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it's kinda fun that a fruit that i otherwise only know of from mentions in like, british television shows, i ate for the first time here and actually fairly frequently (well, things made from it)
quince/membrillo
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@alyssa yeah probably don’t eat quince raw! but it sure is tasty
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@Satsuma i still don’t have a clue what they even look like. but fortunately i probably wouldn’t just try to eat an unknown fruit or vegetable without further investigation anyway.
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@alyssa kinda like giant, oddly knobbly, apples tbh — they are close relatives
i’ve only had quince things a small handful of times but we DID buy some to make quince paste once when I was a kid—I remember being baffled bc the flesh is white but then it magically turns rose colored as it cooks! (nashi pears also do this)
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@Satsuma neat. it is v common here. we got some pastries from a vegan bakery today (due to ML having a 7k discount on first order from their food ordering thing) and i went with basically sort of a cinnamon roll but with dulce de membrillo instead of cinnamon.
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@alyssa ah yeah sometimes something more straightforward is better to showcase the flavors
medialunas are croissants?
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@Satsuma yup. or a type thereof anyway. very classic pastry for breakfast or merienda here.
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@alyssa haha i was like “half moon? hmmm” and looked it up and got a results for chilean rodeos. fortunately the wikipedia disambig came through 😂
croissants are a great way to taste a new bakeries skill
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@Satsuma also simply essential in an argentinian bakery hehe
i sometimes forget that local terminology is not ubiquitously known. i did at least manage to consider that calling them facturas instead of pastries would probably be confusing hehe.
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@Satsuma yeah! tho it was a bit busy? like lots of little seeds and nuts that imo it would have been better off without. but still v tasty. sofi liked the mini fruit pie she got (fewer options sin TACC). and we also got some medialunas which are a bit on the small side but v tasty.