Before I get into the real pizza issue in the blog you need a bit of background info. First, there is NO place in Tala to get pizza…no restaurant makes/sells it, grocery stores don’t sell the ingredients and we haven’t found pepperoni ANYWHERE in Kenya (hence the reason we love you all for sending us the stick pepperoni!!) So one day when we had to go into Ruai for supplies for C4KK we saw the local grocery store had opened up a very small take out place inside and yup, they sell pizza!
Now before getting all excited for us let me explain some more. Ruai is approximately 20 miles from where we live (it’s past C4KK) and it takes about 45 minutes to drive that (yea, road conditions are horrendous here). The only time we go into Ruai is if supplies are needed which we can’t get nearer to C4KK or in Tala. But when we go we like to sample the pizza (which isn’t half bad even if there is no pepperoni).
The other day was no exception. We ordered our pizzas and were told to wait 20 minutes. No problem, I could get a few items there. I came back 20 minutes later and he said there was still a wait, 10 more minutes. Ok, we looked around the store a bit more, came back and I began waiting. Then I noticed he was just beginning to make our pizzas! Literally rolling out the dough right then! I told Chuck and Bosco what was happening and they decided to head out to the hardware for another item they needed.
I stood (no place to sit down and wait…a table and chair would be nice for just such an occasion) watching the guy roll out our pizza dough on their chest freezer, answer his cell phone, not wash his hands and come back to working on our pizzas. That’s when I had to just open up my Nook Color (got this a while back, but thanks friend!), ignore the proceedings around me and pray the baking process would kill anything he was putting on the pizza.
We eventually got our pizzas with apologizes (which really surprised me) and we were off to eat in the truck, remember no chairs or tables to sit at to eat.
That’s pizza Kenyan style! Oh and I noticed on the menu board….peanut butter pizza. Haven’t had the nerve to try that one!