These are excerpts from Jacob’s journal of his time in Benin of the food that he is having there and what he noticed about goats on his way to Benin. Sorry for the choppiness of this. I have copied and pasted the excerpts about the food from different days he journaled about.
They have an interesting coffee here called Nescafe. It is instant coffee and here in Benin they mix it with sweetened condensed milk and add some boiling water. It isn’t too bad, but it is definitely not like Starbucks in the states. They also serve it with bread. It is a little like a small baggette from France, but I think it is better here. When we parked the car and walked in toward the market a man on a bike with a cooler on the front rode by and he was selling Fan Milk. It is some of the best ice cream you can get. I bought some and ate it while we were waiting for our cafe au lait. It comes in a small bag like frozen vegetables in the states. You break a corner with your teeth and squeeze it through the hole. It was soooo good in this hot place.
We went out the restaurant we went to before and had some very interesting food called Ablo. It was like corn bread in taste, but like a very moist cake in consistency. It was sweet and very good.
We have had some sort of stew with gyrie I think it is like ground manioc or casava root. It was good.
On the way to Dassa we went to a French restaurant and I had some Crocodile meat over rice while Daniel had some Ostrich over rice. It was good but definitely interesting.