Lad: "trying to put sand in my gari"

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Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 10:02 am

I've not seen/read this phrase before so I thought I'd share it..

Background:
Ghana gold lad (Cobblah/Addo) waiting to meet my Nigerian kidnap gang in Benin. The gang kidnapped my character who flew to meet .
Obviously there's a no-show (which I later blamed on a car break down) and the lad sent this whine:

Quote:

from
to (Me)
date Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 2:26 PM
subject Mr has been waiting in front of , HOTEL LE PLATEAU D'AZOVE COUFFO SUR LA VOIE D'APLAHOUE, at 10.00am tomorrow morning

Hello brother , Mr has been sitting in front of the hotel since 10.00 am till now and he has not seen either you or the red Toyota car as you said please let be serious and if you know you are not ready tell us and he will come back to Ghana, we are not begging you ,you can do what ever you like with the man because we will not be suffering behind you, just because of this problem, you don't know the man, you take him with you for no reason and we are willing to enter into understanding with you,or you can tell me where you are at the moment and Mr John will meet you there, please i wait to hear from you,if no respones , Mr john will be coming back to Ghana, and i will tell the relatives to use police and get there uncle out from your hand as you don't want to cooperate with me as we are tired,if that is what you wanted, i am a Nigerian like you, i try to bring this man down you are trying to put sand into my gari God will pay you back one day, if you don't want me to eat from what i suffered for.
Thanks,
Mrs .

Given the context I'm thinking that the phrase is akin to 'damaging the operation' e.g. spanner in the works. Wink

Whatever its true meaning I think the lad sounds well upset Very Happy

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 10:13 am

It might mean to perform a spiteful act / screw someone over

Looks like Gari is a food, and to put sand in it would be a bit of a d-bag move Laughing

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/food/gari.html

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 1:19 pm

GreyAmadeus wrote:

Looks like Gari is a food, and to put sand in it would be a bit of a d-bag move

... And I was thinking of something so much worse Laughing

Good siggy material tho

Master Baiter Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 209

Garri = Dried cassava flour, courtesy of the enormously fun Babawilly's Pidgin English Dictionary.

http://www.ngex.com/personalities/babawilly/dictionary/pidging.htm

Wannabe Baiter Joined: 08 Jul 2011 Posts: 84

In modern Cockney rhyming slang Gary can be short for Gary Glitter, meaning the anus. Sand there wouldnt be nice!

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 11:48 am

Quote:

I'm thinking that the phrase is akin to 'damaging the operation' e.g. spanner in the works

It also includes the subtle connotation of making someone look like a fool, since only foolish Yoruba/Igbo/Cameroonian/[your rival tribe here] cooks would let sand get in their gari.

Master Baiter Joined: 25 Dec 2006 Posts: 156

Maybe your lad had a bad day at the sushi restaurant Wink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gari_%28ginger%29

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:04 pm

Thanks for all the varied replies / research.

So he thinks I'm giving him sandy food, bad sushi, screwing him over/being spiteful to him, making him look a fool or shoving sand up his a**e.

Very Happy

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