A new Florencian subculture: The Talaviac'hi

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

I have been thinking for some time of efforts to build subcultures as a way to generate unique activity in provinces. This has been inspired particularly by the work of the Cjovani pioneers @Iason Taiwos and @Vitxalmour in Belacosta.

So after consulting with @Crement Itravilatx we have created the seed for a subculture here in Florencia to be known as the Talaviac'hi. Within Japanese culture the Crane or Tsuru symbolizes longevity, peace, and happiness. These seemed like valuable attributes to represent our subculture and our hopes for the province.

We are currently developing our backstory with an eye for Florencian history. Our first project will be a new cultural recipe to be submitted to the Book of Cuisine.

Here is the Talaviac'hi flag thematically based on Japan's flag with colors from the Florencian flag:

[Crement Itravilatx]

I wonder if we could use my okonomiyaki recipe as a Talaviachi recipe? If not, I think we should adopt musubi as a cultural food.

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

I wonder if we could use my okonomiyaki recipe as a Talaviachi recipe? If not, I think we should adopt musubi as a cultural food.

Musubi would be a lovely cultural food item! Looks like we will be including two recipes in the Book of Cuisine 😊

[Crement Itravilatx]

I wonder if we could use my okonomiyaki recipe as a Talaviachi recipe? If not, I think we should adopt musubi as a cultural food.

Musubi would be a lovely cultural food item! Looks like we will be including two recipes in the Book of Cuisine 😊

I will research a good musubi recipe.

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

Assuming that we can work to end the boycott I will soon be out of the Ziu. This effort will get more of my attention.

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

Alright, now to Talaviac'hi food. The first cultural food item, as approved, by the only other Talaviac'hi on Earth is something that is a fusion of Japanese and Hawaiian tastes.

It's musubi.


Consulting the wiki oracle for additional information:

Spam musubi is a form of musubi that originally came from Hawaii, a popular item in the lunchboxes of Hawaiian plantation workers. The origin of Spam musubi is disputed. Survivors of the Japanese American internment camps on the mainland of the United States claim to have invented the precursor to Spam musubi, when they placed seasoned slices of Spam on white rice in a baking pan. However, most origin stories focus on Spam's ubiquity in Hawaii during and in the aftermath of World War II. With few other options, the canned meat was incorporated into local cuisines wherever American troops were stationed. For example, South Korea's budae-jjigae, a stew of surplus U.S. military foods, included Spam. In the United Kingdom, where Spam was ubiquitous during the hardship of the postwar years, Spam acquired a stigma exemplified by the 1970 Monty Python sketch. Spam may not have been abandoned in the Pacific like it was in the UK simply because of the comparative economic deprivation experienced in the Pacific region.

The Honolulu Star-Bulletin said of Spam musubi in 2002, "There is no definitive history for this aberration." Still, the newspaper relayed that a 2001 cookbook stated that the potential creator is Mitsuko Kaneshiro, who began selling them out of City Pharmacy on Pensacola Street in Honolulu and by the early 1980s was selling 500 handmade Spam musubi servings a day out of her own shop, Michan's Musubi. The other person said to be the creator of Spam musubi is Barbara Funamura of Kauai, who sold it out of the Joni-Hana Restaurant in the Kukui Grove Center. The Garden Island in 1983 described it as, "Spam and rice, two local favorites, are combined in an enormous musubi (rice ball) wrapped in nori (sheets of dried seaweed)."

The fact that it is cheap, easy to prepare, and delicious combines three important aspects of Talaviac'hi cuisine. That it can be found in gas stations is also a notable aspect of the foodstuff. Any Talaviac'hi worth their salt knows that gas stations are havens of delicious gastrointestinal destruction. But do check the prepared date just to be safe.

An easy spam musubi recipe will be included in the next edition of the Talossan Book of Cuisine.