As the cost of food rises, the popularity of street gursha, selling and consuming handfuls of restaurant leftovers, is spreading around the capital. Originating in areas such as Fews Terra, Merkato, the business caters to those who not only want to save money on food but also time, the Addis based English Weekly, Addis Fortune Reports.
Hungry for dinner, youngsters hold open their plastic bags to receive food from the bulle vendor.
Youngsters who work around Merkato and its areas sit down on street at Fews Terra to have dinner with plastic bags, serving as their plate on the evening of Friday, December 23, 2011.
Despite the sky rocketing buildings and infrastructural developments,'growth in GDP' millions of Ethiopians gradually find themselves sliding down to the list of the bottom millions who survive on Gursha.Gursha, under normal circumstances, is a small roll of enjera and stew that one person puts into the mouth of another as an act of intimacy or hospitality, a tradition in Ethiopia. Sometimes the roll of food may be somewhat big with some of it falling into the palm of the person who is being fed, who keeps his hand just under his mouth expecting some spill over.
According to the Newspaper, a single Gursha/Shot of food is being sold 1 ET. Birr. Read the rest here .
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