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Episode: 3912
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Title: HPR3912: Emergency Show: Biltong and Rooibos
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3912/hpr3912.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 07:51:17
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3,912 for Tuesday, the first of August 2023.
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Today's show is entitled, Emergency Show, Bill Tong and Ruibo's.
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It is hosted by Shane Shannon and is about four minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, Shane brings us a taste of South Africa with some local tea and jerky.
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You are listening to a show from 2018 that was posted to the Reserve Q. We are airing
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it now because we had free slots that were not filled.
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Please consider recording a show for Hacker Public Radio.
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The project will stop if the listeners do not continue to contribute shows.
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Hacker Public Radio Audience.
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This is Shane Shannon speaking from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
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And I think this will be an evergreen episode, number one, because I don't have much to say.
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And what I say today won't change probably in 100 years, so here we go.
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I'll try to stick this episode in the Emergency Show so that it can be used whenever
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and because it will be an evergreen topic, it's just fine.
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So I come originally from South Africa and I was born to two English speakers in South Africa.
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But my parents knew Afrikaans and they knew some Afrikaans culture as well.
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So I'm going to talk about two foods that I think come from the Afrikaner culture.
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The first I'll talk about is a tea, a nervous tea from South Africa, from some kind of red bush.
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And it's called Roybus R-O-O-I-B-O-S.
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And it's a flavorful tea, but it's very light with opium bland.
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If I was going to compare to anything I would say, you would have the lightness of something
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flavored with vanilla when you're not overdoing it.
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Maybe the best way to describe Roybus is to call it mild.
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And here in Canada you can get the tea bags for Roybus, almost in any grocery store.
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I hope you can find it in the area you're in.
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There's one something with ocaffine in it.
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I believe this has no caffeine.
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Try this herbal tea called Roybus.
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Very mild yet still flavorful.
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And the second South African thing that I want to talk about is a treat called Bill Tongue,
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B-I-L-T-O-N-G.
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So this is strips of meat that have been salted and spiced and then left out to dry.
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So it's a very South African thing.
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They would do this when the weather was the hottest I think.
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And that's how the meat is preserved by drying and not by smoking or anything like that.
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So my father still attempts to make it.
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He dries it in a warm shed that he has.
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So I still get to eat Bill Tongue even though I haven't been back to South Africa since I was five years old.
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It's kind of like beef jerky except because of the variety of spices.
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I find it a bit more flavorful.
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And I think it may even be a little bit tougher to chew.
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So that's it.
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Two South African things, even though here I am living in Canada.
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These are the only parts of my South African heritage that I actually know about.
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Roybus T, R-O-O-I-B-O-S, and Bill Tongue, B-I-L-T-O-N-G.
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Okay.
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Thank you, Hacker Public Radio Audience.
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Why don't you tell me about some foods or teas or snacks or smoked meats from your culture?
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Do a show about it.
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Goodbye for now.
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On this otherwise status, today's show is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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