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Purple paste so sour it doubles as glue and god in one bowl.
means A traditional Hawaiian staple food made from the cooked, mashed, and often slightly fermented corm of the taro plant, eaten as a thick, smooth paste.
from From the Hawaiian word poi, shared across many Polynesian languages — Samoan, Tahitian, and Maori carry close cousins of the term. The root reaches back to Proto-Polynesian, where it referred to the act of pounding or the pounded food itself, which fits: poi is born under the stone pounder, taro corm beaten with water on a wooden board until it runs smooth.
- sacred ancestor
- Hawaiians trace lineage to the taro plant
- older taro
- Tastes better fermented for a few days
- finger count
- Rated by thickness: one, two, or three finger
- baby food
- Often a Hawaiian infant's very first solid food
- glue duty
- Wallpaper paste was once made from taro starch
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