Nobly Carrots

So we're feeling better. Appetite is back anyway.

Food that is good here =

• Avocados (though all finished now);
• fresh green peas (hours of podding fun & tasty raw snack);
• burn-your-lips-off-chillies (do not touch anything after handling them, seriously, especially if you are a man who needs a pee....);
• beef (don't listen to American friends, 500g steak is too much, 300g....always get the 300g....);
• dark, sticky, meaty roast chicken, especially the scrawny ones that run about town & are called 'roadrunner' on menus (though ALWAYS check that you aren't actually eating chicken face / head);
• chips (genuinely ubiquitous here, eat your heart out Ashton Lane!);
• mangoes (apparently, not seen them yet but people get well excited about mango season);
• cherry sobo (like cherry coke, but more sugar, less coke).
  

Food that is not good here =

• Cheese (just forget it);
• nobly carrots (covered in mud, impossible to peel & go soft if you don't eat them within 2 hours);
• crooked sweet potatoes (as with the nobly carrots, but they go black when you peal them, ooze weird white sap, take 2 hours of boiling to get soft & still taste muddy);
• Fish (except Chambo at the lake, which is quite nice);
• Garlic (infeasibly tiny, takes an age to peel / chop, so I give up & shamfacedly buy the imported chinese stuff that people sniff about and that I pay 4 times as much for, which still doesn't taste that nice);
• Strawberries / raspberries (very rare, very expensive, largely mouldy & almost impossible to wash off the muddy taste / random bits of grit).

Still putting weight on though......

F x