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mealie meal in British English or mielie meal noun South Africa finely ground maize Examples of 'mealie meal' in a sentencemealie meal What about mealie meal and other staple diets that are sold in supermarkets?They survive on mealie meal provided by the church.Perhaps bread, she shrugged, or sugar or maybe mealie meal [the staple].They survive on mealie meal and little else, food that will keep for weeks.Then millions survived on a bowl of sadza (mealie meal) a day.Most of those that remain survive on barely a bowl of sadza - mealie-meal porridge - a day.There is no water or electricity, and the only food in the cupboard is a small pack of mealie meal.Just last month the mealie meal that everyone lives on went up 190% and last week bus fares went up 60%.Their staple food was something we called mealie-meal, or sadza: maize porridge so thick you could cut it. |