The bananas here in Egypt aren't quite as good as they were in Mayotte (you can't get a lot of different varieties, either), but they are so much better than the supermarket offerings in France. You can, of course, buy them in the store here, but they are better fresh off the cart where the hands are still in a bunch.
And did I mention cheaper? If you are up to speed on your Arabic numerals, you will see that you can buy a kilo for 5 EGP (Egyptian pounds), which works out to about 32 cents a pound.
Hail the street vendor from your balcony, pop down to the street to buy a hand or two, hurry upstairs, and make banana pudding pie. If you want. :P
Guess who has dessert waiting for her? :D
And did I mention cheaper? If you are up to speed on your Arabic numerals, you will see that you can buy a kilo for 5 EGP (Egyptian pounds), which works out to about 32 cents a pound.
Hail the street vendor from your balcony, pop down to the street to buy a hand or two, hurry upstairs, and make banana pudding pie. If you want. :P
Guess who has dessert waiting for her? :D
Comments
"Where the hands are still in a bunch"--those bunches are called hands? So is each individual banana a finger?
So you hail the vendor in English? French? Arabic?
(LOVE LOVE LOVE the photos, bien sûr)
And I've actually never hailed a vendor from my balcony (poetic license); I buy my bananas from them where they stop on the corner when I come back from the market. I'll post pics of that soon. But if I did want his attention, I'd probably yell, "Salama!" which is one of the ways of saying hello.
Why don't you add a picture.