• KuroXppi [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    10 days ago

    Fairy bread (party food)
    Dim sim (thick skin pork dumplings)
    Chiko roll (thick skin spring roll)
    Lamington (sponge cake with dessicated coconut)
    Pavlova (meringue cake with usually seasonal fruits or other toppings, we beef with the kiwis over this one)

    Most native fruits and nuts aren’t really commercially harvested at scale. South Africa is the largest producer of Macadamia nuts, even

    Things like quandong, kakadu plum, finger lime (like you mentioned) are often seen as garnishes, preserves, powders etc. processed or high-end foods not every day tucker. Even other stuff that can be harvested locally like pigface, bunya pine nuts, warragul greens, figs and salt bush are not widely consumed outside of people who forage.

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      RATS! I forgot pavlova was Australian because my Filipina SIL is obsessed.

      Australia has such good forageable foods compared to north Ontario, basically my only options are chanterelles and fiddleheads aside from berries in the spring.

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        Yeah there’s tons, we have fiddleheads and bird’s nest ferns (Asplenium sp.) too, the latter which is apparently a traditional foodstuff in Taiwan, for example.

        I don’t forage because I live in the suburbs, but there’s plenty to find a bit further out.