Special Order

After the bags were all passed out we went to find some quick food and a truck. There are 2 goats from the project that turned out to not be pregnant and, since the deal said we would give them pregnant goats and since we paid extra to buy pregnant goats, we struck a deal with the farm owner to trade these 2 for 2 more that actually are pregnant. As fun and as clean as goats are, we figured it was best to rent a truck and not put them in the back of the SUV.

We drove about 10 minutes to a little market area and stopped at the only restaurant we saw. The menu consisted of chicken liver, goat liver, lentils, soup and fool (local beans). We were running late and were really looking for something a little more take away than soup. When we asked the guy taking the money if they had anything take away he thought about it for a minute then said 'well, we can put your beans in some bread and make it a sandwich.' We thought about it and, seeing as it was either a bean sandwich or no sandwich at all, we opted for the bean sandwich.

However bean sandwiches weren't on the menu so this was a 'special order'. Even though they already had the beans and they already had the bread and were just putting it all into a different form than usual we actually ended up paying 75 cents for something that should have cost 25 cents...not a big deal but let me point out that it was a 200% markup. Was that because it was a special order or because we are white? Who knows.

Then the man taking the money got up and went behind the counter with the cooks leaving his money station unmanned and a line/group of people pushing to get to the front. Without washing his hands he got us some bread, went to the counter where they had just cut raw meat and hadn't cleaned, put the beans on our bread without salt or tomatoes or any of the normal things and handed them to us.

I guess that's what we get for trying to order take away from a sit down stand...and when I say 'sit down' I mean a bunch of plastic lawn furniture in the dirt next to the street.