[HN Gopher] Crows of Karachi ___________________________________________________________________ Crows of Karachi Author : renameme Score : 22 points Date : 2023-01-16 20:40 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (orionmagazine.org) (TXT) w3m dump (orionmagazine.org) | birdymcbird wrote: | Really enjoyed reading this article. | | > The wedding was held outside, the food prepared out in the open | air as it always is. The crows sat on their electric poles | overlooking the venue as preparations were made. If an | opportunity presented itself, they did not hesitate: a piece of | meat for a skewer, a half-chopped onion, old bits of lettuce and | tomato, all went one by one to the crows who commanded the | territory. | | Aware developing countries have lower work safety standards but | didnt realize food safety also missing. street vendor food is all | outside, yes..but Pakistani weddings i think would not be street | vendor but catering service. To learn food prepared outside in | 40+ Celsius heat shocks me. | erklik wrote: | > Pakistani weddings i think would not be street vendor but | catering service | | Largely depends on how rich you are. Middle-class and above | tend to hire a Wedding Marquee, which basically means a hall | and catering service along with decoration shenanigans. So, | largely, yeah, food is catered. | | However, poorer folks will not be able to afford such a thing. | Therefore, food is going to be cooked the traditional way. Now, | since weddings tend to be fairly big, huge events with over | 300/400 people at the minimum. This means that you need big | pots and pans to cook lots of food. Kitchen ovens are often | smaller sized and difficult to cook on, so specially made | massive pots for cooking are used on wood fire outside where | cooking is done. | | Although, I will say, I've eaten at a fair few weddings, and | actually aided the cooking effort in two or three, none would | ever allow any bird or any other sort of animal near it, and | hygiene was as high as it could be. Food ingredients are kept | covered with some sort of netting/clean cloths while pots and | pans are always covered with a lid. More so, meat and other | perishables that might be affected by the heat are basically | brought directly out of fridge and into pot. | | Crows and other birds getting some food is only when leftovers | are thrown to the side somewhere, so this, hopefully, isn't a | common thing. | lofaszvanitt wrote: | Just put out some wasabi coated peanuts... and have a good laugh | when you see them with their open beaks trying to relieve the | spiciness and cool down their mouths :DDDD. | busyant wrote: | beautifully written ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-01-16 23:00 UTC)