BBC - people in Africa eat bananas

[Dauphin]

So are they classified as North American food, Japanese food, or Chinese food? We demand an answer damnit.

[The Mad Monk]

Speer, you *** need to **** ** before I ***** and then **** ****** ***** your ***** *** with my ***** until there's ***** ********** in your ***** little ****.

Reminds me of an Everlast song I heard on the radio last night.

[germanos]

DISINGENUOUS LIAR ALERT!!!!

THE VERY NEXT SENTENCE!!!!!

CAUGHT YOU *******

The same wiki actually disapproves:

Er is lang gedacht dat het recept afkomstig was van de VOC kolonies in Batavia en mogelijk afgeleid van het Indonesische gerecht Bobotok, maar het is meer waarschijnlijk dat dit reeds samen met Jan van Riebeeck naar de Kaap meegekomen is [1].

It came to the Cape with Jan van Riebeeck, Source [1]: a DPhil (Pretoria) thesis on Boer food.

[MRT144]

The worst thing is the recipes for Mexican food.

[Al B. Sure!]

The same wiki actually disapproves:

Er is lang gedacht dat het recept afkomstig was van de VOC kolonies in Batavia en mogelijk afgeleid van het Indonesische gerecht Bobotok, maar het is meer waarschijnlijk dat dit reeds samen met Jan van Riebeeck naar de Kaap meegekomen is [1].

It came to the Cape with Jan van Riebeeck, Source [1]: a DPhil (Pretoria) thesis on Boer food.

So more evidence that it is indeed Dutch and not African.

[Provost Harrison]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/cuisines

The site has icons for different regions/countries:

America - hamburger
Britain - pork pies, tea, cucumber sandwiches
Chinese - spring rolls
Japan - sushi and soba
Mexican - guacamole
etc
Africa - bananas.

Well done Beeb.

[Al B. Sure!]

Some of the distinctions are a little more specific than I would expect, especially since Africa is just lumped as one big thing.

For example, Mexican, South American, Spanish, Caribbean (though this includes Jamaican, Haitian, etc.) and Portuguese are all separated (which makes the exclusion of Central American a little strange if they were so geographically-diligent)... but really, how much different are these cuisines from each other? I know tacos would be unknown in Spain, for example, but there's still so much overlap and commonality, especially between Spain and Portugal. Is the Iberian peninsula that gastronomically demarcated?

Similar with the distinction between the Middle East and North Africa. There are differences sure but are they significant enough to warrant separate categories, especially in light of the vague "Eastern European" (I highly doubt Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Balkan cuisine is all the same) and African.

Also, where is the Germanic cuisine? What do Germans, Dutch, and Scandinavians eat?

[Provost Harrison]

The worst thing is the recipes for Mexican food.

Do you mean refried sick with cheese?

[MRT144]

Do you mean refried sick with cheese?

BBC is complicit in advancing this idea.

[Provost Harrison]

You don't say

[MikeH]

Isn't that important? Every other dish is something prepared, but "Africa" gets a banana. Seems... well, off.

Indeed.

[Dinner]

They didn't treat Mexico much better. For Mexico they listed a condiment.

[Aeson]

BBC is full of ****! Africa = black people = watermelons not bananas.

[onodera]

BBC is full of ****! Africa = black people = watermelons not bananas.

That's a disgusting American stereotype. Black people wear grass skirts, live on palms and eat bananas.