So the braai (pronounced Br-eye, or Bri as in Unkie Briii
(somewhat inside joke, sorry outsiders)) is the best way to eat in South
Africa. It’s essentially a barbecue but using special wood and lasting over
several hours thus being a social event. Basically you get your wood and get it
lit; everyone hangs out around the fire having wine and beer. This lasts an
hour or two till the fire has turned to hot coals and those coals are then cool
enough to cook over. You then chuck your meats of choice on the grill be it pork,
beef, chicken, hippo, ostrich or whatever. Two guaranteed entrees are boerewors and
briaabroodjies. Boerewors is a giant length of what is somewhat similar to a
spiced sausage (see below).
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| Mmmmmmm, spiraled meat |
Briaabroodjies (not even gonna try to spell it phonetically)
are the greatest thing invented by man (South African man anyway). It is kinda
like a grilled cheese sandwich but a) cooked over a wood grill and b)
containing onion and chutney. They are delicious and I will definitely be
bringing them home with me.
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| As delicious as they are hard to spell |
So I think I’m averaging about 3-4 braiis a week; so my pork
intake is doing quite well (as well as my lager consumption….since all the beer
here is the same. The new leading candidate is Tafel Lager: a Namibian brew
that is crisp and refreshing but still a run of the mill lager).
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| Tafel Lager: Namibian for beer |
My “apartment” doesn’t have a couch so in honor of this I
present my list of stuff I miss from the states:
1)a couch
2)a tv
3)a couch and a tv working in unison
4)march madness (the first couple round anyway)
5)chik-fil-a (just randomly popped into my head, but I love it)
6)readily available internet
7)gluttony
8)california
9)and of course friends and fam
And in honor of my blog title:
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