What is hummus?

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Reasonable person
Walden

chickpeas

Same stuff as garbanzo beans?

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Walden

It's much more than chickpeas. (Garbanzo=chickpeas). It is one of the truly great dishes of the world.

Chickpeas (canned ones are fine), tahini, olive oil, lemon juice, and garlic are the basic ingredients. Tahini is a paste made of hulled and slightly roasted sesame seeds. All put in a food processor, sometimes with a bit of water, and made into a sort of dip. Topped with a bit of olive oil and served with pita, usually.

Wonderful, wonderful stuff. I simply won't rest until you have some.

So, what did Marcus Tullius Cicero and Hummus have in common?

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Both were made up largely of mashed chickpeas?

Marc's cognomen means "hummus."

Yeah, thats right, I said cognomen. Sue me!

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I like Dale's hypothesis better. I said hypothesis.

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Both are tasty with warm pita bread?

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Daniel

It's my opinion - highly regarded (and sometimes not) by me. Peace y'all.

"Chickpea", at least, anyway. "Cicero" is obviously related to the modern "ceci", an Italian term for chickpeas. Interesting, and I wondered why a member of Roman society would have such a name.

But my quick little dip (pun unintended) into Wikipedia brought me this tidbit of explanation:

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Wiki is something to behold, indeed!!



*does a chicken dance wildly before you*

I wonder if history would have played out differently if his name had simply been "Garbonzo."

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I still look at Wikipedia a bit askance - as I do all dictionaries and encyclopedias - but you can hope to get good stuff there when you're in a pinch.

I will never be able to look at pix of Richard M. Nixon or Walter Matthau again without thinking, Ah! How Ciceronian, that nose.

As to "garbanzo", I never liked that word. Always sounded faux-Iberic to me, like that would-be Mexicoid food chain that used to be called Zantigo. Or is it still around?

And by the way, I think I'll name my next puss Catulus.

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"I remain not entirely convinced of it." - Nano

Puppies SO beat garbanzo beans.

T

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Sorta like calling ground cherries "tomatillos."

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Walden

Whoa there, Waldenator. 'Round these parts ground cherries are Physalis pruinosa, and tomatillos are Physalis ixocarpa. Related, but not interchangeable.

Thinking I had something of a handle on these things, I asked a fellow of Mexican background once if "tomatillo" essentially meant "little tomato", and he said, "No."

I shouldn't have asked.

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