Weekly Photo Challenge: Hope

This is me with Alfred, a work colleague of the Hub’s and our good friend, in South Africa, around 1987/8. 

It was taken at a works’ day out: local businesses would have a day competing in tournaments such as volleyball, football, that sort of thing.  I always watched.  Sport is not for me.  The massive braai (barbecue) afterwards always was, though.

Alfred left South Africa to see the world sometime after this photo was taken (obviously).  We lost touch.  I hope I see him again someday.

And I hope my glasses never come back into fashion.

Food, Glorious South African Food

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If you could have anything to eat right now, what would it be?

I’m not going all obvious on this one; you know me well enough by know to fill in the blanks yourself.  It was the bonus questions that intrigued me:

1) Assume price is no object.

2) If you could eat this food with anyone alive or who has ever lived, who would it be?

3) Find and share a photo of what you’d like to eat or the person from #2.

I would love to eat a real, South African braai with all the trimmings:  T-bone, rib-eye, sirloin, sausages (I’d allow boerewors for the Hub and boys but it would be Woolworths’ pork chippolatas for me), marinated chicken, sosaties, pork chops, lamb chops…I’m finding it hard to type because the drool makes my fingers slip off the keyboard.

Then you need all the trimmings: bread rolls, mash, potato salad, tuna salad, salad, rice, corn on the cob, and biltong for the teething babies.

Why not go the whole hog and have a pig on a spit?

Sorry, my dear vegetarian friends: my name is Tilly Bud and I am a meat eater.

Cold beers for the blokes and my Mum; Le Chanson for me.  South African cream soda (the green stuff) and Tab for the kids. 

Then the desserts: melted Bar One and ice cream, Peppermint Crisp fridge tart, melk tert, koeksisters.

And, of course, no braai is complete without a side serving of proper South African NikNaks.   All orange tartrazine and flavour.  Yummy.

My much-missed parents and in-laws would be there, as well as everyone I’ve ever liked.

All topped off with a nice cup of Earl Grey.

What would you add to the feast?