Last week I visited Meru. Well residents of the area will call it Miru. I dont know what God was doing or thinking but one day he must have woken up and said ... Let there be the people of Miru, they shall occupy the area north east and east of Mt. Kenya. This shall be their land and no one will remove them from their Land Am not sure but he must have gone ahead and said this land of theirs will stretch from Thuci river on the south Tharaka (also called strongholds) to the east Timau to the west and all through to the mighty Nyambene. This land will never lack food enough for my people to eat and to give to their neighbours friends and visitors Its actually rumoured that they eat to finish and thats why whenever I visit the area I actually pray God to remove the plate ahead of me. Miru is the only area you go to a hotel and eat food of 120 kes until it remains on the plate or you tell waiter to reduce. In Nairobi I dont get satisfied when I eat matumbo of 120 and since am shy to ask for a second plate, I move to the hotel next door and ask for the same ugali matumbo. This second plate makes me satisfied. Like anywhere else our people Miru have their own stereo types , when I was in college there is a guy who used to tell us that never flatter with a Meru lady because if she happens to love you she will never leave you. You are completely finished and finished completely. Call it finito. This is unlike ladies from Nyeri who give you a through beating to prove how much they love you. But again thats why I am ever grateful to people of Meru for they gave me their daughter to love and to hold . You can imagine how prof would be if he were not married. But these Meru ladies arent angels, for example yesterday, saturday, my boys Freddie, Bosnia and I meet and Mwangis meat joint and we spoil ourselfs with European goat. We also eat small stuff stuff like mshikaki, the samosa of meat and also samosa cabbage, and african sausage. About 8 pm I go home feeling very full and I find my wife have declared its fringe clearing day. For those who are aware this is a day that all small bits of left over foods are warmed and some clearing and forwarding is done. So jana am served with foods of all colours sukumawiki, mboga, pumpkins (this must have been a January left over since we took pumpkins immediately after coming back from new year mum had made us carry them), small githeri, ugali small, a piece of chapo( very hard you may think its plywood). When I look at my plate, I refuse to know if its a rainbow due to presence of food of all colours. Am in no mood of destroying the nice aroma of european goat that I am belching. Now my wife claims I have refused to eat her food and she is going to contact ICC where my mum is the Chief Prosecutor. Crime; Prof have refused to eat food prepared by his wife. I need a lawyer. Prof sees many things.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 15:46:11 +0000
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