Finally, in the middle of the night, GoComics must have decided that I’m cleared to visit this site…
including March 16th 2020 “CLEO and COMPANY” on Sherpa.
Claude and Clara are obviously Clevelanders… or at least, not Californians…. scoffing at the idea of an African restaurant.
Around here, we embrace world cuisines….. I don’t even know what to tell a visitor looking for “regular American food” unless they mean a coffee shop or diner.
An “African” restaurant would probably have a more country-specific name…
We have some North African ones… such as Tigressy mentions… around here, including a decades old, famous Moroccan one in San Francisco… and in my city, a new Eritrean one.
But I can’t think of any jungle or rain forest food. No giraffe, though the Congo Pygmies and the Bushmen of the Kalahari hunted them with tiny weapons.
The meat of carnivores like big cats is reputed to taste “off” to humans.
We had one restaurant about 20 years ago, that featured jungle decor and some African game. I never ate there…but was taken for a drink or two in their fancy bar.
The dinner menu on the wall listed antelope and other hoofed mammals… and birds…. and I think crocodile!
Very expensive, and it went out of business. I think there was local distaste for big game hunting.
Another Clevelandish thing… Cleo’s joke about “dessert” doesn’t play well here…
In my Midwestern youth, “elephant ears” were pastries.
We call them “palmiers” here, sometimes “palm leaves” …
coiled puff pastry, sliced thin for baking… but elephant ears have been further flattened in sugar.
Actually, the Mexican bakery has those, and they’re called “orejas” … ears… but they’re not as sweet or buttery.
There’s another kind of “elephant ears” I’ve seen pictured as county fair food… a deep fried piece of dough… but we don’t have those, either.
Hullo Cleoites….
Finally, in the middle of the night, GoComics must have decided that I’m cleared to visit this site…
including March 16th 2020 “CLEO and COMPANY” on Sherpa.
Claude and Clara are obviously Clevelanders… or at least, not Californians…. scoffing at the idea of an African restaurant.
Around here, we embrace world cuisines….. I don’t even know what to tell a visitor looking for “regular American food” unless they mean a coffee shop or diner.
An “African” restaurant would probably have a more country-specific name…
We have some North African ones… such as Tigressy mentions… around here, including a decades old, famous Moroccan one in San Francisco… and in my city, a new Eritrean one.
But I can’t think of any jungle or rain forest food. No giraffe, though the Congo Pygmies and the Bushmen of the Kalahari hunted them with tiny weapons.
The meat of carnivores like big cats is reputed to taste “off” to humans.
We had one restaurant about 20 years ago, that featured jungle decor and some African game. I never ate there…but was taken for a drink or two in their fancy bar.
The dinner menu on the wall listed antelope and other hoofed mammals… and birds…. and I think crocodile!
Very expensive, and it went out of business. I think there was local distaste for big game hunting.
Another Clevelandish thing… Cleo’s joke about “dessert” doesn’t play well here…
In my Midwestern youth, “elephant ears” were pastries.
We call them “palmiers” here, sometimes “palm leaves” …
coiled puff pastry, sliced thin for baking… but elephant ears have been further flattened in sugar.
Actually, the Mexican bakery has those, and they’re called “orejas” … ears… but they’re not as sweet or buttery.
There’s another kind of “elephant ears” I’ve seen pictured as county fair food… a deep fried piece of dough… but we don’t have those, either.