
I have found the best peanut butter. We went to Frulep yesterday (a small, moderately-priced grocery store on the hill opposite us that you can see from our backyard) and I got a couple essentials - tuna ($2 a can) rice cakes (only $1.50!), some water, bananas, and PEANUT BUTTER. There were two options - a normal looking, processed one for $4, and a homemade one for a $1.50 that looked kind of sketch. I, of course, grabbed the homemade one. It is so good. On the label it says Ingredients: peanuts, salt. It's so thick and dry, it has the date it was made (23 June 2009) and the date it expires (23 May 2010) and some name of a town in Rwanda where it's made. The best part, however, maybe the excellent, totally functional and reusable tupperware cup and lid it comes in. Plasticware is hard to find in Rwanda and incredibly expensive, so the fact that this peanut butter is so good and so cheap AND comes with a great cup is almost too much to handle. I've been talking about it for two days straight now.
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I am just laughing! Your stories are great, and the images you evoke are even better (goats, staring folks, white girl running in circles) -- keep it up! and thanks for being in Africa so the rest of us lame-o's can live vicariously!!
actually that was ME, YER MA, writing, not CLP. don't know why his address came up, but you know it's me.
No kidding, I laughed too. And then read "chris's" comment and thought, "that doesn't sound like a younger brother." Anyhow, I think I would write an entire blog about peanut butter too . . . I feel ya.
I actually almost sent you with peanut butter because I didn't know if it might be one of those weird things that would be hard to find. Silly me!
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