Papaya (yum), Pineapple (yum) and Raw Potatos (?)
Above you can see exactly what was presented to A and I this evening to eat. Tik prepared us a plate of foods yet saw nothing strange in the fact that raw potatoes were served as part of our fruit platter.
“Yes, but they are sweet potatoes” she tells me, assuming this will explain the rationalte. A begins to eat the platter without any concern for how weird it is.
Thais seem to believe that when we label a vegetable as a ’sweet’ something it is perfectly acceptable to serve it as a dessert. This explains why sweetcorn can also be found in jelly, ice-creams and cakes here. It doesn’t yet explain why we can also find pork inside cakes or why Thais think ice-cream and white bread complement each other well as a sandwich but who’s to say they are wrong.
In Taiwan Tik and I were amused to see that tomatos there are treated as a dessert food too and they are available on top of ice creams and shaved ice products.
I’m REALLY looking forward to returning to Europe tomorrow where my taste-buds and culinary logic are better aligned.
