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Originally Posted by ItsDeckard
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OK Google, what is tamarind?
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TAMARINDO IS THE BEST DAMN THING EVER TO EXIST on the FACE OF THIS MISERABLE PLANET.
As some of you might know, I was raised in Latin America.
Where I am from, in my small town, there used to be a guy that had a huge bat of wood, imagine a big log completely drilled on all sides, like a lollipop holder , but made of wood of about 1 meter long that he carried slung on his back.
He spent all day travelling through town selling all sorts of things stuck to the holder.
One of these was a paste of Tamarind , that had the seeds and fruit meat mixed to a pulp with coarse brown sugar and depending on location other ingredients, like spices.
You could get those for a couple bolivars or colombian pesos, but to USD it would be something like 5 cents and it was just UTTER BLISS to a 8 year old kid.
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This is how they look, they are still pretty common in Venezuela and other latinamerican countries , which have the same base fruit pulp with local spices.
If you never tried it before, please do, its delicious.
Here in Panama the local markets sell the pulp ready to be mixed into whatever you want, for sweets or cakes or to add to water to make juice.
It is a very special flavor and hard to describe to anyone not from here.
So please, go out and try it, its an amazing natural "candy"
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