Dinner

I've been trying to introduce Shanna to local foods while she is here. Yesterday we ate fool for dinner which is just a bowl of beans that locals eat all the time and you add vegetables and other stuff that you want.

So tonight I asked her what she wanted for dinner and she chose fool, of all the things we could have she chose fool...and 2 days in a row at that!! Fool is not bad but it's just kind of funny that she chose to have it again. So we went to the different places and collect the bread, beans, vegetables and falofal to put in, then we headed home.

We had just started eating when Shanna said 'Is this weird?...that we just bought beans from some guy on the street, made them ourselves and now we're picking strange sticks out of our bowls but we're still just eating it?'

And is it weird? That we bought beans from a pot sitting outside by the street and brought them home in a plastic bag? That we bought falofal from an uncovered tray, 2 pieces of round bread and 3 pieces of hot dog bread, 2 tomatoes, 1 cucumber and 1 onion, brought it all home, mashed it up in a bowl and ate it with our hands? I really thought it was fairly normal. How else are you supposed to eat beans? But on second thought...maybe not so normal.