Cross-cultural Foodie Prints

"I know it’s a challenge, but it needs your input!" "...Your breadth of knowledge of different interest groups, religions...cultures!" "Right, so the staff Christmas meal will be a traditional lacto-vegan one at a Thai restaurant sometime in March?" "Do you think the Pagans will be OK with that?"

'Do you want your zebra de la margola rare, medium or well done?'

"Put out the Asian sates, the Russian blinis, and the Mexican bean dips, while whip up something Korean."

'This is fantastic! I don't know what's smaller, the talk or the food?'

Culture clash

'Are you sure you don't have any Indian blood?.'

Lottery - come back to eat here 20 times and you will win million dollar in lottery.

"I just explained 'kugel' to him."

'This is my kind of Chinese...A chocolate double fudge fortune cookie!'

Children hold hands around a map of the world with picnic food.

In the Works: Eurocheese, Eurobread, Eurowine.

"Mas agua for the gringos?"

" 'Chicken Vindaloo for the Hindu Soul' is but the tip of the iceberg in our initial strategy of global expansion."

'I think we should eat out in the hotel tomorrow dear.'

The Great Dietary Pyramids of Egypt.

Hoax Ethnic Food

'There's a new push to improve the quality of food available...here's the takeovut menus for Ling's Chinese and the Indian in the High St!'

'Free Chen Cuangcheng fortune cookies are here!'

'Do you do the squished up little balls that taste of fish - or are you the wrong ethnicity?'

'I just loved you Potatoes O' Squanto!'

"What's good here?"

'Oh, quit blubbering about not finding any quality walrus fat in the city!'

"You call this guacamole?"

'A bird's nest. . . hmmm, I wonder what that would taste like in a soup?'

"I thought that we were going to eat something exotic tonight - not just a traditional English meal."

'I thought we were dining 'international' tonight?'

"You can do business anywhere...as long as you speak their menu."

"New York are out for breakfast, Munich are having a coffee break and Tokyo are at lunch."

"You'll eat anything with 'poids net' on it."

'I told you not to order in Russian.'

"We adopted her in China, and we're having her raised there, too,"