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What forgotten meals? I cook most of them all the time…as a matter of fact, I'm cooking yemistes piperies (stuffed capsicums) today 😋 🫑🫑🌶
😂😅The pronunciation is killing me….reminds me of a skit from Sooshie Mango when the chef pronounces tzatziki and the Greek characters Stavro, Tasso and Kosta pay him out 😅🤣😅🎉
Well, I didn't think we could get worse pronunciation than Americans and 'gy-roh', but this was worse. The pronunciation here made me want to do damage. The same words pronounced differently throughout. You can get any of these dishes in Cyprus and Greece and, probably, the UK, the USA, Australia, South Africa, etc
FORGOTTEN ! NEVER !
You are talking about the famous "Mediterannian diet",
We did not call it that … WE DID NOT KNOW ANYTHING ELSE !
There is nothing better than taking the meals that my mother and grandmother made and making them modern.
No need to look up the cookbook, all the meals are recorded and hard-wired in my brain !
Love the content BUT please do your research on pronunciation, it spoiled a very interesting video
Skordalia (I’ll forgive the pronunciation) is easily one of my favorites! It brings back memories of childhood, it goes great with so many dishes, and because it has SO MUCH GARLIC in it . . . friends have to have some too just out of self preservation.
I made some just a few weeks ago, so it was never forgotten.
Seeing the ship ,s name SKAUGUM, brought back my trip to Australia in 1955 as a 6year old. I remember the whole journey vividly 😊
Forgotten? What is forgotten? Patsas?
Terrible pronunciation
I'm up to avgolemono, and so far, none of these dishes are forgotten xoxo
Pronunciation… What the actual?!? Xoxo
Well done on a great vid and thanks for taking the time to put it together. These meals can still be found in family homes in both Greece and Melbourne, but not many would be found in Melbourne based Greek restaurants.
Re: pronunciation, I think we should implement some kind of bar/rule. If you can pronounce 25 Vietnamese, Chinese or Japanese (or any other country's meals) as perfectly as someone who has grown up with those languages around them every day, then you can go nuts on being critical of the pronunciation of a non-Greek taking the time to research and have a genuine go at spreading the word of our food and culture.
Crack me up.
Get your facts and pronunciation right. None of these are forgotten. You need to do better research.
My mother never created Trahaná cracked wheat!!!!! It was made with flour and soured milk and eggs.
Seriously dude I appreciate you acknowledging our Greek meals, but every single one of those meals is still being cooked today in Greek kitchens. They are a part of us our heritage.
Hee hee hee I relate 100% I to this day love these foods and learned from mum how to make them soooo yummy!
idk why this is posted on a aus channel cuz its titled greek but the soup is not a greek soup the thumbnail of the soup is what is you will see in middle eastern culture
It was the same when my parents migrated to British Columbia in the early 50’s. We were lucky to find feta or patsa. It seems Australian migrants were had more connections to Greece
Still cooking all this in Ohio ❤
Ότι έχουμε ξεχάσει τον τραχανά…
Χαχα!!!
Πείτε το μας ρε παιδιά γιατί εμείς εδώ ακόμη τα τρώμε όλα αυτά τα φαγητά!!
(Η εκφορά του λόγου είναι για γέλια!)
Tra ha na
Sorrel causes kidney stones!
IPEROS!!! I make spanokopita/ hortopita, tiropita, kolokothopita, biftekia… etc etc c Yes I was taught and my kids also learned from my yia yia and my mother
My parents migrated to Australia in 1952 I was born two years later, this is the food we grew up with, I’m 70 now and still eat the delicious food, sadly the only place you can’t find food like this is in the Greek restaurants around Australia. Thank you for bringing back beautiful memories of my family seating down at dinner and eating all together, it creates such a powerful positive bond. Yiasas
amazing video !!!!!! the trouth is these are not forgoten at all!!! Greeks all around the world are making these foods home ! ! all opf them !!!!! I am eat5ing trahana tomorrow and i had Mousaka yestrday !
I have a feeling the audio is AI. The pronunciation is atrocious. My husband is Greek and I'm not. Even I know how to pronounce these dishes. I highly doubt most of these recipes have disappeared in Australia because they haven't disappeared here in the states.
Liar….
As a child of the late 50s I welcome & appreciate the intention of this video, that said, the content, errors and inaccuracies are too many to just gloss over. Amongst others….the pronunciation is woefull (AI?); Continually refering to Carlton, Brunswick, Abbotsford as if centre's of Greek residence? Heard of South Melb, Port Melb or Yarraville? Travelling from the inner city to Ford Geelong for work? Why when GM, Dunlop, Kraft, Tom Piper etc etc were in Port Melb? Going to Lonsdale St for delis? What the markets were closed? Evangelismos ( the church still on Victoria Pde) is a small red brick not the gaudy building shown. As for "cathedral" not heard of Agios Efstathios (the archediocese hq)? How many Greek mothers used the American cookbook shown? Chicken during lent when people fast meat? No fasolada, giouvetsi, rizogalo but culturally diverse baklava? This smacks of a quick AI "study" not researched, poor effort, 4/10.
The best version of gemista is the one that also includes some or all of the following: stuffed potatoes, onions, zucchini flowers, and vine leaves. I can't imagine anyone on this planet saying 'no' to such a gastronomic masterpiece.
where did you get the footage at 1:58 ? Im sure its my mum who passed away back in 1999
I made it to number 4 and I can't take it anymore. I'm not even Greek and I'm pissed. Trahana originates from Iran and in every Greek, Turkish or Albanian household you might find it.
Lagana is still used on the first Monday of fasting (clean Monday – καθαρά Δευτέρα).
Patsa you can find everywhere.
Chirtopita also you can find in almost every authentic Greek restaurant…..
Stop spreading misinformation just for the views!
Very happy to hear that yoυ still cook these at home! Μπραβο βρε παιδια!!!
Half this video is bullshit
Moussaka: NOPE. It was invented by a hot-shot Athenian chef in the 1920s, and most rural Greeks would not have known it in the 1950s. Migrants to Australia were rural, and would not have known moussaka until the 1970s. And it's not a "traditional dish".
Avglolemono is just a lemon sauce or lemon soup, with egg as a thickening base. It's not a single dish.
Keftedes just means "meatballs". It's not a single dish. They can be fried like you showed, or cooked in tomato sauce.
Chickpeas: super regional. Most Greeks would not have regularly eaten it.
Traxana, spanakopita, giouvarliakia, gemista, giovarlakia, still eaten.
Missing: of course, no mention of seafood. And of course, no mention of pasta (huge part of Greek cuisine), because Anglos decided that pasta is only Italian.
Wasn’t anyone available to teach the narrator how to pronounce the dishes?
An interesting narrative spoilt by appalling cringeworthy pronunciation.
All these dishes are still being made- delicious cuisine.
1. It's Traha-nAs – the last A is loud, not Tra-hA-nas.
2. Pats-As. the same applies here. It is not just a matter of cost. It is made in various locations in Greece not just for cost-dsaving
3. It's HortO-pita. The second O is loud
Sord-A-lia?
Are you doing this on purpose?
…… damn I give up. You are probably going to pronounce everything wrong…..
Um, i literally had this on Sunday for breakfast 😅😅😅 and make it often!
Bless you, you made me laugh with the pronunciation! 😂🤌🏽
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