Look Smart Trivia: Indian Food
4OK, OK, “Indian food” doesn’t really exist. We’re talking about a country with 22 officially recognized languages, stretching from frozen peaks to sun-baked deserts to steaming river deltas, with thousands of years of cultural evolution behind it. There’s no more something called “Indian food” than there is a “European food”. So I’ll just say that all of these treats are popular among some people in some regions of India. The first player to name all five will win a $5 Meh coupon, which is useful but tastes terrible. Insert signoff catchphrase here!
You can’t get anything past @Brandon313, who named all five of our April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. No hoax:
- Fritz Kreisler, violinist who claimed that several of his compositions were actually written by famous composers of the past, c. 1900-1935
- Bill English, who claimed to be Billie Thomas, who played Buckwheat in the Little Rascals films, 1990
- Football scores including the fictional Plainfield Teachers college, 1941
- Alan Sokal, who published an intentionally nonsensical article in the journal Social Text in 1996
- The cover of I, Libertine, a nonexistent novel that radio host Jean Shepard organized his listeners to request from bookstores, and which was later written and published for real, 1956
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@lehigh Or is it 1 Jalebi 2 Papadum 3 Samosa 4 Falooda 5 Dahi Puri?
@lehigh Actually, I think it might be:
(Yeah, I went with option 2 for 2.)
The only one I recognized was samosas. I want to try that first thing though. I wonder if I can find it in town?
@sammydog01 Funny, those are some seriously overdone looking samosas. I’d imagine most decent Indian restaurants could make any of these.
@cinoclav Yeah, but they’re still samosas and I see them around once in a while. I like them.
@sammydog01 Oh, they’re absolutely delicious. They just usually look more like these.
@sammydog01 depends on where ‘town’ is. I’m in Cinci, and we have a local place called Aangan sweets that serves all of these (including the samosas). Very good
@sammydog01 if you want to try the first one (jalebi), any decent indian sweets shop will have them.
In India, they just call it food.
Damn, I just had dinner and I could eat all over again.
How do I use my $5 coupon?
@Brandon313 When checking out there’s a blue link that says, ‘Got a coupon code?’ Click that and enter looksmart.
Cool, thank you