjeeling 3 years ago, have vivid memories of great tea, momos and thukpa. The local brand tea bags there have fresh smell of tea leaves and great taste, and I was drinking them with milk.

Edited November 24, 2016 by Muloghonto

[Muloghonto]

1 hour ago, MechEng said:

Baklava is sweeter than our mithais? You've tried turkish delights? Those famous Narnia sweets.

It usually is not. Its not that its too sweet, imagine if you made 'diet jalebi', where u use 1/3rd the amount of sugar, but leave it out for 24 hrs before eating it- Baklava is the puff pastry version of it - kinda sweet (but not as sweet) but its got a sticky & chewy texture to it.

 

[Muloghonto]

Btw, I've never been to Punjab and there is no such thing as a 'Punjabi sweet shop' in Kolkata, so i got to ask:  Do Punjabis like their Jalebis cold, from the fridge, all mushy and super-sweet with sugar crystalizing ? 
Coz i grew up eating Jalebis where it wasn't super-sweet (the batter was slightly sour and the syrup is sweet giving it a sweet but a hint of sour in it), served hot & crunchy. Atleast, thats the Bengali way.

Do Punjabis just like it the opposite way, coz every single sweet & Indian food restaurant in Vancouver/Seattle is run by Punjabis and they make it that way. Or is it coz sales here are 1/100th of India, so they are forced to store excess and give out cold, overly sugary shitty jalebi ?

 

[MechEng]

24 minutes ago, Muloghonto said:

Lol, I did drink green tea there, the one without milk. I did have black tea once there at Glenary's Darjeeling.

[Muloghonto]

6 minutes ago, MechEng said:

Lol, I did drink green tea there, the one without milk. I did have black tea once there at Glenary's Darjeeling.

Buddy, Green Tea and Black tea are like Guiness and Hefferweizen. They are both 'tea' (or beer in the analogy) but thats where any similarity ends.

 

Green tea is boring tea. Healthy for you and i try to replace water with Green tea during my morning & afternoon meals. But its not tasty like regular black tea.