Oops, do we mean "onion"
This is a photo of the menu taken at a little restaurant in Nieuwoudtville in Namaqualand in the Northern Cape
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In South Africa we have 11 official languages so you can perhaps understand why onion has been spelt phonetically.
Some interesting facts about "unions" from the book Let Food be Your Medicine, by Sally-Ann Creed (Anderson Publishing, Cape Town, 2002. (ISBN 0-9584489-3-0):
- helps to prevent cancer (due to allium and favonoids)
- reduces cholesterol
- reduces high blood pressure
- improves high blood fat profile
- alleviates and elliminates infections
- reputedly alleviates asthma, helps colds and flu
- aids in dealing with gastric infection
- richest dietry source of quercetin, an extremely potent antioxidant
A view of the restaurant
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