Food Trip: Twizzlers Twist and Some Odd Squash
Filed under food trip, human interest, travel
Okay, this is not really a food “trip,” but a list of foods that caught my fancy in this land far, far away.
The day after I came in, someone in class passed around a plate full of what I thought were red twisted candles. LOL. My newfound friend, Sarah (who has a palmtop that I envy, I kept looking at it), explained that it is strawberry-flavored licorice candy. I tried it, and I liked it. It’s really long, like a candle; I just twisted it to look like a loop, as you see in the photo.
I haven’t seen this candy in our candy stores. Or am I just not exposed enough to sweets?
And here’s an oddly-shaped squash (to me, anyway) that I saw in another friend’s house, where we ate dinner last night. I thought this was some kind of American vegetable unheard of in Asia, and then he told me it was squash. The only squash I’ve seen before are the pumpkin-like ones we have back home.
Here’s another kind of squash I found in his backyard. (The man grows vegetables in his backyard and makes his beer at home!)
He said it is yellow squash. I thought it was yellow eggplant.
Afterwards, we had a sumptous dinner of grilled vegetables (which included the yellow squash in the photo), grilled beans, grilled corn, spicy chicken, and rice (yipee!) out in his patio. The vegetables were cut into slices,wrapped in foil, and then grilled. You rub some kind of Japanese paste to the corn and then grill it. Yummy!
It was my first real meal since Friday. As much as I appreciate expensive airline food, and as much as I like burgers, nothing beats having rice for a meal. Thanks a lot, Santa! 
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waaaa, how strange, but then again, there are stranger things in this world that we haven’t even discovered yet
you’re right. miss you, dai!
Glad you liked the dinner; I’ll see if I can’t find anything more unusual to grow next year! Maybe a hyoutan…
The pumpkin-like kabocha squash tend to grow better in warmer climates, it’s a little bit cold here for those (although not impossible).
hey, yeah, they really are strange!
nice one, aileen =)
happy wekend!
@nakajoe
what’s that? maybe you could help me find more unusual stuff around here.
@jacq
thanks. happy weekend to you, too!
Hello gurl, musta? ym ka pa ba? my new ym id pala is teacher_honey7754… Happy weekend!
A hyoutan is the name for a particular strain of calabash gourd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabash). They’re edible and can make really cool bottles. Or speaker cases. Or any number of artistic purposes. GIS for hyoutan.
@ate honey
got it. added you already.
@nakajoe
interesting. the cebuano for squash is “kalabasa.”
these are new to me except for the licorice candy. licorice isn’t common here in our country unlike in the US.
didn’t know squash could have different “looks”. hehe.
may licorice dito, stox. hindi ka lang aware. ahaha. nagpakasawa ako dyan mga a month ago.
@7thstranger
yep. i found it amusing.
@kirk
i knew that. but this same kind of candy ba? di naman ata.
whoaaaa weird pumpkin….
yep. they don’t call it pumpkin, though..im not sure what the names are. i do know that the eggplant-like one is called yellow squash.
I’ve seen licorice here at Candy Corner… I’ve even tried it, but I don’t really like it. Did you like it’s taste? Candle is an excellent description, I thought it tasted waxy hehe…
So how’d those odd looking squash taste? Anything like ours?
far from it!
The yellow straight one is rather unimaginatively called yellow straightneck squash. The bumpy yellow crooked one is called (also unimaginatively) yellow crookneck squash. There’s a couple dozen more varieties here, especially if you include the winter ones.
Something tells me you have the Calabaza squash there — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabaza
yes, that’s the one we have at home.
you did a research, huh? im curious how the other varieties look like.
ano kaya lasa nyan? hmm… sobrang matamis?
yung yellow squash parang potato.
di ko natikman yung orange.
First time to see this kind of veggies. I thought it was a banana.
me, too.
I never did like Twizzlers. John Storts likes them, though. I remember we gave him the whole bag we had that very first trip to Lexington.
what? kayo pa ang namigay sa kanya?
meron bang twizzlers dito sa pinas? i brought a pack home.