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  • It also bestows a sense of pride that Scotland is still producing quality raw ingredients - ready to be converted into oatcakes, mealie puddings and brose.
  • Within no time at all, bags of mealie-meal, rice, samp & beans, sugar and vegetables started pouring in.
  • They represent a major cost-of-living blow for lower income groups for whom bread and mealie meal are the staple diet.
  • Thy roebuck and thy stagehand, they comfort mealie. 23rd Psaltery
  • All the mealie kernels he's pushing through are going to become samp sort of like hominy , the bag directly underneath him is catching all the kernels, the bag to the left and in front is to catch all the chaff. It's (maybe) Really Time for the Hot Chocolate!
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  • In other words, the decline was more rapid among staple foods (such as mealie meal) and less pronounced among refined foods. IOL: News
  • I corrected him - we alternate between semolina one day, and mealie meal porridge the next.
  • The nicest tit-bits of the choicest dishes – the middle slices of the fish, the breast of the young ducks, and the wings of the chickens, the mealiest potatoes, the juiciest tomatoes, the tenderest roasting ear, the most delicate custard, and freshest fruit always for his reverence! The Hidden Hand
  • After purchasing mealie meal, dish soap, tea, soup packets, mabela, palm oil, sugar, and matches, it was time to load up the hired bakkie. Archive 2009-03-01
  • After purchasing mealie meal, dish soap, tea, soup packets, mabela, palm oil, sugar, and matches, it was time to load up the hired bakkie. Yo, We Gotta Get The Food
  • I used to think "mealies" was a coined word for potatoes, but it really signifies maize or Indian corn, which is rudely crushed and ground, and forms the staple food of man and beast. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876
  • But after a week's feeding on impoop, as they called the mealie-meal porridge which was their staple food at the mines, they began to pick up. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer
  • Providing incentives, such as mealie-meal and food baskets and loans for income-generating activities, and lending a sympathetic ear to their plight will help boost the morale of caregivers and attract others to caregiving," states the report. Medindia Health News
  • The higher inflation levels as observed in November were largely attributed to rising food prices especially mealie meal, maize grain, cereals and cereal products, meat, fish and kapenta.
  • He said the Afrikaans media and their intellectuals operated inside a "mielie driehoek" (mealie triangle) mentality which was only real between Potchefstroom, Bloemfontein and Pretoria. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The cattlemen were eating slabs of mealie meal and oil in a cabbage relish, but really it was too hot for food, so we were just resting, letting our limbs hang loose in the humidity.
  • What is the polite way to eat sweetcorn or mealies, please? Times, Sunday Times
  • She returns a few minutes later with a large plastic bag of corn on the cob, called mealies. No Place Left to Bury the Dead
  • Researchers are trying to develop substitutes that can be grown there and mixed with wheat for bread or maize for mealiest Any surplus could be sold to make high-quality malt. Chapter 25
  • The food was distributed after a short service and hymns, while token holders patiently queued to collect their parcels which consisted of mealie meal, flour, sugar, samp, beans, oil and salt.
  • All those HUGE bags are full of mealie meal (for porridge/pap), mabela (sorghum for soft porridge), flour, and sugar. Archive 2009-03-01
  • Details of such items as mealie bags, biscuit boxes, ammo boxes and rocket troughs will be welcomed by modellers.
  • Then millions survived on a bowl of sadza (mealie meal) a day. Times, Sunday Times
  • When the price of mealies went through the roof the government intervened and subsided it. The Star (South Africa)
  • Half of it consisted of red rye, the rest comprising 20% sugar waste, 20% mealie and 10% straw meal or foliage, resulting not just in malnutrition but deterioration of the digestive system. The Russians
  • One of the staples of South Africa, for example, is the mealie, which is nothing more or less than our own An African Adventure
  • Their staple food was something we called mealie-meal, or sadza: maize porridge so thick you could cut it. Times, Sunday Times
  • unjustified price increases", especially on basic commodities such as mealie-meal, cooking oil, sugar and bread. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Its meander begins at the railway siding and extends down the bleak R545 road to Bethal, passing between open-cast coal pits and dried-up mealie fields.
  • It also bestows a sense of pride that Scotland is still producing quality raw ingredients - ready to be converted into oatcakes, mealie puddings and brose.
  • But nowhere in that review, or on the amazon page, does it make plain that this is a translation admittedly lively of selected bits and pieces of Ariosto, not the whole text; and that it lacks all annotation, apparatus, and comes with only the mealiest of introductions. Archive 2010-02-01
  • Yesterday my rations for the day were four biscuits and an ounce of coffee and of tea, with corn which they call mealies which I could not eat but which saved my horse's life. Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis
  • Most of those that remain survive on barely a bowl of sadza - mealie-meal porridge - a day. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yesterday, while we were delivering mealie meal to some drop in centers, Letebele the driver for Kodumela honked the horn and he and Rejoice rolled down their windows and hollered out of the bakkie. Archive 2009-04-01
  • Near each wagon a light wreath of smoke steals up into the summer air, marking where some preparation of "mealies" is on foot, and the groups of grazing oxen -- "spans," as each team is called -- give the animation of animal life which I miss so sadly at every turn in this part of the world. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876
  • The nicest tit-bits of the choicest dishes -- the middle slices of the fish, the breast of the young ducks, and the wings of the chickens, the mealiest potatoes, the juiciest tomatoes, the tenderest roasting ear, the most delicate custard, and freshest fruit always for his reverence! Capitola's Peril A Sequel to 'The Hidden Hand'
  • Each month after she received her pension, Gogo bought them a large bag of finely ground white cornmeal, called mealie meal, which was cooked into a stiff porridge called pap. No Place Left to Bury the Dead
  • So when, after she had passed the hot johnny-cake, seen to it that Father had the biggest pork chop and the mealiest potato, and given him his cup of coffee creamed and sugared just right, Mother got out the letter with the university crest and began to read. The Witness
  • A most villainous kind of bannock of unleavened mealie-meal and crushed oats, calculated to try the strongest teeth and trouble the toughest digestion, "Gold Pen" might have added. The Dop Doctor
  • He was growing three different varieties of grain: corn (a variety commonly called mealies, which could be plucked off the cob by the kernel and eaten or ground into a meal), mahango (to make the local beer or flour), and sorghum (dried and ground also into a type of flour). The Elephant's Secret Sense
  • The trekkers also planted maize (which they called mielie, whence the African term ‘mealies') wherever they settled, and this soon came into cultivation by the Africans.
  • In the process of making fine mealie-meal, Maize that is washed clean is put aside, while coarse Bran chaff is separated out.

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