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What's the food they eat in the car?


She says it's a local delicacy, I think she called it Chi-Chis or something, but I don't think that's right as all I can find is some Mexican salsa.

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Just did a couple of quick searches and may have pinpointed it --
It looked a lot like an elephant ear, if you've ever heard of that.
Scroll down the page just a bit and it appears above the goat picture on the left-hand side :)

Chichi frégi is a long doughnut perfumed with orange flower water and olive oil and dusted with sugar. This delightfully named snack is a speciality of L'Estaque, just outside Marseille, where you can buy it from one of several kiosks with names such as Chez Freddy and Magali on the marketplace opposite the seafront. Its savoury and equally calorific brother is panisse, a distant cousin of the falafal. It's a fritter made a dough mixed from chickpea flour, then fried.

http://www.marseille-provence.info/gastronomy-food-gastronomie-drink-wine-cuisine-bars-restaurants-bistros/food-gastronomy-cuisine/85-beyond-bouillabaisse-unusual-provencal-dishes.html

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You can found this "local" "chichis" in almost all the south of France.
Another name is churros, the origin of chichi is probably marseille and aix (france), and surely came from over the "méditerranée".

different recipes for "chichis/churros" :
http://www.750g.com/recettes_churros.htm

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The basis of churros/chichis is flour mixed with hot water (equal volumes) and cooked in an oil bath after being extruded in a star/cross cross section, then dusted with sugar. You can now find this all over France including Paris, in outdoor booths or even at the Quick fast food chain.

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Interesting.

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