Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

Come now, Turkey is part of the European Union. It's Westernized, secular, peaceful, ancient, and awesome. It's not some backwater. Of course he has eaten an avocado, sheesh!

If anyone else has delicious Turkish recipes, post them here.

so... Bulgaria is close and my husband can cook some excellent Bulgarian food. There's one where you basically put... feta in the oven? And then crack an egg over it an cook it some more? It had some other stuff other than feta. Oh and of course moussaka, or however you spell that.

clarification: the moussaka is not part of the melted feta dish

This reminds me (although on a much smaller scale) of the foreign exchange student who came to my high school geography class to talk about growing up in the former East Germany. One of the kids in my class asked, in all seriousness, if she ever saw chocolate before she came to the U.S. She gave him one of the best disbelieving looks I've ever seen. I was embarrassed on behalf of all Americans.

[This is also the class that became convinced that north is up in the Northern Hemisphere, the reverse is true in the Southern Hemisphere, gravity is a southward force, and thus in the Southern Hemisphere gravity pulls things into the sky. Oh, high school.]

People will believe stupid things even about Canada, and it's right next door. One of my favourite food-related ones:

"Do you have ice cream in Canada?"
"Yeah, but we just call it milk up there."

Cindy wrote:This reminds me (although on a much smaller scale) of the foreign exchange student who came to my high school geography class to talk about growing up in the former East Germany. One of the kids in my class asked, in all seriousness, if she ever saw chocolate before she came to the U.S. She gave him one of the best disbelieving looks I've ever seen. I was embarrassed on behalf of all Americans.

I don't think it's too stupid of a question. Every one of my friends from Ukraine can distinctly remember the first time they saw a banana.

Yarjka wrote:

Cindy wrote:This reminds me (although on a much smaller scale) of the foreign exchange student who came to my high school geography class to talk about growing up in the former East Germany. One of the kids in my class asked, in all seriousness, if she ever saw chocolate before she came to the U.S. She gave him one of the best disbelieving looks I've ever seen. I was embarrassed on behalf of all Americans.

I don't think it's too stupid of a question. Every one of my friends from Ukraine can distinctly remember the first time they saw a banana.

But Germany is the HOME of amazing chocolate. That's like asking a Japanese kid if he's ever eaten sushi.

Yarjka wrote: I don't think it's too stupid of a question. Every one of my friends from Ukraine can distinctly remember the first time they saw a banana.

My husband occasionally likes to point out that there were no bananas in the Soviet Union. There is something else he always says they didn't have, but I don't remember now.