liberal ethio-philia phenomenon deep dive

[ila-soco]

“dude you’ve seriously GOTTA try Ethiopian food!”

 

[NidarNidar]

View attachment 346078remember how they tried to mainstream ethiopian food as part of the ethnic cuisine 'canon' during the 2010s?. they wanted it up there with mexican, indian, japanese food etc they saw ethnic food was lacked the token black country so they pretty much jumped on this bandwagon


now people are being open and honest about it these days, the hype was manufactured
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It looks like crap but it's taste pretty good, I still have baris and hilib over it.

 

[NidarNidar]

Not sure about what happened to Arab products, but indian products and manufacturing was nerfed by the British who flooded their market with cheap goods and put tarifs on Indian goods which dislodged them from the markets.

Somali textile manufacturing and production of other goods was the only thing that held out it seems.

The British destroyed Indian silk production through high taxes, restrictions, and competition. They imposed heavy taxes on Indian silk weavers and farmers, making it harder for them to afford production. The British also flooded the market with cheap, machine-made British textiles, undercutting Indian silk prices. They restricted Indian weavers' exports and forced them to sell only to British buyers at low prices. This ruined India’s once-thriving silk industry, as many weavers went out of business, and India became reliant on British imports, the skill died out, the west just knows how to destroy.

 

[Idilinaa]

The British destroyed Indian silk production through high taxes, restrictions, and competition. They imposed heavy taxes on Indian silk weavers and farmers, making it harder for them to afford production. The British also flooded the market with cheap, machine-made British textiles, undercutting Indian silk prices. They restricted Indian weavers' exports and forced them to sell only to British buyers at low prices. This ruined India’s once-thriving silk industry, as many weavers went out of business, and India became reliant on British imports, the skill died out, the west just knows how to destroy.

They pretty much de-industrialized India.

 

[Idilinaa]

It looks like crap but it's taste pretty good, I still have baris and hilib over it.

Never tried it, it must be an acquired taste.

Somalis eating Bariis iyo Hilib described by Ibn Battuta in the 13th century:


''The food of these people is rice topped with butter (gee) and a sauce containing meat, chicken, fish and vegetables served on a large wooden dish. They also serve unripe banana cooked in milk and serve it as a sauce. Sour milk with pickled lemon, bunches of pickled chilies with vinegar and salt, green ginger, and mangoes which look like apples but have a nut inside. Ripe mangoes are very sweet and are eaten like fruit, but unripe mangoes are as acid as lemons, and are cooked in vinegar. When the Mogadishu people have taken a mouthful of rice, they take some of these pickles.. ''