Middle Eastern Street Food

Mesh bag of live snails in the Fes souq, Morocco. There were quite a few escapees crushed underfoot. A French influence. I've had escargot a few times and I have decided, if I am going to eat butterly garlicky things, I think I prefer garlic bread!

We had quite a few dates in Morocco. These are at the souq in Fes. I prefer not to think about how much ambient dust these very sticky things can collect when displayed in a highly trafficked narrow footpath frequented by donkeys, carts, and thousands of people....

Another beautiful display of olives and preserved lemons at the Meknes souq in Morocco. We were always given small dishes of olives at restaurants and the others soon learned to keep the dish away from Pammie as they got scoffed pretty quickly. I like preserved lemons but I don't have that ingredient in my own cooking repetoire. Again, I wonder how often these displayes are stacked and restacked and restacked...

An orange juice seller outside the Omayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria. They sell a lot of nice juices here.

This gentleman was selling very appealing glasses of dark purple blackberry juice outside the Omayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria. Except his cart stood in the sun, and his blackberries looked a bit dusty, warm, and tired. I passed on these. We found a nice guy who made us pomegranite and strawberry juice, cool and fresh in a blender before our very eyes, and was right across the street from a good schwarma stand. It made a perfect lunch that cost perhaps $3.