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- Food Trivia: Donuts as symbols : Yemeni wedding celebrations include the entire community.
On a wedding day, all of the women in the bride's family prepare the feast for the wedding reception. This includes the traditional sweetened fritters and donuts that symbolize a sweet life for the newlyweds.
- Food Trivia: Drinking in Chad, Africa : For religious reasons, Muslims inhabitants of Chad do not drink alcohol. In the south of Chad, however, people enjoy beer brewed made from millet. This brewed beer is called Billi-Billi when it is made from red millet and Coshate when it is made from white millet. Spirits made from distilled millet alcohol are known as Arki. Gala Beer is also manufactured in Chad.
Chad is a resource-poor, landlocked country, bordered by Sudan, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, Nigeria, Niger, and Libya. It is one of the poorest countries on the African continent.
Food Trivia: Fermented Food
Did you know that about one third of all foods around the world are fermented? The practice began a really long time ago and has been carried forward because fermented foods are practical, healthy, and not to mention delicious. Back in the day a group of travelers in the Middle East stored milk in animal skins as they journeye d through the desert.
- Food Trivia: Food and Polish wedding : In Poland, the sharing of bread, salt and wine is an important feature of weddings. The parents of the newly married couple will present them with rye bread, lightly sprinkled with salt, and a glass of wine. The bread represents the hope that the bride and groom will never go hungry. The salt is a reminder that life may be difficult at times, but that they will learn to cope. The wine symbolizes the desire that the couple will never go thirsty, and that their lives will be filled with health and happiness.
- Food Trivia: Food in Peru : Food in Peru is generally much spicier than its neighbouring countries. So much so that a local restaurant serving traditional dishes is called "Picantería". If you are worried about it you can always order your chilis on the side.
- Food Trivia: Food on walls in Netherlands : An interesting way to get takeaway food in Holland is from the wall. There are snack bars that have rows of little windows where you slot in a coin and choose what snack you would like to takeaway.
- Food Trivia: Guinness : Ireland's most well-known drink is Guinness. Guinness is a dark, heavy beer with a good half-inch creamy head. Its particular taste and texture depends on how it is stored and poured.
- Food Trivia: Hard-Boiled Egg as wedding symbol : At the wedding reception, it is a marriage custom in Malaysia, for each guest to receive an artistically decorated hard -boiled egg, which represents fertility.