From Chris Gibson
Further to your correspondence on food euphemisms
(Letters, 12 September, p 54),
while working in Africa, two of my Nigerian colleagues were ribbing a third
about “eating 404”. Being a curious chap, I asked what 404 was. I was told that
it was a regional delicacy prepared by stewing dog in kai-kai (the local palm
spirit).
The obvious question then was, why is it called 404? I was informed that the
meat is usually supplied courtesy of the Peugeot 404, the most common car on the
road.
cgibson@psionworld.net
