09 September 2009

Jamaica Everywhere

Riding around Toronto today I rode through lil' Jamaica. I saw ital restaurants, Haile Selassie stores, I ate curried chicken last night and I even saw the Jamaica National Building Society Toronto office run by the Gleaner Company. Another restaurant I walked into yesterday had patties, curried goat and ox tail on the menu.

While in Europe we saw posters of Third World, a Jamaican reggae band and ran into some rastas. In London we, by chance, stayed at Deptford just south of Greenwich which has a big Jamaican/West Indian population. I ate a jerk chicken wrap and saw yam, dasheen and all kinds of fruits and vegetables in the market.

It's following me everywhere I go.

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