Kenya

Food, Kenya

I bought some eggs at the grocery store the other day. I’m sure I must have bought these particular ones because I saw the words “Free Range” on the box. A few days later went to scramble some eggs and I noticed what the box actually said…

Tasty as free range != free range
Tasty as free range != free range

While taste is one of the reasons that some people prefer free-range produce, it’s not exactly the driving force. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the reason people buy free-range produce is because they believe that there’s some benefit in having animals live a free, full, natural life before they’re killed for our food.

KANJEKAKUWA G. SERVICES, you fail. I will not be buying your fake free-range eggs again!

Food, Kenya

Today I bought a “fruit cake” from a bakery down the road. It’s more like a loaf of bread than a cake, but anyways… I found a screw inside!

Screw in a loaf of bread
Screw in a loaf of bread

It’s kinda like finding a toy inside a cereal box… but also not.

Kenya

Today, while driving up Wayaki Way to work, I saw a matatu driver reach out his window and wedge a folded up 50 shilling note under his door handle; he was anticipating being stopped at the semi-regular police traffic stop near Mountain View (about 10 kilometers outside of Nairobi).

As I imagine it’s quite hard to picture, I took a few minutes to recreate the scenario in the Sarit Center parking lot…

Alan with a 50 shilling note
Alan with a 50 shilling note

50 Kenyan Shillings is only about 75 US cents, but if you imagine that the cops stop hundreds of people in a day… wow. And that’s only at that ONE check point, out of hundreds of other ones operating on any given day in Kenya.