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Mormon cuisine is maybe the weirdest food culture in America; it\u2019s like one part midwestern casserole-from-canned-ingredients, one part the only Anglo adoption of native plants west of the Mississippi, left to simmer in a world where homemaking is still an important competitive endeavor but a critical mass of people went off to eat different foreign traditions for a few years

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@clairaudienceclairvoyance said: \u201cmormon funeral cake\u201d is actually pretty good, also extremely cheap because it\u2019s meant to feed well. a mormon funeral

Yeah, Because Idaho, a lot of Mormon dishes favor potatoes as a cheap starch base. Tater tots were a Mormon invention.

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