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Pete
11-27-2013, 06:43
Sudan: Anyone for cow-ear 'Sound System' sandwich?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-25094661

"With rising prices pushing favourite foods such as falafel off the menu, people in Khartoum are devising novel names to make cheap alternatives more appetising, it's reported............"

A number of items touched on in this story. Rising food prices, shortages, making do and of course bread.

Falafel pushed off the menue? Say it ain't so.

On of the nice things about being there was being able to send somebody down to the local bakery in Omdurman and get a basket of bread every couple of days.