Sunday/ South African food in Seattle

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The flags by the entrance to the Mt Baker Community Center shows something South African is going on inside!

My Facebook group ‘South Africans in Seattle’ held a bake-and-grocery sale in the Mount Baker Community Center on Sunday, and I felt compelled to go check it out.  Maybe they have those giant jars of Marmite, or Pronutro (breakfast cereal) or Mrs Ball’s chutney, I thought.

Alas – none of those items were on sale. Several other types of South African food were on offer such as curry (with ground beef) and rice, biltong1, braaivleis2 and sweet desserts such as koeksisters3 and and melktert4.  The space inside was very crowded and the lines were very long, though – and I was too impatient to wait in line for food.   I did chat to some friendly South Africans :).  Not many have been in Seattle as long as I have been.

1jerky, but saltier and never sweet    2barbecued meat    3a sticky syrup-infused version of a doughnut   4Afrikaans for “milk tart”, is a South African dessert consisting of a sweet pastry crust containing a creamy filling made from milk, flour, sugar and eggs.

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