boerekos, noun

/ˈbuːrəkɔs//ˈbʊərəkɔs/
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, boere see boere + kos food.
Farm cooking, especially that of Afrikaner people; traditional country-style food. Also attributive, and figurative.
1977 Darling 16 Mar. 86Between Riviersonderend and Mossel Bay is a small village called Albertinia, whose Albertinia Hotel was renowned for its hand-written menus and superb boerekos.
1979 Sunday Times 20 May 5‘I’m training on boerekos, not vegetables,’ Kallie mumbled through a forkload of meat this week. ‘I’m a man, not a bloody buck.’
1983 Sunday Times 26 June 34A hotel in the Free State platteland recently offered the following ‘country fare’...Main Course: Instant mashed potato served with one of those plastic sausages made of ersatz meat. Whatever happened to old-fashioned, wholesome boerekos?
1987 Fair Lady Mar. 7From a regte boerekos family I have slowly had to change to a more economical way of providing a meal.
1990 E. Prov. Herald 27 Feb. 9They are The Kerels, their music described variously as boerekos-bop, boere-punk, or potjiekos-pop.
1994 G. Willoughby in Weekly Mail & Guardian 8 July 38The GM specializes in egte boerekos of a rather grand kind, but boerekos nevertheless.
Farm cooking, especially that of Afrikaner people; traditional country-style food. Also attributive, and figurative.
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