A real south Brooklyn breakfast: European brown bread toast, Lebanese labneh, Georgian pickled peas and Palestinian za’atar.

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None of this in the remotest of ways grown on Brooklyn or United States soil😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Correct — it’s all imported by the immigrant merchants who live in this part of the borough.