Coffee with confafa – Becoming The Muse
If you were having coffee with me, I would welcome you to my tangle of words and ask you to feel at home… Have some cornflakes. How do you take yours with hot milk or cold milk?
As I struggle to finish my cup of cornflakes, I would ask how you feel about corn flakes. I asked on the platform formerly known as Twitter how people rate cornflakes and the majority of people who responded did not care much for the breakfast cereal. I was glad to see I wasn’t the only one who found them to be rather tasteless, nothing is wrong with my tastebuds.
If you were having coffee with me I would tell you that cornflakes were invented in 1894 by John Harvey Kellogg, a doctor and health reformer who ran Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, USA. The cereal was created as a way to provide a simple and nutritious meal for patients at the sanitarium. The corn flakes were purposely made to be bland tasting.
Kellogg believed that eating plain and bland food would prevent indigestion and also suppress sexual desires, which he considered unhealthy and sinful.
The present day version of corn flakes would probably have John Kellogg turning in his grave. He patented his recipe after a legal dispute with his brother who had wanted to add sugar to the cereal to make it more palatable for a mass market. So there you have it, if you think corn flakes taste like cardboard, its because the recipe evolved from a bland ideology.
If you were having coffee with me, I would tell you that back in boarding school, we tried creative ways to make corn flakes tastier, like adding peanut butter, crushed biscuits, fruit jam and well any other snack you had. Sometimes it worked, other times it was horrible. We also made up a word confafa, which initially described the confused cereal goulash and then later evolved to describe a state of confusion.
Confafa is that confusion which results in chaos… Its like when you make a U-Turn and then make another U-Turn, you are not going anywhere except round in circles, that’s confafa. It can also be used to describe political turncoats who change affiliations as if they are changing socks depending on which side their bread is buttered.
If you were having coffee with me, I would tell you that fans of some local artists feel disappointed in their decision to support or endorse the current ruling party, especially those who had previously seemed more aligned to the struggles of the common man as illustrated in the track Ndaremerwa by Holy Ten where he rapped about the struggles of trying to make it in a world that never gave one a break and all you yearned for was to have sausage for breakfast….
If you were invited to join the president for breakfast…. Would you go? Can one turn down the president if they are invited to have corn flakes and sausage at the State House?
If you were having coffee with me, I would tell you that we have our presidential polls on Wednesday. Its crazy but it doesn’t feel like in the next few days we will make a decision that will set the course for the next five years… One does not need a crystal ball to see who the people’s choice will be….
But of course, its illegal to announce the results before they are offcially declared and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, ZEC has 5 days to announce the results. Not sure what they will be doing for five days in this digital world… anyway you know what they say, its not the voting that counts, its the counting of votes that counts.
I ran into an interesting comment on the internet about how the candidate that constantly demands to see the voter’s roll and keeps citing constitutional irregularities rarely wins elections…
A sample ballot paper was shared on the internet and the curious layout makes for a fascinating tale.
11 Presidential candidates with only female candate. The real contest is between two contenders and I would even guess that some candidates are simply there to maintain layout purposes….. history shows that the current president favours the top right corner of the ballot paper.
If you were having coffee with me, I would tell you that the current electoral cycle has been largely peaceful, although there have been sporadic incidences of unrest. The streets have been safe to walk except for Friday evening when there was a spot of Temple Run…
Apparently unruly police recruits were beating people in the city and the police are investigating the incident which resulted in19 Police recruits being arrested over the unruly conduct.
If the Assistant Commissioner’s statement is not a smoke screen to hide what really happened, then it’s also a bit worrying as to the calibre of police and their professionality…
Whats been going on in your neck of the woods?
~B
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