...I had forgotten about Uganda:
1. You have to greet everyone (even if they are a total stranger you are walking past in the street but you happen to catch their eye) with: "Hello. How are you today?"
2. If you buy yoghurt the person packing your shopping at the till will give you a straw (even if you are buying thick yoghurt that won't go through a straw).
3. Ugandans like to eat a lot of carbohydrates. To a Ugandan a meal is not complete without the staple food of 'matoke', which is a starchy banana that is steamed and then mashed. However, it is not uncommon to also have 'posho', which is a maize flour porridge also popular in Kenya and Tanzania, as well as rice, potatoes and maybe even a chapati.
And, by way of contrast, in Chad:
1. All the greetings are in French.
2. Yoghurt is hardly ever available to buy and when it is it's ridiculously expensive.
3. Chadians like to eat camel meat...
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