Harissa
Harissa is a Tunisian hot chili sauce commonly eaten in North Africa whose main ingredients are bird’s eye chili peppers, serrano peppers and other hot chillis and spices such as garlic paste, coriander, red chili powder, caraway as well as some vegetable or olive oil.
God, there’s nothing quite so embarrassing* than being at a hip gourmet eatery and realizing every dish on the menu contains one or more ingredients that you have never heard of. Thank god that mobile internet exists so that you can furiously Wikipedia all of these ingredients on your smartphone before the waitress comes back and you have to prove how much of a rube you are by asking her to please explain what these things are so you know what you’re about to put in your face.
For the record, the Harissa egg scramble with goat cheese, chives, and crispy onions was pretty good.
*This is a lie. There are an infinite number of things are more embarrassing.
(Source: Wikipedia)
