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[โ€“] atomicorange@lemmy.world 60 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I spent the next three years in a POW camp, forced to subsist on a thin stew made of fish, vegetables, prawns, coconut milk, and four kinds of rice. I came close to madness trying to find it here in the States, but they just can't get the spices right.

[โ€“] dudinax@programming.dev 53 points 4 months ago

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