not olives

man I don't even eat olives

the sweet ones

nevermind the leaves

that you make wine out of

what do you call it in english

Grows in warm climate

grapes?

yes

We eat the leaves of grape bushes

why

we make a form of food with it

we put rice in them

called dolma

Or yaprax

Depends on what dialect/country.

how similar is your cuisine to what they would serve in Tunisia

Not much

ah fair

we consume a LOT more rice

been there twice meet a bunch of really awesome moderate Muslims

Yeah. I’ce heard tunusia is pretty secular/moderate.

Never been there myself tho.

they put so much fuckin chilli in stuff

"harissa"

Yeah we don’t really grow chili that much

Rots in the heat at Times

the food was good but it gave me the worst lava shits lol

understandable

our food isnt strong tho.

theirs is

I'd like to go again but their tourism trade was demolished by terrist attacks

it's a shame really

Yeah its sad.

Terrorism is an awful wide spread problem in many muslim countries.

I would reccomend Erbil (Hewler). Its the capital of kurdistan. Though I would advice going in a couple of years instead.

Its a bit stressed in the region rn because of turkey n shii

Basically Hewler and Slemani are Dubai wanabes

I don't know how they don't realise the massive economic impact destroying the tourism industry will have on your country

or they don't care, but that's maybe even worse

They don’t care