[Kekephee]

I had a friend who went to Tanzania for a few months doing some missionary shit or something. He told me this story: It was mango season and there were like, thousands of mangoes falling out of trees all over the ground. He collected a shitload of them and had them in his house. This African dude stopped him on the street one day and was like "hey man, can you give me some money for food? I'm starving." My friend told him he didn't have any money on him, but if the guy would give him 10 minutes he'd go home and get him a bunch of mangoes. The guy got pissed off, said "I don't need any fucking mangoes, I've got a whole goddamn wheelbarrow full of them, I need FOOD." Turns out what's going on here is that "lack of food" isn't the problem over there- the problem is people aren't educated and don't understand nutrition for shit. They think "food" is this like, nutritionless corn paste that's just empty fiber. They don't realize these mangoes that are literally covering the ground are more "food" than the corn paste.


My friend also was on anti malarial meds, as you need to be when you go to Africa, but he couldn't drink when he was on them, so he stopped taking them. Given a choice between sobriety and malaria, he chose malaria. Then he got malaria, or became a carrier or some weird shit.