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a) All above mentioned foods (including bacon) are delicious to a fault.
b) I don't know anything about feta and the Greeks, but the idea of a registered food item based on culture or country is retarded. If I make hummous or baba gannouj at home, it is certainly not Lebanese. No more than a "greek salad" I made at home is greek. It's American because I am American and am creating it in America. You wouldn't go to China and say "Unhand my hamburger you dastardly coward! How dare you lay claim to OUR beefy foodstuffs?"
Wait... where's GH when you're praising him anyhow?
At any rate, food is food. It can be culturally tied to a certain peoples. I obviously always associate tabuleh with Lebanon. However, if I am making it and eating it in my home, the Lebanese can make no claim to it. Besides, it's been around for how long? Unless the original culinary creator of tabuleh steps up and claims rights, I call it all bushwa!
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