Geeljire food vs Middle Eastern food? (What’s your pick)

Grigori Rasputin · Feb 23, 2020

Im about to sample this Arabian restaurant that got opened in my neck of the woods.

The Geeljire restaurant are only getting worse here in my city. We have about 28 of them but I’m unsatisfied with them all. Furthermore they’ve raised their prices. Y’all noticed how Geeljire restaurants have colluded to raise their prices from Columbus to Toronto to Minnesota.

(In the UK I ate from this restaurant in Acton called “Somali Food” or something. No lie it was hella cheap. For 5 pounds a breakfast. Wasn’t bad but it was a hole on the wall type of an establishment with mainly faaraxs politicking all around me.

CaliTedesse · Feb 23, 2020

Geeljire food is part of the Middle Eastern cuisine.

Nilotufian · Feb 23, 2020

Levantine cuisine>>>>>> because of the abundance of vegan options :banderas:

Gallant · Feb 23, 2020

Geeljire food? You mean meat and milk?

.279 · Feb 23, 2020

There's no such thing as geeljire food lol

Wax kaste aan cuno umad kale yaa ka xadnay :jcoleno:

Veteran · Feb 23, 2020

I only represent Somaaliya.

SOMALI FOOD, SOMALI CLOTHES SOMALI EVERYTHING ma fahamtay walal.

Apollo · Feb 23, 2020

I eat Middle Eastern food almost weekly. Stuff like Ayran, Hummus, Shawarma, Baba Ganoush, Falafel. But that's because of availability. Their food is sold in supermarkets. Somali food you have to prepare yourself or go to a restaurant for. :icon lol:

Reformed J · Feb 23, 2020

Kishime said:
Geeljire food? You mean meat and milk?

Some Somalis want to claim asian/arab Benadiri food and relics from Italian colonialism as their cultural/national food when the nomads who never been to the towns have never seen those foods :icon lol:

Apollo · Feb 23, 2020

Jimmer said:
Some Somalis want to claim asian/arab Benadiri food and relics from Italian colonialism as their cultural/national food when the nomads who never been to the towns have never seen those foods

Almost all food is cultural appropriation.

Name me a dish/food item and I'll show you it came from somewhere else.

Yukon_Niner · Feb 23, 2020

Heh, Somali food in the UK is pretty cheap.

Middle Eastern food didn't taste good to me but it's subjective, you should try it out a few times.

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Reformed J · Feb 23, 2020

Apollo said:
Almost all food is cultural appropriation.

Name me a dish/food item and I'll show you it came from somewhere else.

According to what?

Habeshi Ehtiopians, Chinese, Indians all had their foods since antiquity.

Traditional Somali food is their livestock meat, milk and derivatives. Not pasta, sambus, chapati, etc.

Apollo · Feb 23, 2020

Jimmer said:
According to what?

Habeshi Ehtiopians, Chinese, Indians all had their foods since antiquity.

Traditional Somali food is their livestock meat, milk and derivatives. Not pasta, sambus, chapati, etc.

Besides Teff, Ensete, and Coffee everything else in Ethiopian cuisine has been influenced from the outside.

Even their quintessential coffee was actually developed as a drink by Arabs and not by Ethiopians.

Gallant · Feb 23, 2020

Geeljire diet is essential for Geeljires.

Ya'll were swole before trading with ayrabs.

Reformed J · Feb 23, 2020

Apollo said:
Besides Teff, Ensete, and Coffee everything else in Ethiopian cuisine has been influenced from the outside.

Even their quintessential coffee was actually developed as a drink by Arabs and not by Ethiopians.

Cultures can also improve on foreign cuisine. For example, Espresso by Italians (improvement on coffee).

Most food is cultural appropriation.

What are you talking about? :icon lol:

There's no solid evidence for your Arab coffee point, multiple stories are out there about who first brewed it. But the once solid fact is it originates in south-western Ethiopia.

Ethiopia had chicken, multiple drinks, onions and other spices, multiple breads all since antiquity.

Most of the foods Somali claim as traditional/national foods are foods introduced to them by Benadiri/Arabs/Asians and Italians in the last hundred years.

Traditional Somali food is the nomad's livestock and its derivatives.

Abba Sadacha · Feb 23, 2020

Apollo said:
Besides Teff, Ensete, and Coffee everything else in Ethiopian cuisine has been influenced from the outside.

Even their quintessential coffee was actually developed as a drink by Arabs and not by Ethiopians.

Cultures can also improve on foreign cuisine. For example, Espresso by Italians (improvement on coffee).

Most food is cultural appropriation.

1. Who did we copy doro wot and wot in general from, then?
2. Coffee was found in Ethiopia, but if you have proof that Arabs found it first, show me/us?

Apollo · Feb 23, 2020

Jimmer said:
What are you talking about?

There's no solid evidence for your Arab coffee point, multiple stories are out there about who first brewed it. But the once solid fact is it originates in south-western Ethiopia.

Ethiopia had chicken, multiple drinks, onions and other spices, multiple breads all since antiquity.

Most of the foods Somali claim as traditional/national foods are foods introduced to them by Benadiri/Arabs/Asians and Italians in the last hundred years.

Traditional Somali food is the nomad's livestock and its derivatives.

Ethiopians ate or chewed on coffee beans. :mjlol:

Arabs actually developed it into a drink as we know it today.

Most spices used in Ethiopian cuisine came from trade with Arabs who connected them to spices from India and Southeast Asia.

.279 · Feb 23, 2020

Abba Sadacha said:
1. Who did we copy doro wot and wot in general from, then?
2. Coffee was found in Ethiopia, but if you have proof that Arabs found it first, show me/us?

We? You're xabashi now?

Apollo · Feb 23, 2020

Kingcobra said:
We? You're xabashi now?

Hehe, he is an actual Oromo. Not a Somali user.

.279 · Feb 23, 2020

Apollo said:
Hehe, he is an actual Oromo. Not a Somali user.

Yup, not even the assimilated ones lool, how's he claiming xabashi cuisine

I know he's Oromo

Reformed J · Feb 23, 2020

Apollo said:
Arabs actually developed it into a drink.

There's no evidence for that.

Apollo said:
Most spices used in Ethiopian cuisine came from trade with Arabs (who connected them to spices from India and Southeast Asia).

Yes, but that was thousands years ago when Habeshis were undergoing ethnogenesis as Arabs themselves from Yemen.

Somalis have longest coast in Africa and it was taboo for them to eat fish before Siad Barre forced them.

Claiming this benadiri/Italian foods as our traditional is something very new, since the latter half of the 20th century. For the vast majority time Somalis existed their foods came from their livestock.

Geeljire food vs Middle Eastern food? (What’s your pick)

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