Lebanon fires latest salvo in hummus battle with Israel

[formercia]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8670473.stm

Lebanon fires latest salvo in hummus battle with Israel



Lebanon has claimed the latest victory in the continuing battle with Israel over which country can make the largest serving of hummus.

Some 300 chefs set the new record, creating a huge 10-tonne vat of the chickpea-based dip in Fanar.

That more than doubles the previous record of about four tonnes, set in January by cooks in the Israeli-Arab town of Abu Ghosh near Jerusalem.

Both Lebanese and Israelis claim hummus as a national dish.

--snip--

This is what War should be about: Hummus at 20 paces.

[Motown_Johnny]

1. wow, now I am seriously hungry

[Codeine]

3. It's probably not healthy to live on an all-hummus diet,

but I'm willing to give it a shot.

[immoderate]

2. Babaganoush?

--imm

[Codeine]

4. Baba ganouj is Arabic for

"We're out of chickpeas, so this nasty eggplant goo will have to suffice."

[rug]

5. Why isn't this moved to I/P?

[formercia]

6. For what reason?

may I ask?

[rug]

7. I see a bloodbath emerging from this thread.

Not least of which will be the fight netween the pro-hummus and ant-hummus factions.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. ...

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[Douglas Carpenter]

9. the report on the last time the record was set earlier this year by an Arab citizen of Israel

Saturday 9 January 2010


JERUSALEM: Israel has taken the upper hand in a new kind of Mideast conflict, one in which bullets are replaced by chickpeas.

Using a satellite dish on loan from a nearby broadcast station, cooks in an Arab town near Jerusalem whipped up more than four metric tons of hummus, the chickpea paste that is a staple for many in the Middle East.

The cooks doubled the previous record for the world’s biggest serving of hummus, set in October by cooks in Lebanon. That record broke an earlier Israeli record and briefly put Lebanon ahead.

Hundreds of jubilant Israelis, a mix of Arabs and Jews, gathered around the giant dish in the town of Abu Ghosh near Jerusalem on Friday, many of them dancing as a singer performed an Arabic love song to the beige chickpea paste.

snips: "The chefs responsible for Friday’s record were from the country’s one-fifth Arab minority. A newscaster on Israel’s Army Radio referred to the hummus clash as the “third Lebanon war.” "

"The driving force behind the Israeli hummus dish, Jawdat Ibrahim, an Israeli Arab restaurateur who became a millionaire after winning a lottery in the US, played down the conflict, saying “competition is a healthy thing.” “Today we have the hummus. Hopefully, we will have the talks for peace in our region,” he said."

http://archive.arabnews.com/?page=19§ion=0&article=130905&d=9&m=1&y=2010