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I never told you what happened with the coleslaw did I? I had planned from before I went to Jamaica to eat lots of coleslaw, I love it, I enjoy it with spicy food to cool it down,
I like the texture and the taste and the nice homemade coleslaw in Jamaica so when I got there for weeks I could not find any decent homecooked real Jamaican food , nowhere had coleslaw which was really strange as everywhere used to have it, I found the food quite poor all over Negril this trip but then I was on a low budget but the food should still be nice whatever the price.Had consistently good food at fatties for 400 j a meal and that was real homemade frehly cooked food for a very low price, never had a bad meal there it was A* food just had no coleslaw.So all trip I wanted coleslaw I would have to read all the pages here again to remember if I actually got any in Negril, I know a few of you told me to go to Chicken lavish but I never got there so I was craving coleslaw by the time I got to our families house.So nobody had any coleslaw nobody had any plans to make any so I made a real effort one very hot afternoon to head into town,I actually walked all the way there on crazy roads and in hot sun.I wanted coleslaw dammit! So I went to a local market and bought about 5 cabbages, a huge bag of carrots, some mayo and anything else we could add would be back at the house.So of course every man and woman selling fruit and vegetables wanted me to purchase from them and I had to explain my situation many times telling them I already had what I needed I just want to make coleslaw which gained many laughs as they looked at me as if to ask was I feeding the 5 thousand as I had about 5 cabbages where some families may just use half of ONE cabbage or one cabbage well I needed 5! You do know we like our food.We like BIG portions full of tasty food not bland mediocre garbage.I wanted to do a huge bowl of it so we would have a lot to share with the curry goat meal.I always like to cook extra even at home incase anyone pops in and then we do not have to start cutting the portions down.So hot sun , walking, market fiasco,carrying it all thought I would give the three teenagers a simple job while they were waiting for that days dinner to be cooked it was a real simple easy job or so I thought and there was three teenagers to complete the task, all they had to do was chop carrots and cabbages and put them into a big bowl, so one of my girls was moaning she could not find a knife then when I found one she said it does not work , then I tried it and it did work she still moaned so my husband sharpened it for her then my other daughter was taking ages peeling ,It went from day to night the sun went down and the veg was still not all cut up , then dinner was ready I was hoping to have a taste of coleslaw with that evenings dinner even though it was for the next day for a big family meal at our sleepover party But the kids still had not finished and I did not want their dinner to go cold so I said leave it until later or tomorrow so my sister in law took it off them and put it in the kitchen,I THOUGHT she had put it away or covered it with water , I did not think to ask what was she doing with it.So the coleslaw fiasco/saga was laid to rest until the next morning when I said come on kids lets finish the coleslaw, so I looked in the fridge..NO coleslaw you got to be kidding me right?Wheres my coleslaw? Looked on the side looked on the table could not find the coleslaw hmmm.Saw a tea towel covering something noooo not my coleslaw? PLEASE DON'T BE MY COLESLAW, Peeked under it, My cabbage and carrots with NO water it was my unfinished coleslaw and after all the memories of hot sun walking, talking with vendors and repeating my coleslaw tale a million times and watching it go from day to night with the kids moaning about knives because they probably did not want to help with it ..as all the memories of what I had to do to actually get the ingredients to the kitchen flashed before my mind I was now looking in the bowl and thought what is that?Oh its just a bad cabbage leaf..pick it out just gone brown thats all ,BUT NO IT WAS NOT just ONE piece of brown cabbage the whole lot had gone discoloured and brown and horrible and no good as it had not been covered with water or put in the fridge so I was like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WTH WHO KILLED MY CABBAGE look at my cabbage omg you know what I had to go through to get this cabbage? 5 weeks I had been wanting cabbage in Jamaica not to mention my pre-Jamaica licking of lips and drooling at the thought of it and as I could not find any in the hotels I went through allll of this to succumb and make my own and now this MASSACRE of the cabbage.It was devastation of the coleslaw it was- it was well it was just my bl@@@ luck wasn't it?Only me could go through all that to end up with a bucket full of gone off cabbage so my sister in law said perhaps the under neath may be ok maybe only the top has gone discoloured , she was probably trying to calm me down I REALLLLY wanted that coleslaw bad bad bad lol So I tasted a bit and it seemed ok so I decided to finish it myself in a huff and a sulk I was not waiting until the sun had gone down again to try and get the kids to help me out so I mixed it up made it sort of edible it was better than nothing and put it in the fridge.All I had to do now was to wait for it to get cold.Yummy I shall have my coleslaw at last.I left it there a good couple of hours while we got dressed and waited for our ride to go have the sleepover party where we was taking a big bag of goat and I wanted to take the coleslaw.So I grabbed the coleslaw out of the fridge happy as a smiling ray of sunshine proud of my coleslaw accomplishment and finally I would get a homecooked dinner of curry goat rice and peas and my nice homemade coleslaw at long last.So we got out the car,Counted my kids as they were walking up the mountain , yep kids check we are all here, bags check, coleslaw check WTHHHHHHHH Or rather WTFFFFFFFF is dripping out of the coleslaw dishes bags?OMG don't even joke with me now what the hell is THAT? so we opened the bags and it had all turned into dishes of smelly crap watery stinking smelly mushy gooey horrible brown discoloured messy crap and that was my offering for the family table,Who I had not seen in about two years.JUST MY LUCK i DON'T BELIEVE IT.
To the family they were probably thinking oh its just a bit of coleslaw she bought from somewhere or chopped up "it nah matter" BUT I knew what the heck I went to get through to get that coleslaw there and I was MAD MAD MADDD.
So what the heck had happened to my coleslaw now I wonder?
So then I find out something to either do with electricity or the fridge.If you overload the fridge it does not cool the food properly or freeze food properly .I had no energy to even ask in depth as to why.I feel sometimes that you can just not rely on nothing or no-one to comply with the easiest of tasks or simplest of things that you just expect to be done and take for granted things will happen things will work and be ok .WRONG THINK AGAIN.Nothing goes right,All I knew was I had dishes full of stinky crap as my offerring to the table and I had tried so hard to make it nice.
This was the journey on dangerous roads too where I had no holy s@@@ bar yet I still managed to cling on to the beloved coleslaw even though we nearly fell off a very high cliff mountain edge.As that was our last weekend and we left Jamaica very shortly after I never got no coleslaw.How annoying is that?After everything NO coleslaw and I cannot be bothered to make anything since I got back I am in mourning for my holiday I want it back! And
I WANT COLESLAW DAMMIT