Searching for the "grey market" foods of New York City
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Searching for the "grey market" foods of New York City
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#2Kind of a fun article, but I felt the premise of, "I track down illicit foods" was diluted somewhat when most of the foods turn out not to be illicit.
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#3No haggis?
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#4Kind of a fun article, but I felt the premise of, "I track down illicit foods" was diluted somewhat when most of the foods turn out not to be illicit.
For some strange reason I felt compelled to read all the way to the end. But it didn't start off well; I think I would have been content to live out the rest of my life without hitting up Wikipedia to see what "cheese mites" were.
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#5It's a little strange the subtitle used is "Salmiakki". That's the Finnish term for salty liquorice but that section discusses it in general terms, not from a Finnish perspective. It just so happened that the version he tried was salmiakki from Finland.
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#6What, no Kinder Eggs?
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#7Sassafrass isn't restricted because of cancer risk, it's restricted because it can be used as a precursor to MDMA (ecstasy).
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#8Though I recently found out you can get it at a bourgie EV restaurant, I regularly frequent a joint in Brooklyn that will make kibbe naya (Lebanese lamb tartare, essentially.) You have to call ahead and you have to know the guy. It was the same way when I lived in Sydney. A few joints had it but it was technically against health code.
When I get it at my BK joint the owner will sit down at the table and eat it with us. And he generally makes so much that it's essentially all you can eat.
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#9Though I recently found out you can get it at a bourgie EV restaurant, I regularly frequent a joint in Brooklyn that will make kibbe naya (Lebanese lamb tartare, essentially.) You have to call ahead and you have to know the guy. It was the same way when I lived in Sydney. A few joints had it but it was technically against health code. When I get it at my BK joint the owner will sit down at the table and eat it with u…
I've not been to Lebanon, but what you're describing sounds an awful lot like çiğ köfte: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Çiğ_köfte . You should give it a try if you can find it!
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#10Sassafrass isn't restricted because of cancer risk, it's restricted because it can be used as a precursor to MDMA (ecstasy).
Well it is a giant cancer risk. It contains large amounts of safrole and other carcinogenic compounds. When it was banned, in 1960 [0], MDMA wasn't yet as much of a "club drug" as it later became.
[0] https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/roc/content/profiles/safrole.p...