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Black-Tailed Jackrabbit

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Psychology & Criminology Student.
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A Trans Woman in her early thirties. I write,
draw, and even play music. An avid comicbook nerd,
a chess geek, and indie ttrpg enjoyer.
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I'm also a part-time supervillain.
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I don't know what to add to the authenticity over food post, but rather than looking at things like specific ingredients, we can take a dish apart in the abstract and think about what is its essense. An apple pie is just fruit in a puff pastry, which can be 'traditional' to many different cultures but I don't think making it differently is going to make it too much of anothers culture one way or another, its going to be what you intend with it.

You might be able to trace a trend with national dishes to work out a core commonality to them, in the UK's case that is 'meat in somekind of gravy' which is believed how chicken tikka masala became a national dish that surprizes people, but as the story goes an Indian-Scottish Chef used what he had left at the end of a shift for a bus driver in Glasgow. Huge success and made more of it and it grew in populatity till it became a store shelf staple.

I don't think its more or less than any other national dish like Steak and Ale Pie because it fundamentally is 'Meat in somekind of Gravy'. If I ever wind up in an alien biome from removed from Scotland, first thing I'm going to do is go out and find the closest analogue to potatoes, and hunt space-cows to make stovies. It won't be the same ingredients, but it fulfils my abstract criteria of "Meat in somekind of Mash" so I would consider it essentially Scottish. Taste might be a bit different to what I'm used to being on another planet though.


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