What do people from Honduras eat?
The diet here is very high in starchy foods – corn tortillas, beans, rice, and plantains. Also high in fat – they fry a lot of foods in palm oil, which is very cheap here. Beef (tough, grass-fed local beef) is common, as well as pork. Kabobs with beef or chicken with onion and green pepper, called pinchos, are popular. Chicken is usually eaten fried, sometimes stewed. Coconut milk is used a lot on the caribbean, cooked with rice or in soup. Iguana is a special treat. Fish is usually deep fried and served whole. They don’t eat a lot of veggies. Sometimes you find a salad on your plate, a little lettuce and tomato with a dressing of ketchup and mayo mixed. But they do eat a lot of fruit such as bananas, papayas, pineapples. The best food here are the baleadas, tortillas filled with scrambled eggs, refried beans, chismol (salsa), montequilla blanca (sour cream) and cheese. Delicious. Food is not usually cooked with any spices, but hot sauce is on every table. They drink a lot of soda, and
