Drive down the main drag of any decent sized town in the US, and you have the choice of eating at McDonald’s or Subway or the local BBQ joint or Pizza Inn or Applebee’s or P.F. Chang’s or Zaxby’s or Moe’s or Sticky Fingers or Tuesday’s, Wednesday’s, Thursday’s, or Friday’s. You want cheap Mexican? Vamos a Monterrey’s. You want Italian? Andiamo Capri’s! You want Chicken Fried Rice (no wegeble)? 我们走吧 Hong Kong! With an indecisive group? Go to the food court at the mall; there’s something for everyone!
Rwanda lacks this variety. Do you want a brochette? Goat, beef, chicken, or fish? No? How about a ham sandwich? No? Spaghetti? No? Too bad. Granted, you can get a side of boiled potatoes or mashed potatoes or French fries or rice with that brochette, but let’s be serious…Where are the sweet potato fries, green beans, baked beans, applesauce, hush puppies, etc?
As a child, I cycled through peanut butter crackers, peanut butter celery, boiled eggs, and cheese and crackers as the main course of my lunch in my lunchbox everyday (thanks Mom!). Most people wouldn't consider four lunch options much of a variety, but here I eat beans and rice everyday for lunch. Though we do get meat and passion fruit juice on Fridays!
So next time you sit down to eat your Zax Snack or your Funkmeister, count your blessings (and think of me!).
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