Oh the food.

Speaking of food…Nothing is more Samoan than food.  It is what everything revolves around.  At our meetings in the states, you might get a couple doughnuts or some chips, if you’re lucky.  Not here.  At staff meetings here you get a full-meal. No not just a meal, you get a thanksgiving feast.  Here is the plate of food I, one single person, received at our staff meeting. 

List of food per person: (not a fabrication)

6 hotdogs

3 chicken drumlegs

6 chicken thighs

One large bowl of crab potato salad

2 pounds of chop suey

One breadfruit (about the size of a cantaloupe)

One thing of taro (also the size of a cantaloupe)

3 sodas

2 bottles of water. 

My housemates and I now have enough left-over food to last us until Christmas.

And it wasn’t served on a plate, the entire meal was served to each person in a box.  How awesome is that. 

One Samoan serving size.  (Diana was a vegetarian for 8 years before she came here)

Diana, my housemate, and I thought we would be kind and bake a cake for the staff meeting.  Well, they never served it because they said that one cake was not enough for ten people, so they gave the whole thing to one person instead.  Now we know that next time we make a cake we need to make one-per person or it won’t be enough.