Part Two: Please pass that flavorless lump!

In part two of this exciting 3 part series I’m going to focus on the area of calorie intake and production. Let’s just say I don’t think that I’m going to be losing weight here!! So I’ll be giving you a little bullet action:

-The title of this post is referencing a food called posho. It’s physical appearance is best described as a white flavorless lump that is often cut into squares. It is simply made of flour and water…yes that is all. It is served almost everyday for lunch at the university and I think it’s purpose is either to fill your stomach so you can survive until 10 o’clock dinner or it is a joke to see how many mzungu’s (whites) will take and eat it!
-My favorite meal of the day back in the states is breakfast by far, but here I wake up and make myself a cup of tea and have two biscuits …which are actually just cookies and that’s all we eat. So I’m fulfilling my childhood fantasy of having cookies for breakfast!!
-One of my favorite things here is the butter! I don’t know hoe to describe it, but I’m probably going to stock up and bring some back to the states!
-Ugandan’s LOVE sugar here. When Rita takes tea with us she heaps two full spoonfuls of sugar into her cup and once when we brought a massive bag of suckers home as a treat for our family they were gone in, I’m not kidding, a day! A little girl who was staying with us literally had two in her mouth at all times.
-Twice a day we have this wonderful thing called tea! I personally like milk tea better than just water, but Kurty had some chunky milk once so she can’t quite handle it anymore!
-Every meal we have matoke (banana mash), which by itself is not the best thing in the world, but there is also always a sauce that you cover your matoke in and then it’s not bad at all.
-Sometimes we have meat…which sometimes means beef, but other times something else like possibly goat (which is not that good)! When you do get meat for a meal you have to plan accordingly as to when during the meal you are going to take a bite. You have slot yourself about 7-10 minutes to chew the meat so you can’t eat your meat if you plan on getting in a conversation at all! And this food is the singular reason as to why I’m running out of floss!
-You can get a lot of great snacks and foods at the shops and stands along the road. Chapati’s, samosas (wonton type thing filled with meat), rolexes (rolled chapati’s with an omelette inside), or meat on a stick which just reminds me of the state fair. They’re stinkin’ cheap too, only about 50 cents.
-All of the soda is in bottles here, which are fun to drink from, but when you buy it you only buy the soda inside the bottle and not the bottle. You have to return it to them because the empty ones will get picked up, taken to a place to be cleaned, and refilled with soda again.
-At the market the fruit vendors pile and stack there produce in incredibly balanced pyramids and stacks! All of the colors and shapes makes your eyes water! The other funny thing at the market are the butchers. Their product just hangs outside their shop, nice and raw, for everyone to see!
-Another fascinating thing I’ve noticed at meals is who serves whom. Stephanie and I are given plates to serve ourselves, but Rita or Rebecca will serve Papa Henry, Elisha will make a plate for Enoch, feed him and then get his own food, and if Jaja (grandma) is over then Henry will serve her. It’s interesting to see the respect shown in that way.
-We eat family meals in the living room/dining room. We sit on the couches and use the small oval coffee table to hold all of the pots and pans. I know when supper is done when Henry stands and says “good night everyone” and walks out of the room.

Well, that’s all I have for this subject for now, I have to go eat some supper now. Feel free to ask any questions ever and I’ll try and answer them in a later post. Tulye ekyegulo (let’s take supper)!!!!!

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. “1 Corithians 10:31 ☺