Travelling to China to eat snake
Friday, August 12, 2016
Mosikare
The Chinese will never starve. Unlike Africans they are not choosy. They eat almost everything. If something is poisonous, the Chinese remove the poison and enjoy the delicacy. That is why snake delicacy is not frowned upon in China. It is only the Africans who think snake is not food.
Africa is always in the news for negative things. They feature in news items starving to death. You will never see the Chinese starving. This is because there is plenty to eat in China. Gape Ma-China gaba mabela. This nation works very hard and eats very hard. These 1.3 billion people do not sleep. They work like ants hence they are great.
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