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SillySized lemmy.ml gray@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-07-31
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When eating Ethiopian food, you get some kind of stew served on top of a large flat injera bread. You're supposed to scoop the stew and eat it with the bread. But what do you do when you are out of bread and have more stew left? Just eat it with your hand?

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raicon lemmy.world raicon@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-09-08
#2 · Quote Reply

order more!

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idealotus lemmy.world idealotus@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
#3 · Quote Reply

order more!

But what if you're out of stew then? Eat plain injera?

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HeroHelck lemmy.dbzer0.com HeroHelck@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-06-28
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But what if you're out of stew then? Eat plain injera?

Then you have to order more Wat obviously.

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grue lemmy.world grue@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#5 · (edited) Quote Reply

Then you have to order more Wat obviously.

Hot dogs Wat comes in packages of ten, while hot dog buns injera comes in packages of eight. You've got to buy 40 each of the damn things to use them up evenly. It's a conspiracy, I tell ya!

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OmnipotentEntity beehaw.org OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org
Joined: 2023-06-14
#6 · Quote Reply

Ask for more injera. It's cheap, they have a lot of it, and they'll probably be happy to provide you with more gratis.

That being said, sure you can just eat it with your hands if it isn't too hot.

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A🔻atar of 🔻engeance lemmy.ml tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-05-10
#7 · Quote Reply

Ask for more injera. It's cheap, they have a lot of it, and they'll probably be happy to provide you with more gratis. That being said, sure you can just eat it with your hands if it isn't too hot.

Not really relevant to restaurant, but a friend in Ethiopia once mentioned that injera is a bit ritzy for them, they consider it to be a middle class food.

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DrFunkenstein sh.itjust.works DrFunkenstein@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-29
#8 · Quote Reply

order more!

Genuinely this -- most Ethiopian restaurants will just give you more for free

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anon6789 lemmy.world anon6789@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-02
#9 · Quote Reply

"Give a man injera and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to make injera and you feed him for a lifetime."

This was my solution with naan/roti at least. I wish I had African food available near me.

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