Talk:Cuisine of Mongolia

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[edit] Anti-corporate bias

Most of the diseases of civilization common to the western world are therefore only known to Mongolians living in the city, who increasingly eat industrially manufactured food as well.

This statement implies that "most" disease is the direct result of industrially manufactured food. Ridiculous. As of now, I've just removed the above sentence entirely. Someone should rewrite it if they have a better idea. --Mister Magotchi 03:33, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

The undustrially manufactured food ist one component of the western-style sedentiary lifestyle of office workers that leads to the respective problems. "Diseases of civilisation" also doesn't mean just any diseases, but only those that are a consequence of said lifestyle (eg. obesity, diabetes, allergies, etc.). --Latebird 11:13, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Frog

Historical sources about the Mongols (incl. the Secret History) are full of references to alcohol and alcoholism. Therefore, I wonder what vodka has to do with Soviet influence, except maybe that arkhi is lighter and vodka is hard to produce without grain or potatoes. In any case, if there was Soviet influence on Mongol drinking culture, it probably went not much further than supplying a means to get drunk quicker. If we look to Inner Mongolia, an area that experienced much less Soviet influence, we'll see that people there drink just as much alcohol. The main difference is that they drink booze with Chinese characteristics rather than clear&clean vodka. Yaan 16:48, 9 October 2007 (UTC) P.S. Russians believe they got their addition to Vodka from the Mongols: [1]. Yaan 16:53, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

People (at least some) will just drink the hardest stuff that is available. Historically, that was Mongol Arkhi, at around 12%. There are also lots of drinking games just with Airag. Then the Russians made Vodka known and easily available. Not surprisingly, different stuff became available in Inner Mongolia. And once the booze is there, it will get consumed (with or without Mongol genes). --Latebird 19:03, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

In the drinking games the loser has to drink, not the winner. They usually play with kumis, not with vodka. Gantuya eng 01:10, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Boodog

... within the stomach cavity of a deboned marmot or goat ("Boodog"). Really? In stomach? Not in marmot own skin with use of blowlamp? Bogomolov.PL 14:50, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Well, "stomach" may be somewhat inaccurate, since the stomach (along with all other entrails and most of the bones) is removed. But what remains is much more than just the skin, and the blowtorch is just a modern addition (putting it on the fire does the same job). I'm not sure if "body cavity" would be a better term. The important point is that there are hot stones inside the animal. --Latebird 15:56, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, but how to explane the skin sack with meat, stones etc. which is on a fire? Bogomolov.PL 16:10, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

I guess that would require a seperate article. The procedure can't be explained in two sentences. --Latebird 19:40, 3 December 2007 (UTC)