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Good. Stay true to your xalimo nature and let nature take its course.

Warsan_Star_Muslimah wrote:Oh, It is my family that does the cooking. Bring her over, me and her will be getting lessons together. Personally, I would like to learn how to make the sweet stuff, such as biscuits (I wanna learn the 'ii cuun' ), seasame, and my mum makes the BEST helwaa, but waa very hard to make.

You kinda disappointed me but Thats a date

I like very much drinking Roselle (Rosella) hot or cold instead of tea or soda

Navy9 wrote:I like very much drinking Roselle (Rosella) hot or cold instead of tea or soda

no wonder why u are so so so no comment

During Summer


Refreshing Iced Tea




Quule, after a hard days work

Banana,



Mangoes,



Watermelon,



Pear,



Red Grapes,



Guava



Strawberries,



yep this is how i like my fruits

Apple

Madd_Scientist_ wrote:Buhodle girl's fav

I eat skittles...to get my 5 a day

I am always amazed by the variety of foods forumers are familiar with and are fond of, because many of them were simply not available when I was in-country in the Sixties.

Melon was a rare critter. I saw only one, at a friend's house in Kismayu. Never did eata any.

Strawberries??? Who are you kidding.

We had the rare pompelmo, but I never saw oranges. We had liin, really calamandin, a form of sour mandarin.

http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/mango.html

I think I know that the mangoes along the Jubba were brought by the British before they turned the area over to the Italians I suspect the Zanzabarina bananas were brought by the Omanis, but believe the commercial bananas had to wait for the Italians.

Peace Corps Volunteers and normal Somalis almost never saw that kind of stuff before the Kacaan.

^I have loads of pics from pre kacan and the fruits they ate...seems no different than we eat now.



Warsan, abaayo Im sorry to tell u this but.......fruits alone will not make u fit into a dirac

Advo,

Please list the fruit and where you found it prior to the Kacaan.

Some fruit was available in limited local areas in the South. I NEVER saw ANY available north of Afgoye. Maybe a few liin.

There just wasn't the transportation or marketing in place back then.

Strawberries and grapes? never.

I am not sure about strawberries nor grapes


but the fruits I can name are, papayas, bananas, mango, watermelon and many types of berries.