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My brother reminded me of this yesterday when we were looking through some pictures from Africa. I think I had surpressed it into my subconscious until now.
I'd been in Africa around two weeks when 'the incident' occurred. I'd not been eating much (as you can expect the food provided by our project was not great). I was trying my best not to go to the local supermarket and buy sweets or chocolate etc. because the project itself was very expensive (as you can imagine!) and as three meals a day were being provided I was trying to stick to eating just them. However, the time had come, I needed to treat myself.
I walked into the local town and went to the supermarket and walked straight to the bakery section. I scanned the different options and my eyes were drawn to a sign: 'Jam Filled Doughnuts'. I think my heart skipped a beat. I am a great lover of jam filled doughnuts, the pack of five from ASDA are amazing.
I looked at the doughnuts; you could even see the jam spilling out of the hole. It turned out one of these beautiful, sugar coated, and jam filled doughnuts was less than a dollar. BARGAIN. I asked for two.
Feeling extremely happy with my purchase I left the supermarket and took out one of the doughnuts. I took a bite and was surprised that I couldn't taste jam. I looked down and no jam could be seen. I ripped the doughnut open to find NO JAM. Safe to say I was pretty heart broken.
What the bakers had done, was make a tasteless plain doughnut, put a hole at the top in which they placed a blob of jam to deceive customers into thinking there would be jam inside. I was horrified.
I know times are hard, but don't you dare do that to my doughnut. Obviously, it wasn't the most horrifying thing I saw in Africa but it was pretty shocking to say the least. Never did I think these lovely Zimbabwean people would deceive me like that.
When back at the lodge I told Mark, it turns out he had done the exact same thing earlier that day. He too was outraged.
I guess this story could make quite a good fable (you know like one of those ones you used to learn in Religious Studies) as it conveys quite a good moral:
Some things can look good on the outside, but in reality, they are not so good on the inside.
I hope those who ever get the chance to visit Victoria Falls don't make the same mistake my brother and I did.
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