mealie pap
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of mealie pap
Afrikaans
Example Sentences
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I can imagine restaurants built around South Indian upma, South African mealie pap or even Tibetan tsampa.
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At 3 P.M., more than twelve hours after most of us had arrived, we were delivered a container of thin mealie pap and no utensils.
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I don’t think I ever looked forward to eating cold mealie pap so much in my life.
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Breakfast consisted of mealie pap porridge, cereal made from maize or corn, which the general prisoners would slop in a bowl and then spin through the bars of our cells.
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We again received mealie pap porridge, sometimes with the odd carrot or piece of cabbage or beetroot thrown in — but one usually had to search for it.
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