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Re: Eatable plants [Was: Lorries [Was: Desalinated water]]

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On 2025-10-19 22:04, rbowman wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Oct 2025 14:11:43 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> 
>> In the Canary Islands they have something called gofio that is ground
>> corn and toasted. DeepL says that hominy is ground corn.
> 
> DeepL needs a little more education.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominy


"Nixtamal" in Spanish. Hum, never heard that name. Interesting.

> 
> For a sense of scale, a piece of hominy is roughly the same size as a
> chickpea or garbanzo. I get it canned and add it to pea soup. That is a
> Quebec thing.

Oh.

> 
> https://dinneratleos.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/french-canadian-pea-soup/

Interesting. My late cousin, who lived there, never mentioned this.

> 
> I don't remember seeing dried whole hominy so I use the canned type.
> 
> Next comes grits, which are coarsely ground dried hominy.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grits
> 
> That's mostly a southern US thing. It's hard to get breakfast without a
> bowl of grits. They aren't bad but are bland unless they're dotored up.

Oh.

> 
> And finally there is masa, the flour made from hominy.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masa

Ah. Curious.

> 
> That's mostly Mexican. In northern Mexico who hominy is used in menudo.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menudo_(soup)
> 
> They might not have had any garbanzos as in the Spanish version and tried
> to come close. I like menudo but it's hard to find tripe outside of the
> southwest US.

"menudo" is a word used in a Spain, The Sevilla and Cadiz region, says 
Wikipedia. My mother family lived there most of their life, so that's 
why the word is known to me. Not a food of my liking, though.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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Re: Eatable plants [Was: Lorries [Was: Desalinated water]] "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-10-19 14:11 +0200
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