National dishes that aren't from that country: Tempura isn't from Japan

Nationa dishes that aren't from that country: Tempura isn't from Japan

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fact of the Day, Day day, day, day, Do do
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
The theme for Fact of the Day this week comes
to us from producer Shannon who sent this could be
And it was a woman on TikTok talking about national
dishes that aren't from that country. She talked mostly about
chicken tika massala, how it's not it's Scottish, it's Scottish,

(00:37):
it's the chicken teeka. And then this guy was like
it needs more tomato, complaining to the restaurant owner who
was like, I'll show you made chicken tik masala and
was immediately like what.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Have I done? This is delicious, so good.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
And so but I think it's fairly well known that
tika masala isn't yeah, an Indian curry. It's a bit
like text mix, like yeah you.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Got a Mexican You're like, where's this the California burrito where.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah? Yeah, it's much more a Texas take on food.
Well today, for foods not where the country, you probably
think they're from Tempora. What wow? Out the gate sure
to be picked up.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
There's me trying to pick up my jaw.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
And fifteen forty three three Portuguese sailors arrived in Japan
started a trading relationship with the last centuries. If you've
watched Showgun, you'll be familiar with the Portuguese influence on
the Japanese. I haven't rarely tried to get Catholicism off
the ground there, but Shinto remains strong along with guns
and religion. Portuguese traders and Jesuit ministers mission drunk.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, we did say to.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
The word mission should have an ancient This year, I'll
go on a branch here and it should be.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
A mission, yea, the top secret missing.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Jesuit missionaries also bought with them the food practices of home.
So the Portuguese like to batter and fry things. Little
fish of the garden was a very popular Portuguese dish
at the moment. It was fried beans vegetables. When they
gave up meat, they would deep fried vegetables for lent,
which is a Catholic practice and the lead up to Easter.

(02:23):
So they bought it with them in. The Japanese were
like we dig that, yeah, and so they kind of
took it over put it in there being too boxes. Yeah,
so then they tempera or the shrimp tempora. That's what
they say. It's not. It wasn't traditionally temporate the old shrimp.

(02:43):
Yeah yeah, how could the strings better when you batter
it and deep for anything properly?

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Whether you were trying to come up with an example
that didn't work, I was like, you failed. None, there's none.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
No, They're always in the temper of vege is always
a little head of Florista broccoli. It's good stuff.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
When you know the Jamaican place I was just talking
about before their pork ribs cooked, and then individually deep
really quickly.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Something you're in.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Big rib, You're on big rib money, Jamaican, big Jamaican. Yeah,
that's what they used to call me in high school.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
They definitely did. I reckon. I'm going to put a
million dollars that they didn't call you big Jamaica. And
they were calling you big Jamaica when you came last
and the hundred.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
It was a joke because of my monster Wang.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
And I don't think it's your monster Wang either.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
God damn, it wasn't.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
None of it Stacks, that wasn't.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
In fact, Wang, nothing about you is Jamaican.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Literally, nothing, not a single bit other than the fact
that Jamaican McGray.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
It's good stuff. Wow, stay churned for the rest of
the week. Yeah, I'm loving this. We talk about one
food national dishes that aren't from the country. You'll think
they are fantastic stuff.