Kenya Shopping Quiz

Marti went grocery shopping the other day for the first time. She went to the Nakumatt which is a sort of Super WalMart - groceries and merchandise. I think she did pretty well, but it was still overwhelming. The store actually has quite a good variety of groceries. The even have some Kelloggs cereal and other "like home" products. Problem is they are imported so a bit pricey.

As she dove into the task with a good attitude, her only problem was that she was not familiar with any of the Kenyan brands. It is interesting enough that I put together a little quiz for you. The quiz is a matching quiz. There are 10 questions. Scoring is as follows: 8-10 correct - You should be in Kenya. 5-7 correct - If you are here a while you will get the rest. 3-6 correct - you should probably not stay very long. 0-2 correct - you DEFINITELY should not do any cooking here!

PS> Don't look at the answers below until you have completed the quiz.

1. Keringet 2. Kimbo 3. Tate and Lyle 4. Rina 5. Cadbury 6. Saxa 7. Amigos 8. Clovers Bicarbonate of Soda 9. Blue Band 10. Ketepa

A. Arm and Hammer B. Parkay C. Frito Lay D. Morton's Salt E. Hershey's
F. Cannola Oil G. Dixie Crystals H. Aqua Fina I. Crisco J. Lipton

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- 1=H, 2=I, 3=G, 4=F, 5=E, 6=D, 7=C, 8=A, 9=B, 10=J

Welcome to Kenya....

Comments

[John Carney]

I loved the Cadbury hot chocolate I tried during my trip in August, and made a point of buying a can at Nakumatt to bring home. Of course, some readers may realize that Cadbury is a British brand, but the hot chocolate sold in Kenya does seem to be made by their Kenyan subsidiary.

Here in the U.S., of course, we're mainly familiar with Cadbury creme eggs, which you see every Easter.

[Alfred Gitu]

I failed the test! Even after a full year in the US, I still cannot recognise the American brands, but have no problems with the Kenyan ones. Just goes to prove that I should never cook-anywhere.