The other
day I was wandering through the supermarket aisles and found this fruit called…
Portugal.
This other
Portugal (pronounced po-ti-gal) is a variety of clementine and it seems it is very
enjoyed in TT because of its fragrance and the ease in peeling it (I’m sure the very affordable price is a plus). Also, like most (all?) of
the citrus fruits it is rich in fibre, antioxidants and vitamin c.
In my home
land the crisis is escalating; wages, pensions and aids are being cut; purchasing power is decreasing, strangling families; the austerity cuts are widely blamed for keeping
Portugal in recession over the past two years; there’s been a wave of street protests;
the treasury secretary quit only five weeks after he was brought into the
government following the resignation of two senior ministers; public companies (everything
from public broadcaster RTP to parts of the postal service, water utilities, energy
utilities, state banks, the rail service and oil firm Galp) are being or will
be sold to repay bailout loans; people started talking about calling a snap
election.
I couldn’t
refrain from buying a bag of Portugals and smiling at the irony. But it would
be so much funnier if I had found Portugals being sold in
Germany.
(Check here a Portugal chow recipe, trini way.)
(Check here a Portugal chow recipe, trini way.)
