Ethiopia: The Best and Worst of Ethiopians Food Cultures On Holidays

Ethiopians are not only spiritually motivated and God fearing people. They are also resilient, hopeful having great survival instincts that no hardships can break. Life might sometimes be as hard as possible but Ethiopians have a way of making it fun despite the sharp rise in the costs of living these days. By the way this is not the first time for Ethiopians to face such hardships. Roughly the last fifty years after the 1967 Revolution have seen many difficult times.

The revolutionaries of the time were often telling people that things could go worse before they could get better and that the Chinese revolutionaries under Mao had languished under famishment to make a recourse to eating unsavory items when famine struck. They said that the people would eat cornflakes for breakfast once the bad days will be gone. Nowadays the Chinese have overcome those bad days and their grandchildren are now some of the overweight kids in the world eating the best foods even by Western standards. How about us? Where are the hard talking revolutionaries who promised better days have a century ago?

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