Tapioca :

Tapioca:
currently number 10 on England's top 20 most hated foods.
Number 1 is tripe.

Tapioca stamp images welcomed


Do You Like Tapioca?

Really? Well, you've been absorbing it, and as far as
I have noted none of you have particularly objected to
it, on the score of taste, and you generally pay regular
dough to secure on the backs of your mint stamps.


Some of you hold it in such high esteem as to purchase
cellophane jackets and other gadgets to preserve it from
contamination with hinges.


According to information supplied by the (US) Bureau
of Engraving and Printing, Uncle Sam's stamp foundry,
the basic ingredient used to make gum is tapioca starch,
such as is used in tapioca pudding, and, the same report
naively continues, -- "If the tapioca in a year's supply
of gum were made into pudding, the whole population
of Greater New York could be served tapioca pudding
for dessert at one meal." Fine! how about mixing in a
little beef stew, pasta fazoola, and hot knishes on the
backs of next year's stamps?


- George B. Sloane
Sloane's Column
Stamps
November 25, 1933


ADDENDUM:


In October 2005, Fiji issued a set of stamps
with the subject Root Crops of Fiji.
(2005 Root Crops (4v): SG1295-8)


Amongst the stamos was a 41c value
showing Tavioka (tapioca, manioc, cassava).


Now collectors of Fiji can enjoy tapioca on
both sides of their stamps, at the same time.
ack: Blair rcsd

Hi Rod, I don't eat beans for breakfast..but I figure live and let live...i do not seek tapioca out..but I don't hate it...i did like tripe soup when my Grandmother made it on the farm...its always good to know what I am licking ! Cheers, phil

I like Tapioca Pudding :-)

From Sierra Leone

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I like the pearl Tapioca, myself,
it also figures a lot in Thai sweets,
it's a food with a rather sensual slant
it's how it reacts over the tongue that encourages
distaste I reckon.

The English dont like peanut paste it seems, too
anyone for Haggis?

Thanks 22crows.

Tapioca in Travancore:

Kerala
Tapioca is widely consumed in the state of Kerala. It is either boiled or cooked with spices. Tapioca with fish curry (especially Sardine) is a delicacy Kerala is known for. Thinly sliced tapioca wafers, similar to potato chips, are popular too. Cassava, often referred to as tapioca in English, is called Kappa (#3349;#3370;#3405;#3370;) Kizhangu or Poola (in northern Kerala) or Maracheeni Kizhangu or Cheeni or Kolli in Malayalam. Tapioca is used to make a granules like product (Tapioca Pearls) called chowwary in Malayalam. Chowwary is used to make a light porridge by adding milk or buttermilk, recommended for patients recovering from illness.

Jamaica Tapioca
poor scan

Tapioca pudding is good, maybe that is like the buttermilk mic?

Vikings like spam. So do I.

I agree with others. I do like Tapioca pudding. Plain tapioca pearls are extremely bland and entirely too chewy.

Right then,
I am off to find a pudding recipe.

I can't believe peanut butter made that list of 20. The other 19 maybe, but peanut butter? Ever eat a PBJ sandwich. mmmmm

Rod, Apart from tripe and Tofu I like the rest on that list.
I'm not fussy food wise but would add Goat's cheese to that list.

...and I like tofu and semolina (yummy) Anthony,
yes, a bit of a strange list, probably highlights regional palates.
example haggis and black pudding I have never tried, just the name
puts me off.
Tripe that I have tried is horrid, but maybe cooked in a differing
style would be OK.
Although I have been an Aussie for years and years
I still like my basic English foods of soups and vegetables

Me too RH,
I have a coleague who lives in pattaya Thailand,
and he would take up Jars of the stuff, every time he
visited Perth.
He has discovered just how easy it is to make your own peanut
paste, so makes his own now.

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