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Have you ever been surprised by how much food appears on our tables in Ramadan, only to disappear the minute the month is over? It’s as if certain foods and drinks shouldn’t exist during any other month of the year, as they’re relegated to only being Ramadan essentials and the most important food items of Iftar! As we thought about that mystery, though, we just had to list the items that only appear during Ramadan!
1- Dates
Although people usually break their fasts with a date or two, and despite the fact that there’s always a little box of dates on our dining tables so that everyone can indulge, we just don’t see dates outside of the holy month. And if we do see them, people just don’t buy them.
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2- Ramadan Drinks
Sobya, amar eldin, karkadeh, tamr-hendy and even—we hate to say it as much as you hate to sip it—liquorice juice, are all drinks that have to be on the table during Ramadan. You may be familiar with them as drinks that you chug down as soon as you hear the call for Maghrib prayer, but we know you probably don’t see them in any other context.
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3- Khoshaf
We aren’t sure if you have to buy dried fruits from a specific place to have this concoction taste as good as it does, but we’re honestly grateful for its existence. It just tastes heavenly, and whoever thought of adding dried fruits to sugary, sweet water was a genius! Though it does get a little tiring when you keep hearing requests for ‘pouring extra syrup’ or ‘adding extra fruit’ as some people get picky about the fruit-to-syrup ratio.
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4- Soup
Outside of Ramadan, it feels like we never have soup. And if we do, we’re usually sick or in the first days of winter. Sometimes, we don’t even want to drink soup in Ramadan either, but it has to be present on our tables.
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5- Fried Only-Exists-in-Ramadan Food
For some reason, Egyptians everywhere seem to have decided that certain fried foods, like kobebah and sambousak (and don’t comment on the ‘sambousak’ bit—we don’t want to start any linguistic civil war in Egypt!), can only fill our tummies in Ramadan. This decision seems to have even affected certain fried desserts, like atayef!
