"Milk"

The most interesting food we have eaten thus far is a traditional milk drink. It was our second day in Rwanda, when our friend Alfred brought us into a circular straw bungalo with mats on the ground and seats along the wall. We were then offered to drink what looked like whole milk. We both like milk so we accepted. What we thought was just going to be a nice cool drink of fresh milk ended up being a luke-warm, sour, yogurt-ish concoction that was so thick I had to swallow again and again to get one gulp down. The surface tension of this stuff was like gak, or if you have ever mixed cornstarch and water as a kid to make this non-newtonian fluid that is a solid when you punch it but drips slowly like a liquid when you hold it in the air… mmm it was like swallowing that except with curddled milk mixed in.

Julianna looking over my shoulder said that her White Oats that we found at the market hoping they would taste like instant oatmeal would be added to this list because we both agree that no matter how much honey, coconut, or coconut oil we put in it, it still tastes like mushy cardboard.