It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...

[Vhayes]

I'm also a fan of tabouleh. Yes another wonderful dish.

[BrianW]

It's a culinary experience, especially with a good salad in the pita and a tasty sauce on it.

It's worth looking for a middle-eastern restaurant just to try it once.

That gives me a good excuse to take a run up to Pittsburgh. They have a couple of really good Greek restaurants not too far from the strip.

[14390876]

I love falafel. Where I live there is a slow food market every week on Saturdays and they sell falafel and all kinds of other goodies. I like Mediterranean food.

[Dani H]

Ok well since nobody is bothering to post pictures of any actual falafels ...

[Youssarian]

Apparently Falafel Man is rather chunky... you might say falafel shaped...



Is this guy a real superhero? Does he have like, a comic book or cartoon he shows up in? o.O

[ChristianCoffee]

Ok well since nobody is bothering to post pictures of any actual falafels ...

I got the recipe, and will make some this week.

But I am replacing the green peppers with jalipenos.

[BrianW]

So the falafel is kind of tasty after you get past the shock of no meat in it. Is it a real bad thing that after eating it I want to go kill something and grill it?
Has anyone ever made a falafel with half chickpeas and half venison or beef?

[ChristianCoffee]

So the falafel is kind of tasty after you get past the shock of no meat in it. Is it a real bad thing that after eating it I want to go kill something and grill it?
Has anyone ever made a falafel with half chickpeas and half venison or beef?

Not yet, as I will be making it this week.

But I still have a few pounds of ground venison and ground elk in my freezer....giving me ideas....

[Fenris]

Apparently Falafel Man is rather chunky... you might say falafel shaped...

Probably from eating too many falafels.

Is this guy a real superhero? Does he have like, a comic book or cartoon he shows up in? o.O

Backstory:

Sometimes a packet of instant falafel mix can give rise to much more than a few crisp falafel balls. Dorit Maya-Gur came across such a packet two years ago in a New Jersey supermarket, and decided it would save her a trip to her regular Manhattan falafel stands.

She took the packet into the kitchen of her dorm of the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, turned on the electric stove and began to cook. Like at the best falafel stands, the sanitary conditions were not impressive ("Some jerk who used the stove before me didn't bother to clean it," she says) and soon thick smoke began billowing toward the smoke detector. The alarm frightened the peaceful neighborhood. Maya-Gur tried to open the window, but it was stuck - and she sliced her fingers in the struggle.

Two policemen quickly appeared at her apartment, and she tried to explain that it was a false alarm. They were not easily convinced. "Are you sure? What happened to your hands?" they asked suspiciously. As she led them to the scene of the crime to prove her innocence, she was surprised to hear another siren approaching. The New Jersey Fire Department had decided not to take any chances. Embarrassed by the uproar she had caused, she heard the neighbors through the window: "The Israeli girl is trying to make falafel," they laughed.

A few days later, when one of her teachers asked the students to invent a superhero, Maya-Gur knew exactly who her hero would be. At that moment Falafel Man was born. He is the protagonist of her new comic book, which will premiere today at the Ka-Boom! 3 annual comics convention in Tel Aviv