Funny how we think of chutney as such a South African thing even though its true home is India where it is produced in many different ways to diverse recipes and with disparate ingredients from fruit to peanuts to onion and coconut. But it’s ours as well, and we make it our own way. We even coo.
Lemon, peppermint crisp, Cremora, granadilla – with a lineup like that, we can only be talking about South Africa’s obsession with ice-cold sweet tarts oozing condensed milk, with one or other of those flavourings (there are others too), set in a base of crushed Tennis biscuits mixed with m.
Peck’s Anchovette and Redro fish paste are the latest casualties of product discontinuations or shortages, following the great Marmite debacle of 2021 and the earlier disappearance of Nestlé’s Chocolate Log. As a consolation, TGIFood brings you a recipe for making your own fish paste. But.
It s every parent s nightmare: your previously bubbly, spontaneous child suddenly turning introspective and unwilling to participate. When you try to fish, or outright ask whether she is being bullied at school, she may say everything is fine. When something is clearly wrong.
Researchers have found that children do not always realise what bullying entails. When it s not as clear as a punch in the gut, they may think being victimised at school is a result of their own inadequacy or shortcomings.
On the other hand, teachers sometimes feel powerless when parents complain about their child being bullied at school, because kids are clever enough to hide it from the authorities. This makes the addressing of bullying even harder.