Day of dead foods
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Anonymous
| Whatchya putting out this year? |
Anonymous
| You first |
Anonymous
| Pan de muerto |
Anonymous
| More interesting would be to have a day of live foods. |
Anonymous
Don't do an internet video search of that in Asian cuisine. Ugh. Poor creatures. Horrific what they do to them, slicing them alive, eating and cooking parts with fire while the animal is tied up and suffering and having to watch. |
Anonymous
| Nothing. |
Anonymous
Steamed crabs aren’t in season right now. |
Anonymous
| Pretty much everything I eat that was once alive is technically dead, I think. |
Anonymous
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I thought about doing this — I’m not Mexican but grew up in a Mexican area and had a significant family death this year. Aren’t you supposed to put things the decedent liked on the altar? I was thinking of things like nice cheese, salami and pie. I did grow up with altars and celebrating All Souls’ Day so the day of the dead style celebrations isn’t that much of a cultural leap for me.
Although I think maybe I won’t do it because I’m supposed to be distracting my mom this year and I feel like this would upset her more. So probably just mass for us. Sorry, deceased family member, no salami for you in the afterlife. |
Anonymous
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This thread made me think of this hilarious New Yorker comedy piece.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/24/dear-mountain-room-parents —Ofrenda means “offering.” It’s just a thing we put on the altar. Any random thing. A bottle of Fanta. Unopened, not poisoned. Just a bottle of Fanta. |