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Chewing Chad
  • By frockland on August 13, 2004
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    Chewing Chad seems to be a wide spread social thing or a habit. Chad is a mild stimulating leave. The youngest and greenest leaves are the best. You put them into your mouth and start to chew the bitter tasting stuff by forming a big ball out of it and keep it for hours. You can see guys with enormous big bloated cheeks.
    The side effect is that after chewing it for hours you will have problems in falling a sleep but in this case a few Dashens might help!

    Chad is so popular that during the war the fighting was stopped for a while when the plane with the next load of chat landed!

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    Traditional Ethiopian bread called Injera
  • By Bali-Babe on August 10, 2005
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    Injera bread
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    Ethiopian meals are eaten without utensils. Instead, injera, a soft spongy pancake-like bread is used. Injera is made in large circles which are used in two ways for the meal. First, one or two injera are placed on the bottom of a large tray. Various stews are spooned on top in small mounds. To eat, pieces are torn off of extra injera and used to scoop up the food.
    Injera is made from a fermented sourdough batter. In this way, it has a slightly tangy flavor and a wonderful light and airy texture. It is not dense at all. It is traditionally made from a grain called teff, a staple in Ethiopia.

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    Facial Tattoos
  • By Bali-Babe on January 18, 2006
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  • Girl from Lallibela With Facial Tattoo - Ethiopia
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    Facial Tattoo
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    Facial tattoos are popular amongst the people in Ethiopia. The girl in the photo has a tattoo inked on her forehead.

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    Let Me play!
  • Updated By frockland on September 7, 2004
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  • Let me play with you! - Ethiopia
    Let me play with you!
    by frockland
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    If an Ethiopian tells you: Let me play with you, then don`t worry (especially if you are female)! He does not want to play or intend to have sex but, he would like to have a conversation with you!

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    Eating injera - the staple food of the north
  • Updated By Saagar on June 14, 2004
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    by Saagar
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    Injera should be eaten with your right hand. You share your injera with your friends, colleagues and whoever else in you company.
    It looks like a dirty tablecloth served in a metal washbasin, but there all similarities end. It's good and nurtitious, too!
    Injera is made from teff (see my upcoming "Teff Tip").

    This is how you make injera:
    180 ml finely ground teff
    530 ml water
    salt
    sunflower or other veggie oil.

    Mix the ground teff with water and leave in a bowl covered with a dish towel in room temperature. It's ok when it's bubbling and fermenting, which may take up to three days...
    Add salt to tast. Warm a little oil in a large skillet (up to about 10 inches) - moderately. Pour in sufficient battr to cover the bottom of the skillet and spread areound like with a pancake. Fry briefly until holes form in the injera surface and the edges lift from the pan. Put aside to cool. This recipe makes 10-12 injeras of this size.
    Good luck - now get hold of the teff!

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    Beauty tattoos
  • By frockland on September 5, 2004
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    Woman with a beauty tattoos
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    Many Ethiopians got tattoos. Crosses on the cheeks or the forehead of men are not uncommon. Women often have tattoo stripes around their chins!

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    Shoes
  • By frockland on August 13, 2004
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    Remove your shoes when visiting a church or a monastery. Often there will be a shoe keeper, who takes care about your shoes so that nobody will steal them!

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    Teff
  • By Saagar on June 14, 2004
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    Teff is a highland grain from the northern, dry and hot areas of Ethiopia and Eritrea. It is a hardy grain that is also rich in iron and high in protein. Indigenous to the highlands of Ethiopia, it is also the staple here north.
    The seeds are so fine, it's almost difficult to understand that this is the key grain crop here - why not something bigger? It's mainly used for injera, the pancake-like main food of the north.
    In the season the uplands are waving with flaxen ad golden teff waiting to be harvested.

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  • By ggjgitrj on February 20, 2008
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  • i dunt like you you stink with all gods might to fly with poatoes in ur pants so eat me poo and dunt kom back i love you orgasm orgasm orgasm


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    responses to "you-you" or "farengi!"
  • By cynaddis on September 1, 2006
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  • its really common for people (mostly children) to shout "you- you" or "farengi!" when they see you.

    my uncle (who is ethiopian) told me to do this:
    * if the shouter is a boy saying "you-you" respond by saying "un-ter" and roll your "R" a bit
    * if the shouter is a girl saying "you-you" respond by saying "un-chi"
    * when anyone shouts "farengi" (which means foreniger and is mostly used for white people) respond back by saying "ah-beh-sha" (this means "ethiopian!")

    i have never gotten a negative response from doing ether of these, in fact they are usually very suprised, and everyone laughs. :)


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