Prepared food is hard to come by in Chadiza. There’s a covered open-air market where ladies sell yeast buns in three sizes ranging from dinner-roll-size up to one that yields four slabs of bread if sliced carefully; fried fritters like big donut lumps; and sometimes rice-filled samosas that cost 100 kwacha each. (I had five for lunch today. They are deliciously greasy.)
Women also sell popcorn informally all around town. For 500 kwacha (about 15 cents), you can buy a plastic bag the size of a Nerf football. It’s lip-burningly salty and goes well with Coke Light, now stocked in cans AND bottles in several Chadiza shops, thanks to a certain white lady who prefers it over the ubiquitous regular Coke.
The most common prepared “food” is actually a drink called Super Maheu. You can buy it in the smallest tuck shops. It is a slurry of corn meal, sugar and water and seemingly thousands of flavors, including banana, cream, and chocolate. Maheu comes in colorful plastic jugs that form the chassis of toy trucks Zambian boys pull around on string.
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