Dish of Soft White Lumps

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A mainstay of Agatean cuisine, as interpreted in Ankh-Morpork. What the soft white lumps actually consist OF is one of life's great mysteries. As Rincewind discovered, in most parts of the Counterweight Continent this is virtually unknown, and the most you're likely to get for your rhinu is a nourishing bowl of Pig's ear soup...

This possibly parodies dim sum on Roundworld, where clods of nameless meat (possibly cheap pork sausage-meat) are wrapped in pastry parcels and either deep-fried or boiled, then served in thin sauce. The mysterious substance known as tofu offers another possibility: whitish, gelatinous, tasting of not very much, and mysterious in its manufacture and provenance.