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Spanspek refers to Cantaloupe, an orange-fleshed melon. Spanspek comes from the Afrikaans "Spaanse spek", meaning "Spanish bacon". It was told that Juana Smith, the Spanish wife of 19th-century Cape governer Harry Smith, insisted on eating melon instead of bacon for breakfast, causing her bemused Afrikaans-speaking servants to invent the word Spanspek.
Spanspek is pronounced "spun-speck".
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language that descended from Dutch and spoken mainly in South Africa and Namibia by about 10 million people.
Soutzioukos refers to one of the traditional Cyprus sweets, made from grape-juice, a must-jelly-and-nut sausage/ threaded nuts dipped in grape-juice jelly.
Soutzoukos
Soutzoukos is a traditional sweet made from a thick creamy mixture known as "moustalevria”. The mix is made from the boiled juice of grapes and a little flour, flavoured with rosewater,cinnamon and mastic. Almonds are threaded onto a special string that is consecutively dipped into the moustalevria and dried in the sun until the layers build up to produce a long roll approximately one inch in diameter. It is then dried in the sun for several days after which it can be kept for months.
Siwa refers to Eritrea's traditional beer which is brewed in the villages and served mostly on special or ceremonial occassions or celebrations.
Eritrea is located in northeastern Africa.