Bananas. Aren't they so small and cute?
Sugar Cane - just hack off a piece with a machete and chew on it to get your sugar fix.
Cooking Oil. Thick and gross.
Cabbages (used instead of lettuce in EVERYTHING)
Avocados - the buttery kind
Bread
Tomatoes
Pineapples (always disliked pineapple until I moved to Juba - they taste SO GOOD)
Limes/lemons (depends on who you ask)
Eggplant
Typical salad. Ok this wasn't from the market, but it's pretty, no?
Dried sardines
Amaranthus (cooked like Spinach) - the dark pink flowers are called Foxtail for those of you in the US.
Hard Boiled Eggs (on-the-go snack with a pinch of salt. little girls sell these by carrying them on their heads)
Peanuts (or "groundnuts" as they are called here)
Beans
Honey from Western Equitoria sold in water bottles (notice the bee???)
Cassava roots (pounded into a gooey starchy substance and eaten with everything)
Rice
Fish (imported from Uganda - heaven forbid anything actually originate from Southern Sudan)
3 comments:
What a fabulous post! Do the bananas taste better than the ones we get in the states? My bet is they do.
LOVE the name of the oil product! YUCK!!!
ML
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Oooh, I like picture posts.
Funny, that salad actually sort of looks like a typical Chilean salad. Are those tomatoes, cucumbers and red onions in it?
M.Lane - the bananas do indeed taste better than in the states, as do the tomatoes, pineapples, avocados, etc... only downside is fruits and vegetables are expensive here: $1 USD for an apple!
Mamacita Chilena: You guessed the ingredients right, it is sort of like a Chilean salad! Except that there are actually more than one or two ingredients. So it's not just a plate of tomatoes, or palta :)
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