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STRAWBERRY ROUNDED YAM

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I breezed into one of the African stores in the suburbs of DC(District of Columbia)- USA. Grocery buying normally is meant to be cheap, that is when you are buying American groceries. But when you make the mistake of breezing into an African store, you would have to cough out blood to pay for items on the shelves. I have being a Nigerian all my life, a total switch to American dishes is just difficult for me to handle. I still manage Chinese, India and Thai food, but American dishes seems to send me to the latrine.(toilet). The first thing i noticed in front of the store was a caption which says: "There is no refund, exchanges may be permitted depending on Stores discretion" That said , African stores are just different from other stores. Your six senses has to be alert to avoid been cheated. Here are my reasons i. Bread, the agege bread(butter bread) on the shelves has no expiration dates. You have to look at it closely, to determine when the bread was made. After this, you