Come and join us for our monthly Bunny Chow Friday at FatBaz in Durban North. Bring along your TB's and come have some good Geo-chat with fellow cachers.
Each person to pay for their own Bunny and drinks!
Date: 19 June 2015
Time: 12h15 - 14h30
Place: FatBaz, Durban North (34 Newport Road)
There is a lot of other types of food for those who dont feel like a bunny so please do come along and ejoy the sea views while you enjoy your Meal
Just a bit of hitsory for those that want to know
Stories of the origin of bunny chow date as far back as the migrant Indian workers arrival in South Africa. One account suggests that Indian migrant workers from India who were brought to South Africa to work the sugar cane plantations of Kwazulu-Natal (Port Natal) required a way of carrying their lunches to the field; a hollowed out loaf of bread was a convenient way to transport their vegetarian curries. Meat based fillings came later. The use of a loaf of bread can also be ascribed to the lack of the traditional roti bread, in the absence of which a loaf of bread would be acceptable as an accompaniment to curry.
In another story a restaurant run by people known as Banias (an Indian caste) first created the scooped-out bread and curry dish at a restaurant-cum-cafe called Kapitan's on the corner of Victoria and Albert streets in Durban. The food was a means to serve take-aways to excluded people. During the apartheid regime, Indians were not allowed in certain shops and cafes and so the shop owners found a way of serving the people through back windows, etc. This was an easy and effective way to serve the workers.[citation needed] One story opines that the origin of this hand-held dish was due to Indian golf caddies not being allowed to carry cutlery during apartheid.
The traditional Indian meal was roti and beans, but rotis tended to fall apart as a take-away item, so they cut out the centre portion of the bread and filled it with curry and capped the filling with the portion that was cut out. The vegetarian version is known as a beans bunny. A further albeit unlikely etymology is derived from bun and achar (Indian pickles), though the latter are not included in the dish.