Pork and Beer

• Every Wednesday here Odette’s boyfriend and his friend come over and we all go over to a local bar, La Fontaine, for pork and beer. It is still a combination I am getting used to, especially since like I said before the bar also doubles as a butcher. It is still weird to enter a bar and immediately see and hear a butcher hacking at huge chunks of meat. We eat the pork grilled over firewood and seasoned with onions, mustard, pepper and lemon.


• Another peculiar food custom here is that unless you ask the server not to do it any sandwich you buy in Dakar will come with french fries in it.