food glorious food?

Food is one of those central things here,people eat a lot,and fairly regularly.
breakfast is usually a light affair eggs, sausages, bread and jam and tea or instant coffee,there is always some fruit.In the middle of the morning there is tea or coffee or porridge(maize meal soup) and toasties or chapatis or fried cassava,and groundnuts. Lunch is a monster meal matooke(mashed up steamed green bananas) which has the consistency of mashed spud but less, if possible, nutritional value! rice boiled to extinction,beans , generally excellent, mashed spud(irish), and soup probably originally meat. There is also a pink sauce which is made from ground nuts.Meat is usually cooked to death so tapeworms are avoided,and pork(or goat) served up crispy as a muchomo,or kebab.The evening meal is usually much as that at midday only slightly smaller quantities.The volunteers all tried cooking yesterday and actually it wasn't at all bad,if for no other reason than Ugandans traditionally dont use oil and we also had a Phillipino and an Indian who did their own culinary thing with fish and eggplants.Ugandans also eat lots of fruit which is fabulously fresh and cheap.
What was missing was the occasional insect,not just visiting but deliberately included;at road junctions and rugby matches men and others wander round with tupperware boxes with odd things in them,Grasshoppers,a great treat!(and now you know what happened to all that Tupperware)
When it rains and you leave a light on so arrive vast numbers of flying ants which in the morning have all shed their wings and expired. Eva our lady what 'does'collects them up and hands them to Joseph the factotum ,guard and everything else who washes them ,fries them and they then tuck in . There are several different types of ant, some ants ,some termites, some just things that fly,Eva tells me that they are all very tasty and recommended, as are grasshoppers and if I buy some would I bring some for her? I tell her that people in some parts of Africa eat locusts.
"OOH," she says," locusts,oh no urgh.!"

I'm not sure about grasshoppers!