While visiting in the village near Nama on Thursday, I purchased the bunch of matoke which the mother cut from the tree, loaded on the bike and had the children push the bike to my car. Matoke is the staple food of the Baganda people; it grows on a tree like a banana tree and resembles a banana. It is peeled, put in a pot which is lined and covered with banana leaves and cooked over an open fire. It is the texture of waxy mashed potatoes and the Ugandans can eat platefuls of it. It is eaten every day by those who can get it.