Comments on: South Africans and their dirty little secret

By: mmasetshaba

mmasetshaba — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 04:41:06 +0000

Dis waar in Africans,that’s true, O bua nnete ka setswana.Pap and braai vleis ka chakalaka is mmmxwaaa.

By: Diane

Diane — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:22:04 +0000

You’re quite right about what it is that we miss. Fortunately, ex-pats in Canada figured that out a long time ago and now I can find Chocolate Logs, Mrs. Balls Chutney, Safari dried fruit, rusks, Lemon Creams, biltong, droe wors etc. right here in my neighbourhood. (and as Colin said above, I can do it safely.)

Maar dit is nie net die kos nie. Dis nou baie, baie jare en ek verlang nog na die Krugerpark – en daar is iets wat ons kan nie in Kanada kry nie! (Verskoon my vrot Afrikaans asb – ek het geen kans om dit hier te praat en ek het alles vergeet!)

By: Colin

Colin — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:43:39 +0000

I dont miss a thing. I get all my SA stuff from the 200 shops in London, via the net and everyhwere else. Also delivered on time for free. I get it safely.

By: Riani

Riani — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:10:45 +0000

Oh, and my firend Estelle in Canada was lussing for some tea and iced zoo koekies, the other day. Made me lus too.

By: Riani

Riani — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:09:33 +0000

I live in Dubai, and one of our local supermarkets here, Spinneys, has a lot of Saffers working there, and they have a lot of home brands. We get Ceres, and Robertson’s spices, and miesies Balls, and Marmite, and Iwisa. And crappy boerewors and even more crappy biltong. But some things, like peppermint crisp, when we get them, are incredibly expensive. 2 weeks ago I bought a Chocolate log, medium size, for the equivelant of around R14! Ag jirre tog, but when you’re homesick, you want food, quite right. The only thing worse than not getting home food, is getting crappy home food. When we had the Dubai 7s in December, I was looking forward to a nice boerewors roll. But the bloody thing they sold me, for around R22, if I remember correctly, didn’t have miesies balls on it, just some sad, fried onion and a skinny piece of wors. I nearly wept! You’d think it was made by a soutie. I know I should have told the guy what I thought of it, but oh no I didn’t. Te ordentelik, you know.

By: Christian

Christian — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:55:20 +0000

Most South Africans I’ve talked to say they miss safe streets and electricity, lol.

By: Peter Merrington

Peter Merrington — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:23:35 +0000

Most of all it’s Messaris original flavour salted.

By: angryafrican

angryafrican — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:26:57 +0000

@SanityFound – Oh, Nik Naks. My kingdom for Nik Naks. And Peppermint Crisp. And Top Deck. And… and… and…

By: SanityFound

SanityFound — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:41:55 +0000

Excellent!!! Oh how I missed my Nik naks when I was over the big blue and oh what a dance I did right there in the shop when I found some!!!

By: angryafrican

angryafrican — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:47:38 +0000

@DelBoy – Homemade, just like Ouma made them!

@a broad – do you make beskuit?

@Kwagga – nah, mate. Left in 2002. Check out my earlier posts. And Windhoek is way to German and Namibian for my less than impecable taste. Note: I didn’t say we have good taste in South Africa! Also, Castle still hasa 98% marketshare… Budweiser – now that is real crap.