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@dalkeithdawkins92652 ай бұрын
Staggerback use to be called Bustamante backbone anyway i grow up in the fifties, and i am very familar with a of those things. Coconut has to gratered to make oil mostly on Saturday nights for Sunday dinner.
@almirawedderburn17722 ай бұрын
I have a seersucker dress in my closet that I wear often. It is soft and cool and needs no ironing.
@kareemsquest2 ай бұрын
So I have learnt
@jazzytower2 ай бұрын
Oh, we had these. My mom used to make all all our clothes. Including panties and bra when we started wearing those.
@dionnemarsh22342 ай бұрын
Paradise plum is my favorite
@jazzytower2 ай бұрын
Me too! For the past couple years I been trying to find it. Most people don't know what I'm talking about.
@DeloresSales2 ай бұрын
The one with the pinch edge use to buy it at the school gate we use to call it gizzada
@Portia-oc6mr2 ай бұрын
I'm not familiar with some of these treats, but do know and love gizzada. I wasn't a fan of a hard candy called Icy Mint, but did liked a ginger-tasting hard brown candy. I haven't eaten these things since I was knee high to a frog. I enjoy you talking with Jamaica's mature folks. Seersucker is an elegant and classic summer cotton fabric, usually in a textured check pattern..
@kareemsquest2 ай бұрын
You're welcome
@alisonfern334416 күн бұрын
Do some of our great and refreshing juices too
@edmc4473Ай бұрын
This is great, thanks, Kareem, so nostalgic of childhood sweet snacks in Guyana. Grater cake: in Guyana it's sugar- cake (or coconut-ice in the UK, but always somehow lacking in the coconut flavour because they usually use desiccated coconut instead of freshly grated coconut). Coconut drops: in Guyana are chip sugar-cake (chip meaning tiny pieces). Both are made with a sugary base similar to fudge and with optional added flavours of nutmeg or cinnamon or cloves with a pinch of salt, too. I recalled having sugar-cake flavoured with fresh ginger😋
@aj59462 ай бұрын
Where I live in Trelawny Gizzada was also called Puff, Grater Cake was also called Dossie.
@maureenkennedy3224Ай бұрын
What about stretcha? It was pink and stretchy. You would buy it at the school gate.
@hopieb36622 ай бұрын
I learned that gizzada comes from the Portuguese word guisada, the name for a similar tart brought to Jamaica by Portuguese Jews fleeing persecution in the 1500s.
@kareemsquest2 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing
@CalmYourSoul-ip5my2 ай бұрын
Sounds true as Portuguese were slave traders and influenced a lot of the food and cooking in Jamaica. Portuguese cook rice and peas also. Shocked when I went to a Portuguese lady house.
@sharonwalters8612 ай бұрын
Peanut cake, gizzada,jackass corn,grater cake and police buttons
@alisonfern334416 күн бұрын
Hey paradise plum and stew june plum and frisbe (ten cent bulla) asham and tamrind ball memories!!
@jennylingard89892 ай бұрын
Years ago I had a good friend and we would meet up at a meeting about once a month and She would bring me some of these goodies. 🇬🇧
@kareemsquest2 ай бұрын
They are nice sweets
@jazzytower2 ай бұрын
I made some coconut drops not long ago. Took forever! But i forgot my ginger.
@alisonfern334416 күн бұрын
Grater cake and car sweetie also
@madgeanthony68882 ай бұрын
Grater Cake and Gizzada!!! Love all a dem....❤
@ibakedit58502 ай бұрын
You had me laughing. I left JA when I was a child and do have some recollection of the sweets. One of my favourites was, and still is, Chinese sweetie....luv dem suh till. An', beg yuh do, is wat name nine nite? If you or someone knows please explain.
@kareemsquest2 ай бұрын
It is the 9th night of the person dying. We usually keep a social event for the dead