bukateria

n. a cafeteria, canteen, or simple eating-place. Also buka. Subjects: English, Nigeria, Food & Drink

Editorial Note: The etymological information in the second 2002 cite has not been verified. Etymological Note: < ? buka + cafeteria

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Citations: 1999 Bamidele Adebayo @ Lagos, Nigeria All Africa (July 18) “Campus of Deaths”: In 1996, a lecturer in the department of food, science and technology and the proprietor of A la-carte, a restaurant in the new bukateria of the university, was gunned down by people suspected to be secret cult members. 2002 Ian R. Young @ Ibadan, Nigeria CASLIS Atlantic Newsletter (Canada) (Apr.) ““Ile-Ikawe” means “House of Readers” or “Library” in Yoruba” vol. 9, no. 3,: A typical nutritious “chop house” or “bukateria” meal of pounded yam, melon seed and palm oil stew, accompanied by a couple pieces of beef—all eaten with one’s bare hand—plus a Coke costs N60, or about US$0.50. 2002 Molara Ogundipe A Sunday Afternoon With Ayi Kwei Armah (Aug.): From this restaurant of the people or bukateria (from the Hausa word, buka, for eating house) as we would say in Nigeria, simple and pleasing in its decor, everywhere you looked you saw the sea. 2002 Victor Akobundu (All Africa) (Nigeria) (Aug. 30) “Season of the Wonder Crop”: Meanwhile, for those who ran the bukateria, an eating place for the common man, have introduced the corn meal or corn vita (Tuwo Masara). 2004 Sam Umukoro, Dafe Ivwurie Vanguard (Apapa, Nigeria) (May 23) “Ozekhome: A generalissimo in whom 72 kings are well pleased”: We asked the chief who hails from Iviukwe in Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State if he visits these eateries popularly called “mama put” in Nigerian parlance. His words: “Yes, even now I like eating in the bukateria. I like this mama put system where you go to the pot and point out the orisirisi (assortment of meat), the edo (liver) the saki, the ponmo and the rest.

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