On my most recent visit I hit the streets to Nakawa market with my cuz Harry
She was helping me with my shopping for goodies to bring back to the UK
I love peas I told Harry and she said no worries there are loads, you will be spoilt for choice
and she was right, but there was a catch.
There were polished peas, rough looking ones, some looked the colour of eggs
others were olive and there were the tiny ones with a mixture of colours, as well
stones and other rubbish!
Phew tall order! which ones do I choose I said out loud.
The chap in the shop said whichever ones you like,
cheeky git I thought
Anyway in my dilemma, I asked him which of the peas were organic,,
what? he asked me what do you mean organic.. hehehe
,
he wasn't feeling so cheecky now?
He said oooh, it must be the little ones with the stones in them
I asked him how he knew this? He told me because those peas were from Uganda
and the rest were from Rwanda and were donated by the Canadian government!
You cannot be serious I told him, I am and in fact those peas are cheaper than the Ugandan peas
Ok, I will take the Ugandan peas.
Harry protested, oooh.. sis you will spend hours sorting out the rubbish from the peas...etc,
Ooooh, Mum will see to that before I go so no worries I told her. And that was how it
was that I came back to the UK with Ugandan peas free of stones and rubbish and not the good looking Canandian peas
IIn fact I thought I ahd seen the alst of the Canadian peas until
yesterday, when I wnet to my local matoek shop in Isleworth West London
and there on teh middle shelf were the very Canadian peas that
had travelled to Kigala, Kampaal and fianlly to Isleworth!
I told the young man in the shop about this and he was astounded
We don't always know this he said, I will speak with the owner of the shop
and perhaps he can have a chat with our supplier!
Well I for one will not be buying those peas as I don't believe that
it is fair that we in UK /Europe should be buying food that was given
as a part of food Aid to the developing world.
I hear you the chap said
My fellow diaspora people please join me if you will in saying
NO to these Canadian peas!