Special Lunch

Wow! Today was a little bit of a Western world experience! Early this afternoon we were picked up by Stephen Abu’s driver. We were later than expected so Stephen met us and we went on a couple errands with him. First we went to the Supreme Court to get some papers notarized to help a family adopt a little girl! Then he had an errand to the embassy, but we decided to stop for lunch first!

Lunch.. was an especially good treat. We went to a restaurant called Southern Fried Chicken. This place had a lot of foreign food – even Indian and Lebonese!! The treat we decided to go for though, was pizza.

They had about 40 different topping combinations. As we were reading, we came across one that mentioned ‘garlic’. This particular word seemed to have a hypnotizing feeling, and nothing without garlic on it could have possibly satisfied us. Garlic was only available on that one pizza. Garlic, onions, and peppers. What kind of pizza is that? How could we eat a pizza with no meat on it when we finally have meat (that isn’t chicken) that we can trust?? So, despite our wide variety of choices, we decided to be annoying Americans; we asked for another flavor of pizza, with garlic added on top :D we had pepperoni, salami, ham, and garlic pizza. (for… roughly $2.25 more. A high price, but one we were willing to pay.) The pizza was wonderful. We haven’t had real cheese here either, so there were quite a few things we’ve been missing. More important than anything else though, was that blessed garlic. Now why would the garlic be such an occasion, you ask? Well, because Ghanaians believe in one flavor. No, really. One. They use the same flavor for their jollof rice as their soup, chicken, stews, sauces, anything that isn’t naturally flavored, is flavored with the exact same flavor. It’s a spicy flavor, .. It seems like it is made of ginger and nutmeg in it, but I don’t remember the last ingredient. (Elizabeth makes hers from scratch, and told me how she makes it.) This means having any other flavor, garlic, BBQ, lemon pepper, onion, tomato, cheese, alfredo, marinara, taco seasoning, gravy… any of it, would be amazing right about now.